News
Hey everyone,
As you may have heard, Art Fight is currently undergoing a change in leadership. Takaia, who has been the owner of Art Fight for the last nine years, has made the decision to step down from this role and take on a support role behind the scenes. In her place, former admins Axel and classicturtle, will be stepping up as co-owners, alongside a third co-owner who will be introduced later on in the newspost.
Due to the ownership shift, Art Fight will be undergoing a series of changes in the upcoming months. Art Fight will be filed as an LLC, and will no longer be operating as a sole proprietorship. We have always been an entity that requires money to operate, but we will expand into focusing on things such as merch, sponsorships, and more site perks, to relieve the pressure for individual users to contribute financially.
Additionally, any monetary support provided to the site has been labeled as a donation up to now, and we apologize for the confusion this previous wording has caused. Art Fight is neither a charity nor is it legally classified as a non-profit entity. From this point onwards, what we previously called “donations” will instead be referred to as “contributions” to clear up and avoid any further confusion. The current donation page will be updated to reflect this in the coming weeks.
We understand this change is a considerable one, and we’d like to address a few different aspects of the changes being made below.
Why did the administrators resign from staff during the fight?
On July 22nd, former admins Turtle and Axel resigned from the Art Fight team. Their reasons for doing so are as follows:
We would also like to thank and apologize to the staff, especially those who continued to work during the end of the fight after the admins resigned, as we recognize the difficult position they were put into. Additionally, we would like to reiterate that harassment towards any involved individual is unwarranted and will not be tolerated. This includes the previous admins who stepped up to their positions after the current co-owners resigned as admins. They did so with the intent to help keep the site running, and they just did their best in a complicated situation. Please be understanding and respectful to all involved parties.
Any further harassment towards any involved individual for any reason will result in a ban.
Third Co-Owner✨
Our first big step in ensuring Art Fight’s stability is re-introducing Rainy back onto the team as the third Co-Owner. She has been an invaluable member of the Art Fight staff since 2015 and previously held the role of head admin, so we hope the community is as excited as we are to bring her back! Together we will be overseeing the site, its finances, and ensuring Art Fight’s growth safely as an equal entity.
Financials
Going forwards, we want to make an active effort to ensure there is transparency regarding Art Fight’s finances. With this in mind, we want to address some concerns regarding the past and present financial states of Art Fight as a whole. First and foremost, we do want to reiterate that Art Fight was a sole proprietorship. Takaia, as the owner, worked under this sole proprietorship for approximately $12/hr, which is far below living wage. As confirmed after review by the current co-owners, taxes (which we are unable to share publicly due to security and privacy concerns) were paid and accounted for on all of Art Fight’s income. While Art Fight will no longer be a sole proprietorship, we will still operate as an official business under an LLC.
All staff, at the time of applying and at the time of hiring, were aware of and agreed to the fact that their position was as a volunteer, and that they were not going to be receiving monetary compensation for their work. As of now, this will still be the case for all site and chat moderators, though we are open to exploring paid positions (both for moderators and for site developers, such as coders) sometime in the future.
Budget 2023 - 2024
While we begin planning for the site’s future years, we are taking into account the expected budget for 2023 and 2024.
We hope to release a news post specifically about this sometime in the coming months. This news post will include more information about Art Fight’s past and future financials, and details on our goals for the rest of 2023 and 2024. In addition to this, the financial goal bar will also return!
In the past, Art Fight has functioned entirely off of the generosity of volunteer site developers. But volunteer developers obviously cannot devote all their energy to fixing and updating the site for us. We plan to rely less on volunteer developers in the future, and allocate as much of our budget as we can to lowering server-side costs, which we can use to re-invest into additional, paid developer contracts. On that note, please give a warm welcome to stokori! Originally a volunteer developer, Stokori has rejoined the team, and will be transitioning into a paid developer role.
Here are some of the things we want to implement this year and the coming year:
*This is by no means an exhaustive list, and is subject to change.
1. Hiring a paid developer, to help us do the following:
3. Preparing for a certain surprise to be released sometime during the winter season 👀
Feedback Forms
Like in the previous years, we want your feedback! There will be a general feedback form, as well as a UX feedback form. It isn’t required to fill these out, but we would definitely appreciate your input!
Art Fight 2023 Feedback Form
UX Feedback Form
* The Art Fight 2024 Theme Poll will be released at a later date.
Before we conclude our news post however, we wanted to give you all a message from Art Fight’s former owner and founder:
- classicturtle, Rainy, Axel
Edit (10/06/23): Hello! We noticed there were some questions about Takaia's future involvement with Art Fight, so we wanted to provide some clarification:
As you may have heard, Art Fight is currently undergoing a change in leadership. Takaia, who has been the owner of Art Fight for the last nine years, has made the decision to step down from this role and take on a support role behind the scenes. In her place, former admins Axel and classicturtle, will be stepping up as co-owners, alongside a third co-owner who will be introduced later on in the newspost.
Due to the ownership shift, Art Fight will be undergoing a series of changes in the upcoming months. Art Fight will be filed as an LLC, and will no longer be operating as a sole proprietorship. We have always been an entity that requires money to operate, but we will expand into focusing on things such as merch, sponsorships, and more site perks, to relieve the pressure for individual users to contribute financially.
Additionally, any monetary support provided to the site has been labeled as a donation up to now, and we apologize for the confusion this previous wording has caused. Art Fight is neither a charity nor is it legally classified as a non-profit entity. From this point onwards, what we previously called “donations” will instead be referred to as “contributions” to clear up and avoid any further confusion. The current donation page will be updated to reflect this in the coming weeks.
We understand this change is a considerable one, and we’d like to address a few different aspects of the changes being made below.
