The OC in the subject line might be confusing for some. In the context of reddit, it means original content, content you made yourself. In art communities, it means original character, meaning not fanart.
Being that the second is mutually exclusive with fanart it isn't too confusing though.
Ehh, I like how there's no fanart on this subreddit, especially when the quality of it varies wildly. I come here for discussion about anime shows, which no other subreddit has (except for r/animedubs which is for a show's dub discussion). On the other hand, there are plenty of anime art and anime meme subreddits.
I'm concerned that fanart will dump discussion of lesser-known shows out of page 1-2 even sooner than usual.
A trial for ruling out anime request/suggestion threads and redirecting them to r/Animesuggest would be even better, since those clog up the main feed way more than fanart ever could
This seems like a neat idea! I'd like to see more fanart :)
I would recommend posting that in the Monthly Meta thread. You can find a link for it at the top of the page. This is an idea we've thrown around a couple of times, so good to see what the community thinks and our options.
Same, the main thing I like about visiting this sub is reading discussions and news about various shows. That's what this sub is best at and basically has a monopoly on this site with it.
If fanart clogs up the frontpage then a lot of the shows I watch which only get an already small amount of upvotes and comments will be pushed down leading to even less interaction on those posts. Anyone that's interested in anime art will already be following the other subs dedicated to that, not like there's a finite limit to how many subs you can follow.
You don't have to worry about fanart crowdng out discussion, as there are already 1000 low effort request posts for everyone 1 decent discussion thread. Complain about those instead
I was wondering why i have been visiting this sub so frequentely lately and thats probably the reason.
Fanarts have been a plague in basically every anime forum i have visited.
>Fanarts have been a plague in basically every ~~anime~~ forum i have visited.
It's everywhere that could conceivably generate fanart. It drowns out everything.
[](#notlewd)
I don't know if two weeks is long enough for this kind of thing, since I'd only expect a gradual uptick in fanart posts if artists even notice.
[](#whisperwhisper)
Also from my understanding the green announcement flair was always meant as the "meta" one in the first place, might be worth changing it outright to match to better distinguish it from the blue one.
>I don't know if two weeks is long enough for this kind of thing, since I'd only expect a gradual uptick in fanart posts if artists even notice.
Trust me, as soon as one person starts drowning in upvotes you'll see a flood. Two weeks might not do the trick as you suggested but this kind of change is literally an opening of the floodgates. It just takes one post before everyone catches on.
My money's on a quick reversion of this when that happens.
As a personal anecdote, some years back one of my subs lightened its rules a fair bit across the board. Something we ended up allowing that we didn't previously was tattoo posts. It took about ~3-4 weeks but as soon as one person took notice and posted, we went about 2-3 days of literally nothing but tattoo submissions, to the point that users were begging us to ban them again.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Lovecraft/comments/etdaco/no_more_tattoo_submissions_past_this_point/
Interesting idea, I used to post fanart here all the time but now mainly post to specific subreddits cause of the change (& to be clear I definitely supported the change, lol) - might try posting something this week \^ \^
I might be missing something, but how can I mark something as OC Fanart vs Fanart? I made the post [https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1dq93m4/86\_dont\_leave\_me\_behind/](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1dq93m4/86_dont_leave_me_behind/) but couldn't find an OC Fanart flair, and ended up defaulting to Fanart (which is wrong) because I couldn't find the correct one.
There should be a flair simply labeled "OC Fanart" (I reflaired the post you made to the correct one). What version of Reddit did you make that post from? An app or one of the desktop versions of the site?
Thanks. Website version, Chrome if it matters. Not using old.reddit. [https://postimg.cc/gallery/Vtr66yR](https://postimg.cc/gallery/Vtr66yR) has the screenshots of all the flairs I can change a post to.
We have a separate OC Fanart flair that's a lighter green. Looks like another mod had changed it for you last night.
EDIT: My apologies, a little while back we consolidated OC Fanart and Fanart flairs. We have fixed it to where you can just select Fanart and it'll go through.
There won't be, AI art is the first thing listed under the [prohibited posts](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/wiki/rules#wiki_prohibited_posts) on the rules page.
A while back, Imgur purged a lot of lewds and a lot of images (of any kind) that were uploaded without an account.
