Topic: Game screenshots aren't allowed. Now what?

Posted under Tag/Wiki Projects and Questions

I've recently made a forum. Telling people about a game and sharing screenshots to this platform if they can. I uploaded mine a while ago, and it was deleted minutes later for irrelevance and was screenshotted out from the game. Which I understand is not relevant for this platform when it is dedicated to archiving public hentai art. I thought I could share it here, I made the scene myself using the game's animation tool which is considered creative art especially when there's imagination involved. But sometimes you can't get to do anything easily and you have to abide by other people's rules.
So now what? What can I do with all the scenes I made and how can I share them with other people? That's what I wondered as well, and I need your help. I've been looking for other platforms to place my screenshots to the public but they're all just irrelevant to my topic and they won't be able to have it posted. I tried looking around Reddit but I haven't seen to find a place for it. Any suggestions for a site everyone?

Any generic image/file host with NSFW/privacy settings, there's a couple million of those included in ShareX alone.

Surely the game that you're taking screenshots of would have some sort of community for it. Discord server, subreddit, or something along the lines of that.

faucet said:
Surely the game that you're taking screenshots of would have some sort of community for it. Discord server, subreddit, or something along the lines of that.

I tried looking for the game community for it. There's a Steam Community for it but I haven't bought the game on the platform yet. Even though I have the game version before it was released on Steam I won't be able to post anything there even if I can. There are not many other communities supporting it, the only community platform outside Steam was Reddit which was deleted due to legal reasons.

pmfieryflakes said:
I tried looking for the game community for it. There's a Steam Community for it but I haven't bought the game on the platform yet. Even though I have the game version before it was released on Steam I won't be able to post anything there even if I can. There are not many other communities supporting it, the only community platform outside Steam was Reddit which was deleted due to legal reasons.

Oh and for the same reason. Steam only shares screenshots from steam game products. This version of the game I have is not from Steam, so it cannot share screenshots from non steam products.

If you go to KoboldKare's twitter, they have a link to their discord. Their site(which currently is only a bunch of links) links to their itchio page, both of which you can, to my knowledge, post images and videos on. Also, to my knowledge, you can post explicit screenshots on twitter. Artists have been doing that for a while.

serupi said:
If you go to KoboldKare's twitter, they have a link to their discord. Their site(which currently is only a bunch of links) links to their itchio page, both of which you can, to my knowledge, post images and videos on. Also, to my knowledge, you can post explicit screenshots on twitter. Artists have been doing that for a while.

I made a scene on the game that I think is fetish for me but not too comfortable for many others. Have you ever seen a pile of bodies being covered in cum? Some say that it's kinky and the guy has probably given so much of their seed to those bottoms that they ended up fainting from exhaustion. Some will find it too graphic thinking that it shouldn't be allowed on the platform. Because it looked like a pile of corpses from a holocaust. I've never seen a post that has done the same scene as I did, and I shouldn't care if it looked dark. Playing dead being piled by other bodies covered in cum is something no one has done. Well except for this one here (post: #3119121). That's why I've been looking for other social platforms and avoiding big social platforms like Twitter. If you guys can prove me wrong and I should do it anyway. Fine I'll do it.

I'm not sure if they're allowed, but I've seen plenty of in-game footage on rule34(.xxx, not paheal).. if you want to publish it publicly..
But, if you just want to upload to use withot public, I think catbox.moe can do that. But you'll need to check TOS, it's been a while since I last used it.

Hey there. There are plenty of private and share-able file hosting services, and many of them are now friendly to (or tolerant of) hotlinking. Not all of the following services support hotlinking, but they can also act as archives. Maybe you'd consider MEGA, Dropbox, private or public Discord servers, or even your own booru service. Does your forum software not support direct attachments? Another consideration: if you support your forum using your own domain (not a subdomain), you could run your own booru or other gallery service under booru.sitename.tld. Or whatever naming scheme works for you!

These are just a couple ideas to add to the above. Some are a little more technical than others. The good news is that there are many creative solutions to lightweight image hosting.

snapdragon-soup said:
Hey there. There are plenty of private and share-able file hosting services, and many of them are now friendly to (or tolerant of) hotlinking. Not all of the following services support hotlinking, but they can also act as archives. Maybe you'd consider MEGA, Dropbox, private or public Discord servers, or even your own booru service. Does your forum software not support direct attachments? Another consideration: if you support your forum using your own domain (not a subdomain), you could run your own booru or other gallery service under booru.sitename.tld. Or whatever naming scheme works for you!

These are just a couple ideas to add to the above. Some are a little more technical than others. The good news is that there are many creative solutions to lightweight image hosting.

Just want to say that most file-hosting websites don't allow NSFW content to be shared around through their services, see topic #29738 & forum #311108.

thegreatwolfgang said:
Just want to say that most file-hosting websites don't allow NSFW content to be shared around through their services, see topic #29738 & forum #311108.

Weird to see Mega, one of the most secure and private cloud storage services, can ban a user for archiving NSFW content with their services. Mega themselves or any other third party service supported by them does not have access to anybody's user data on the platform. So if somehow the company bans you when they found out you've been keeping inappropriate stuff. Well the ban shouldn't be done by the company themselves right?

pmfieryflakes said:
Weird to see Mega, one of the most secure and private cloud storage services, can ban a user for archiving NSFW content with their services. Mega themselves or any other third party service supported by them does not have access to anybody's user data on the platform. So if somehow the company bans you when they found out you've been keeping inappropriate stuff. Well the ban shouldn't be done by the company themselves right?

Your data is private, if you kept it private. Creating a share link makes it public.
You just need someone to report the link to MEGA as containing explicit material for them to find it.

In which case, if the link or content itself is not encrypted/password-protected, it can be easily viewed by anybody that has it.

thegreatwolfgang said:
Just want to say that most file-hosting websites don't allow NSFW content to be shared around through their services, see topic #29738 & forum #311108.

From what I could find reading the current terms [1][2] and from different support channels with service representative input (Reddit and other forums, etc), legal adult content (not being flagged for copyright infringement) is not being removed. False positives when AI scanning for CSAM is used are one explanation for some grievances as well.

To my knowledge, adult anthro-centric art has never been the basis of an arrest on account of obscene materials in the modern era. Furry art is not criminalized in the countries where MEGA hosts their servers (Canada, New Zealand, and Europe). That said, some of these countries may have exceptions for underage or feral fictional characters. Perhaps caution is best exercised in those scenarios. The former is especially unwelcomed by most current Net services.

Now, I'm not sure if shared folders are the exception to this rule. The terms do not imply this. It's also possible that mass-flagging results in an automatic lock. Without access to all of the files of the affected user in the linked thread, there's no way for anyone to make a confident guess.

Regardless, for the sake of caution, one should assess the risks and have backups. This is true for any service. Even if confidence is lost in MEGA, alternatives remain.

Editing to add that, for clarification, "obscene materials" and similar wording have different legal implications than pornographic materials. The term pornography/pornographic is not used anywhere in the terms. This is contradictory to a previous edit, sorry!

Thanks for understanding. I hope my tone isn't abrasive or anything.

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[2]: Takedown Guidance Policy

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