I was on Furaffinity for 9 years from 2016 to 2025. I was coming up on the 10 year anniversary and a shadow moderator decided to just get me permabanned because they don't like me. The moderation team makes up rules on the fly and bans people without notice. You can't even inform anyone on the platform you were banned, or WHY. So the bullies that flag your work can just say whatever; case in point, WoWn00bify bullying Badgefox off the platform and facing no repercussions for it. The moderation team runs off of cliques, not rules in the TOS. Offending one of their "invisible friends" gets people banned more often than not, and there are many pdf files who have been on the platform because it's a 13+ website orientated to ADULT ONLY content. It makes you feel dirty because sometimes kids will lie about their age when commissioning a person. Other times people run scams in the notes. The creators have a DARVO campaign going for years now; Deny, Attack/Avoid, Reverse Victim and Offender. They will ban people who reach out to them for customer support and they do not care about the 5 strike system THEY created. I got permabanned on the3rd strike for something not in the terms of service, and they did not care to hear my side. All they wanted was to defend their shadow moderator that bullied me. I'm off the platform now. Deviantart is much better. Furaffinity's stance on AI is that even if you provide evidence it isn't AI, you can still get banned because some random joe "thought" it was, and the moderators don't care about evidence. That's what happened to me. People have been running Among Us Style Accusations against people randomly accusing them of using AI because they are jealous that their own art draws little traction. The art community on the platform has been through it and hates the moderation team. The Website's UI is so outdated that you still cannot block tags, and THOUSANDS of art pieces are improperly/untagged. This includes fetish art, which is the worst offending content for a 13+ site. People do not care what tier it is as long as they can get away with it. You don't want to know how much daiper art I have seen. It's disturbing. There are many, MANY fetishes that are also untagged. The biggest ones are vore, paw fetish art and anything LGBT, which is a community entirely about being sexual... in the NON SEXUAL SECTION. Then there are the politics. For rthose of you who do not know, furaffinity is HARDCORE liberal, and they actively stalk their own users on other platforms to tone police// extort their FA account. If they don't like your opinion, they que your email to see if it's in their database and delete your account for something they legally should not be allowed too punish you for. It violates your 1st right amendment and they make you sign a contract saying you cannot sue them for it. It's also a contract they can change at ANY MOMENT, so you can never actually assume you are safe on the platform. Every day is a gamble. The entire platform is dragging the furry fanbase down, because there are multiple instances of FAMILY FRIENDLY characters being drawn in the thirstiest ways imaginable and put in the SFW section and especially the NSFW section. Building a fanbase on the platform means nothing either, because those people are like a CULT. They will NOT follow you to other social media, because Furaffinity is very clique-y and highly judged for cursing everyones eyes. It also hosted actual pdf files like Jasonafex while banning freshly made accounts for one offense. If your art gets stolen then you're fresh out of luck, because the moderation team themselves reported that they have had a backlog of THOUSANDS of tickets that they were kept from handling under IMVU management. Sometimes they never respond, and if you call them about it, they will ban you for that instead. Then there is a completely different issue all together; the website is the BIGGEST CONTROVERSY GENERATOR to the furry fanbase. Many controversies come from this site. It's such an issue that when the owner of the platform died, the website was instantly hacked just to troll everyone. The official user count being over 1 milliono is also not credible. When you go on the platform, NO ONE watches your work. It's a ghost site. You are literally forced to draw NSFW and forced to be good at it. I have seen excellent sfw artist just be ignored because the site is plagued by horndogs who have NSFW mode on permanently. Even worse, sometimes they will comment something inappropriate on a SFW commission. They are very bold. Sometimes the people who have already watched you will force you to draw NSFW for views and then comment that you're "bad" at it. Otherwise they don't look at your art. Other times your work will BLOW UP, and no one follows you anyway (this happened to me twice). People on the platform enjoy being very preachy about things that have nothing to do with the furry fandom. They're so preachy that their art quality never really improves. Over the years, all of the insanely good and talented creators have slowly been bullied off the platform and left due to people trying to forcibly harass them into a commission or trade (trades are never good). Other times the moderation team secretly harasses and bans people and you don't find out until they are back on the platform. It's an ART website, but it's really run like an emotional dictatorship. A large group of people have been brainwashed into never calling out the flaws on the website, because the moderation team will instaban them for having morals or a backbone about what's happened. Everyone who uses the platform is susceptible to being coerced into accepting whatever politics the moderators choose to have, because they stalk popular creators and ban them for whatever. So all in all, you really, REALLY do not want to use this site for anything. It's more a scar on your reputation than anything else.