Are you DYING for Art Fight to start up? So am I! Here is the announcement that came out recently.

Not UTC? Neither am I! Find your time here! I didn't say it? Ask in the comments!

10 EST btw lol, that's where I am!

Want to know more about the start date? Heres what the Art Fight staff has to say.

Art Fight Start Date

-Like every year, Art Fight 2024 will start on July 1st at 6:00pm UTC.

-We recommend that you start preparing yourself now by updating your characters, bookmarking other people’s characters, and getting those refs into shape... there's no time like the present!

-Remember that drawing attacks before Art Fight starts (July 1st, 6:00pm UTC) is against the rules. Not only is it unfair to others, but it is a direct violation of the spirit of Art Fight. If you attempt to do this, your account may be banned. Please be considerate and show good team spirit! 

As y'all should know, they host a stream for the team announcements! Heres the schedule for that stream. They have A LOT of stuff planned, Including a suprise! Heres the schedule if you want to follow along with it, and Art Fight has to say!

Art Fight Theme Reveal Stream

• Please join us on June 15th for the 2024 Art Fight Theme Reveal, which will stream live on our Twitch. The stream will start at 2:00pm UTC and run until 8:00pm UTC, at which point the team reveal animation will play! 
• The Art Fight Theme Reveal is an animation made annually by the talented  Axel that announces the theme for this year's Art Fight. We hope you can make it, but don't despair if you can't - after the stream, the themes will be announced onsite, and the animation will be posted to our YouTube.
• Leading up to the reveal, we'll also have a ton of in-stream activities hosted by mods like Quiplash, Gartic Phone, and some fun art games! We've also got word in that there'll be an exciting announcement after the reveal, so make sure to stick around. I mean what, who said that?

Now for these conversions, y'all will have to get me. There's too many! Don't know how to? Ask for me to do it in the comments!

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VERY IMPORTANT STUFF NOW!!!!

Art Fight's rules have been majorly updated to reflect our updated Filters Guidelines, our disallowance of AI-generated content, and general information regarding allowed characters and content on the site.

If y'all didn't know, Art Fight has updated their rules. I am going to share those rules with you, if you don't know these and you break a rule, it could result in a ban.

1. You must be 13 years of age or older to register for and use Art Fight.
2. Only one active account is allowed per person. Joining teams on multiple accounts during the event is prohibited.
3. Do not attempt to impersonate any site members, especially staff.
4. Art Fight aims to be a safe place for all users. Hateful or discriminatory content and behavior is prohibited site-wide and will be removed. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Transphobic and homophobic views
• Racist and xenophobic views
• Ableist views
• Sexist views
• Use of slurs

5. Sexually explicit content in any form is prohibited. This includes user-submitted content, such as characters and attacks, profiles, user permissions, and character/user icons, even if the content is cropped or censored.

6. Content that is illegal to depict under federal United States law is not allowed in any form. This includes user-submitted content, profiles, user permissions, icons, etc., even if cropped or censored. In addition, do not spam or link any potentially malicious and/or illegal content on the site.
7. Any content that requires filtering under Art Fight’s rules is not allowed in user profiles or icons, due to the inability to filter them as with characters and attacks, unless under a spoiler with a warning.
8. Content that may violate, harm, or threaten the safety or personal rights of anyone is not allowed, including disclosing personal information.
9. Disrespect and/or harassment of other users will not be tolerated. This includes publicly calling out others and DNI/"Do not interact" lists. Please bring concerns directly to a moderator or use the report button.

• Minors may request for adults to not interact, and adults may request for minors not to interact. This is the only exception.

10. In the event someone wants to physically send their crafted/traditional attack to you, Art Fight takes no responsibility for any shared personal info. Exchange of address happens at the person’s own risk. We do not recommend minors to give out their address without permission from a parent or guardian first.

Upload Rules (Attacks, Characters, Profiles, etc)

1. All artworks and characters posted to Art Fight must be your own or ones you have explicit permission to use with credit. Art theft and character theft is strictly prohibited on Art Fight.

• Art theft is defined as “directly using an image you didn't create, tracing, directly referencing someone else's artwork, or using someone else's art as a component of your work without permission.’’
• The use of AI generated images falls under our definition of art theft. AI is NOT allowed to be used to generate images for characters and attacks, or in order to generate designs for characters. This includes using websites like Artbreeder, Midjourney, DALLE, Sora, etc.
• This includes the use of copyrighted materials, including canon characters (see rule 5), mascots, official images of logos (redrawn logos are allowed. You may not upload a logo as its own character), etc in both attacks and characters.
• Using character creation tools from video games, or from websites like Picrew, HeroForge, or other doll makers are not allowed to be used as an attack, but are allowed to be uploaded as a character with proper credit.

2. All attacks must be wholly original. The usage of bases, while allowed for character images, is NOT allowed in attacks. This includes bases made by yourself and bases made by others.

• Pre-made brushes and assets are okay, but excessive use of pre-made brushes (such as for trees, etc.) must be rated as "No Background".

3. Generally, the use of photos/photography in character profiles and attacks are acceptable. Crediting photography is encouraged, but not necessary.

• Photos of your own/others’ traditional artwork MUST have artist credit.
• Real life photos taken of pets as a character reference are allowed, alongside photos of yourself as a character reference so long as you are not a minor. This is to ensure the safety of underage users on the site.
• Note: Photo backgrounds in attacks must be rated as No Background.

4.  Fandom characters that expand upon any pre-existing media, setting, or species are allowed on Art Fight, but credit to the original media must be given somewhere on the character's page.
5. Alternate universe fan characters and characters that are visually inspired by canon characters are allowed, so long as they are not one-to-one exact copies of the canon character. Credit to the original inspiration must also be given somewhere on the character's page.
6. Historical characters who have associations with Nazis are not permitted on site.

