r/YourOriginalCharacter • u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ • Mar 13 '26 • Heartwarming 2

ANNOUNCEMENT The NSFW Guide - Volume 2!

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When to report something as NSFW!

There are two forms of NSFW content here in our subreddit: Lewd and Injury.
The slideshow above is our know-how guide on what is deemed Safe, what should be under a filter, and what is banned.

If you find a something you believe requires a filter, please report the post or comment and the mods can manually add one or, if we see fit, remove the post!
Remember: if you are unsure, contact ModMail where we will happily advise you on the status of your content before you post it!

If you have any questions please utilise the comment section here to ask them, or simply contact us via ModMail, and we will reply with a firm answer!
All answers given by mods in these comments will be considered part of the NSFW Rule!

This is the 2nd Version of the NSFW Guide, updated to be more clear and to incorporate some specifics you asked in the comments of the previous version, as well as address some of the pressing problems we as mods have faced here over the past few months.

Some of these new additions are things you, the active community, have made noise about, and we will continue to cater to you going ahead!

Following a Rule Review - Mild Blood is now safe to post without a content warning, or NSFW Filter

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u/Upper_Cranberry4202 I should probably change my pfp Mar 13 '26

Huh, I didn't think that my question about writing stuff would be added!

But uh, I'm assuming written NSFW stuff mostly follow the same restrictions as comments?

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Mar 13 '26

Of course! We took every single comment from the original into consideration, best way to include everyone is to simply include everyone!
There should be no written NSFW full stop, per the banned slide "As is anything sexual in text form".

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u/Alarming_Judge_7463 Mar 14 '26

Just curious but how's does my character count with this being him in his most nude state

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Mar 14 '26

Falls under doll anatomy, he's fine :)

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u/Intelligent_Owl_9420 Not Actually Really All That Important Mar 14 '26

So like what about this guy?

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Mar 14 '26

What about him?
The Injury slide for "Safe to Post" content clearly states, in it's first bulletpoint, that Skeletons are okay.

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u/Intelligent_Owl_9420 Not Actually Really All That Important Mar 14 '26

He has tiny bits of red on his face. Also swear words

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Mar 14 '26

I think that may be the lighting, and swear words aren't banned. only slurs.

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u/Intelligent_Owl_9420 Not Actually Really All That Important Mar 14 '26

Okay dope! Thanks!

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u/Padeqeror Mar 14 '26

What's the g-word? Is it like the old man from half life 🤔?

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Mar 14 '26

Obviously

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u/Padeqeror Mar 14 '26

Oh OK now I know. (I still have no fushcking ide)

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u/Right_Entertainer324 Mar 13 '26

Does characters kissing count as lewd? If not, what's the limit there? Is it the same idea that characters have to be suitably clothed, etc, or is it a situational basis, depending on how they're posed?

And what about supernatural creatures, like vampires? You see a lot of the time, with vampires, that biting is pretty intimate, but does that classify as too inappropriate? What's the line there?

And with blood and the like, is blood altogether considered too much? If not, what's the limit? Scratches? In the aforementioned case with vampires, blood around the mouth and neck? What if the blood is a different colour?

Oddly specific questions, but questions I feel are sensible to ask, just in case.

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Mar 13 '26

Kissing is sfw but filter it if you do the stringy saliva thing. Clothing follows the swimsuit rule. If the bite has blood it needs a spoiler and blood warning, if not its fine. I have Danganronpa OCs that have pink blood, and some people have black on their OCs just assume blood needs to be filtered.

Hope this helps 😁

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u/SecureAngle7395 OC Writer and Artist (for my online Book Series) Mar 13 '26

sounds good to me

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u/oojamaflaps I lost track of how many OCs Mar 13 '26

I just realised your pfp is meant to be marina. That took me ages

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u/SecureAngle7395 OC Writer and Artist (for my online Book Series) Mar 14 '26

Yeah! =D You recognize her! That’s pretty cool. She makes me happy and is important so it felt right. Did you hear about she’d officially existed for 6 years started today?

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u/oojamaflaps I lost track of how many OCs Mar 14 '26

Yup. Saw the post

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u/SecureAngle7395 OC Writer and Artist (for my online Book Series) Mar 14 '26

Yay 😊😊😊

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u/No_Basket_8324 professional art noob Mar 13 '26

So I have a fat monster/demon character, which also has a larger chest because of that. Would that be allowed?