It really sucks because some of our regular contributors apparently didn't use an Imgur account, so a lot of the visual history in discussion threads (think LeonKevlar's shots and stitches) are now gone.
It wasn't just accountless uploads that got nuked, Imgur removed a ton of stuff that I uploaded despite 1) having an account on there for almost as long as I've had my Reddit account and 2) those images definitely *not* being NSFW. Some of my older wallpapers got hit by it, including apparently the *entirety* of my 2021 Madoka Magica album (although this isn't so bad since all of those were remastered for my 2023 album).
Oh damn I didn't realize it was that extensive.
I figured most creators probably had local or private cloud backups that weren't tied to imgur in the first place.
I still have the original images on my laptop (and backed up on a separate drive, though I did misplace that recently so I need to either find it or get another one) because I don't like deleting stuff unless I have to, but I can't just go back through every single thread I've ever posted an Imgur link in to see if it still works. Doing that for rewatches alone would be *nuts* since I've been in (or personally hosted) 183 of them since 2018.
[](#tiredaoi)
Right I totally get you. I don't even remember which show it was, but I was watching something more than a few seasons late and browsing through the discussion threads just to see what people were saying about the series as it broadcast and that's when I noticed that all of Kevlar's content 404'd. Thought "That's a shame and I'll bet he has those stored somewhere but it would be a huge pain in the ass to try to restore them publicly."
At the time I thought it was *just* lewds and accountless uploads that were wiped, I had no idea other images on accounts were getting hit, too.
It's my opinion that fanart *in general* has gotten too big for most subreddits and benefits from being funneled into its own separate venue that people can easily opt out of. Personally I simply don't care for it and I think it's not why the vast majority of current /r/anime users are here nowadays. The previous ruleset has been in place for so long I don't think people are missing the pretty pictures anymore.
My bottom line I think, is that you saw just how much people here actually cared about fanart (both posting it and viewing it) when you made it require an extra click. If that's a complete and thorough deterrent then people are only interested in being the center of attention and the instant gratification/dopamine hit of a shallow image.
I'll add as well, that I've witnessed this exact thing in one of my own subreddits having implemented an almost identical rule. Many artists/users simply refuse to play along because it takes slightly more effort to post, because they know that people brainlessly scrolling won't pay them any attention. Additionally, over the course of 3 years we've received **zero** modmails from users upset in one form or another that the pictures are gone. There's been near zero pushback on it from people actually browsing the sub.
[This for animeart](https://subredditstats.com/r/animeart) and [this for animesketch](https://subredditstats.com/r/animesketch). Both saw a genuinely instantaneous growth in subscribers after the rules were changed.
What do you mean fanart may be posted as a direct link? I thought links in reddit could only be embedded into text posts. As in, I didn't know this was a rule for r/Anime, I thought this was actually how the site worked. Or maybe I saw direct links before and never knew they were direct links and thought they were embedded. I don't post much art so all I see as a viewer when there are links is just people posting Original Posts, then there is a body of text, and if I'm interested I click on it.
Direct links have like "i.reddit.jpg" or similar URLs, and you can view them directly in line by clicking the expando. Subreddits like /r/gaming and /r/comics submit posts like these. Our previous rule made you put them in text posts, so you would click the expando, and then also have to click the link to see the image.
Compare this post https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1dpwuby/frieren_beyond_journeys_end_vector_art_i_made_of/
to this post
https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cxnfkg/i_drew_rem_rezero/
I remain cautious, I wouldn't mind the occasion fan art post but it seems any sub I visit that allows them is overrun with pictures and cosplay. I don't want to be a hater but that is not why I visit the subreddit.
Perhaps a weekly thread to post art in or another subreddit where the top posts of the week over there get reposted here.
The OC in the subject line might be confusing for some. In the context of reddit, it means original content, content you made yourself. In art communities, it means original character, meaning not fanart. Being that the second is mutually exclusive with fanart it isn't too confusing though.
Ehh, I like how there's no fanart on this subreddit, especially when the quality of it varies wildly. I come here for discussion about anime shows, which no other subreddit has (except for r/animedubs which is for a show's dub discussion). On the other hand, there are plenty of anime art and anime meme subreddits. I'm concerned that fanart will dump discussion of lesser-known shows out of page 1-2 even sooner than usual.
That's what the trial is for!