• Additionally, personifications of countries or geographical regions (such as Countryhumans) are not permitted on site due to potential for harmful stereotyping.

7. All art submitted as an attack must clearly display effort and respect the original characters’ designs and form. Any art that differs greatly from the original design is subject to removal at moderator discretion, examples being:

• Art with an extreme over-simplification of a character’s original design.
• Intentional changes to the character’s design which renders them unrecognizable as the original.
• Respect the character permissions of the user you are attacking, especially permissions regarding maturity rules.
• Mass character design attacks (wherein a user compiles several characters designed for two or more users into one attack), or multi-design attacks, must have clear indications within the attack itself as to who each design is intended for. Mass/multi design attacks that are not labeled with the intended owner of each design are subject to deletion, as they do not count as viable attacks.

8. Do not insult or mock anyone’s art or characters. This includes bashing certain species or art styles, as well as your own art!
9. All users, minors included, are allowed to post content containing nipples of all genders (with a mandatory moderate nudity filter applied) as long as it is purely artistic with no suggestive themes present. Minors are prohibited from sharing, receiving, or requesting art that contains suggestive themes.

10. Any form of content onsite that necessitates a Suggestive Themes or Extreme Nudity filter must have the appropriate filters applied. Art Fight is a site suited for ages 13 and over; failure to filter this content puts underage users at risk and will result in strict consequences.

Spirit of Art Fight

While Art Fight features a competition between two teams it is, at its core, a game that celebrates characters and giving back to fellow creators. Our goal is to create a positive environment where artists of all skill levels can participate and make art for one another.

1. All art needs to be made specifically for Art Fight during the duration of the event. Art from the Art Fight Minigames, commissioned art, previous artwork, and other art events does not count, and should not be uploaded as an attack.
2. Art Fight is not a marketplace. Do not sell or trade any designs you receive by others, unless you receive permission to do so by the creator. Similarly, uploading characters as an advertisement is disallowed.
3. Do not use art gained from or made for Art Fight for profit (e.g. character sales, trades, auctions, etc). Creating a character to gain art with the intention of selling it is prohibited.
4. No user is obliged to attack back. Do not beg or otherwise manipulate others to attack you: this includes comments, attacks, and messages.
5. Do not collaborate with others when making attacks. This creates an unfair advantage.
6. Attacks with obvious intended low effort or attempts to point farm will be removed at moderator discretion.
7. Being aggressive and combative to the other team is not acceptable in any form. Be kind to users on the opposing team!
8. Point-keeping, defined as regularly announcing the current scores of the teams, is not acceptable onsite or on the Discord.
9. General art sales are allowed to be advertised on your profile via links. Commission sales must not include 18+ content and cannot be used as a tax or bargaining chip (e.g. attack for payment, payment for attack, etc). Doing so will result in severe consequences.
10. Respect the character permissions of every user. Failing to properly do so will result in attack removal.
11. All art created as attacks must be for another user. While users are allowed to draw their OCs with others’ in attacks, or make “Design Me a Character” type characters, works that encourage attackers to draw solely for themselves (i.e. “Design Yourself a Character”, etc) are not allowed.

 Definition: Art Fight space refers to anywhere on the site, on the Discord chat, or associated with any of our social media accounts. All of the following rules apply to all Art Fight spaces.

MAKE SURE TO READ THIS TOO!

Art Fight - Guide: Filtering Your Attacks & Characters

OTHER STUFF

Mod Apps Open

• Our moderation apps are still open but will close soon! You have until April 30th to submit an application. Applications will then close until Art Fight 2024 is finished. If you're interested in moderating for Art Fight, check out this page!
• You can expect a first batch of new mods to arrive soon - thank you for your patience as we worked on an improved mentorship system, which we believe will better help and support new moderators.

May/June Changelog
Head over to our Changelog to find out more about what's changed!

• Like in April, we focused on improvements and additions to our moderation tools. In the past, moderators were not able to view certain report types due to permission roadblocks. This has been fixed, and believe that this will lead to better response times on reports. The Tag Search has also been optimized and load times should also improve. Both of these fixes are in testing and will be live on the site this week. 
• We are also working on implementing a way for users to delete their account. We're hoping to release this before the fight begins, but may not be able to due to the internal work it requires. As always, we thank you for your patience regarding this. 
• Have an idea for Art Fight? Let us know here! We'll periodically check up on this form and add submitted suggestions to our Trello board. 

Updated DMCA Procedure for Copyright Infringements

• In an effort to reduce site-mod strain and balance the creative expression of our users with respect for copyright laws, we have updated our DMCA procedure. 
• Uncredited photo backgrounds are now handled through reports from the infringed parties via the DMCA system rather than through site reports. We encourage users to credit photo backgrounds if they are using them for attacks.
• Below are the key points regarding what is now permissible on-site and what will be subject to takedown:

Permissible Content

• Original characters (OCs) in canon characters' clothes.
• Redrawing canon characters or logos on accessories; it is acceptable to depict canon characters on accessories such as T-shirts or as plushies, but they must be hand-drawn renditions.
• Alternate universe (AU) characters can now bear a closer resemblance to canon characters, as long as the AU has at least one noticeable difference from the canon design.

Content Subject to Takedown:

• Exact replicas and re-uploads of canon characters.
• Directly uploading company logos as characters.
• Posting images that are not explicitly free-to-use, such as collages or moodboards. You may however host these moodboards or collages off-site (such as on Pinterest) and link them in the character's bio.