Why did the administrators resign from staff during the fight?
On July 22nd, former admins Turtle and Axel resigned from the Art Fight team. Their reasons for doing so are as follows:
The site remained stagnant for years, and we were frustrated with the lack of paid, forward development. Although some smaller changes were made, we did not feel these changes were enough.As stated at the start, Takaia will be stepping back from her role as owner and will take on a support role for the site behind the scenes. We will all continue to work together to support Art Fight and let it grow to its fullest potential.
Financial transparency had broken down over the years. The lack of communication to the staff team regarding financials attributed to this - even if it wasn’t done intentionally or maliciously.
As a result of this, we wanted to help the owner make the finances more transparent, oversee further expenses, and make sure that more of the money went into developing the site, rather than allowing the site to continue to stagnate. We weren’t given this opportunity, and this combined with the previous issues in communication led to feelings of frustration. Because of this, we no longer felt that we could continue working as volunteers with Art Fight unless there were considerable changes made, and we made the difficult decision to leave the team.
As admins, we did NOT have an issue with Takaia paying themself as the owner of Art Fight, and we sincerely believe people should be fairly compensated for the work that they do. While we understand there wasn’t ill intent behind anyone’s actions, the lack of transparency regarding financial issues and a lack of site development made us feel disjointed as a team and made it hard to perform our admin duties.
After multiple conversations about Art Fight and the future of the site, we have rejoined Art Fight staff upon reaching an agreement with Takaia to become two of the three new co-owners. We are excited for this opportunity to move forwards together and help Art Fight thrive!
We would also like to thank and apologize to the staff, especially those who continued to work during the end of the fight after the admins resigned, as we recognize the difficult position they were put into. Additionally, we would like to reiterate that harassment towards any involved individual is unwarranted and will not be tolerated. This includes the previous admins who stepped up to their positions after the current co-owners resigned as admins. They did so with the intent to help keep the site running, and they just did their best in a complicated situation. Please be understanding and respectful to all involved parties.
Any further harassment towards any involved individual for any reason will result in a ban.
Third Co-Owner✨
Our first big step in ensuring Art Fight’s stability is re-introducing Rainy back onto the team as the third Co-Owner. She has been an invaluable member of the Art Fight staff since 2015 and previously held the role of head admin, so we hope the community is as excited as we are to bring her back! Together we will be overseeing the site, its finances, and ensuring Art Fight’s growth safely as an equal entity.
Financials
Going forwards, we want to make an active effort to ensure there is transparency regarding Art Fight’s finances. With this in mind, we want to address some concerns regarding the past and present financial states of Art Fight as a whole. First and foremost, we do want to reiterate that Art Fight was a sole proprietorship. Takaia, as the owner, worked under this sole proprietorship for approximately $12/hr, which is far below living wage. As confirmed after review by the current co-owners, taxes (which we are unable to share publicly due to security and privacy concerns) were paid and accounted for on all of Art Fight’s income. While Art Fight will no longer be a sole proprietorship, we will still operate as an official business under an LLC.
All staff, at the time of applying and at the time of hiring, were aware of and agreed to the fact that their position was as a volunteer, and that they were not going to be receiving monetary compensation for their work. As of now, this will still be the case for all site and chat moderators, though we are open to exploring paid positions (both for moderators and for site developers, such as coders) sometime in the future.
Budget 2023 - 2024
While we begin planning for the site’s future years, we are taking into account the expected budget for 2023 and 2024.
We hope to release a news post specifically about this sometime in the coming months. This news post will include more information about Art Fight’s past and future financials, and details on our goals for the rest of 2023 and 2024. In addition to this, the financial goal bar will also return!
In the past, Art Fight has functioned entirely off of the generosity of volunteer site developers. But volunteer developers obviously cannot devote all their energy to fixing and updating the site for us. We plan to rely less on volunteer developers in the future, and allocate as much of our budget as we can to lowering server-side costs, which we can use to re-invest into additional, paid developer contracts. On that note, please give a warm welcome to stokori! Originally a volunteer developer, Stokori has rejoined the team, and will be transitioning into a paid developer role.
Here are some of the things we want to implement this year and the coming year:
*This is by no means an exhaustive list, and is subject to change.
1. Hiring a paid developer, to help us do the following:
- Improving overall site performance
- Overhaul/improve current moderation tools
- Implement new features for users and staff alike
3. Preparing for a certain surprise to be released sometime during the winter season 👀
Feedback Forms
Like in the previous years, we want your feedback! There will be a general feedback form, as well as a UX feedback form. It isn’t required to fill these out, but we would definitely appreciate your input!
Art Fight 2023 Feedback Form
UX Feedback Form
* The Art Fight 2024 Theme Poll will be released at a later date.
Before we conclude our news post however, we wanted to give you all a message from Art Fight’s former owner and founder:
I wanted to take a quick moment to apologize for communication deteriorating within the team towards the end of my time as owner of Art Fight. I never intended to let it break down like that, but good intentions don’t really excuse the fact that I let the team down. I also wanted to sincerely thank the staff who stayed behind to hold down the fort while things were sorted out at the end of the 2023 fight. You kept Art Fight alive, and I’m very grateful for that. I am, however, deeply sorry I put you in that position because I know how hard it was and I wish I hadn't put you through that.With that, we also wanted to thank you all for being patient with us as big changes happen behind the scenes. We’re confident that Art Fight will continue to grow and we’re excited to see where things will go!
As I’m stepping back and passing the helm to Rainy, Axel, and Turtle, I’m glad to be here to support them as they carry Art Fight into the future. I am endlessly grateful to ALL of the staff and users who supported myself and Art Fight through my time here. Thank you, everyone, for going on this adventure with me these past 9 years!
