I showed my little sister some of the community’s art

Show my stuff too! Hearing about non-fluffy fans rections is always interesting! :smiley:

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Was gonna suggest showing some of Dragonixa’s works if she really wants to see some good drawing, but I’d say 11 is most likely way too young for me to be encouraging her exposure to gore.

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She loved carpdime, said carpdime fluffies looked round and soft

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I am not 100% on board with you showing this stuff to an 11 year old kid, but I played videogames since I was 4. By 11 I knew what Halo or CoD were. There was shooting and blood. Sure not as severe as fluffy abuse, but I won’t get on your case by acting “holier-than-thou”. Just try not to traumatize her I guess. Also I knew Carpidme was a safe bet :3

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I showed my little sister some of the community’s art
NOPE SO HARD

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The sad thing is that, like it or not, kids are going to be exposed to this content, one way or the other. That being said, and while I do think Fluffycommunity specifically should be adults-only, I think certain aspects and elements of fluffies, especially hugbox, can be made palatable and even enriching for kids.

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Its never too late. If it was too late, I would have given up on fluffies after discovering the fandom initially. While the culture shock of noticing the abuse, gore and violence is there, I also found a trove of engaging stories, especially from the non-abuse side. It was my interest in many fluffy characters created by people like Waggytail, Squeakyfriend, @Pinkyfluffy , Coalheart, @Carpdime and so on that got me to stay in the fandom. And with newer hugboxers coming in like @CookieCrunch and @Chikahiro , I think there is space to develop fluffies in a way outside of just pure shock content.

To me, hugbox is important, not only to balance the darker and violent sides of the fandom (which is arguably needed), but to give a more public face to the content, as well as to diversify and enrich it. I think this idea of purely thinking of fluffies as niche content and/or limiting enjoyment of it purely in a specific way (read: stress relief, anger management, etc) limits the attachment of value to the fandom and its characters, which is why people had dropped off over time. A personal belief of mine is that fluffy characters should be thought of in more ways beyond just abuse or simple hugging. And I think for that to happen, people need to start attaching more value to fluffy characters.

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@Thatmotherfluffer Actually, and now that I think about it, I think you should get your little sister to read The Unicorn who flew:

This was the closest thing to a children’s bedtime story that I found the booru. And yes, this is a story I would show to little kids. Its the kind of content I’ve been looking for on the booru because people tend to focus on the edgy and shocking content, but forget that there’s also a lot of wholseome and engaging content.

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This isn’t a matter of “hugbox is so important and appropriate” it’s a matter of someone deliberately bringing a child onto a site that hosts pornographic pictures and sexually charged gore. There’s no sfw alternative like in the booru days. Just because kids happen into here on their own does not mean we should be encouraging more of them to come into this space, specially as young as 11.
If she’s going to show her sister hugbox she should do it off site instead, then there’s a significantly lower risk of her seeing something she shouldn’t. Like, printing it off or downloading it to her computer.
There’s also plenty of media made FOR KIDS that she could be sharing with her sister instead of risking her finding the other essential component of the fandom. Sure, people make porn of kids shows too, but it’s not PART of the show.

I’m also not interested in an in depth conversation on what media is safe for a child to consume unfortunately. It’s obvious I stand by the classic “movie ratings” for sites as a whole, rather than by part. I don’t support children being on sites like FA either, even though they DO have a SFW mode. Just my opinion. -shrugs- Idk how this thread in general got past my block in the first place, but I’ll be muting it now that I’ve said my two cents.

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Im just worried and advice with caution and guidance on few finale pages in there :pray::cold_sweat:

Lmao :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: what does mine mean. And curious as to what you showed her

Bru they see more fucked up shit offline I don’t think showing abuse or gore fluffy art will add or change anything

Pats back-its OK it’s OK there there.

Yeah if someone showed this to my 13 year old, I would be irate. 11? Bad, bad idea.

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I apologize if I gave off the image of advocating kids coming to the site. I was under the impression that @Thatmotherfluffer did do that, that being “show fluffy content off-site” as opposed to showing the website itself. I do agree that hugbox content should be shown off-site to ensure proper guidance around this kind of content especially around a minor.

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Why the fuck would you show anyone this, let alone your 11 year old sister? Watchingnfinal destination or saw at the age of 11 is a lot different than looking at pictures of pighorses with the minds of children get tortured to death, its gonna fuck someone up mentally. Just looks at Isabella Loretta Janke

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Since you were the first artist i saw before i got into the fandom ill just say that rubys story was amazing and adorable and i am begging you ti do more slice of life stuff like that.

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In which the majority opinion is don’t do it and a few of the daring suggested avenues with the acknowledgement that doing this has the potential to ruin relationships.

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Well gee, looks like another thread where I’ll have to voice my dissenting opinion.

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Godspeed

Lmao idk how to feel about it :sweat_smile::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: I nu nu wat means-thinking intensifies-

Wow, no offense but she got no taste.

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