#*freedom of expression

[princessbubblegumandjustice]

OnlyFans to ban adult material after pressure from payment processors

Subscriber-only website synonymous with pornography will now focus on more mainstream content

“Go somewhere else” now means “make your own payment processor” as payment processors exert more control over what you can spend your hard earned money on and by extension what you can view.

[princessbubblegumandjustice]

Is it okay to rant? I can't stand it how Tumblr thinks that it's fine to Blackwash Asian characters. Mostly Japanese ones. It's so racist.

I think racebending is fine. The problem is when they think their artistic interpretation is better specifically because they think the race they’ve bent them as is superior and/or supersedes the canon design. Which is just racism or colorism if they think having lighter/deeper skin is superior.

It’s especially racist when they wrongly believe anime characters are all white (or even worse, that being light skinned and Asian is “essentially being white”) and they need to “make them a POC” (or a “real POC”).

[princessbubblegumandjustice]

My whole opinion over this rcdart debacle is that people are free to draw what they like. No one has the right to stop them from drawing. Freedom of speech and expression (the concepts, not what they produce) needs to be respected, even for things one considers distasteful.

That being said, you can also express your distaste. That’s how freedom of speech works! As long as you are appropriate about it. Death threats and suicide baiting are 100% inappropriate. No one deserves to die because they draw art you don’t like.

I personally find the art disgusting and transphobic. And if they were honest about their fetish, I would be a lot less critical. The biggest issue is them disguising their fetish as inclusivity and activism. There are too many red flags for it to be the product of just stylization, and I feel like it needs to absolutely be addressed.

But they don’t deserve to die because I think it’s gross and fetishistic. Criticism is fine as long as it remains criticism and doesn’t enter the realm of being threatening. And if you mock it, you’re free to do so too. Art is not above mockery. I make fun of contemporary abstract art all the time. I make fun of generic tumblr stylization (we all know the one) all the time. If people can’t handle that then I don’t know how they’ve gotten this far as an artist.

But in no way are they obligated to appease you or remove their work. Say what you need to say, hope that maybe they’ll learn and change, and if they don’t then you block them.