- classicturtle, Rainy, Axel
Edit (10/06/23): Hello! We noticed there were some questions about Takaia's future involvement with Art Fight, so we wanted to provide some clarification:
- Takaia's role as a staff member will exclusively be as a developer/coder for site features.
- She is no longer involved in financials, staff decisions, or moderator actions.
- As mentioned in the original newspost, we as now co-owners have access to Artfight's funds and can verify that the money from Art Fight's donations were not embezzled. More information regarding Art Fight's budget/financial situation will be provided in our upcoming budget newspost.
Hey, Art Fighters
We wanted to update you about the Leadership Transition newspost. As stated in the 2023 Winner newspost, the Leadership Transition newspost was supposed to be released late August.
We have ran into unavoidable delays regarding the legal process of transferring Art Fight and so the Leadership Transition newspost has been affected. We will work as hard as we can to get it out in a timely manner, while respecting the sensitive legal process.
Thank you all for your patience.
CONGRATS TEAM WEREWOLVES!
Final Score...
36,466,616.5 vs 36,875,472
| #1 Top Attack The attack that did the most damage is "Wowie" by dizzy_drizzled. It earned 14,402.5 points! |
(please see the attack's description for the full animation!)
| #2 Top Attack The attack that did the second most damage is "The Artfight 2023 Mass Moon Watch" by paintballguncat. It earned 13,891 points! |
| #3 Top Attack The attack that did the third most damage is "Fandom Mass Attack (Animation in description)" by Cruxian. It earned 13,775.5 points! |
| Art Fight 2023 MAP Before we get into attack stats, we'd once again like to present the Art Fight MAP, brought to you by 30 of your fellow Art Fighters! This year's song was Drop Pop Candy, come check it out! |
| Featured Attacks: High Character Count These are some attacks that feature a lot of different characters. Click the thumbnails to check them out: |
| Featured Attacks: Character Interaction These are some attacks that have strong character interaction. Click the thumbnails to check them out: |
| Featured Attacks: Film / Animation These are some attacks that have strong animation or great video editing. Click the thumbnails to check them out: |
| Featured Attacks: Traditional These are attacks that are made with traditional art! Click the thumbnails to check them out: |
| Featured Attacks: Crafts These are some attacks that were uniquely done with physical materials! Click the thumbnails to check them out: |
| Featured Attacks: Comics These are some amazing comic attacks! Click the thumbnails to check them out: |
| Featured Attacks: 3D Render These are some attacks that were done using a 3D software. Click the thumbnails to check them out: |
| Featured Attacks: VTuber Model These are some attacks that were done using software to create a Vtuber model, which also feature complete rigging! Click the thumbnails to check them out: |
| Featured Attacks: Game These are attacks that are made in a video game format! Click the thumbnails to check them out: |
| Staff Picks Here are some staff favorite attacks! |
The second longest revenge chain belongs to cookiu and CeramicGlue with a total level of 707!
The third highest revenge change is by maddie_jean and Crackerly, with a total level of 703.
Statistics |
General Statistics
A total of 1,221,665 attacks were made.
Vampires made 603,933 attacks and 198,203 friendly fire attacks, resulting in 36,466,616.5 points
Werewolves made 617,693 attacks and 230,012 friendly fire attacks, resulting in 36,875,472 points.
User Growth
We have over 700,000 users as of August. Of those users, 258,279 of them took part in the fight!
98,166 new users participated in their first fight. 160,113 are returning users!
User Statistics
The 3 Team Vampires users who made the most attacks are:
ZAVIXEL - 3026 attacks
2 - 1005 attacks
Bunbiiit - 677 attacks
The 3 Team Werewolves users who made the most attacks are:
RevlisFox - 4265 attacks
CatNoir - 1231 attacks
EdgyCatWolf - 920 attacks
| Helpful Members Thank you to these users that were helpful in all different aspects this year. All of these users did something worth recognizing. Give them a follow!  |
 damie |  Satanic_Llama |  AzureSkies |  @frosted-galaxies |  @CriesInGucci |
A big thank you to the entire Art Fight Staff and Support Team for making this event possible with all their hard work!
Things to Note |
General
The site will remain up and be available for viewing just like before, just without the ability to attack.
If you’d like to continue attacking others, a good alternative is an art trade conducted via PM here, our Discord, or other platform of your choice.
All rating reports that moderators did not get to will be automatically closed, since the points are final. Moderators will be still working on non-rating reports throughout the year.
Future Newspost Regarding Leadership
Thank you for everyone’s patience while we transition our leadership roles. There will be a newspost in two weeks that will outline the changes that have taken place, along with what the future of Art Fight will look like.
Due to delays, this newspost has been delayed. Stay tuned for further updates.
Achievements
Team achievements for Art Fight 2023 will be automatically awarded to accounts sometime before the start of Art Fight 2024.
Their assets are still being created, so thank you for your patience in the meantime!
Minigames
Minigames will be delayed for sometime while we focus on site development. We'll post a newpost when we plan to open!
| We want your feedback! |
Please come back in the next week to have a look at our feedback forms! Thank you for your patience.
Thank you all for participating in Art Fight 2023: Vampires vs Werewolves
Please consider going back and thanking all of your attackers for the wonderful work they did for you!
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Where did the time go? There's less than 48 hours left of Art Fight 2023!! 
Here's what to expect for the end of the fight:
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And a few housekeeping notes from me:
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That's it for now, everyone have fun with the end of the fight and get those final attacks in!!
Also please stay tuned for an important news post regarding Art Fight leadership and staffing changes in the near future. 
