GH Litter Discussion 2022

[jayfeather100]

My take on oddity’s kitty!
He did surprise me a bit when I first saw him, I can see why people would be triggered by him.
Personally I really love him, I think he’s a sweet little cat and I love love the inspiration behind him!
I also like the transparentness you added to him, it’s super cool and unique that u can’t see quite through him.
I love his name btw it’s really catchy and it fits him haha.

With all that said I really hope this means chicken smoothie staff can look into a censoring feature
of course people will have to see the pet a few times to activate the censor, there’s no way around that tbh.
Infact my almost 5 years on this site (holy) I’ve seen people say how some pets make them uncomfortable and I think that’s perfectly okay.
Even with their opinion the pet is still made again and again which again is perfectly fine because everyone has different opinions and you can’t possibly tune to them all. BUT I do think this means a on-site censoring feature really needs to be looked into.
I love this site and a lot of other people do too and it’s a safe place to lots. I think people being scared to browse the site is sad and I hope y’all can eventually do something to change that.

Now I wanted to say good job to all the GHs !! You guys have been doing amazing and I love the cats so far <33

[Oddity-Lad]

I think it's rlly pretty! I'm not too big a fan of body horror stuff, but it looks really nice.

My only complaint is that it's not transparent enough to look good with terrarium stuff. Oh well. Still amazing how much you were able to put into it!

I had considered going for more transparency and just not including the back layer of the body but I decided to favor vibrancy. If there was an easy way to have the super vibrant mint and still have them be see through I totally would've taken that route.




After this I don't see myself being really active on this thread anymore. I'm a super anxious person and this cat was a way for me to process and celebrate my own traumas and evidently the best way to handle trauma and uncomfortable content is to never look at it again so I will not be engaging in this discussion because alas it's triggering my anxiety and I am QUITE upset. I'll still do my stamps however I don't really see myself going past the front page. If there are any recommendations for the Salmon festival next year please do PM me so I can write them down as they likely won't be seen by me here <3

And friendly reminder I will trade anything in my extra pets group 1:1 for unwanted or extra Oozrook outcomes. I have a hoard of them waaay at the bottom of my groups where they'll be safe and out of the eye of the public.

[GreatWhiteDragon_1]

If you find an outcome disturbing, you can use Adblocker, right click the image, and block in the same manner that you’d block an ad. There are several other pets on the site that could be classed as triggering/body horror/etc., but that’s another topic altogether.

Thanks for bringing that option up! It's going to be helpful for at least avoiding that outcome generally -- but what about dress-ups of it? Am I going to be getting blindsided every time someone has one of them in their sig with some kind of item attached because the adblocker doesn't recognize the base element as the one I've blocked?

I do appreciate this being brought up. I did however thoroughly confirm with admin that Oozrook didn't break any CS art rules in regards to body horror and just generally being frightening and they did pass every time.

While that's perfectly fine, Staff is by no means the end-all-be-all of what's going to be triggering or disturbing for people. I think it's impossible for a small group to be able to accurately judge what's going to be a potential issue. It doesn't break rules, but the fact remains that it is disturbing to some users, and I feel that should be taken into account.

For me personally they fall into a category of natural deformities much like the two faced cow or any animal or even human with extra limbs. Which though can be frightening, largely comes from a place of being uncomfortable over something we don't understand and isn't really body horror.

This is a false equivalency. We are not discussing natural deformities, nor people with extra limbs: we are discussing a piece of art that verges on body horror, most specifically eye horror/trauma (which is something that I have significant problems with generally, and which this particular piece of art sets off). I have no issues with natural deformities or animal or human mutations -- in point of fact, I'd be delighted to own a polydactyl cat someday (I love their mittens): I have issues coming across a piece of art with no warning that sets off my eye trauma discomfort.

I will also add that Oozrook has no body, no bones, no muscles, and can therefore take on whatever shape they wish, a cat with ten legs, sure. A biblically accurate cat that's just a mass of eyes and wings, not out of the realm of possibility.

Again, this is not the issue being discussed. The issue is that the image presently on CS utilized for this specific pet outcome sets off the eye trauma/horror discomfort response for some users, including myself. If Oozrook were a biblically accurate cat that's just a mass of wings and eyes, we could discuss that -- but it's not.

As a queer man I have also grown up knowing my very existence disturbs people and makes them uncomfortable so I do try to be wholly myself whenever I can and introducing my first pet to Chicken Smoothie is such a symbolic point in my life I really didn't want to do what I thought people would find comfortable, I wanted to do something that would show people who I am, and I do apologize if that isn't palettable.

Queer people are not a monolith. I myself am a queer non-binary person, and I find the image of this cat disturbing not because of what it represents, but because of a very specific aspect of the art in the eye where the faces split. It isn't about being "palatable," it's about being courteous to people with triggers or major discomforts surrounding body horror with eye trauma, which is an extremely common trigger.

My intention is not to be confrontational, and I by no means intend to invalidate, dismiss, or minimize Oozrook's importance to you as the artist -- I absolutely respect how much care and thought and effort went into its creation! But my concern is that eye horror is a common trigger for people -- myself included -- and this is a public site widely used by kids and teenagers which does not currently support an option to filter out pets that they find disturbing: if they're triggered by the eye horror aspect of this outcome, they have no recourse except to leave the site.

All of this and over a pixel pet... it's quite a bit harsh, yes? True, some will be triggered, but the comparisons to what he wanted to do for his first pet don't even come close to needing this rhetoric of a facsimile to have such negative connotations. Not all are triggered. Not all want to hoard this odd kitty. Perhaps make it a bit less harsh of a tone and just appreciate this oddity for what it is... something new. When I read what another wrote about it, I had no idea what Reuniclus? was and kept thinking homunculus.

[cry]

I feel like because of that one dressup, one cat could have two heads/cerberus cat mayhaps?

oh nice, i was right!

[GreatWhiteDragon_1]

I feel like because of that one dressup, one cat could have two heads/cerberus cat mayhaps?

oh nice, i was right!

I like that analogy! Cerebercat?

[lucky333123]

If anyone has figured out which kitty is mine, I would love to hear your thoughts. rainforest

[Sui]

I'm really enjoying the uniqueness of Oozrook. Not many of the outcomes in this litter have really caught my eye (not saying they're bad, just not exactly for me), so this gooey cat is easily my favourite so far.

(Had a proper look through the thread, and I'm honestly surprised over just how childish some people are acting over the fact that an online cartoon cat made them a little uncomfortable.)

[cafemochi]

If anyone has figured out which kitty is mine, I would love to hear your thoughts. rainforest

Is this your kitty lucky? :00 i just feel like it matches your pfp but i could be wrong haha. Either way its very cute!

[lucky333123]

If anyone has figured out which kitty is mine, I would love to hear your thoughts. rainforest

Is this your kitty lucky? :00 i just feel like it matches your pfp but i could be wrong haha. Either way its very cute!

Why do you think this is my kitty? I have left out another clue that will help ya'll figure things out.

[catmother456]

Lucky’s typical theme seemed to be based n mythology so I’m thinking this year it is not. Your cats tend to be primarily 2 colors, and the last 3 were pps. Perhaps Lucky’s kitty is this adorable day 18 kitty


Pet's name: 18