KIRIHITO wrote in a comment about one of his Riku pics:
“In case you’re ready to complain about the filter, Riku isn’t wearing a shirt, and last I checked it should be mature tagged because of that.
Riku’s a minor. It’s happened once. Not too fond of having it happen again.”
I was curious about that. I mean, Riku is NOT a real person, nor is he based on a real person, much less a minor. So I started looking up the terms of devianART because I didn’t think anime-based drawings apply as ‘child porn.’ Most of my characters are in the 16-20ish range and never once thought it was shota. (Shota, to me, would seem more like younger boys -like 13 and down- who don’t know much about the “big” world.)
So, we come to the dA Minor Policy:
“1. Minors depicted without clothing, front view, back view, or side view, with genitalia and/or breasts visible or not.
2. Minors depicted in under garments or lingerie.
3. Minors depicted in an S&M or ‘Bondage’ situation.
4. Minors depicted in a sexual or ‘alluring’ pose (dressed or undressed).
5. Minors in the possession of ‘adult’ sexual toys.
6. No use of: transparent clothes, blurring of nude areas, or the use of “blots” or “Censored” wording or props to cover areas that are otherwise not clothed.
7. Gender that is questionable on an image with an exposed chest will be removed from the gallery at the discretion of the reviewing administrator
8. No Child Nudity: Images of children or characters resembling children (including teens, pre adolescent, child like fairies and other imaginary figures) resembling, or stongly resembling, under 18 years of age displayed in erotic, seductive, provocative poses or context.
9. No depictions of fictional young humanoid characters/children giving the appearance of being under the age of 18 displayed in erotic, seductive, provocative poses or context.
10. Since age is difficult to identify with 3D modeled images and certain art styles (such as Anime), this will be at the discretion of the reviewing administrator.”
I can understand 2, 3, 4, 5, 8(RL only) but some of the others are questionable to me. When I was younger, more ‘ignorant’ I used to show off my art to forums with characters at 16 and 17 half naked and maybe with a “sexy” pose (it wasn’t like ‘takemenow’ or anything), but nobody was offended, said “OMG!1!!! EWIE!!!!1!!2!3!! Sh0tA!! *backs away slowly den runs*” =|
Is it just deviantART that so strict or is the rest of the world like that?
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