this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2026
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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Two points: 1- I already explained what furry is and what it isn't.
2- I use a translator and translate the page.
3- An extra point, haha. Here's an example of a yokai demon with a kemonomimi. Art I uploaded there.
4- Another extra example, normal/mythical animal art, without a antro.
I'd consider #3 as furry art. Regardless of how you define it, it's their interpretation that matters in the end.
No, you explained your definition of what is and isn't furry.
But, it looks like whatever translator you're using is really good! I would not have guessed.
Do you have other examples of art you actually posted?
Because that first one is very, very much like the furry art that goes around. The second one, absolutely not furry imo.
You mean I invented terms from centuries ago...? Nambreh si soy una cosa bárbara y ni yo sabía.
I'm assuming you're being a smartass because something got lost in the translation.
Furry, in the context being used here, is not centuries old, and that's what I was saying you're trying to apply your own definition to, not the word yokai, which is more than centuries old.
What matters here is that the community you were banned from is using a fairly common usage of the word "furry", as well as "anthro".
Both of those words, in the context of art, in English, mean something other than what you think they mean.
A drawing of a yokai, even something that's otherwise not animal like, could still look like furry art because there's a style involved. When that's the case, it's easy for a given image to get caught up in that rule.
Your art style looks like furry art in the example you gave here. The second one of regular animals doesn't, but the first very much matches the style that the community has a rule about.
While you (and I) may disagree about the rule being applied well, it is being applied consistently by the moderator in question.