Dear @TurkeyOnAStick,
This website is a meeting place for child groomers. "Short stack" hentai is coded lolicon. It highlights and accentuates underage features to give the appearance of youth. This artwork, hosted on your site, creates a conversation between young people and predators. Furthermore, the prevalence of this art is because of artwork commissions. Young, talented artists all over the internet are telling stories of how their mental health is suffering because their bills are being paid by commissioned pornography of an absolutely degenerate nature. This is not vintage erotica with artful poses exploring the human body, this is depraved sexuality that is held as personal identity. This is not an expression of sexual freedom, but of the BDSM mindset that sex is the meaning of life. That personal congress means nothing, because sex is a Freudian need, engrained in the souls of these children. This is grooming. The artists are often predated upon in real-life meet ups with their patrons. Viewers of this content are manipulated into the same kind of meetings. This content exists explicitly for the purpose of sexual identity politics. It is not an artistic endeavor. It is not playfully creative, it is criminal. I've never been a fan of censorship when it comes to artistic expression, but Toph Beifong, a 12 year old child in the television series Avatar: The Last Airbender, on her knees and begging for unrealistic proportioned penises to be inserted into her body as her soul writhes for servitude, her implicit meaning for existence, is not an artistic expression. This is lolicon pornography. Your General forum was closed because of the personal interactions of predators with young children, trans women, and emotionally distressed users. I am not "lashing out" or trolling. This website was a humongous part of my youth and it has dissolved into a breeding ground for content that would have been barred from upload even on DeviantArt. The ad revenue from hosting this content is all that the moderation staff of Newgrounds cares about, not the user base, and not the children who are now allowed to make accounts while underage.
The reason I am being silenced is because I am right. The General forum was closed because of the fear that users may file litigation against Tom Fulp and the staff of Newgrounds. Every single page on this website prompts me with a beggar's plea for donations out of my pocket. Newgrounds turns a blind eye to users being abused to preserve their profits.
goncalves2341
I may not be aware what you originally said in the forum post that prompted you a ban for "lashing out", but if this is what you were banned for, the moderator is in the wrong.
The problem with social media sites like Newgrounds, is that anywhere can be "a meeting place" for child predators unfortunately. It's not fair for being punished for voicing your concerns. It should be the predators.
While the mods here may excuse it as an uncomfortable topic for the forums, and in a scenario where predators would be more common place that may spark an uproar in the community, while the moderators do their best to keep them away - should the people that are upset about it be punished for it? No. I'm not saying the mods here do a lousy job at keeping weirdos away, but they should be loose about the community's concerns. As much as they try to be drama free, it can't be ignored.
Nobody deserves to be censored if they care for the website. I've been a NG member for almost 11 years, has also played a part in my youth, and I want these groomers away from our website.
DingleberryClock (Updated )
Thank you. In their defense, I am a bit volatile. They banned me from reviews for expressing my opinion on artists' uploads. I made a semi-joking post about it, asking why P-Bot won't release the Epstein list, and was banned from posting on the forum for a YEAR. Maybe I'm getting old, but I just find the hours and hours of time spent over this highly detailed erotica to be disturbing. I legitimately wonder how many transgender youth on this site face gender dysphoria because of the message behind this kind of art. How many of these images depict a woman taking on multiple partners, possibly in bondage and implicitly by force, with speech bubbles and facial expressions that communicate an existential fulfillment?
Maybe the medium isn't the problem, but a societal illness. I know I probably sound transphobic or prejudiced, but we all have to admit that internet chatrooms and the availability of explicit material have enabled children to explore these things beyond what is appropriate for a young person coming of age. Is grooming a young person more acceptable when they're close to the age of consent, or even when they reach it? Porn sites all over the internet have made this content less freely available, with account registration necessary and even entire states blocked from their platforms.
Maybe I'm a prude. Or maybe the "in your face" chapter of the post-sexual revolution is enticing and alluring to children. We all grew up with adult media, but was bondage fetishism and slave/sub relations as freely available? Young people seek validation and open themselves up to predation to find self worth, and those feelings of self worth are tied in to the media they consume and a goal they feel they need to reach. That goal leads to zero time to reflect before pursuing new relationships, blurred lines of consent, exposure to sexually transmitted diseases, and to excusing and defending abusive tendencies in their partners.
I'm just really weirded out by the constant daily consumption and hundreds of hours of artists poring over what is designed to be disturbing and outrageous. Maybe somebody can correct me and give me valid arguments for sexual dominion as a life goal. Maybe I'm wrong. But the conversation hasn't been allowed.