E621 (website)
E621[edit]
Type of site | Imageboard |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Owner | Bad Dragon |
| Website | e621.net |
| IPv6 support | Yes |
| Launched | 2007; 15 years ago |
| Current status | Active |
e621 is an explicit imageboard website focused on cataloging images of furry characters.[1] The website was originally created with the intent for members of the furry fandom to share art across the platform, but has since gained the reputation of being a website for yiff art. The website, now 15 years old is currently owned by Bad Dragon, a manufacturer of fantasy-themed sex toys and owner of roleplaying website F-List, both of which cater primarily to furries.[2] e621 is based off of explicit anime imageboard website Danbooru, and e621's source code uses a refashioned version of Danbooru. The website is built with Ruby on Rails and is open source.
The website features an integrated wiki and an integrated forum where users discuss topics about the website. The website also has a safe for work database mirror called e926.
e621 ranks 515th in terms of traffic and there are over 3,115,000 posts uploaded onto the site as of December 2021 according to similarweb.[3]
History[edit]
e621 was launched on February 10, 2007 by an online user known as "Arcturus" or "Mx. Juniper System" with the intention of hosting explicit imageboard Sidechan's content, after it shut down in January 2007. Later that year the website was temporarily shut down in September after allegations that the site was hosting child pornography, but it came back online a month later.
The website once again shut down in August 2010 due to allegations that the site was hosting illegal content and was in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1466A due to the website hosting media of child characters engaging in sexual activities, but later the same month the website came back online. In September 2010, ownership of the site was passed to Jan "Varka" Mulders, a co-founder of Bad Dragon. Mulders implemented an updated takedown system in an effort to address some of the issues that led to the temporary shutdown of the site earlier the year, allowing artists to more easily request that their art be taken down off the site, rather than using DMCA requests, which was how the issue was handled prior.
On January 18, 2012, the website for the third time temporarily shut down, this time as a part of protests against the proposed United States bills Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) with the stated goals to protect against copyright infringement online and combat online piracy, in conjunction with protests by more than 115,000 other sites.[4] Both bills failed in their respective chambers of Congress following the widespread backlash.[5]
On June 22, 2019, the site replaced vulgar gender terms that were often viewed as slurs with terms such as "gynomorph" and "andromorph" in response to user complaints. However, the old terms were not invalidated and still worked the same as before when searching for images.
On October 24, 2019, it was announced that a new beta version of the site had been in development for months by. Admin and lead programmer "KiraNoot" released a beta version of the site for public beta testing alongside this announcement. The following year on March 5, the new version of the site left beta and replaced the original site. The new site had new features such as a new uploading page, and the ability to search for more tags at once, and "lore" tags, which allowed for posts to be tagged with "canonical" gender identities set forth by artists or copyright holders. The new lore tagging system would be used in tandem with the "tag what you see" system, in which users would assign tags to media based on what is visible to viewers.
References[edit]
https://smartidiapk.blogspot.com/2024/01/E621website.html
- ↑ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/bad-guys-mr-wolf-furry-fandom-nsfw-1340439/
- ↑ "Bad Dragon's kingdom of fantasy sex toys is caged by 'queer' capitalism". The Daily Dot. 2019-11-27. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
- ↑ "E621.net Market Share & Traffic Analytics". Similarweb. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
- ↑ Wortham, Jenna (2012-01-20). "Public Outcry Over Antipiracy Bills Began as Grass-Roots Grumbling". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
- ↑ Weisman, Jonathan (2012-01-20). "After an Online Firestorm, Congress Shelves Antipiracy Bills". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
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