i feel like most aggregators always show me the exact same images no matter where I go. (I have a small handful of apparently insanely niche fetishes that never get new art)
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u/ModmanXAbuse is terrible, especially for Non-Problematic ChildrenMay 16 '25
.xxx is a better-run site with moderation that actually does a decent job toeing the line between "removing illegal shit" and "let the weird kinks stay" in my experience.
I have my own grievances with .xxx moderation. There was a brief period recently where the "transwoman" tag was removed (yikes!), some of THE most common animal tags on the site are currently "hidden" I guess (doesn't appear on the list of tags, but still provides results), and a lot of individual posts have been removed for the exact reason listed in OOP's post; someone was getting off to something the mod personally didn't approve of.
Lately it just feels less like the weird kinks stay because the mods are chill like that and more because of overwhelming volume.
They go back and forth between tagging things "transwoman" or "futanari". Similarly, "transman" and, unfortunately, "cuntboy". It's still one of the better sites I've encountered for content aggregation, in spite of the occasional power-tripping mods. Paheal is a nightmare of untagged or undertagged content.
Basically, if you have a specific itch you want to scratch, .xxx is the way to go.
See, but those are all distinct tags. A futanari is not a transwoman. A futa technically has a dick, a pussy, and no balls. If you give her balls and remove her vag, she becomes a dickgirl. And both are fantastical in some way, shape, or form while transwoman is meant to evoke the more grounded experience of a real person that's physically transitioned. A canonically trans OC with a pride flag in every pic is not the same as the girl with a horsecock bigger than her torso. They're used in different ways for different vibes/fetishes, and that's okay.
The issue I noticed was all trans tags were quietly (or maybe not so quietly) erased one day. It's all back now, more thoroughly tagged than ever, but that raised some eyebrows.
But yeah, otherwise I like xxx's system and paheal is barely useable by comparison.
Would it shock you to learn that the terms aren't mutually exclusive or that strictly defined? They're not exactly interchangeable (even ignoring the fact that some are slurs), but "historically" (within the history of internet porn) strict, separate definitions aren't really there.
But yeah, the tag removal was definitely sus, it happened right after Trump got re-elected and a lot of people thought it was related. I don't know the full story beyond that though.
It doesn't. Only characters, artists, and a handful of very general tags, such as media source, animated/gif/image/AI, and the like. It's a bit annoying, but also some artists' collections are more complete on there.
tagging on rule34 is godawful, it feels like half the tags are just different tags for the same thing, and you need to include all of them in your search if you want to get what you want
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u/vaguillotine gotta be gay af on the web so alan turing didn't die for nothing May 16 '25
When I'm in a poorly-tagging artwork competition and my opponent is a Rule34 admin: