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)
admin
In addition to our last comment, we wanted to let you all know that we have heard your feedback. We are making some adjustments to our recent changes, and you can expect a newspost about it soon. The newspost will also provide some context regarding our initial intentions with the changes. Thank you for your patience!
lonely_space_egg
Reading "fetish/kink art is sexually explicit and disallowed on site" as "don't violate people's boundaries and trick people into drawing it" only makes sense if you view fetish artists as creeps who don't respect boundaries.
Akivaq
sorry for the ping reply!
AnamayCat
Akivaq
trust me, the only reason why im being so critical is that so they can repair their reputation
AnamayCat
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while i do agree that there are definitely some portions of the ruleset that could be worded better / clarified + fixed like others are saying, & the updates and changes definitely should have been in their own post so people had better warning just in case their characters are in violation.
i do think that everyone seems to be immediately jumping to worst case scenario for all the changes. please have some better faith in the staff!
these types of rulesets are very hard to define because people do take different meanings out of each phrase or word, but none of these rules were written to be malicious. just having a bigger chest on a character or some larger proportions is not going to get anyone banned- i do fully understand the concern but we must remember that art fight has just changed ownership, they're trying to fix everything right now and clarify rules and make sure things are set up properly.
all of the management care about art fight and definitely aren't making vague rulesets maliciously so they can take down your bigger chested characters and label silly things like collars and leashes as bannable. these rules are subject to a heavy amount of context, so it would be very hard to write down a very detailed definitive ruleset on these things without basically writing an entire book.
we have not seen these rules in action yet, there is no reason to assume that everything will be taken the worst way possible without seeing it happen first.
to clarify, i'm not disagreeing with the concerns about these rules. I think it is a good discussion to have! however my problem lies with the fact that some instances of this discussion is assuming art fight staff will be applying these rules in the worst way possible and "cleansing" the site, which I fully believe isn't going to be the case, and we really should have some better faith in the changes than that
again, it's still good to be concerned & bring up flaws within this system. I also think that the reporting system itself needs some sort of major overhaul and can definitely see that users might use this maliciously in a way, but the staff should be able to discern between someone reporting maliciously and someone who is not.
EmperorNero
Akivaq
schrodingeruuuuuuu
GraciousBean
Overall tho, I'm sure if there are any issues, the staff will fix it!! Theres no reason to let a few rules and confusions get in the way of having a fun fight this year <3
Looking forward to seeing every1's first attacks!! :> <3 Mwaaa!!
Akivaq
MORTISEXY
AmberFang
But, I am also seeing evidence that moderators are starting to push the site and event in a direction suggesting they will be banning artwork that doesn't fit their personal bias. Like the "overly-exaggerated" Rule. That... is SO vague. That is a completely arbitrary judgement. And from what I've seen, Loony Toons cartoons are a perfect example of this type of art; stylistically they already have proportionately enormous Hands and Feet, as well as scenarios where they are muscled out or inflated or fat as heck depending on the context of the episode. My point is, if the artist is just making "funny" art, will they be banned or their artwork rejected for their sense of humor simply because it doesn't fit their moderator's strict criteria? Same thing with "suggestive content"; will artists be banned for submitting creations encouraging body positivity? For example, there are plenty of artists I've seen on this site who have feminine characters with their breasts exposed and there is already a "Moderate" filter for the nudity; in their reference images, they can be seen lounging around, which COULD be considered "suggestive" but nothing close to erotic. If I suddenly put this character in her underwear in the exact same pose, will I be banned? That seems very backwards....
If this isn't the mods' intention, then their wording absolutely needs to be edited or completely rewritten.
The "low-effort rule" is also worrisome... if this is really an issue, I would also remove the "Polished" feature. I liked the previous system where points were awarded strictly based on technicality.
yoshi_ruko
Zinny-Beans
Please, I beg of you, change these rules to be more clear and specific, show us where the line is exactly so we aren't guessing and second-guessing in fear that any of us might break a rule. We all just want to have fun, and these undefined rules are too unspecific to uphold the fun spirit of artfight.