Posted by classicturtle on 1 July 2023 05:59:25 PM (Edited by classicturtle )
ARTFIGHT 2023
VAMPIRES VS WEREWOLVES
Welcome, Art Fighters! The time has finally come. Joining the event To join a team, click the "current event" button on the top right. You'll be able to be sorted into a team from there! For more information about the fight, check out our About and FAQ page. Attacking To attack someone, click the submit tab on the top left to be taken to the attack submission page. When posting attacks, make sure you check if anything needs to be filtered. You can check via our nifty Maturity Guide. If you are having trouble understanding how to rate your attack, make sure to check out our Attack Guide. If you have additional questions, get in contact with a moderator or join our Discord server. |
Updates...
Team Badges
To show your team pride, use the badges made by Sangtanic and leafjelly on your Art Fight profile! You can add them to your profile by clicking the little emoji on the text editor.
Theme Reveal
If you haven't already seen the 2023 theme reveal video, you can watch it here.New filtering system!
We have made some changes to our filtering system. The filter categories are the same, but your personal filter settings are now easier to use and understand. Go to your settings to have a look and adjust the filters to your preferences.Changes for filters include:
- New design for your personal filter settings
- Characters and attacks in filter categories you have set to hide can no longer be accessed. To see them, change the filter to censor or show instead.
- Extreme nudity and sexual themes are hidden for minors, they will be accessible when a user turns 18
- With the update to the system, all user filters have been set to "hide" by default. Go to your settings to set your preferences.
Changes to the attack guide
- The “Drawings” category has changed name to “Drawn / Painted”
- Clean Color and Painting under the Coloring subcategory has been merged into Clean Color.
- Added that painting a 3D printed version of a 3D model counts as a self produced texture. (In the 3D section.)
- Clarified that question 8 under Crafts in the attack FAQ relates to crafts only.
New additions to the team
Please give a warm welcome this year's new additions to the team! banannie mintberry amongus SOCKY and rejoining us is @Virixin ! Thank you for your hard work thus far!Art Fight 2023 Banners
The 2023 Banners are here! A big thank you to Axel for all his hard work! Thank you for your patience.
All characters here can be found in this tag! The owners are also listed in order below.
Vampire Banner 1, from left to right, front to back: minersblog | @TYTOBITEZ | UnknownSpy | RabbitJaguar | Kayelsea | Santiago | Manakete | yesile | triggerbolt | Nethew | Zaezar | EmbyrFyre
Vampire Banner 2, from left to right, front to back: dried_up_inky | WitchyWhosit | LakeLake | modifiedMelody | ivorycypher | Moonfoxgazer | Zoruax | Donomon | TakkyTakk | Beefsen | Forelle | Sangtanic
Vampire Banner 3, from left to right, front to back: SharaXOfficial | Kingfreak | @canopicgirl | Managlyph | Lioness | Kirin | Silkirose | Mozzie | @kodyACKbear | Jackster | whichlights | PitchblackDragon
Werewolf Banner 1, from left to right, front to back: Trinket | IndustrialAngel | SALEZMANRADIOZ | JungleBeaks | GHOZTSHXRKZ | @Voidseers | Freeway | Wolfiria | cinnamonbunnydog | ReanimatedMagpie | @Shakipiyo | SOCKY | Nocturn02
Werewolf Banner 2, from left to right, front to back: Volcanic | Redd | simplytresca | ChaosGrizzly | KITTY_MANYA | asdflove | owlisaurus | Bamboli | FusionBoltzGX | Gaillean | Middlemist | Wulfums | canonkiller
Werewolf Banner 3, from left to right, front to back: neotabu | ClockworkRhapsody | TheLateHeron | SP00KY | wrathberries | @SamisHere | Lanesy | sifyro | @YeenBeanz | Maoilix | PhoeniXXTalon | dreams0da
View the HQ versions on our Deviantart Group!
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Art Fight 2023 Theme Reveal
Teams! Get your teams here, fresh off the press!
The teams for Art Fight 2023 have been revealed through our yearly countdown stream and one of a kind animation! The 12 hour stream took place on Twitch, but no worries if you missed it! The animation reveal is available on our Youtube channel as we speak!
| Early Team Registration If you are just as excited as we are for this year’s Art Fight, you’re in luck: we are once again opening up Team Registration early to level out Day One traffic. If you have a preference for what night dwelling creature you want to fight for this month, be sure to sign up – you are able to pick your team through early registration as opposed to being sorted randomly on July 1st. Registration will be open a few days before the fight. There will be an announcement in the Discord as well as a red banner on the site to signal when you can start picking your team! |
Additional Updates & Announcements |
Upcoming Attack Guide Update
As always, we are hard at work editing and tweaking the attack guide for this year’s fight. It is advised to check the guide the closer we get to the fight as final touches and tweaks are made. Of course, if you ever have a question, never hesitate to reach out to a site moderator!We will detail all the changes at the beginning of the fight.
Upcoming Site Maintenance
As July approaches, the site will undergo its usual down times to perform maintenance. These will be announced on our Discord when possible, as the site will be inaccessible. We appreciate your patience during these times!Art Fight 2023 MAP Applications Opening
As mentioned in the last news post, cyxxie and scribedhearts are once again hosting an official Art Fight MAP (multiple animator project)! Please refer to the last news post for some basic information regarding the MAPs and rules concerning them.The applications for the MAP will go live on this newspost on June 24th at 3:00pm UTC - that’s tomorrow! Parts will be assigned on a first come first serve basis – after 30 participants have joined, users may apply as a back up. The MAP will be utilizing a form of this song. You must also have or be willing to use a Discord to communicate with the hosts of the MAP.
