Seriously. Are any other artists talking about it? I dont follow many jp artists but the ones I do did not mention this.
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Pixiv is banning certain types of paid content to comply with credit card companies.
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My friend whom I've worked with, Pedocchi, had some of his illustrations made private on Fanbox. Another artist I follow had issues regarding using JK (high schoolgirl) as a tag earlier on Pixiv Fanbox.
The way things are operating, it's obvious Pixiv is allowing an AI to run rampant on their system. The same thing happened to sites like Pastebin where a lot of my pastes were forcibly made private cause certain words triggered the AI. I've also seen it happen a couple days ago on the Discord of a Hong Kong based game company hosting their game on Taiwanese servers to avoid Chinese censorship; they had to implement an AI to deal with Chinese spambots, and the AI automatically refused one of my posts cause it contained an mp4 from the game's official social media account it deemed to be inappropriate.
An AI moderator that is obviously designed by westerners trying to appease Mastercard or Paypal's anti-underage depiction policy is ill-equipped at handling Bishoujo-style characters, since the entire concept of the Bishoujo art style is Lolicon.
Aside from the obvious AI problem, the Japanese Youtube purged all search results for any older videos with the word 'ロリ’ (you had to use Google video search to find them) and DMM had to replace the Loli (ロリ) tag with Mini (ミニ) after they teamed up with the crooks from Mindgeek (they're responsible for Pornhub and Nutaku). So for a Japanese artist trying to make a living, they have to make several different versions of their work if they don't want to self-censor themselves right from the beginning. One that is compatible with DLSite's late 1990s censorship policies and DMM's even more strict censorship policies with the avoidance of keywords like 'ロリ' (if you ever wondered why so few artists want to release their Comiket works digitally, it's because the only way they can achieve any decent sales figures is through these two platforms; Melonbooks DL is so bad that my Mexican friend's work I helped her with was a top seller and it didn't break past 2 digits in sales on there).
Like how everyone on DLSite is forced to lie about the age of their characters (making sure they're over 18 with no reference of them being in high school or lower), everyone is just going to adapt by using alternate keywords to not trigger the AI. My Taiwanese and Japanese friends sometimes do this on Twitter by using 口リ instead of ロリ (the first half of the former is written with the Kanji for mouth). But now that AI is looking at the images themselves, this'll be much harder to work around. However, unlike the ignorant and intellectually dishonest western fandom that doesn't know what Lolicon is in relation to anime and manga, Japanese artists are more likely to band together and force Pixiv to not become Patreon.
Thats an... interesting name your friend has
So, if I understood correctly, the issue is less pixiv intentionally banning loli/shota but an algorithm that seems to not be correctly calibrated and its being overzealous. Sort of like the youtube algorithm with the whole kids content back in the day. Is that correct?
If so you think there be any chance pixiv will try to fix it if people make enough noise?
So its gone from bad to worse.
I really hope you are right about the japanese artists standing up cause this censorship nonsense is not gonna stop unless someone calls them out on it
Thread on PixivFanbox fucking around with Rohitsuka's stuff. Supposedly it has to do with the word "sukumizu" (school mizugi) and not the art itself? I am not sure but guess it joined the banned word list.
I'm not at all surprised. They've been giving shit to those swimsuits for years now, happened with the censorship to Swimsuit Roll in Rockman x Dive then the presence of those garbage swimsuits in a 2023 anime that I pointed out. Seems like their issue is those swimsuits are usually worm by younger girls thus somehow confirms age, a similar issue with randoseru being worm usually by grade 1-6 kids so on DLSite you'll see the backpack censored in h-doujins but uncensored on other stores or the physical release.
Yeah new banned word(s)....apparently bloomers too..Heres a couple of more artists/creators talking about it.
Ryona as well.
Huh....I thought they would go after "ryona" of all tags with those initial guideline changes. I am guessing this is a new initiative of going all out on specific tags/words starting mid January.
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I'm guessing a 80 GB vps won't do
, It's a Japanese image hosting + e-commerce website (fanbox) without mastercard ESG fuckery that's needed? There's always Nijie.
All art websites at somepoint turn to dogshit sooner or later.
Just look at devinatart for example.
Just look at devinatart for example.
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Idk if they're targeting Abmyo or it's Visa and Mastercard Targeting Abmyo.
Been having problems with payment via debit the last month and the month isn't through yet but I can't see his content again.
Or is this a generalized thing with Visa and fanbox? Does Abmyo know? he has his stuff on Fantia, am I going to have same same troubles with payment processing malfunctioning for some reason over there with visa as well?
inb4 Monero: not convient, don't know how to set up for my favorite artists.
Been having problems with payment via debit the last month and the month isn't through yet but I can't see his content again.
Or is this a generalized thing with Visa and fanbox? Does Abmyo know? he has his stuff on Fantia, am I going to have same same troubles with payment processing malfunctioning for some reason over there with visa as well?
inb4 Monero: not convient, don't know how to set up for my favorite artists.
pixiv just got even worse. If you're in the shitholes known as america or the united kingdom no more R-18 content for you. Knew it was only going to get worse.
It's assumed switching your region to any other will suffice but I wouldn't be surprised if they start auto detecting that forcing the use of vpns. And now I'm expecting more bad news from dlsite.
It's assumed switching your region to any other will suffice but I wouldn't be surprised if they start auto detecting that forcing the use of vpns. And now I'm expecting more bad news from dlsite.
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About time they went under, a new competitor in the free market will take its place.
UK is logical because they hate loli but u.s ? well i hope nothing worse happend.
I think it's due to the credit card companies in America being unprofessional so they are deciding to just region lock it. Unfortunately i would not be surprised if in the future more sites from Japan region lock itself away from America and we will be needing to use VPN's to even go on the site at all.
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Germany as far as I know allows loli.
Schizophrenic Rock Fan
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North Carolina makes you show proof of id to use pornhub and a few other sites. And in classic porn site style they send it out to people that dont live in NC
the US government implementing laws likes FOSTA-SESTA and all the other garbage that polices the internet.
Same with ESG and how every corpo has to suck tranny dick and promote how lovely it is.
Doubt they banned xvideos, even then twitter and discord exist