Rangerphiles Against Gadget Erotica

Rangerphiles Against Gadget Erotica, also known as R.A.G.E., was a campaign by Rangerphiles (Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers fans) against adult art of Gadget Hackwrench. It was founded by Julie Bihn in 1998, around the same time as Rescue Our Animated Rangers.
== Reasons ==
The Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers fandom is unusual amongst online fandoms: While most fandoms see Rule 34 as a given and porn as part of every fandom and usually have a great deal of members who openly enjoy it, and some other fandoms even give the outward appearance of being about fan porn, the CDRR fandom ist amongst the very few who oppose porn. What makes it even more unusual is that this fandom disapproves of and resists pornography in spite of having a famously very attractive female lead character.
CDRR fan art started out as soon as personal Web pages became possible. Before there was the RRDatabase or even only the Internet Gadget Archive, they were the only way to publish fan art. Some individuals took the given opportunity and used such Web sites to publish pornographic drawings of Gadget.
This annoyed the Rangerphiles for four reasons:
* They saw it as inappropriate. For them, Gadget is a character, even one with surprisingly much character depth for a female cartoon character of her era. And not an object of lust.
* Posing for porn is out of character for her. She would never do that. Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers depicts her as rather modest. And the Rangerphiles are very strict when it comes to keeping the Rangers in character.
* Worse yet, pornographic depictions of Gadget are usually utterly off-model. She is shown having a human body with a pair of human breasts and human genitals, but with Gadget's usual head and tail attached. Again, as much as the episodes may vary in their faithfulness to the model sheets, the show clearly defies all of this.
* And worst of all, Gadget porn was often shamelessly plastered on the very frontpages of these Web sites with no content warning whatsoever. So when Rangerphiles thought they had discovered an interesting new Ranger-themed Web site, they opened it, just to be confronted with Gadget porn right away. And so was everyone else who was just interested in the show, be it people who fondly remembered it from when it was still on free TV (before September 1993), be it parents with cable who wanted to look up their kids' favorite cartoon and stumbled upon a list of CDRR themed links. The fans risked being perceived by the general public as a wretched hive of perverts when most of them were the exact opposite in reality.
In order to protest the rampant and unconcealed spreading of Gadget porn on the Web, Julie Bihn started Rangerphiles Against Gadget Erotica in 1998, a few months after the first and most of the time only CDRR message board, The Acorn Cafe, which has banned erotic and pornographic images from the very beginning. Its goal was mostly to raise awareness; it is not known whether R.A.G.E. has ever actively taken actions to have Gadget porn removed or whether these actions were successful.
== Official Statement ==
== Necessity nowadays ==
The aforementioned free Web sites with openly available, unprotected porn have disappeared from the Web or at least become very hard to find, now that link lists have become obsolete due to the arrival of search engines and most links being broken anyway. And while Rule 34 still applies to Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, the main place to upload Ranger porn nowadays is deviantART which protects it from the public eye.
R.A.G.E. itself has faded into obscurity and fandom history, but its ideals live on.
==References==
Category:Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
Category:1998