Apply here! - >>https://forms.gle/1Qvw9QFacprpKvCr6<<
Art Fight 2023 Prompts
The sunset of June marks our annual Art Fight Prep Prompts! What better way to prepare for Art Fight than with some thought provoking questions about your OCs and their Art Fight pages? These are for YOU - you can do as many or as little as you’d like to prepare. Feel free to share your prompts in the #prompts channel on our Discord! Take a look at the prompts below, and please thank the lovely mori and scribedhearts for putting this together for everyone!
Art Fight 2022 AchievementsThe 2022 Achievements are here, made by the always lovely Axel ! They have been handed out automatically, so there’s nothing stopping you from going to your page to admire them even further!     Bloom Loyalist - Wither Loyalist - Traitor - 2022 Winner Thank you to Axel for the beautiful banners, team badges, and animation reveal. |
Stamps by Sangtanic
Art Fight Start DateAs tradition, Art Fight 2023 will be starting on July 1st, at 6:00 pm UTC. Please check the countdown on the front page for the exact start time! We recommend you start preparing yourself by updating your own characters and bookmarking other people’s characters early! It’s important to note 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 shatters the spirit of Art Fight. If you attempt to do this, your account may be banned. Please be considerate, and show good team spirit! |
Theme RevealThe 2023 Art Fight Theme Reveal will once again be streamed on our Twitch! The theme reveal will be happening on June 23rd 2023, at 10:30 pm UTC.The theme reveal is an annual animated video by Axel that reveals the team before the fight. It will start 12 hours before with music, a live countdown, and little mod driven activities; It will begin at 10:30AM UTC! |
Other updates and news
On Coming Site Updates
We will be implementing a few new changes to the site. During this time, please be patient with us during scheduled maintenance, and downtimes. More info will be shared when it's ready!
2022 Achievements
Rest assured, our artist is working away and they will be finished and released in time for the fight. Check back for the July 1st news post!
AI Art
As a reminder, using pre-made, uncredited art (like AI art) in characters and attacks goes against the spirit and rules of Art Fight; Character rule #26 & Spirit of Art Fight rule #1. This method actively hurts artists by stealing their work and Art Fight stands strongly against it. Characters and attacks that contain pre-made & uncredited art will be removed.
Character, attack, and profile pages are only available to those who are logged in. Still, we strongly encourage the user of watermarking images posted onto the site to further protect yourself against theft. And as always, you can report rule breaks using the report feature or get in contact with a moderator.
Here are some helpful resources about the negative impact of AI art and how it hurts artists: https://hyperallergic.com/806026/digital-artists-are-pushing-back-against-ai/
Discord Server
Trying to find targets? Join our Discord Server where you can partake in our channel Target Hunting - a channel designed to find users to attack. Check the server for more updates regarding the theme reveal!
ArtFight 2023 MAP
If you remember last year, scribedhearts and cyxxie hosted ArtFight’s first official Multiple Animators Project, aka MAP. With the hard work of 60 participants split across two MAP videos, we were able to produce THIS and THIS!
Seeing the success of the last project has led to the return of the MAP this year. Cyxxie and Scribedhearts hope to debut the MAP song before the team reveal video on June 23rd, with sign-ups going out shortly after. After taking in feedback from last year, participants will be notified before the event begins as well!
As a reminder, all MAP parts and participants must follow ArtFight rules. While the entire part must be created during the duration of the event, parts may be of any finish level, and we are accepting and welcoming people of ALL animation levels. Participants will be required to join an ArtFight MAP-specific Discord server so the hosts can keep in contact easier, as well as seamlessly do check-ins throughout the month.
We will only be able to accept a certain number of people. After that number is reached, anyone after may sign-up as a backup. This year, parts will be divided in order to hit the music beats, which means part lengths will vary. In order to keep things fair, parts will still be assigned on a FCFS basis, so apply QUICK!
Reporting Guide
As more and more users become active, that means more eyes are on the site and more reports are on the way in! In order to help make your lives (and ours) a bit easier when it comes to helping us keep the site safe, we are currently developing a Guide to Reporting. Please keep an eye out for the release!
Stay Tuned!More updates will be posted the day of the reveal! Thank you for your patience. |
Hello Art Fighters,
As a team, we’ve recently been working on alterations to our Discord server’s rules, the clarification of Art Fight’s financials, and updates/clarifications regarding the site. This post will summarize these clarifications alongside some changes still to come.
NSFW Content On and Off Site
As you may have noticed through the #changelogs channel in our Discord server, we have updated the wording of some of our rules, specifically regarding what kinds of art can be shared. The first of these changes involve Art Rule 5, which has been altered to remove “NSFW content” from the list of topics that are allowed under a spoiler. This wording implied that we allowed explicit 18+ material within the server. This was never intended, despite the rule being badly worded. Sexually themed art is allowed under a filter on site only, and must adhere to our maturity guidelines, which can be found here. The allowance of sexual themed art in the server was a miscommunication on our end, and is not allowed within the server, even with a spoiler. We apologize for our rules being worded in a way that made it seem like it was allowed, however, and apologize once again for any confusion the incorrect wording may have caused. Additionally, we have reiterated our ban on NSFW content in our new Art Rule 6.
Keep in mind that this ban on NSFW content and sexual themes extends to questions related to said themes in the #af-help and #af-help-2 channels. Any inquiries about these topics should be discussed in DMs with moderators, with any NSFW text/images sent in DMs being spoilered and given a warning for. If you see any posts that break our rules on NSFW content and sexual themes, don’t hesitate to send an online moderator a DM so that it may be removed.
Site Updates
In a similar vein, we are diligently working on fixing a bug with filters not working as intended on the site. To avoid bug exploitation, we will update everyone with details after we have ensured the fix is complete. Thank you for your patience in the meantime!
