Let's talk about fan art.

Most of the people in favor of keeping the art the way it is in the subreddit are either being completely dishonest, being aggressive/insulting to those on the other side, or are missing some major points/the bigger picture entirely.

  • Relegating all art to the art subreddit would not only bring it back to life but get them the "exposure" they need if they advertising to do work. This is ignoring the fact that most people are only posting just get to that sick upvote karma but I'm willing to throw a bone in here and give the possibility that they are actually advertising themselves for work. The XIV general subreddit is not the place for self work advertisement.

  • What discussion is honestly being had in these art threads? On the front page right now, all the posts in those threads are just variations of "Wow looks good!" and snarky one liners. Face it, removing fanart is not going to kill discussion in this subreddit because they weren't creating discussions in the first place.

  • This is for the mods, if you're going to allow the fanart to stay on the subreddit, at least create a new rule and enforce it that all fanart and screenshots should be properly tagged as such. During lull periods before major patches (such as the huge period between 3.5 part 2 and Stormblood) some people will improperly tag their fanart to bypass the media filter. It's an incredibly douchey move on their part, I'm sure if they're smart enough to create a good looking picture, they must be smart enough to tag it as such but don't for intentional reasons.

And this point can also be given to the people saying "Hurr just hide them!" Someone who goes out of their way to avoid having their art hidden from people who DON'T want to see it shouldn't be advertised. It's an incredibly dishonest thing to do and while it doesn't happen quite a lot, when it does it proves the point of "Just use the media filter" argument has little to stand on.

  • People in here are also complaining that the only thing left would be theory crafting "bitching" I have yet to see a theory crafting thread that was honestly filled with people bitching at each other. They tend to have the most intelligent discussions in this subreddit with very little in the way of hostile shit flinging. It's also completely untrue that it's the only discussion that would be on this subreddit because if you took away all the fanart now it's isn't. People talk about the established lore, they rate the expansion so far, they talk about where 4.1 might go in terms of content and story. This argument is trying to make it sound like the subreddit NEEDS fanart to survive which is just silly.

  • EXTRA: Calling someone a "Fascist" because they're tired of seeing only a couple threads on the front page after using the media filter is incredibly pathetic (See a certain poster a few posts down). And The fact that someone doesn't want to see content you do is not a personal attack on you and you shouldn't take it as such.

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