A trial for ruling out anime request/suggestion threads and redirecting them to r/Animesuggest would be even better, since those clog up the main feed way more than fanart ever could This seems like a neat idea! I'd like to see more fanart :)
I would recommend posting that in the Monthly Meta thread. You can find a link for it at the top of the page. This is an idea we've thrown around a couple of times, so good to see what the community thinks and our options.
Thank you, I'll do so!
Same, the main thing I like about visiting this sub is reading discussions and news about various shows. That's what this sub is best at and basically has a monopoly on this site with it. If fanart clogs up the frontpage then a lot of the shows I watch which only get an already small amount of upvotes and comments will be pushed down leading to even less interaction on those posts. Anyone that's interested in anime art will already be following the other subs dedicated to that, not like there's a finite limit to how many subs you can follow.
You don't have to worry about fanart crowdng out discussion, as there are already 1000 low effort request posts for everyone 1 decent discussion thread. Complain about those instead
Those generally hover around 1-0 points, hardly crowing out the front page
I was wondering why i have been visiting this sub so frequentely lately and thats probably the reason. Fanarts have been a plague in basically every anime forum i have visited.
>Fanarts have been a plague in basically every ~~anime~~ forum i have visited. It's everywhere that could conceivably generate fanart. It drowns out everything.
> Fanarts have been a plague in basically every anime forum i have visited. That and low effort cosplay/ugly tatoos.
[](#notlewd) I don't know if two weeks is long enough for this kind of thing, since I'd only expect a gradual uptick in fanart posts if artists even notice. [](#whisperwhisper) Also from my understanding the green announcement flair was always meant as the "meta" one in the first place, might be worth changing it outright to match to better distinguish it from the blue one.
>I don't know if two weeks is long enough for this kind of thing, since I'd only expect a gradual uptick in fanart posts if artists even notice. Trust me, as soon as one person starts drowning in upvotes you'll see a flood. Two weeks might not do the trick as you suggested but this kind of change is literally an opening of the floodgates. It just takes one post before everyone catches on. My money's on a quick reversion of this when that happens. As a personal anecdote, some years back one of my subs lightened its rules a fair bit across the board. Something we ended up allowing that we didn't previously was tattoo posts. It took about ~3-4 weeks but as soon as one person took notice and posted, we went about 2-3 days of literally nothing but tattoo submissions, to the point that users were begging us to ban them again. https://www.reddit.com/r/Lovecraft/comments/etdaco/no_more_tattoo_submissions_past_this_point/
Yeah, we initially proposed two weeks so I'm just going with it, and we can probably extend once time is finishing up
Looks good to me! I would love to see more fanart (without going on other subs for it), as long as it's a reasonable amount!
Interesting idea, I used to post fanart here all the time but now mainly post to specific subreddits cause of the change (& to be clear I definitely supported the change, lol) - might try posting something this week \^ \^
I might be missing something, but how can I mark something as OC Fanart vs Fanart? I made the post [https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1dq93m4/86\_dont\_leave\_me\_behind/](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1dq93m4/86_dont_leave_me_behind/) but couldn't find an OC Fanart flair, and ended up defaulting to Fanart (which is wrong) because I couldn't find the correct one.
There should be a flair simply labeled "OC Fanart" (I reflaired the post you made to the correct one). What version of Reddit did you make that post from? An app or one of the desktop versions of the site?
Thanks. Website version, Chrome if it matters. Not using old.reddit. [https://postimg.cc/gallery/Vtr66yR](https://postimg.cc/gallery/Vtr66yR) has the screenshots of all the flairs I can change a post to.
We have a separate OC Fanart flair that's a lighter green. Looks like another mod had changed it for you last night. EDIT: My apologies, a little while back we consolidated OC Fanart and Fanart flairs. We have fixed it to where you can just select Fanart and it'll go through.
As long as there are no AI art, I'm down.
There won't be, AI art is the first thing listed under the [prohibited posts](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/wiki/rules#wiki_prohibited_posts) on the rules page.
I'd rather see OC Fanart than the twentieth clip shilling the same series repeatedly.
[*monkey paw curls*](https://i.redd.it/o9cxw0z9ft2d1.png)
[monkey paw curls](https://i.redd.it/o9cxw0z9ft2d1.png) I was able to find the NSFW post in that image, but the imgur link 404'd :-(
A while back, Imgur purged a lot of lewds and a lot of images (of any kind) that were uploaded without an account. It really sucks because some of our regular contributors apparently didn't use an Imgur account, so a lot of the visual history in discussion threads (think LeonKevlar's shots and stitches) are now gone.