We are also working on updates for “Design a Character” attack rules and clarity regarding who to contact for issues on-site. For design attacks, we will be updating our rules to specify what is necessary for design attacks targeted towards more than one user and the rules regarding ownership of said character designs. This will be updated before the next fight and will be announced when it has been implemented.
Additionally, we have updated our Contact a Mod page to add a section about reporting users. If you are having issues with another user on Art Fight, you should speak to admins or a site lead for help, as regular site mods cannot deal with user-related reports, because of the potential of dealing with private information. We encourage users to contact moderators or admins directly when dealing with reports that could be considered emergencies (example: exploitation of minors).
Regarding the report backlog itself, we will be re-evaluating our process for dealing with reports in the coming months to hopefully relieve some of the delays in report resolution. We apologize again for any lengthy wait times, and encourage you to reach out via site messages if you require immediate help.
Lastly, we want to make a quick update about Cloudflare and some recent concerns about a website they previously supported. Luckily, Cloudflare did the right thing and has since dropped supporting the website in question, so it appears these concerns have now been resolved, but we still wanted to mention that we only use Cloudflare for DDOS / high traffic protection, and nothing else. Art Fight is not hosted on Cloudflare, nor are its images/etc.
Donation & Financial Clarifications
Recently, we’ve noticed there have been some concerns regarding donations and the way Art Fight is categorized. First, we want to clarify that we are not a non-profit organization. We are considered a sole proprietorship - in the past, Art Fight has mistakenly been referred to as a non-profit, but that is not the case, and we apologize for the confusion. We have looked into becoming a non-profit, but it’s not something that’s feasible for us right now.
Art Fight is a passion project that sustains itself via donations from its user base. The majority of these funds go towards maintaining the site. The largest site expenses include: image hosting, web servers, other web services, and commissioned art assets. This is not cheap, especially for a site of our size that approximately doubles its user base every year. After the bills are paid, the leftover money is significantly lower than a fair wage. Therefore we are unable to hire anyone, though Takaia receives a small amount of compensation for work she does as the site owner and coder.
All moderators, designers, and administrators are completely volunteer. This is something they agree to when they sign up to be a moderator, and is a standard practice for small websites. We would love to pay more of our staff, as well as hire an accountant (for proper financial breakdowns, etc.). The reality is that none of that is financially feasible for us at this time, because Art Fight does not earn enough to pay for these services.
In the past, we worked very hard to try to be transparent with Art Fight finances. However, because Art Fight does not earn enough to be able to hire an accountant or any other professionals, all estimates were being done by Takaia. Due to the fluctuating nature of Art Fight's costs and donations, many of the reports ultimately ended up being unintentionally inaccurate. Takaia tried as best as she could with the resources she had to make as close to an exact estimate as she could.
Because of the inaccuracy, Art Fight's estimations received backlash, some of which was personally directed at Takaia. After considering the sheer amount of time and effort needed to make these, the resulting backlash, the private nature of the amount people get paid, and looking at similarly run websites who don’t publish this information, we decided it was best to simply stop making estimates/breakdowns. However, to give an idea of how much things can cost, here are some examples of recent bills we’ve paid. Please note that this is a fraction of the total we pay per year, these are individual examples:
Image-hosting alone for the month of July 2022 cost around $7,200 USD. The web server for hosting the site itself costs around $500 USD a month. For 2022, Art Fight needs approximately ($500 x 12 months) $6,000 USD to pay for the web server. Again, these numbers do not take into account future site growth, art/image assets, the rest of the image hosting costs, and other miscellaneous costs, both planned and unplanned, during the year.
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We would like to extend our gratitude to our users for your understanding and continued patience, alongside your willingness to help in our shared goal of improving the site. As always, we encourage you to come to us with any questions you may have and to share any concerns you feel need addressing. You are welcome to either comment below, DM a moderator, post in our Discord server’s help channels, or send us an email at [email protected]. We appreciate any questions or concerns being brought to us, and thank you in advance for your patience, as potential replies may be slow due to moderators being busy with life commitments outside of Art Fight.
We greatly appreciate your continued support as we all move forward together.
Sincerely,
The Art Fight Team
As a team, we’ve recently been working on alterations to our Discord server’s rules, the clarification of Art Fight’s financials, and updates/clarifications regarding the site. This post will summarize these clarifications alongside some changes still to come.
NSFW Content On and Off Site
As you may have noticed through the #changelogs channel in our Discord server, we have updated the wording of some of our rules, specifically regarding what kinds of art can be shared. The first of these changes involve Art Rule 5, which has been altered to remove “NSFW content” from the list of topics that are allowed under a spoiler. This wording implied that we allowed explicit 18+ material within the server. This was never intended, despite the rule being badly worded. Sexually themed art is allowed under a filter on site only, and must adhere to our maturity guidelines, which can be found here. The allowance of sexual themed art in the server was a miscommunication on our end, and is not allowed within the server, even with a spoiler. We apologize for our rules being worded in a way that made it seem like it was allowed, however, and apologize once again for any confusion the incorrect wording may have caused. Additionally, we have reiterated our ban on NSFW content in our new Art Rule 6.
Keep in mind that this ban on NSFW content and sexual themes extends to questions related to said themes in the #af-help and #af-help-2 channels. Any inquiries about these topics should be discussed in DMs with moderators, with any NSFW text/images sent in DMs being spoilered and given a warning for. If you see any posts that break our rules on NSFW content and sexual themes, don’t hesitate to send an online moderator a DM so that it may be removed.
Site Updates
In a similar vein, we are diligently working on fixing a bug with filters not working as intended on the site. To avoid bug exploitation, we will update everyone with details after we have ensured the fix is complete. Thank you for your patience in the meantime!
