Its one of the many reasons why I’m a hugboxer, and I’m focused on hugbox. The reality is that there were people who openly had that kind of mentality in the history of the booru. Below was a discussion involving nasir, the author of Maroon, and one of the earliest abusers, Gingerfig:
And @anon17213083 mentioned that Herdking became more obsessed with one note abuse before his disappearance.
Over time, this mentality resulted in the creation of hellgremlins, as well as the overall harassment of hugboxers by abusers. It extends even to this day, when the recent Hugmas event on the subreddit got affected by abusers bothered by it. Its easy to say “be civil” but, and truth is, the fandom has attracted many uncivil elements that I attribute to the nature of abuse, as well as the overemphasis on grimdark elements.
I do believe in advocating for “enjoying what you want”. Thats why I don’t go on abuse images and post hugbox comments, or pick random fights with abusers. I do have a problem though, when abusers try to push the abuse headcanon as the “only” headcanon. Because my interest in fluffies, as it was with many hugboxers and some neutralboxers, was in the different ideas that fluffies could bring. And sometimes, some of us just want to enjoy a cute image of a neotenic animal. Thats what Art-anon got out of it, thats what MarcusMaximus got out of it, and thats what I get out of it.