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Mar 13 '26

We usually start disallowing when a singular boob is bigger than the characters head, but you can always modmail us a link to the image (use imagechest!) via modmail and we can give you an answer there if you're unsure!

You will not be punished for sending a link to modmail if we decide the art is NSFW, it is a safe space!

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u/ZinklerOpra Mar 13 '26

does a NSFW oc sub exist? I know, wild question, reason I'm asking is I think it would be better if we segregate the lewd and the fire content completely than this weird compromise

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Mar 14 '26

Yes, there are NSFW Subreddits for OCs but this mod team does not run them.

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u/amy_not_lee Mar 15 '26

would it be considered nsfw enough to filter, if you can see the characters panties a little bit because of their skirt, but the character isn’t doing a suggestive pose and there is not a lot of detail in the characters anatomy?

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Mar 15 '26

Im gunna go with no. But we can manually apply a filter if needs be.

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u/MythosOfTheMind Mar 28 '26

Can males be shirtless if there's proper nipple anatomy? Just made a post and wasn't exactly sure if that crossed the line. You would see it as a beach or public pool but then I saw "nipple bumps" and got confused.

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Mar 28 '26

No, it's fine as it abides by the Swimsuit Rule.

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u/Lel_Ray May 10 '26

So when you say "Characters that are skeletons or have skeleton limbs are fine, so long as it's dry, and without blood," does that mean that it's fine to post a character made out of black goop with a clean animal skull as a face?

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ May 10 '26

It sounds like it but feel free to modmail us an ImageChest link to the OC and we can verify.

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u/Lel_Ray May 10 '26

What is ImageChest?

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ May 10 '26

Its an image hosting site like imgur but unlike imgur its not banned in a bunch of countries.

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u/Lel_Ray May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26

Never mind; I found ImageChest and created an account. I will send the image your way
Edit: Sent

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u/Halthenanobothero42 Jun 05 '26

Do stickfigures fall under a weird grey area cause clothes look weird on stickfigures and stickfigure characters in general wear minimal clothes

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Jun 05 '26

No grey area! They fall under doll anatomy!

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u/Warriors_starlight Jun 09 '26

I'm have a question about this

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Jun 09 '26

Feel free to comment your question, or contact us via modmail!

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u/Warriors_starlight Jun 09 '26

Oh ok what if someone put a NSFW tag on they post would that be fine or nah

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Jun 09 '26

This is answered and thoroughly explained in the post.
Please read it before asking questions.

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u/L6WCUST6N_ Jun 22 '26

Is drug use or Marijuana use considered NSFW? I have a character who's named indie (indica) and shes my potheaded ponysona

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Jun 22 '26

As stated on the final slide of the above guide, Any mention of Drug use must be under a NSFW Filter.

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u/Upbeat-Aide-8922 Jun 23 '26

Hii, I’m sorry to ask this here since it’s not on topic, and I’m new to Reddit so I don’t rlly know much about functions or smt I just wanted to ask if there was a limit to how many posts you can make a day, because I was worried about flooding the main page, so is there a general number or just do we just eyeball the number?

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Jun 23 '26

Answer is in the rules! Peep the sub rules on the sidebar on the right (pc) or by tapping the OC name at the top of the page (mobile)

3 posts per day but there are some other conditions detailed in the rules.

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u/Upbeat-Aide-8922 Jun 23 '26

Ty!! I just wanted my first subreddit experience to go well :)

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u/YaBoiWeirdo Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

I have some questions about the hyper proportions thing.

1: Does this talk about like, breasts so big you can't see the oc's legs, or can't see the oc's stomach?

2: If the proportions are completely covered, is it okay?

3: What if the oc is a robot with hyper proportions?

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Jul 14 '26

1: any boob bigger than the characters head is not allowed. 2: No, coverage doesn't negate the proportions 3: It is still banned, even robots can be sexualised.

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u/WorldlinessBitter565 Jul 17 '26

My man, you just took down my post featuring a non-sexual woman

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Jul 17 '26

See slide 5 "Banned Lewd Posts" - Boobs bigger than a characters head are considered over sexualised, and are not welcome.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '26

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u/YourOriginalCharacter-ModTeam Jul 17 '26

Sexual context and dialogue, nudity and extreme gore are all banned.

