Theme Reveal DateThe Art Fight Theme Reveal stream will start at 2:00pm UTC and run until 8:00pm UTC, at which point the team reveal animation will play! |
Art Fight Theme Reveal Stream
- Please join us on June 15th for the 2024 Art Fight Theme Reveal, which will stream live on our YouTube. The stream will start at 2:00pm UTC and run until 8:00pm UTC, at which point the team reveal animation will play!
- The Art Fight Theme Reveal is an animation made annually by the talented Axel that announces the theme for this year's Art Fight. We hope you can make it, but don't despair if you can't - after the stream, the themes will be announced onsite, and the animation will be posted to our YouTube.
- Leading up to the reveal, we'll also have a ton of in-stream activities hosted by mods like Quiplash, Gartic Phone, and some fun art games! We've also got word in that there'll be an exciting announcement after the reveal, so make sure to stick around. I mean what, who said that?
Graphic by scribedhearts | Illustration by Axel
Art Fight Start Date
- Like every year, Art Fight 2024 will start on July 1st at 6:00pm UTC.
- We recommend that you start preparing yourself now by updating your characters, bookmarking other people’s characters, and getting those refs into shape... there's no time like the present!
- Remember that drawing attacks before Art Fight starts (July 1st, 6:00pm UTC) is against the rules. Not only is it unfair to others, but it is a direct violation of the spirit of Art Fight. If you attempt to do this, your account may be banned. Please be considerate and show good team spirit!
Art Fight 2024Information about changes made to the site, planned updates, and more! |
Art Fight Keychain Updates
- Keychains are now in production, and users who pre-ordered one will receive an email once they've shipped. They'll start shipping out soon, so keep your eyes peeled!
- The onsite achievement for users who purchased a keychain will be processed before the event begins. Thanks for your patience!
- We've given our site rules a long-needed update. Before the event begins, please make yourself familiar with our updated Rules.
- Alongside editing them for clarity, our rules have been updated to reflect our updated Filters Guidelines, our disallowance of AI-generated content, and general information regarding allowed characters and content on the site.
- We have updated our Filter Guidelines. Please take the time to review them here, as we have made some changes to certain types of content allowed on Art Fight. Notably, we have renamed Sexual Themes to Suggestive Themes, which has been significantly updated as a category. We are also moving away from using the term "Maturity Filters" in favor of simply "Filters".
- We'd like to apologize for making these changes right before the fight, as we understand that these kinds of updates can be overwhelming. Internal systems and resources took priority this year; in the future, we will release major rule updates at least a few months before the fight to give users ample time to review them.
- To make up for this, we will be providing users with a grace period to change or remove any affected content. No penalties will be issued to users whose content may need to be re-filtered or removed from the site. During this time, moderators may hide offending characters and notify users that they need to be filtered or removed, and users will be able to migrate newly-disallowed content off-site. This grace period will last until July 14, 2024. After this point, content found that is in violation of the updated Filter Guidelines may be subject to stricter administrative action. Note that this grace period will not apply to content that is uploaded after the posted date of our new Filter Guidelines.
- If you have any questions concerning our new Rules or Filters Guidelines, please contact a moderator or ask in one of our Discord's help channels.
- In an effort to reduce site-mod strain and balance the creative expression of our users with respect for copyright laws, we have updated our DMCA procedure.
- Uncredited photo backgrounds are now handled through reports from the infringed parties via the DMCA system rather than through site reports. We encourage users to credit photo backgrounds if they are using them for attacks.
- Below are the key points regarding what is now permissible on-site and what will be subject to takedown:
- Original characters (OCs) in canon characters' clothes.
- Redrawing canon characters or logos on accessories; it is acceptable to depict canon characters on accessories such as T-shirts or as plushies, but they must be hand-drawn renditions.
- Alternate universe (AU) characters can now bear a closer resemblance to canon characters, as long as the AU has at least one noticeable difference from the canon design.
- Exact replicas and re-uploads of canon characters.
- Directly uploading company logos as characters.
- Posting images that are not explicitly free-to-use, such as collages or moodboards. You may however host these moodboards or collages off-site (such as on Pinterest) and link them in the character's bio.
