How can creators stop "fans" from sexualizing their characters, without resorting to making them ugly?

How can creators stop "fans" from sexualizing their characters, without resorting to making them ugly?

Cartoons are supposed to be innocent. Smut artists are ruining the medium for everyone else.

Make them unlikable.

Realize you can't fight human deviancy and ignore it.

Korra

I think Progressive is only now starting to get rid of Flo, though more likely for the reason that she stopped being funny years ago.

Get Tumblr, Reddit and CalArts on the case.

I don't even know where to start with all this
>How can creators stop "fans"
they can't. The rest of the question is irrelevant
>from sexualizing their characters, without resorting to making them ugly?
As if ugly would stop some people
>cartoons are supposed to be innocent
fuck off
>smut artists are ruining the medium for everyone else
fuck off again

>company destroying a mascot because fan art gave some random people on the internet erections
This woman needs to get her head bolted back on right. Did she literally discover the internet yesterday?

You can't. Because people will do it just for the attention. People rush to make porn of the newest female characters to come out just to get eyes on themselves.

>Did she literally discover the internet yesterday?
Mm yes I want people to google my mascot or company and all they find is porn.

>reddit
Get a load of the newfag with no idea how the internet works.

They can't.

Well, that's a shame. Even the Geiko lizard has porn.

Sauce on a mascot?

>“There were definitely times when the porn bothered me,” admits Brewe. “But it’s like my grandmother used to say: ‘Never mud wrestle with a pig; you get dirty and the pig loves it.’”

man that article was great

>googling a fucking mascot for a car insurance company and NOT looking for porn
>googling a mascot, not wanting porn, AND having safe search off
>getting upset that people who have NOTHING to do with the company sexualized their mascot and somehow this negatively affects them

I'm sure their key audience saw a car insurance commercial, though "hmm, I should probably switch my plan to these guys... but only after a quick google image search, to make sure their mascot is still pure."
You can go back to fucking off.

>How can creators stop "fans" from sexualizing their characters

They literally can't.

>without resorting to making them ugly?

Like that's ever stopped anyone.

by politely asking the smut creators to reconsider using your original characters in their work
if that doesn't work, commission for more porn and sell that shit on the low

I'm sure there's people out there who make porn of Flo or the Geico Gecko and they're still featured in ads.

So why does Erin get the boot while they stay?

>‘Never mud wrestle with a pig; you get dirty and the pig loves it.’

Ha!

...I'd probably still jerk to it

>How can creators stop "fans" from sexualizing their characters,

Ignore it. Remember Rule 34, people are going to draw porn of any cartoon character out there. You can't stop it. Just ignore it and move on.

Didn't the autor of that fat woman strip asked very nicely to artists to don't do it while the strip was still running and people actually listened?

Porn of that fat lady only came out after the strip was over and in very low numbers.

When did she start being funny?

...

Erin Esurance was just Porn Bait the character

Erin vs. Black Cat when?

>Cartoons are supposed to be innocent. Smut artists are ruining the medium for everyone else.

What was the name of the depressed lady? She was pretty hot.

People will anthropomorphize and sexualize anything (see recent examples of Earth-chan and Tide Pods or older examples like the OS-tans). Humans are horny as fuck and it'll never stop.

Anyone who care needs to get over their juvenile sexual hang-ups.

Mascots are a trademark issue. Unlike copyrights, trademarks have to be protected tooth and nail, otherwise you'll permanently loose the rights to your trademark.

Your options are to either spend millions of dollars suing every single infraction you're made aware of or, the more popular option, pretending to be ignorant of the whole thing until a situation becomes a legitimate problem.

>How can creators stop ____
They cannot. End of story. Engaging with fans/trolls can only end badly for them.

"Oh no can you believe that people sexualized my curvy, sexy character that was regularly pictured in skintight outfits? oh no how terrible she was NEVER intended for anything sexual oh boo hoo oh smut is so bad"

Vote for a dictator and send all form of art makers into death camps and publicly decapitate people who are proven to have free will.

if it's the one with the baby with bangs (life with m something) then yeah there was disproportionately low amounts of porn for a character that was 80% tits and ass, with how nice the creator keeps himself

A bunch of big creators make smut themselves, they have no moral high ground on this.

Don't, it's free fucking advertising.

>Engaging with fans/trolls can only end badly for them.
This.
Ban all those that work on something from social media interaction with fans. It always ends badly.
Instantly fire anyone from the team that shows up on twitter, facebook, tumblr or anywhere else claiming to work on "_____" show.

Name one.

For research.

Because shockingly porn of animals and ugly women is less popular than porn of cute spy girls.

I know it's furry, but Chalo was drawing pics of his Las Lindas characters fucking each other long before he ever put nudity and explicit sex into the strip itself.

>creates sexy agent to sell car insurance
>get upset when it’s drawn to its sexy conclusion

Rebecca Sugar

>porn of animals

Furry has a lot more quality porn that normal 34. And that's fucking disgraceful.