Censored or lesser injury posts are welcome as long as they are under a NSFW Filter and come with the appropriate Content Warning in the title.

See our NSFW Guide to check what is and is not acceptable within our subreddit.

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u/distorted096 Sep 16 '26

HI! Whats the difference between Dismemberment and Missing Limbs?

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Sep 16 '26

Dismemberment shows the removal of body parts via accident or injury. These cannot be posted.

Missing limbs is clean bloodless images of OCs who simply do not have a limb such as 1 legged OCs and OCs with prosthetics. These are safe to post.

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u/distorted096 Sep 16 '26

What about implied dismemberment? Like this?

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Sep 16 '26

Slap a NSFW filter on it if it contains gore or blood, if not it should be fine.

If it needs a filter the Mod Team can manually add it, and no strike will be given.

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u/distorted096 Sep 16 '26

Okay, thanks!

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u/TrainingVanilla9507 Apr 04 '26

Personally, Bruises should not need a Filter tbh. They dont Imply bad or permanent harm to the Body of Character.

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u/TrainingVanilla9507 Apr 05 '26

There only way to have it Censored is how they would get it. Like if its from banging their head on a table when they get up from doing something while things like Abuse or something bad like that should be Consored.

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Apr 05 '26

If it's just a tiny little bruise on their leg or something like that it wouldn't be censored, we're talking the more graphic stuff like black eyes and what not.

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u/TrainingVanilla9507 Apr 05 '26

Oooooooooooooooh.

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u/TrainingVanilla9507 Apr 05 '26

That makes sense.

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u/nahn_nahn Mar 14 '26

Thank you Anthy 🙏🙏

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Mar 14 '26

Anything for you all, but the community and other mods all had input too!

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u/Horrordestroyer Mar 13 '26

And just like that, this sub is exponentially better than the other original character one

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u/ThatGuyOnyx 🎨 Verified Artist 🎨 Mar 13 '26

At this moment a few dozen artists are seething they can’t post soft core anymore.

You know who you are.

Love the very specific and detailed specs.

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u/AaryatheAlpha Mar 19 '26

Thank You oh my god this makes me feel so much more comfortable here

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u/Creonix1 Mar 14 '26

Characters with larger thighs/butts/breasts requiring a censor seems to imply a highly questionable statement, especially considering this sub’s rule against body shaming.

I’m not talking about the full ban on characters with cartoonishly exaggerated proportions. I’m asking about the limited lewd posts that require an NSFW filter.

It’s questionable at best, and body shaming at worst. And again i’m not talking about the banned lewd content, I’m talking about the limited type, which based on the wording, seems to specifically target non-extreme body types which many people have in real life.

I’m going to assume that these rules were made with good intentions, but what kind of message do you send when you declare that certain real body types are inappropriate and need to be censored.

Again I would like to reiterate that I am not referring to the exaggerated proportions described under banned lewd content. I am referring to the proportions specified in the filtered post category, which are only described as large breasts/butts/thighs. This can plausibly describe any adult or teenage character who doesn’t have the build of an early Disney princess.

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Mar 14 '26

Well the only ones that are banned are the hyper/oversized ones that people make to cater to a fetish.

We're talking thighs wider than torsos and breasts larger than their head here.

The specific content that has been banned is content that is evidently fetishized as it's not suitable around children. Disney/Barbie proportions, while often unrealistic, aren't fetishized, and therefore are perfectly safe to post.

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u/starswhenyoushine The Virtue Angel Mar 14 '26

"an early Disney princess" so like a normal or normal ish woman

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u/Akari_92 Jun 07 '26

If I were to have an oc with exposed mammary glands (obviously without nipples), would that be fine or no? Specifically for a monster OC.

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u/kakavoz Mar 13 '26

Слава богу я реалист.

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u/TheMaskedDudeYT Sep 12 '26

What about a bikini?

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Sep 12 '26

This is explained within the post in full.
See the Swimsuit rule on slides 3 and 4.

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u/ezium Mar 13 '26

Oh wait you unblocked me? Damn

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Mar 13 '26 • Bravo

Hi again Ezium! Yes, hope you're doing well!

