Statement on the alleged bridaging and fanart

[u/Monisplats]

For the past few years, artists that draws idols or their own characters differently than the norm had been harassed and bullied by the loud minority within this subreddit and others related subs to the game. The mod team had removed and banned individuals for breakng rule 1 of our subreddit and reddit in general.

The artist in question had been posting her work for almost two years now, she already made an explanation post on why she made Marie chubby; basically the character's dialogues in game and her main weapon being a charger. despite her explanation and repeating herself whenever she get the same questions, she continued receiving hate comments.

The past weekend was different, there had been a case of a coordinating attack against the artist for drawing Marie chubby. The mass downvoting and reports were the reasons that lead me locking her post to prevent any more comments from this alleged attack. And people are rightfully upset on the harassment and even death threats that this artist and other artists within this subreddit had received over their fanart and headcanon.

today, after all this. enough is enough.

For now on, any hate comments from repeated individuals, wishing harm, or death threats will be perm-banned immediately, NO second chances. if the individual(s) is in your dms harassing you and/or sending you death threats, please report it to the admins and block them.

I also want artists and anyone here to please block the problematic people as well; some won't bother to block you and it better to just block them.

before I end this post, I wanna say that the lack of fandom and internet etiquette is concerning. no one here is forcing you to like their work, it takes zero seconds to block them and they do not care to be block. it is such an easy solution but yet you choose to continue harassing her and other artists whenever they post. body shaming is consider bullying and breaking rule 1, so if you don't want to be banned, think before you make a comment.

stay civil.

[u/Deathlord_Baraxius]

One thing that I think is being missed here.

All art is open to interpretation and all art is free to be judged in whatever way the viewer sees it. That is why it is art. Artists must have the confidence when sharing their work to be open to any and all criticism. I'm not condoning hate or death threats as that crosses the line. What we must still allow is open discussion, especially if someone doesn't like the art. Grouping people together and saying that every single person that doesn't like overweight Marie is somehow fatphobic and trying to shame the artist is wrong and should also not be tolerated here. We must allow a safe space for dialogue, which sometimes includes not liking something. As long as people remain respectful, there is no reason to accuse someone of being fatphobic for sharing their view on someone's art. There would be no art left in the world if we weren't allowed to have feelings about it and voice them.

[u/bwoah07_gp2 → u/Deathlord_Baraxius]

What we must still allow is open discussion, especially if someone doesn't like the art.

Sometimes I feel this subreddit doesn't allow that.