Seriously. Something I uploaded was deleted for being "not furry" is that even a legit reason to delete something?

Orion038 said:
Seriously. Something I uploaded was deleted for being "not furry" is that even a legit reason to delete something?

Yes. If it was indeed "not furry", then your post most likely has been centered around humans or generally having little to nothing to do with furries. This is to keep e621.net a place for mainly furry and MLP artwork. Only very rarely are not furry images accepted, for reasons as high quality, related to the site or being special.

It's also on the Avoid Posting List.
Citing and cutting away the irrelevant topics for you:

HotUnderTheCollar said:
Yes. If it was indeed "not furry", then your post most likely has been centered around humans or generally having little to nothing to do with furries. This is to keep e621.net a place for mainly furry and MLP artwork. Only very rarely are not furry images accepted, for reasons as high quality, related to the site or being special.

It's also on the Avoid Posting List.
Citing and cutting away the irrelevant topics for you:

Avoid Posting

Avoid posting these things

• Art featuring only humans or primarily humans. Any form of bestiality with humans or humans with animal traits (things like cat ears or dog tails) are still okay.
• Content that is not furry or furry-related. We may still approve it if it's high quality or "special" in some way, but it's still much more likely to be deleted than approved.

The picture itself was a human girl wearing a teddiursa hoodie. Would that not be allowed here?

Orion038 said:
The picture itself was a human girl wearing a teddiursa hoodie. Would that not be allowed here?

No, humans in costumes are still irrelevant.

HotUnderTheCollar said:
Yes. If it was indeed "not furry", then your post most likely has been centered around humans or generally having little to nothing to do with furries. This is to keep e621.net a place for mainly furry and MLP artwork. Only very rarely are not furry images accepted, for reasons as high quality, related to the site or being special.

It's also on the Avoid Posting List.
Citing and cutting away the irrelevant topics for you:

Avoid Posting

Avoid posting these things

• Art featuring only humans or primarily humans. Any form of bestiality with humans or humans with animal traits (things like cat ears or dog tails) are still okay.
• Content that is not furry or furry-related. We may still approve it if it's high quality or "special" in some way, but it's still much more likely to be deleted than approved.

Was it necessary to say "furry and mlp"? Has it really spread that damn much?

"HotUnderTheCollar"said:
This is to keep e621.net a place for mainly furry and MLP artwork.

I'm pretty darn sure this site was never "mainly" for MLP art...

Ko-san said:
Was it necessary to say "furry and mlp"? Has it really spread that damn much?

I hold no vendetta against MLP, but it is clearly different from furry art in general to not classify it as "furry."

SirBrownBear said:
I'm pretty darn sure this site was never "mainly" for MLP art...

That's true. It never was, never will be, but even if they wanted to, removing all MLP content from this site would be such an enormous and impractical task, let alone pointless.

HotUnderTheCollar said:
I hold no vendetta against MLP, but it is clearly different from furry art in general to not classify it as "furry."

no? its literally just anthro ponies which p well fits under term "furry". mlp is just as different from furry as pokemon or sonic is.

I don't see how MLP is significantly different from any other sort of artwork here. Unless you're talking about feral MLP artwork, in which case the distinction is between feral and furry, not MLP and furry.

Mutisija said:
no? its literally just anthro ponies which p well fits under term "furry". mlp is just as different from furry as pokemon or sonic is.

Clawdragons said:
I don't see how MLP is significantly different from any other sort of artwork here. Unless you're talking about feral MLP artwork, in which case the distinction is between feral and furry, not MLP and furry.

I think he means in the character style and its spread. Such as with Sonic and its recognizable body structure, people identify characters with that similar structure or style with Sonic just as they do with characters being "ponified" or whatever the hell you want to call it.

Different definitions are at work here.

The furry fandom and MLP fandom overlap a lot, but the cultures are fairly distinct from each other. Most bronies don't really consider themselves furries (regardless of the technical connotations here). The figure has been estimated at ~20% (I even have stats handy :3.

For site related stuff, MLP (except human-only stuff) is considered related enough to the site to be considered "furry".

parasprite said:
Different definitions are at work here.

The furry fandom and MLP fandom overlap a lot, but the cultures are fairly distinct from each other. Most bronies don't really consider themselves furries (regardless of the technical connotations here). The figure has been estimated at ~20% (I even have stats handy :3.

For site related stuff, MLP (except human-only stuff) is considered related enough to the site to be considered "furry".

I wonder what percent of furries consider themselves bronies though? That would also be interesting to know.

I tried just now to find statistics on what percent of zoophiles consider themselves furries and failed. Though of course, we do have an idea about the inverse (furries who consider themselves zoophiles) at around 18-20%, so around the same range in the opposite direction, at least. I wanted to see which of the two types of artwork were more relevant to a furry site in general, and it's looking like "about equally relevant", but I don't have the full picture.

I'm going to see if I can get an incredibly rough ballpark figure later. This is bothering me.