We are also working on updates for “Design a Character” attack rules and clarity regarding who to contact for issues on-site. For design attacks, we will be updating our rules to specify what is necessary for design attacks targeted towards more than one user and the rules regarding ownership of said character designs. This will be updated before the next fight and will be announced when it has been implemented.
Additionally, we have updated our Contact a Mod page to add a section about reporting users. If you are having issues with another user on Art Fight, you should speak to admins or a site lead for help, as regular site mods cannot deal with user-related reports, because of the potential of dealing with private information. We encourage users to contact moderators or admins directly when dealing with reports that could be considered emergencies (example: exploitation of minors).
Regarding the report backlog itself, we will be re-evaluating our process for dealing with reports in the coming months to hopefully relieve some of the delays in report resolution. We apologize again for any lengthy wait times, and encourage you to reach out via site messages if you require immediate help.
Lastly, we want to make a quick update about Cloudflare and some recent concerns about a website they previously supported. Luckily, Cloudflare did the right thing and has since dropped supporting the website in question, so it appears these concerns have now been resolved, but we still wanted to mention that we only use Cloudflare for DDOS / high traffic protection, and nothing else. Art Fight is not hosted on Cloudflare, nor are its images/etc.
Donation & Financial Clarifications
Recently, we’ve noticed there have been some concerns regarding donations and the way Art Fight is categorized. First, we want to clarify that we are not a non-profit organization. We are considered a sole proprietorship - in the past, Art Fight has mistakenly been referred to as a non-profit, but that is not the case, and we apologize for the confusion. We have looked into becoming a non-profit, but it’s not something that’s feasible for us right now.
Art Fight is a passion project that sustains itself via donations from its user base. The majority of these funds go towards maintaining the site. The largest site expenses include: image hosting, web servers, other web services, and commissioned art assets. This is not cheap, especially for a site of our size that approximately doubles its user base every year. After the bills are paid, the leftover money is significantly lower than a fair wage. Therefore we are unable to hire anyone, though Takaia receives a small amount of compensation for work she does as the site owner and coder.
All moderators, designers, and administrators are completely volunteer. This is something they agree to when they sign up to be a moderator, and is a standard practice for small websites. We would love to pay more of our staff, as well as hire an accountant (for proper financial breakdowns, etc.). The reality is that none of that is financially feasible for us at this time, because Art Fight does not earn enough to pay for these services.
In the past, we worked very hard to try to be transparent with Art Fight finances. However, because Art Fight does not earn enough to be able to hire an accountant or any other professionals, all estimates were being done by Takaia. Due to the fluctuating nature of Art Fight's costs and donations, many of the reports ultimately ended up being unintentionally inaccurate. Takaia tried as best as she could with the resources she had to make as close to an exact estimate as she could.
Because of the inaccuracy, Art Fight's estimations received backlash, some of which was personally directed at Takaia. After considering the sheer amount of time and effort needed to make these, the resulting backlash, the private nature of the amount people get paid, and looking at similarly run websites who don’t publish this information, we decided it was best to simply stop making estimates/breakdowns. However, to give an idea of how much things can cost, here are some examples of recent bills we’ve paid. Please note that this is a fraction of the total we pay per year, these are individual examples:
Image-hosting alone for the month of July 2022 cost around $7,200 USD. The web server for hosting the site itself costs around $500 USD a month. For 2022, Art Fight needs approximately ($500 x 12 months) $6,000 USD to pay for the web server. Again, these numbers do not take into account future site growth, art/image assets, the rest of the image hosting costs, and other miscellaneous costs, both planned and unplanned, during the year.
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We would like to extend our gratitude to our users for your understanding and continued patience, alongside your willingness to help in our shared goal of improving the site. As always, we encourage you to come to us with any questions you may have and to share any concerns you feel need addressing. You are welcome to either comment below, DM a moderator, post in our Discord server’s help channels, or send us an email at [email protected]. We appreciate any questions or concerns being brought to us, and thank you in advance for your patience, as potential replies may be slow due to moderators being busy with life commitments outside of Art Fight.
We greatly appreciate your continued support as we all move forward together.
Sincerely,
The Art Fight Team
CONGRATS TEAM BLOOM!
Final Score...
29,951,789 vs 29,849,429
| #1 Top Attack The attack that did the most damage is "Been a hell of a ride-Mass attack" by Leaffons. It earned 13,567 points! |
(please see the attack's description for the full animation!)
| #2 Top Attack The attack that did the second most damage is "Smooth Criminal" by @Massena. It earned 13,205 points! |
| #3 Top Attack The attack that did the third most damage is "Gibberish!" by Apollion. It earned 12,589 points! |
| Art Fight 2022 MAP Before we get into the featured attacks & statistics, we'd like to present the 2022 Art Fight MAP(s)! For 2022, we wanted to do something different and create an official Art Fight MAP (multi-animator-project)! We hope everyone enjoys this amazing creation brought to you by fellow Art Fighters. Click on the respective link below to watch the video! |
| Featured Attacks: High Character Count These are some attacks that feature a lot of different characters. Click the thumbnails to check them out: |
| Featured Attacks: Character Interaction These are some attacks that have strong character interaction. Click the thumbnails to check them out: |
| Featured Attacks: Film / Animation These are some attacks that have strong animation or great video editing. Click the thumbnails to check them out: |
| Featured Attacks: Traditional These are attacks that are made with traditional art! Click the thumbnails to check them out: |
| Featured Attacks: Crafts These are some attacks that were uniquely done with physical materials! Click the thumbnails to check them out:These are some attacks that were uniquely done with physical materials! Click the thumbnails to check them out: |
| Featured Attacks: Comics These are some attacks that are comics! Click the thumbnails to check them out: |
| Featured Attacks: 3D Render These are some attacks that were done using a 3D software. Click the thumbnails to check them out: |
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| Featured Attacks: VTuber Model These are some attacks that were done using software to create a Vtuber model, which also feature complete rigging! Click the thumbnails to check them out: |
| Featured Attacks: Game These are attacks that are made in a video game format! Click the thumbnails to check them out: |
| Staff Picks Here are some staff favorite attacks! |
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| Revenge Chains Revenge chains are when two users attack each other repeatedly! Each time you both create an attack on each other, the higher the chain will be. |
The longest revenge chain belongs to Little_Angelbun and Bunbiiit with 600 levels!! WOW!!!!
