Fear of showing off lolisho stuff

[FDeer]

So I've been extremely scared to share any piece of lolisho/cub doodles I've done, and I'm happy to know this is a friendly place for that content, but I've always had this fear of being found out about my kinks and I always back down from posting those stuff. I separate fiction from reality, and I completely hate it when people throw names like p*do around over this stuff, and it's hard to not be harshly judge when talking about this stuff to random people on the internet. I want to come out of that shell of course, I have a baraag acc, and an alt twitter acc (but tbh that's practically a death sentence), and I've noticed a lot of artists here have done so, do you guys have any tips for me to do that, should I stay private? Should I remain cautious? Any feedback or even read through is appreciated

[TOFUUU]

I know what that feeling is like, and I still getting worried about getting found out. Hell, there have been some peeps that HAVE found my baraag/inkbunny. I've just been lucky that they consume that content too, but that anxious/worried feeling never went away for me. There's even been times where I'm the one discovering the alt account and realizing that there's more people consuming lolisho/cub content than I thought.

That being said, I grew the mentality of "if they find out, then thats that." I'll keep drawing even if there's some big backlash against me because its what I enjoy doing. I've separated my Twitter and Baraag/Inkbunny page enough where people wont outright find me just by searching my Twitter handle, but that only delays an inevitable I guess. That's what worked for me.

Not sure if my rambling helped at all, but I hope it means something at least. I'd say to go with whatever gut feeling you have and hope for the best.

[FDeer]

I appreciate it a lot, and treating the situation as straight forward as you did is probably the most honest way of dealing with it if people do find out. I will say that finding some artist's accounts on baraag or inkbunny and them making lolisho/cub stuff is really comforting and encouraging

[CookieSkoon]

I have a decent following, having been posting my art online since 2006. I have seen the times change dramatically from a chill, nobody cares atmosphere to a witch hunt party full of prudes who shame Only Fans models.

I used to draw cub art. I posted it openly alongside my other work. Then once it was banned from FA, I only posted it on Inkbunny. Eventually tumblr, too. Then it got to a point where posting it at all was career and social suicide.

So I don't, anymore. I get it. It's especially rough considering I am trans and right now we are being labelled as pedos by default in many circles.

That said- I have a LOT of people looking at me, and my income depends on them. If you don't have to worry about that? Then it's really just about making friends who won't abandon you for it, and starting to adopt a, "eh, fuck the normies" attitude.

And if I ever get mega cancelled I'll probably just post it anyway...

[Dakotastomp96]

I've seen this whole entire debate over and over again and I what I don't get is if someone is so aggressively against it, then why are they following Japanese artists that draw stuff like that on the regular? Why are they still watching anime with loli characters that have sexual themes? It's now or less a "Rule of thee, not for me" situation and it's starting to spread like wildfire. Like sometimes, you can't even draw them aged up without some kind of Jackass finding it and getting upset.

Overall with your question, you're better off keeping it on Baraag or inkbunny, way less prudes there obviously. I would post my loli content on Twitter again and just rake in the responses, but it's not the antis that worry me, it's the mods who delete entire accounts if enough people bitch loud enough for them to notice.

Sorry for my overly long response. Just see your post brought up so many issues i had with the current anime Fandom. Hopefully we can keep places like SF, Baraag, and other places up for extreme fetishes for a good long time.

[Soap Satellite]

Me personally, I'd just stick to only talking about it in places where you know you'd be safe showing that stuff, cuz that's pretty much what I've been doing. I stick to baraag and now have this place as a second avenue in case something bad happens to baraag again.

It's really stifling how much I wanna talk about and draw lolisho stuff but just feel like I can't do that because pretty much my entire circle of Discord friends is against lolisho aside from a select few. It makes me feel conflicted because I really like sharing my interests. Feeling unable to share this stuff when they're the thing occupying my thoughts at that moment is upsetting.

I also kinda have this issue with a few other tags I find interesting, but even with all of those, what I tend to find is that even the people I talk to who say they tolerate everything make one or two exceptions: lolisho and usually incest as well.

Sorry if this is a little all over the place, I just woke up.

[Kumakaze]

I've been through the pain of other people making what you like a problem. Callout on tumblr many years ago, lost everyone I'd known for 12+ years (some irl friends who said it didnt matter) and had a total of five friends left in the world.
Since then I've learned one thing; Just say that you like it. You dont have to make it your entire personality, hell, make an alt for more normal art and interests. But if you show people who can't stand that you like having sex with the wrong cartoons that you don't give a shit what they think and aren't shy about it, they won't fuck with you anywhere near as often. If someone does say "yeah? and?" and block them. generally you and your friends will make fun of them and thats it.

The people who mind don't matter, the people who matter don't mind.

[AmeyBoop]

I kept private as long as my housing situation relied directly on the whims of a small number of individuals. I am now in the extremely privileged position of homeownership and job security and don't have to give much of a damn.

I've lost friends over it. Since then I just don't get close to people unless I'm confident they at least tolerate it. A very close friend at that.

Anyway, I would say that if your housing situation relies on one or two people who might be inclined to unhouse you for your fictional proclivities, it may be wise to be very careful. But otherwise, I advocate letting it all hang out. There is a very blurry difficult-for-me line between letting it hang out and making it your personality, though, particularly on platforms like Discord where you aren't allowed to post that stuff. Granted, people do, but not in circles I frequent.

Anyway if you google me, one of the only results, I'm told, is a foalcon registry. Lmao.

[Loupgaros]

This is something I've been hiding for a few years now. I see it still happen that people get called out, they go into hiding and the mob dies down to only resurface to get another perceived danger to society. It gave me a lot of guilt and it kind of made me anxious that if anyone questioned me, I'd be caught out.

It is something you can lose friends over. It is something that is very much seen as a black and white issue. But while I can see where the 'It's not just an image, it can change the way you think!' crowd come from, the fact is that I can tell reality from fiction. Cubs don't exist. So I feel I can start to doodle them or reimagine my more grown-up OCs as younger and imagine how they'd be, while knowing that at least in my mind, I'm not a threat or danger and I may even share some of those doodles as part of my exploration.

So i fully get the fear. I get the fear, the guilt taht comes with it and eventually I just decided, fuck it. I keep it seperate enough that i don't think anyone will find out but if they do, well they're just getting a bigger picture of me.