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    Now this should go without saying, but when browsing through these search engines and the sites within them, please respect the people running these sites. You're stepping on their part of the world, not yours, and as such, you will find stuff that you won't necessarily jibe with—or you'll encounter fringe content that, to put it lightly, has a very niche audience; but despite this, respect these people's personal spaces and browse at a distance. I'm pretty sure Westerners already have an abysmal reputation over there due to moral policing (à la Twitter/Tumblr) those who are literally minding their own business—in a completely different continent no less. So don't make things worse for those who are already making an effort in disconnecting from those places where people who would harass them are rampant.

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What's legal and acceptable in Japan is rather different than anywhere in the West.

As one example, animated or drawn child pornography is perfectly legal there. There have been multiple legal rulings reinforcing that. Western audiences find that horrible, for the most part.

Actual pornography is censored in Japan however, and many of the people I've talked to there find uncensored real pornography to be far more offensive than drawn pornography.

You can also find parasocial writings where people will post their imagined lives with public figures. There are a ton of topics that fall under this advisory. It's a completely different culture, and many people not from there make assumptions about what's acceptable from what is popular wherever they are from. That rarely looks anything like the reality there (and is true for anywhere that happens).

I thought of that, really. It's funny how the author dances around that never mentioning what it was about.

After years of seeing people being "cancelled" for much less, I don't blame someone for not wanting to write anything specifically normalizing or in anyway explaining what western cultures usually consider child pornography.

Even Google/YouTube gets in on the dog pile. Just try to mention Epstein in a YouTube video and see how quickly that strike or demonetization comes in.

Guro content, loli content, guro loli content. Stuff like "Unfortunate Girl 03". I can't imagine what else would cause such a reaction.

Doesn't take that much to trigger western audiences. There are some as-yet characterized trigger conditions in anime content that cause violent rage reactions to non-Japanese-mainstream cohorts. No one knows what it is(at least Japanese users don't).

Yeah. Some examples of niche content would be interesting.

What do you think doujins are?

They are just self-published works, nothing more. Yes, some are NSFW, but is it different to self-published stories elsewhere? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doujinshi

The ask was for examples to niche content.

The world of doujinshis is a subculture, and therefore a niche. No value judgment made, but it's kinda similar to asking for a niche art style and getting upset when someone says "pixel art" in a world of live action and photorealistic CGI.

I'm just like, "do you want niche, or taboo? It's already niche."

Explain your flags, there is nothing incorrect about doujins being niche content. Is this place no better than Reddit?

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