Too Nihon (COMS OPEN 7/10)

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Probably the saddest aspect of art, or anything online, is this idea that, your character is determined by the anger of the mob. Whether you have a polarizing opinion, or an out of context claim was made about you, enough people hating you means you are demanded, guilty before proven innocent. I find that really demoralizing. The idea that something so light, like art, which is an array of pixels, is the determine factor or close to it, to say you are good or bad.. feels disgusting. And we know why it’s there, it’s because in this culture, we don’t just disagree, we vilify, and deem those people we like what we hate, dangerous. I wish it wasn’t so. I wish it wasn’t the case that you have to question your morality, for fiction, for hobbies, and for opinions.. Do this for me. Remember what it is you care about, what you like, regardless of how angry the internet got mad at it. The actions themselves, the hobbies themselves speak for themselves on what’s okay. If we leave it to the internet mob, we run the risk of making ourselves question our humanity.. for a hobby. No one deserves that. Have a good day.

NSFW Art, fundamentally a form of free speech, is facing particular problems that degrade its usefulness, and its necessity. Its necessity stems from the fact that art, in any form, is a mode of human expression, so these fundamental hurdles that cause its demise, need to be acknowledged so that artists, can better plan in case of more puritanical waves, and understand their own creativity in a new way. The first problem being(and the one I’ll focus on tonight), the conflation with real world pornography. Art, is the collective firing of millions of neurons from previously existing concepts, into new forms, new colors and new ideas. It does not need to stem from nsfw art alone, to exist, nsfw art can involve ideas from any number of fields and creative works. The way real world pornography plagues this, is the idea that since art has sex in it, and pornography does too, it must mean that pornography is the outlet of nsfw art, or connected in someway regardless of direction. This forces a presumption that because a fictional concept is deemed to be aligned with the real world, it is therefore connected. And this, is ironic. Inherently because while we denounce the ideas we use in fiction as being purely fictional, and not endorsement of real world actions, we also, as a community of in large part, individual artists, deem that pornography is equally important because we deemed the cartoonishly drawn dog having sex with a t-Rex(anthropomorphic optional, in one or both), is actually an extension of human sexuality, and must be regarded with the same importance. This, is not true, mainly due to the construction of either medium, art being inherently about the playful exploration of fiction, in which no one is harmed, no one is exploited, and no persons autonomy is limited (unless the artwork is a threat or defamation); while real world pornography, involves the destructive creation of intimate content proven to cause psychological damage of its consumers. At the very least, art is magnitudes of more valuable, due to its creative endeavor, as opposed to its counter part, which involves no creativity, only destructive action. I have seen many creators begin to turn towards this real world content creation, leading from the path of creativity that art, as we’ve discussed, inherently holds. When this becomes the norm, or becomes capitalized by the algorithm, it becomes much much harder to defend nsfw art, if the community it sits in, is not ready to push back on that dividing line between reality, and fiction. Good night. 😴