I feel like this is fake news

No matter how ugly you make your characters, someone will re-drawn them better so they can fap.
If girls weren't such fucking horrible abominations of egotism and selfishness then young men wouldn't have to turn to vastly superior 2D women.

When will girls finally woman up and actually become worth men's time and attention again?

When you stop being an asshole who thinks you're owed pussy because you exist, chump.

Dan DeCarlo was doing adult pinups in the Archie style for a long time.

If for one second, you don't think Bruce Timm has a huge stack of porn he drew himself stashed somewhere, you're too naive

When Osamu Tezuka died, his relatives found out he had a huge stack of furry porn he did himself in one of his desks.

Storyboard snapshots for several animated movies have shown the characters to be in the nude (if barbie doll nudity) here and there.

I know one of the of the storyboarders for TF Animated has a collection of furry porn under a pen name.

>sex and car insurance are not two things that go together
Yeah but when I think of car insurance I immediately think "pink haired female cartoon character".

Erin Esurance > Flo from Progressive

So if I have sex while driving and someone else crashed into me the auto insurance won't cover it.

Well, he was very polite and kind. You don't mistreat people with good manners like that.

>t.roastie who thinks she's owed dick because she has a warm hole

...

>you are just entitled!
o the sweet sweet juvenile irony.

>When Osamu Tezuka died, his relatives found out he had a huge stack of furry porn he did himself in one of his desks.

That will never not be funny.

>TF Animated

TF what now?

Transformers Animated. He was also in Legend of Korra, and yes, he has done R34 Korra.

You can't stop the darkness

Sell that shit and when they complain point out it's your character and you're a big corporation.

The porn wasn't the problem though I'm sure it didn't help; it was that she had a really low Q-score.

Of course, that same batch of people that they asked about Erin also rated the Gorton's Fisherman really low when it came to sexiness.

Makes sense that Tezuka was a furry. Ever see Baggy?

...I wish I knew what his pen name is. Cause anything related to r34 Korra is ok in my book.

They have shit taste. That is one sexy daddy.

>t.Roastie Landwhale who's unfathomable assmad that nobody is willing to put up with her utterly revolting nature for any longer than a picosecond
Stay mad.

>has regular feline paws
>also has human breasts

how does that even work!

I know this probably sounds weird. But having porn of your characters is like an honor in a way. Think of it this way, it means you've achieved some popularity when people wanna fuck your characters.

literally impossible

someone could make porn of anything at any time, you can't stop it. There's porn of the new Esurance mascot as well.

I dunno man that whole movie was weird. She's got human body proportions generally and there's lots of ass shots iirc.

>new Esurance mascot

What is the new mascot?

It works because it's hot.

There's not one, but two Bruce Timm-drawn picture of Joker fucking Harley floating around

...

>human guy
>barley antropomorphic cat
Is there any furrshit with this combo?

He's basically Red October Sean Connery with a touch of somebody else.

Cary Grant maybe?

Didn't Joe Shuster use to draw BDSM porn with Superman and Lois under a pseudonym?

>OP doesn’t know that Esurance lost Her was because she was boring

She looks more anthro when you can see more of her.

Full title is: Daishizen no Majuu: Bagi or just Baggy in english.

Literally an anthropomorphic box that says "Progressive" on it.

ironically, it's okay to sexualize women to sell a product, but the line is drawn at fictional action women.

Seriously, these people are stupid. You're going to draw the moral line at cartoons that aren't even aimed at children?

why do you care?

Adult white cishet guy here. Y'all just mad because you know I'm right.

>Reddit
>calarts
one of these things is not like the other.

Nothing good, teasing only.

No one gave a shit about Erin outside of the few that wanted porn. Even without porn she would probably go.

Chris Sanders draws smut in his Lilo & Stitch art style. Pic related is one of the more work safe ones.

>sex and auto-insurance don't go together

Please, insurance companies are always screwing people.

Nice. Very nice.

Rebecca Sugar went so far as to make gay Ed, Edd, and Eddy porn. Something that should not exist.

They can't.
Learn not to get bothered by it.

>Something that should not exist.

R34.

>81% of respondents consider the Gorton Fisherman unbelievable

And when that was leaked online she almost single-handedly started the Ed Edd n Eddy slash community.

Literally how is Flo ugly you fat neckbeard faggot?

Seriously, everyone knows that the only EEnE porn that should exist is porn of Marie Kanker.

Don't give my post that look. You know I'm right.

The show sexualizes her enough as it is.

thats not supposed to be nani, right?

...

That's not from the show and you know it.

Wrong.
It's simply not news. In any capacity.
People have drawn lewds of everything since people developed the capacity to do so.
They found Cleopatra R34 in Egyptian ruins from the era.
It's not new, it's not unheard of and it has no influence on anything.
This is just clickbait with no relevance.

More like Charlton Heston.

Doesn't matter, a sick fuck's a sick fuck regardless.

No one is that perfect.