Nude World Order

So as most of you probably know, a few days ago I posted a controversial image, namely an anime character who many people thought looked like a child. There was some debate, but honestly I’m inclined to agree. I took a poll about this. And naturally, like a good politician I’ve disregarded the results and taken the least popular option. Just kidding (mostly), it wasn’t a vote per se, but an opinion poll. And the results show a majority (almost 2/3) don’t think it’s a problem, but on the other hand, a third, which is still a significant number, do think it should either be removed or hidden. And so I’m going with the middle ground solution.

Thus far, 3 pictures, including the one that started this will be hidden until you click them. In the future I’m not sure what I’ll do. I’ll probably think twice about posting anything that would need this treatment again. But I won’t say never, and considering how ambiguous it can be, I hope this won’t stop people from submitting anime images in general or anything. Worst that can happen is I’ll say no.

I doubt anyone is terribly happy with this outcome, but it seemed like a fair compromise.

So a couple days ago I posted a submission that proved controversial. Although the caption implies the girl in the drawing is a college graduate, I’d have to agree she looks very much younger. (The image in question) I haven’t got that many #art submissions until fairly recently so I don’t really have a policy about it. (For photos of real people, they do of course have to be 18+, please let me know if you see any you have reason to think are not.) But I guess time has come that I need to think about how do handle this for drawings. The tricky part is that defining the age of a fictional character can be very hard, especially since the anime art style most of these are in tends to make everyone look pretty young.

I was tempted to try to make a poll about what people would personally consider too-young-looking but I realized it’s a bit too complicated a question for a simple multiple choice poll. If you have any thoughts on that, feel free to share them in the comments, but for the moment I’m going to focus on the easier part (even though that’s kind of backwards):

Poll: How should drawings of young looking characters handled?