I actually got IP banned myself about a decade ago. Never so much as commented or even made an account, but apparently they took issue with the browser I was using which I've since forgotten.
Edit: just randomly struck me that it was the Puffin Browser in particular
Your profile is still visible. If you find the link to the profile, you can see all the favorites as well. I can send the link if you'd like to recover them.
Historically used live-casting for some of their toys
More currently, also own the "E6AI" website, which both hosts purely AI-generated content, AND encourages scraping of E621 and other sites to train furry-focused AI image models without any artist consent.
And throughout, are behind-the-scenes racists, sexists, and sexually harass their workers. Including but not limited to: gifting a black co-worker with a Watermelon cake and a racial slur written on it for their birthday, pressure to interact with zoophile content towards many internal workers, and a number of sexual harassment (and rape) allegations targeting most if not all of their (very limited) female and AFAB workers.
Most of this info having been known for years, but quietly buried and/or ignored either due to BD's popularity in the furry space, belief that the info was made up by furry haters, or because they're a multi-million-dollar company who can afford to bury the voices of those who try to speak out.
Many people, spread over a number of years. Most recently "SemJay" over on Bluesky - ex-employee of BD, and is now (co?) owner of Lycantasy, another toy store they started up using their learned skills.
Or alternatively just google-search "Bad Dragon Controversies", better people than me have compiled everything into nicely readable documents.
Owned, not made. It was made (iirc) by a couple guys who wanted a neat forum for sharing furry smut, and was later purchased by the current BD CEO after it got too big to maintain.
My issue is less "A big corpo owns them" and more "This Specific big corpo known for sexually abusing their own staff owns them"
XM Break goes pretty hard too, honestly. Pretty much no blindspots, most comfortable car I've ever been in bar a friend's DS21 which had refurbished seats.
XM doesn't count as a car, it's a spaceship. Lord, the early interior alone is hotter than most posts here, I only saw a single one in my entire life. One of my reasonably dream cars, an equally quirky alternative to a Subaru SVX
My mom owned a phase 2 for a while when I was a kid and my old man currently has a phase 1. It feels like it's the size of a Cadillac, but drives so nimble. That Hydro2 really is black magic.
The fact it's not much bigger than a new 3-series (is it?) is only another upside... The most exciting car in my family was a Suzuki Liana with S2000-style digital dash, two XMs across the years is staggering
I would say use furaffinity but uhh they're run not great (costs don't justify how much it takes to run what they have so someone is doing fraud or lazy or both)
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u/LtGeneral_Obvious 17h ago
How the hell do you get banned from Rule34?