i honestly don't think i can go back to a staff setup without multimods tbeh-

honestly, i always find it so strange when people will dip over pending pms that are super quick + easy fixes (like 15 minutes tops to fix everything)

don't get me wrong, i defs think it's their right to bounce for whatever reason, but like ??????? this just seems like such a waste of the time + effort to go through the app process only to dip out over a few small tweaks but you do you i guess????????

personally my take on a "fcs must be 18+" rule for animanga is that it just... doesn't make a whole lot of logistical sense to be ported over from the rl community into animanga.

the vast majority of rl celebrities start their careers as adults, and for the ones who don't, they'll age and thus enter the pool of usable faces with enough time; it's also generally tons easier to find feasible alternative fcs (since hollywood is notoriously bad about typecasting + my experiences with the rl rpc is that there's generally more than a few people who are excited to share more diverse fcs for The Kinds Of FCs Hollywood Won't Touch (tm) (c) (r), as it were)

by contrast, ouran host club came out 20-some years ago, and those characters are all just as excluded now as they were 20 years ago because they don't age. it's also really hard to find feasible alternatives for certain niches, such as characters of color, or when cross-referencing several requirements (such as "younger brown-haired female with bunny ears"), a task made infinity harder if you have to start throwing in finding a large number of images and/or larger image sizes (especially for older series that pre-date twitter + pixiv).

there's also the wider situation that animated sources tend to more heavily favor younger cast demographics than live action sources do (since they tend to be marketed towards younger demographics who want to see stories with empowered young people standing on equal footing with adults), as well as the headache-inducing situations caused by "xyz character is minor-coded" discourse or the "2000 year old immortal looks like a 12 year old" trophe. and y'know. most animanga sites tend to discourage using original artwork / commissioned artwork, either explicitly in the site rules or implicitly via the community's openness towards plotting with those characters, so. yeah.

imo, if someone wants to put an "all fcs must be 18+ to be used" rule on their site, that's their right to do, it's their sandbox + they get to decide what rules everyone else has to abide by to play on it. but i also don't think it's one that someone should be super shocked over it being a dealbreaker for a lot of people given how much more annoying it can make fc searching.

(personally, i'd never join an animanga site with an 18+ fc requirement, and i say that as someone who used to run multiple rl sites with the same rule, and it's actually a rule i very much hope doesn't hop over into the mainstream from the rl circuit, but that's just my two cents)