The second longest revenge chain belongs to BlankBlyke and Astrinyx with a total level of 420. Great job you two!
The third highest revenge change is by SQU1SHU and @MildlyImperfect, with a total level of 231. WOO!
General Statistics
Wow, a total of 1,364,595 attacks were made... This is the first time we have hit a million!
Bloom made 682,336 attacks, resulting in 29,951,789.5 points
Wither made 682,259 attacks, resulting in 29,849,429.5 points
User Growth
We have over 534,352 users total. Of those users, 212,017 of them took part in the fight!
96,009 new users participated in their first fight. 116,008 are returning users!
User StatisticsThe 3 Team Bloom users who made the most attacks are:
qatoqat - 3,024 attacks
DaGrandDragonn - 1,657 attacks
@acidcasc - 756 attacks
The 3 Team Wither users who made the most attacks are:
Sixbane - 2,261 attacks
EdgyCatWolf - 2,010 attacks
RevlisFox - 1,713 attacks
A big thank you to the entire Art Fight Staff and Support Team for making this event possible with all their hard work!
General
The site will remain up and be available for viewing just like before, just without the ability to attack.
If you’d like to continue attacking others, a good alternative is an art trade conducted via PM here, our Discord, or other platform of your choice.
All rating reports that moderators did not get to will be automatically closed, since the points are final. Moderators will be still working on non-rating reports throughout the year.
Achievements
Team achievements for Art Fight 2022 will be automatically awarded to accounts sometime before the start of Art Fight 2023.
Their assets are still being created, so thank you for your patience in the meantime!
Minigames
Minigames will open sometime in a couple months after the fight. We'll release a newspost when they open!
If you have a few minutes to spare, we would appreciate receiving your feedback on Art Fight 2022 via the following surveys! There is also a poll for Art Fight 2023's theme, so be sure to check that out!
General Feedback Form
Want to give some general feedback surrounding Art Fight as a whole? This form is for you!
Ratings Feedback Form
Ratings are an integral part of Art Fight. We're always looking to improve them, so please give your thoughts about them here.
Art Fight Usability
We want to hear your thoughts about the layout/UI and how you use certain features!
Art Fight 2022 Theme Poll
Vote for your favourite theme in the Art Fight theme poll for next year!
Thank you all for participating in Art Fight 2022: Bloom vs Wither
Please consider going back and thanking all of your attackers for the wonderful work they did for you!
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| Statistics |
General Statistics
Wow, a total of 1,364,595 attacks were made... This is the first time we have hit a million!
Bloom made 682,336 attacks, resulting in 29,951,789.5 points
Wither made 682,259 attacks, resulting in 29,849,429.5 points
User Growth
We have over 534,352 users total. Of those users, 212,017 of them took part in the fight!
96,009 new users participated in their first fight. 116,008 are returning users!
User StatisticsThe 3 Team Bloom users who made the most attacks are:
qatoqat - 3,024 attacks
DaGrandDragonn - 1,657 attacks
@acidcasc - 756 attacks
The 3 Team Wither users who made the most attacks are:
Sixbane - 2,261 attacks
EdgyCatWolf - 2,010 attacks
RevlisFox - 1,713 attacks
| Helpful Members Thank you to these users that were helpful in all different aspects this year. All of these users did something worth recognizing. Give them a follow! |
 @tunaholic |  7NYX |  SinginGamer101 |  @frosted-galaxies |  Sea_Ville |  ocpdzim |
A big thank you to the entire Art Fight Staff and Support Team for making this event possible with all their hard work!
| Answers to Common Questions |
General
The site will remain up and be available for viewing just like before, just without the ability to attack.
If you’d like to continue attacking others, a good alternative is an art trade conducted via PM here, our Discord, or other platform of your choice.
All rating reports that moderators did not get to will be automatically closed, since the points are final. Moderators will be still working on non-rating reports throughout the year.
Achievements
Team achievements for Art Fight 2022 will be automatically awarded to accounts sometime before the start of Art Fight 2023.
Their assets are still being created, so thank you for your patience in the meantime!
Minigames
Minigames will open sometime in a couple months after the fight. We'll release a newspost when they open!
| We want your feedback! |
If you have a few minutes to spare, we would appreciate receiving your feedback on Art Fight 2022 via the following surveys! There is also a poll for Art Fight 2023's theme, so be sure to check that out!
General Feedback Form
Want to give some general feedback surrounding Art Fight as a whole? This form is for you!
Ratings Feedback Form
Ratings are an integral part of Art Fight. We're always looking to improve them, so please give your thoughts about them here.
Art Fight Usability
We want to hear your thoughts about the layout/UI and how you use certain features!
Art Fight 2022 Theme Poll
Vote for your favourite theme in the Art Fight theme poll for next year!
Thank you all for participating in Art Fight 2022: Bloom vs Wither
Please consider going back and thanking all of your attackers for the wonderful work they did for you!
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Time flies... there are about 48 hours left of Art Fight 2022!! 
Here's what to expect for the end of the fight:
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We're in the homestretch now- good luck out there!!