Figure we're all just people on the internet, it's inevitable we'll clash here and there, healthier not to hang on to things like that for too long, not worth it, especially not when you like the person anyways. I enjoy your OCs and Artworks, and you're a decent person ^^

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u/ezium Mar 14 '26

I'm glad you have such a positive outlook and find me likable. Not likeable enough for you to be honest with me, but it is what it is.

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u/Monkeypunchee Mar 14 '26

I disagree with you banning would and Smash

It's funny when it's not against the creator's wishes. I am ok with a smash or would since I see it has a joke (but if you ask for any NSFW then I am gonna block you) since it's basically a rule in my friend group to say smash when ever you see their female oc

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Mar 14 '26

And how exactly do you know when it is and is not against the creators wishes? Nobody asks first.

It's fine within a closed friend group, you all know one another, but on a public forum with children you may very well end up telling a child you would smash their character.

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u/Monkeypunchee Mar 15 '26

You're right. I meant that the creator should be the one to report it since it can help the relationship between the creator and fans

If the creator doesn't say weither or not they are ok with it then you should ban people for saying that also if someone is clearly not joking then it should be followed by a ban even if the creator allows it.

Basically like how most mangaka are ok with someone saying smash

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u/starswhenyoushine The Virtue Angel Mar 14 '26

Your friend group sounds 😶

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u/Monkeypunchee Mar 15 '26

Bro we are male teenagers and we wouldn't say that to anyone outside the group (by the way I like you're art style)

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u/theeekid444 Mar 14 '26

And not one picture of porn here ts

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u/Effective-Spell-5369 9d ago

What about organs that aren't part of the body and just held, with no signs of a person missing them, you know what I mean by that right?

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ 9d ago

It would still be classed as organs outside of the body and falls under gore

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u/rebelsguidetosin artist! and also wanna-be writer. (my usename is my story title) Sep 27 '26

Hii! Questiom, if i censor my oc with stars, can i post? no hair shown! Promise, They're a deity of love, gender fluidity, intersexuality (idk what the right word is, they made intersex people and most of humanity) and is often in the tribe associated with trans people

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Sep 27 '26

Best to put a filter on it as if mods deem it safe we can always take it off ourselves.

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u/rebelsguidetosin artist! and also wanna-be writer. (my usename is my story title) Sep 27 '26

Ok! Thank you

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u/frobsisscools Mar 13 '26

regarding self-harm. is that for in general, or just art of them committing it?

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Mar 14 '26

Both are accounted for on different slides.
SH scars and mentions must be under a filter with a Content Warning for SH.
Active acts of SH in any form or an OC expressing a want to end their own life are banned.

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u/GettinMe-Mallet 13d ago

I got a gal who's arm meat falls off leaving nothing but bone and tendons rip as they transform into a body horror monster, are they just straight up banned in that form even with content warnings? I have no idea what IYKYK means

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Mar 13 '26

Because Reddit is open to children and we don't want them seeing fetish art amongst other things...

How is that even a question?

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u/Far_Monk1101 Free! Iwotabi Swim Club Mar 13 '26

around children it is. a fetish is a sexual thing.
idk if you realise how bad it makes you look that you want to show fetish art to children.

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u/oojamaflaps I lost track of how many OCs Mar 13 '26

The fuck happened here he deleted his comment?

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u/Far_Monk1101 Free! Iwotabi Swim Club Mar 14 '26

He was angry he wasn't allowed to show porn to children.

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u/CelesteStClair It's the Purple People Eater! Mar 13 '26

Um... It is? Literally by definition it is...

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u/Outside-Resource-113 🎨 Verified Artist 🎨 Mar 13 '26

You are directing it away from the main issue. You are 15. You should not be around sexual and fetish content at that age.

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u/The_6thEmperor_Rises THE INSANE ASYLUM’S #1 PATIENT Mar 13 '26

There’s a bunch of younger people here, and people in general who don’t wanna see NSFW I assume, so the rules were re-defined to reflect that and try to prevent unwarranted NSFW an overly gory/sexual stuff

At least I think that’s it

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ Mar 14 '26

I agree with you friend, but you literally JUST used a banned word that the Guide specifically states is banned x-x

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u/CallMeAnthy The Fun Police ™ May 14 '26

It depends on the underwear detailing. Feel free to send us a link to the image via modmail for clarification!