Image Hosting

[squidgestatus]

A formal email will go out to Image Hosting users soon, but I'll make a statement here first. Anyone who uses Squidge Image Hosting should do so with the intention of using images they upload for fandom in some way. Examples include photo manipulation and artwork of fandom works, gifs of favorite scenes, artwork of any type related to fandom, and personal images that you intend to share in some sort of fandom related way - be it a Dreamwidth or Tumblr blog post or something similar.

What Squidge Image hosting is NOT for is

• For anything commercial or related to marketing or similar use


• For anything, overtly or covertly related to CSEM, including child sexualization, pro-pedophilia, child-love advocacy, or anything related.


• For posting porn for the sake of posting porn.

Squidge.org has banned two users from image hosting.  The first was using image hosting to sell their IT consulting services to others.  The second, today, was due to pro-pedophilia imagery.

A statement now exists on Image Hosting, stating the following:

Image Hosting from Squidge.org is for fandom use. If you're using this service, the images you upload must be fandom based in some way, whether photo manips, gifs of favorite scenes, or personal pictures you want to use for your blog, etc. This service is <em>not</em> for hosting porn (pure adult sexually explicit content not related to fandom), and it certainly isn't to be used for anything to do with sexualizing minors, overtly or covertly. That does NOT belong anywhere near fandom and is not welcome here.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Comments

[ride_4ever]

Well said! ❤️Squidge.org.

[ex_flameandsong751]

The second, today, was due to pro-pedophilia imagery.

UGHHHHHHHH WHY ARE PEOPLE. Thank you for staying on top of this and banning people who do that.

[pebbleinalake]

Thank you for taking that stance, and for working to prevent that kind of content from being spread around. It's sad that people would try to use fandom spaces for those purposes.

[scissorsevered]

Thank you so much for your hard work :D. I've loved using Squidge Images to host stuff like icons and banners and I've recommended it to a few friends too.

[yourlibrarian]

Shame it's been misused when there's so much demand for actual fandom hosting.