The controversy

There seems to be some controversy at the moment around moderation of user blogs and the right of users to post up NSFW material in their blogs.

We had Ecke's who some defended without actually seeing the images. Racist_Bassist for example claiming there was 'no nudity'. Yet in fact, there was nudity. The nudity in question was of a young looking girl.

Since this website has a legal ToS you agree to, you agree to abide by the rules and laws in the juristiction of the website. One of these in the US is from what I understand where if you post nudity of women you must have a disclaimer and documented evidence that the model in question is over 18.

Thus in this regards, there is no way for Newgrounds to host this type of material. There are no records and even if users' 'signed off' on a picture being over 18 there's no way for the site owner to confirm this. This thus leads them to being sued or whatever by the American authorities.

But wait, it's more about your mindset

The users who post such material do it why? Afterall the internet is full of porn that anyone can see. Why then would they put it in their blogs? It's nor original material so to speak.

The reason is that they're attempting to be 'edgy', attempting to be 'cool', etc. Usually the user is 14 - 18. That's the age range where talking about 'fingering girls in class', or 'fucking' or whatever is seen as trendy by their peer group. So they take that attitude to Newgrounds and expose to other people how purile they are.

The fact of the matter is that they would reach the age of 25 or so and be ashamed of what they posted in most instances.

But Sarai, isn't NG for fun?

Sure it's for fun. Newgrounds can have NSFW work content and be great. Pox drew me getting attacked by a Tentacle monster once, original, funny etc. Stamper does his Unicorn things.

The repeated posting by users of for example nude females, guro or whatever is just boring and so over-done it's nothing interesting. These users go against what NG is about, NG is about the cutting edge. Posting porn is so fifteen year oldish and so common that it's got nothing to it anymore.

So post your porn, feel good about how 'edgy' you are. Attract lots of comments to swell up your ego. You're so boring and stale.

Here's something else though

Monocrom is expected to make a new story sometime soon, this is something to look forward to :)