Head over to our Changelog to find out more about what's changed!
- Like in April, we focused on improvements and additions to our moderation tools. In the past, moderators were not able to view certain report types due to permission roadblocks. This has been fixed, and believe that this will lead to better response times on reports. The Tag Search has also been optimized and load times should also improve. Both of these fixes are in testing and will be live on the site this week.
- We are also working on implementing a way for users to delete their account. We're hoping to release this before the fight begins, but may not be able to due to the internal work it requires. As always, we thank you for your patience regarding this.
- Have an idea for Art Fight? Let us know here! We'll periodically check up on this form and add submitted suggestions to our Trello board.
Edit (06/12/24): Regarding our new Suggestive Themes rules
- We plan to release a separate newspost clarifying and adjusting some of our recently changed rules
Comments (778)
Kyuorsomethinidk
I think it’ll be arctic vs tropic
exp123mon
Also god forbid there be one website on the entire internet that disallows kink and fetish content lol.
fivestarstories
coldweatherart
blankstorefront
I also feel kind of iffy about what's being considered eye trauma; I feel like, without specifying that the filter is needed specifically for fresh injuries or active violence, it honestly is also teetering into requiring a filter on scarring/permanent injury. That seems like an oversight here worth mentioning.
On a lesser note, (but I haven't seen it mentioned) I don't really... Get the whole meat thing? Am I missing something??? I think it makes enough sense if it clearly resembles a body part, but like... steak?? I guess I'm more confused than anything, but I guess that bit just feels completely redundant with everything else in the gore section.
I guess a lot of my issues here just come down to feeling like the filter guidelines here took one step forward and two steps back in terms of being easy to keep track of, remember, or entirely make sense of. I'm sorry if I'm coming off overly critical/nitpicky here; I am still excited for artfight as per usual! I wouldn't be heading into my 11th go of it if I wasn't. But I'd also be lying if I said I'm not nervous about some of these. I hope at least the fetish and eye rules are reconsidered.
To be clear, I think there are some positive changes here too; especially the loosened copyright rules. But at least at the moment, I'm pretty disappointed.
Beast-Gabi
Dragon? A fetish
Dinosaurs? Yes a fetish
It makes me worried about the new fight, people can and will abuse the new system to ban other that in the end are innocent. There should be clarification before the fight, so artfight be handled easily.
AND FOR THE PEOPLE WHO SAY SOMETHING ELSE ABOUT IT
learn and there are content filters and a block button, those exist for a reason and don't get yourself into things that really you don't understand.
yoshi_ruko
linekbaer
Not only that they got released on such a short notice and not everyone is keeping up to date with updates on artfight till the event starts but also the way you guys want to remove fetish and sexual content?
The Filtering in the past years felt so good, so well managed and explained but now it feels like you could get flagged for anything that someone else sees as a fetish.
Definetly not a good change.
shxtcxke
XxLunarfulGalaxiaxX
BirbMonster
EggsFennedict
On the subject of NSFW content:
Speaking as someone who has participated from that front before, with the direction that ArtFight is headed in and continues to do so -
I do honestly think that it makes more sense to remove “sensitive/sexual content” from the site entirely than to continue slowly siphoning it down with narrower and narrower parameters, especially with lacking clarity from prior years. For starters, many of the rules there I already see many easy loopholes that people will try to exploit, and second of all it does indeed appear to be a matter of cherrypicking (note: I 100% believe NSFW subjects should be sentient & 18 or over at the BARE MINIMUM. That is not what I mean). It makes much more sense just to stick to artistic nude categories & mentions of burlesque dancers in bios than it does to have that be a full separate category, no? Genuinely curious.
Nevertheless, still excited for the teams announcement and will be making sure all my bios are clean for all my characters accordingly!
Ironwolf2017isSUS
Papoompala
arctic vs tropic
clouds vs caverns
comedy vs tragedy
destruction vs creation
flora vs fauna
fossils vs crystals
heart vs soul
heros vs villans
knights vs dragons
rain vs shine
seafoam vs stardust
spring vs autumn
time vs space
trinkets vs treasure
fessendj