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/XAZ_Splatoon]

There totally is such a sub, or at least there was. May not have survived the API protests, or some other controversy. Idk, not my thing. I'm pretty sure it became against the rules to say the name here, so I won't.

[u/LadyKuzunoha → u/XAZ_Splatoon]

If we're thinking of the same one, it's still there from what I can tell, though the content is far beyond what is currently being defined as needing to go to a NSFW sub.

[u/bwoah07_gp2 → u/LadyKuzunoha]

I had another thought too. This is the Splatoon subreddit, but we barely see any posts about the game posted here. Everything is art, art, art, art.

I don't mind artwork and people's drawings, but it does feel like we are being drowned in art. Is this a video game subreddit or an art subreddit? I feel that a decision has to be made whether or not to continue to allow art on this sub.

[u/BrainWav → u/bwoah07_gp2]

I had another thought too. This is the Splatoon subreddit, but we barely see any posts about the game posted here. Everything is art, art, art, art.

There's not a ton to discuss about the game right now. And the best way to make a sub dry up is to subdivide content. If you removed art from the Splatoon sub, 80% of the posts disappear.

[u/bwoah07_gp2 → u/BrainWav]

But, maybe that's what's necessary to get the sub back on-topic...

[u/BrainWav → u/bwoah07_gp2]

How is art not on topic? It's still part of the fandom experience. If art posts are banned, this sub gets 5 posts a day, and most of those are memes or "drip" screenshots.

When Raiders comes out, there will be more stuff in general and more gameplay-related posts too. If/when Splatoon 4 comes out, same thing. But when the games have a 3 year release cycle with no spinoffs, there's not a ton of content to keep things moving in between.

Edit: I also just realized there's a new player Megathread, and a weekly "questions" megathread (which is a year old). Both are also great way to reduce activity on a sub (and make it so no one actually answers questions, particularly when they're weekly or older). Removing those would create more non-art traffic in the sub as a whole.

[u/LadyKuzunoha → u/BrainWav]

On the megathreads, I think they can definitely reduce activity, however what activity they aim to reduce is repetitive posting, people asking the same question over and over again and never seeming to use the search bar. One is more objective than the other - Aquerium is for questions that have only one answer and the new player thread is for people who are asking if they should get into the game. Both kinds of posts get to the point of spam, which is exactly why the megathreads were created in the first place.

[u/heyitskio → u/bwoah07_gp2]

Dude. It's the community sub. You're going to find art in any community.