Board Thread:Roblox help and discussion/@comment-33544753-20180406114016/@comment-26397550-20180406130141

How about refer to the people who get called "uncanny valley" on Roblox by their actual terms, instead of putting them all as one group? "Drag queen", "album cover creators", "insta-mimics", or "makeup artist" (in some cases where these don't even use the faces, just make them- like me).

Branching us as an art style into a discriminatory term that only applies to probably around 3% of the users of the faces (the ones making inappropriate/ODing content - yes, this is a minority) with a term that doesn't really make sense in its case is rather degrading. If "uncanny valley" itself refers to people attempting an extreme realistic look, but when talking about it most people just don't like the ODers of "the uncanny valley community" (what even is this term?). then why refer to the entire community like they're ODers? Why not call only the people ODing as what they are- online daters? Why not refer to the sub groups by what they are instead of branching them for a loosely related art style that's easier to attack? Attacking an art style is kind of rude in itself, but when most of these sub-communities don't even like each other it's not really useful to refer to them as one...

I honestly get fed up with the weekly death threats at this point - and they're made to me solely because I drew some stylistic anime-insp faces with decorative makeup on over a year ago. They're even offsale and barely used (only like 6ish games have my permission at this point) so it's impressive that they're even finding my stuff. The most common base insult is "ODer" just because I made these custom faces, though. For artwork that does not promote or depict online dating, I get called an online dater. This is how much trying to attack the 'uncanny valley community" (which isn't a community, and of which I'm not even part of) is useless. No one knows what they're talking about.

TL;DR: Call them by what they are- "drag queen" or "insta-mimic" or "album cover creators" or whatever. Or "ODer", if they actually online date. The "uncanny valley community" isn't a branched community and most people in it are tired of being referred to it as one thing, or as a thing in the first place when it's by definition the art style but only used to target the minority ODers who share the art style (and then the non-ODers get thrown in as "ODers" because the term is being used as a general thing).