NSFW Art and the missing found fanart posters

I'm sorry to post this, it's a pretty dead horse at this point and if you are anything like me you hate seeing this topic. But I have some thoughts and I'd like to discuss them.

First things first, to the people complaining about the NSFW content: Please shut up. At least under OC Fanart posts. Complaining about what artists create in their free time for no money will not get you any more of the content you want to see. It just scares away the artists.

I know there are artists that have stopped contributing to this community because they feel the sub is hostile to them. If you want to have influence on the content that is posted, make it yourself or pay for commissions.

If a post is tagged properly, know that you've accepted to view it. You have no grounds for complaining.

But, to my actual point: why are people complaining now? I've been here for a long time and nothing I've seen posted struck me as terribly irregular. We've had artists absolutely testing the bounds of rule 5 before. We've had discussions about actual "artistic nudity" before. We've had specific fetishes become running gags before. This is nothing new. So what actually changed?

I have two theories:

1) No more fanart recyclers. We used to have accounts that were dedicated to reposting found fanart. Not only new stuff, but also recycle old content. They were very often frowned upon as just Karma thieves, but I always thought they play an important role for the health of the subreddit. Not only do they introduce older fanart to new users (Or old users that just forgot about it, there are a whole lot of DDLC picture out there), they also might have prevented people from only seeing content they don't like. I don't think we have anyone like that anymore. It's not an easy job, Found Fanart in this sub is subject to a lot of rules and restrictions (for good reason), but I really feel like someone has to do it... :/

2) I'm not so sure about this one, but: There are these "children animation" content farms out there, right? As I understand, the DDLC girls have been used a lot in entirely unrelated media together with other perceived "childrens horror" like Poppy Playtime and FNAF. Maybe there is an influx of actual children here? I don't want to imply that people who don't want to see NSFW content necessarily have to be children, I'm just trying to figure out where the sentiment is coming from. If you are very young, I could tell you that reddit really isn't the right place for you, but it's not like I have any business telling you where to go. Just know that, when you click on NSFW, it's probably going to be NSFW. It's not rocket science.

So if you don't like the content that is here, maybe do something productive about it. (Remembering the rules: credit artists, both in title and with link in the comment, don't repost art of artists active in the sub, don't repost from artists that explicitly don't allow it)