Posted on: 02/13/11 05:50AM
Gelicious said:
tl;dr: What should be deleted is non-Japanese styled drawings, not non-Japanese artist drawings.
The point isn't the art style. We aren't even trying to be 'racist'. As the first post says, Gelbooru is and always has been a
Japanese themed site. This "Japanese artist only" rule is the result of having to get stricter and stricter because people couldn't understand that. Anime/manga and Japanese video games in general were allowed, but then we got a ton of Avatar and Ben 10 and similar shows because "they're anime style!". So we cut it down to only allowing fan-art of anime/manga and Japanese video games by Western artists, but then it was "you allowed THIS by a Western artist, why can't this original art be allowed?"
And so here we are.
You can't define something as "Japanese themed" by something as weak as the art style. Because how do you define "Japanese style"? It's not like all Japanese artists draw in anime/manga style, it's just most of the ones who get noticed on the internet do because of how it's popularity is growing here. There are Japanese artists who draw realistic/semi-realistic art, or art inspired by Western cartoons and comics.
How do you even define anime/manga style? Yes, there's something clearly cartoonish about it, but there's something cartoonish about...cartoons, Western or Eastern or otherwise. OK, so lets say anime/manga has lots of overly-large, shiny eyes. OOPS, there goes a lot of shonen, seinen, and even some josei, all of which are "subtypes" in anime/manga. Small mouths? Oh, wait, lots of cartoons have that. Simplified noses? Nope, still covering most cartoons.
Continuing on the "delete the non-Japanese styled drawings"--there goes quite a bit of Panty & Stocking With Garterbelt, a Japanese cartoon (anime) which is largely inspired by
Western cartoons. Getting rid of non-Japanese artists gives us a much smaller, more definable area of what to ban to fit the theme of the website--Japan.
tl;dr: changed my mind, you don't get a tl;dr. Just read it.