@p0nyguy
Oh.
No, nothing is going to happen to derpibooru my dude.
Sorry to give you a tangent here, but the overwhelming majority of users are completely indifferent to either side, and have probably not even seen or really been aware of anything going on. What you are seeing are the more vocal elements of both sides expressing dissent over site rules and staff conduct, and over a subject (tag) that majority of people probably don’t even know exists since it’s not something you just find willy nilly on a random tuesday afternoon.
Like if you go to the main page right now and just look at new uploads or the trending section you’ll see plenty of artists who aren’t even involved in any of this and who either just don’t care or are indifferent to whats going on, these are the kinds of people who aren’t going to react at all really unless something super major that directly impacts their ability to use the site happens.
Since the conversation right now is revolving around a tiny tag (nazi) that virtually no one actually frequently draws for, as well as a variety of politics related tags to some extent (that people also never really draw or care for or engage with) this means that it’s just kind of whatever for them.
This is true even for users here who aren’t artists, followers and so on, they are not here to discuss or concern themselves with politics and discussions, they do not follow people based on their principles, opinions and all that, they just want to look at ponies and porn. It’s not like you honestly give much of a fuck about the people and politics of
Pornhub or
iFunny or whatever either.
So in this regard don’t like, get the impression that this is some kind of intense 50% of the entire fandom vs 50% of the entire other half when it’s actually closer to maybe 5% vs 10% at best.
Pro-censorship side filing DNP’s and leaving isn’t particularly impactfull, since a fat chunk of those users either haven’t drawn for the fandom in forever, don’t actually use derpibooru or stopped using it ages ago, or consist largely of artists with less than 50 images to their tag. You’d probably not even realize these people are gone, given that a lot of them don’t really have an active presence.
Anti-censorship side is larger and more involved in the fandom, but even then, it’s not
everyone.
While “our” side (kind of obligated to say this given that I threw my name in the hat) has significantly more content, it’s not like the site is going to spontaneously evaporate even if 100% of us decide to stop using it.
IIRC, I think according to the people downloading archives and keeping track of this, that in total, if we are including every artist that has DNP’d on both sides, we’re talking about maybe 100k images in total. This sounds like a lot, and it is, but not in the context of the sites 2 million+ images.
Even if 100% of both sides fuck off from the site, those who follow us (any of us) would kind of just end up using derpibooru in parallel with wherever we happen to end up, because derpibooru has other content and is still a convenient and easy to browse archival site.
Regardless of what actually happens or whether anyone leaves or not, Aryanne will still exist, old content will still probably remain given that derpibooru usually doesn’t apply rules retroactively, pro-censors own drop in the ocean political oriented stuff wont be more or less engaged with or liked/disliked than before any of this happened, staff will still have to deal with spammy and rule breaking shitlords forever and ever, secret invisible nazis will still be secret invisible nazis with exactly the same influence or lack of influence as before.
People will still complain and whinge about tags they don’t like, be they fetishes or politics, and as usual if anyone gets what they want they generally push for more and more until told no.
Articles will occasionally still be written about alleged nazi problems in the fandom - by outsiders - or whatever else low effort journalists happen to pick out during a dry news week, derpibooru will be mentioned in these regardless of what staff does and whether or not Aryanne content is still on site.
Majority will remain completely unaffected and uncaring either way, staff is still going to be shit on and smugly pretend like this was some inevitable thing that couldn’t possibly had been avoided by staying quiet and not rocking the boat.
So y’know, don’t worry about it, site itself isn’t going anywhere.
Keep an eye on like, specific artists you like though, if derpibooru is the only platform you get your content from, since there might be a chance that you lose track of them if they delete all their content.