Viva La Resistance 2

*Viva La Resistance 2 (not an official name) is a revolt against the new rules which started on Oct 8 2021*

# Timeline

## A background story

r/SMG4 is a place where memes and art works balance each other out

Art works in r/SMG4 had a special tradition which people included themselves in the art they made

Many artists (especially u/Zealos5, u/TheCoder55 and many others) tend to include OCs (themselves) in their arts

Which led to other artists following suit, ending in a massive Original Contents

Memes in the other hand, kept getting "*unfunnier and unoriginal*" as u/Critical\_Mass69 kept stating

The subreddit users wanted low effort and "cringe" posts to be removed which led to complaints to moderators asking them to remove "low effort cringe"

But the moderators established a rule which stated that **"All art with OCs in them are to be removed"**

The artists were discouraged by this rule, which banned their original art altogether

## New rules

on Oct 8th 12:39PM(EST) 2021, the new moderator, vilcis uploaded a new rule

This caused a massive revolt on the sub after 20 hours

Than a mod named u/ZZZaratee posted about the rule Which had negative responses

    The post of course was about the mods not changing the rules

    Then a number of memes flooded the subreddit, started by u/Iraq\_germany (The meme in question) and other people followed suit (example 1, example2,example 3, example 4,example 5, example 6)

This minor event ended after u/ZZZaratee revised the rules to be more specific and the mods of r/SMG4 removed all the posts related to them

The "No slightly NSFW" rule is still exists, ~~but the OC character ban rule has been gradually lifted~~

## The OC ban rule still stays

u/Viclis stated on this post that the rule will be fixed for r/SMG4

"*As for number 2, **apologies if I wasn't direct on that enough**, let's make it more direct then.*

*The rule is to be against these types of artwork/fanfics/stories/etc. where either **their ocs are mostly the focus, or there is an obvious self-insert**. This subreddit is about smg4, the fact that people were upset about something that has nothing to do with smg4 being discouraged from a subreddit about smg4, just makes no sense to me. This is a common rule on many subreddits, because there is one common topic to be discussed here. **We have to put a limit** somewhere before people **go too far and just start posting stories of their ocs featuring tari for like 2 seconds** or whatnot."*

This however, was not true

The moderators kept removing posts which obeyed their stricter rules which u/TheCoder55 stated in his rant post against the new rules

*"Due to the rule change that happened yesterday, I thought of stopping making slide-comics in this sub, but right as I was about to do it, Zarate remade the rules, so I thought of leaving later.*

*Until I noticed the **posts of my friend kept on getting removed for no reasons** at all.*

*This is something that annoys a lot of content creators, including me and makes me sick of the abusive rules of this subreddit."*

## Censorship

The moderators kept removing all of the posts related to this matter

## The post gets unpinned

In an unspecific time in Oct 13, the mods of r/SMG4 unpinned the announcements of the new rules and restored the old one

This however doesn't mean that the ban is lifted

# The second outrage

## November

This problem has been forgotten for a while, until some posts containing constructive criticism about SMG4 got removed

The posts in question was not given any kind of explanation on why it was removed

It's against the community guidelines not to do so

on **November 10th 2021**, a lot of posts got removed. **specifically the ones who criticized about the meggy stream**

Posts regarding to this problem were made and removed, nevertheless, the moderators failed to remove all of it

on **November 11th 2021**, FM did announce that the situation is under control and will be reviewed

This led to **some users saying that the moderators were right on removing posts, and we shouldn't complain**

This sparked a strong tension between the moderators and the users

## January 2022

On January 22nd 2022, Subreddit Head mod FM posted a new rule about Banning posts about "certain users" Which was just about banning almost all meta posts. Backup via wayback machine

20 minutes later, famous subreddit user u/critical\_mass69 criticized about this rule [The post]

*This problem is still being continued, so check on this page everyday to get yourself informed*