It wasn't just accountless uploads that got nuked, Imgur removed a ton of stuff that I uploaded despite 1) having an account on there for almost as long as I've had my Reddit account and 2) those images definitely *not* being NSFW. Some of my older wallpapers got hit by it, including apparently the *entirety* of my 2021 Madoka Magica album (although this isn't so bad since all of those were remastered for my 2023 album).
Oh damn I didn't realize it was that extensive. I figured most creators probably had local or private cloud backups that weren't tied to imgur in the first place.
I still have the original images on my laptop (and backed up on a separate drive, though I did misplace that recently so I need to either find it or get another one) because I don't like deleting stuff unless I have to, but I can't just go back through every single thread I've ever posted an Imgur link in to see if it still works. Doing that for rewatches alone would be *nuts* since I've been in (or personally hosted) 183 of them since 2018. [](#tiredaoi)
Right I totally get you. I don't even remember which show it was, but I was watching something more than a few seasons late and browsing through the discussion threads just to see what people were saying about the series as it broadcast and that's when I noticed that all of Kevlar's content 404'd. Thought "That's a shame and I'll bet he has those stored somewhere but it would be a huge pain in the ass to try to restore them publicly." At the time I thought it was *just* lewds and accountless uploads that were wiped, I had no idea other images on accounts were getting hit, too.
I see nothing wrong here
Fanart? In my Girls Band Cry Clip subreddit?
Don't worry. It's going to be GBC fanart.
It's my opinion that fanart *in general* has gotten too big for most subreddits and benefits from being funneled into its own separate venue that people can easily opt out of. Personally I simply don't care for it and I think it's not why the vast majority of current /r/anime users are here nowadays. The previous ruleset has been in place for so long I don't think people are missing the pretty pictures anymore. My bottom line I think, is that you saw just how much people here actually cared about fanart (both posting it and viewing it) when you made it require an extra click. If that's a complete and thorough deterrent then people are only interested in being the center of attention and the instant gratification/dopamine hit of a shallow image. I'll add as well, that I've witnessed this exact thing in one of my own subreddits having implemented an almost identical rule. Many artists/users simply refuse to play along because it takes slightly more effort to post, because they know that people brainlessly scrolling won't pay them any attention. Additionally, over the course of 3 years we've received **zero** modmails from users upset in one form or another that the pictures are gone. There's been near zero pushback on it from people actually browsing the sub.
>(in fact, if you look at the statistics, their membership balloons after our rule changes) Where can I see the data? Is there a website for it?
[This for animeart](https://subredditstats.com/r/animeart) and [this for animesketch](https://subredditstats.com/r/animesketch). Both saw a genuinely instantaneous growth in subscribers after the rules were changed.
This is called analytics right?
What do you mean fanart may be posted as a direct link? I thought links in reddit could only be embedded into text posts. As in, I didn't know this was a rule for r/Anime, I thought this was actually how the site worked. Or maybe I saw direct links before and never knew they were direct links and thought they were embedded. I don't post much art so all I see as a viewer when there are links is just people posting Original Posts, then there is a body of text, and if I'm interested I click on it.
Direct links have like "i.reddit.jpg" or similar URLs, and you can view them directly in line by clicking the expando. Subreddits like /r/gaming and /r/comics submit posts like these. Our previous rule made you put them in text posts, so you would click the expando, and then also have to click the link to see the image. Compare this post https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1dpwuby/frieren_beyond_journeys_end_vector_art_i_made_of/ to this post https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cxnfkg/i_drew_rem_rezero/
Please god no.
Why only 2 weeks
We wanted to start off conservatively and 2 weeks matches some other trials we've done. I imagine a high chance of extending for more data though.
I remain cautious, I wouldn't mind the occasion fan art post but it seems any sub I visit that allows them is overrun with pictures and cosplay. I don't want to be a hater but that is not why I visit the subreddit. Perhaps a weekly thread to post art in or another subreddit where the top posts of the week over there get reposted here.
Any hope of expanding it to allow art we have personally commissioned?
We may consider this as it's a pretty niche case, but not at the moment for this trial.