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Originally Posted by cischiral=TLDR
Nolaf didn't find anything wrong with TF. From what I understood people who didn't know about TF and were bothered by it and who knew Nolaf personally or professionally started recognizing his TF work by his art style. Thus, from what I understand he is still fond of TF, and when he left, even suggested he would be lurking places (including these very forums) in continued but subtle participation. It just was him having art posted around was a bit of a personal and professional issue if people he knows and works with personally are starting to find his TF work by recognizing him by his style.
It is a very similar thing to what happened to Bones. Bones on these very forums suggested that even though he had stripped all his work off the internet as best as possible, was still open to doing TF commissions so long as the images weren't posted around on the net and things were kept on the down-low with strictly private correspondence. That was years ago so it may not be true any more. The point being when people like Nolaf and Bones disappear and try to strip their stuff from the internet, it isn't because they find something wrong with TF, it is usually because someone else, like say their boss, finds something wrong with TF and has started connecting them to their TF work online via their style or other subtle clues, which creates personal and professional problems for them IRL. They still love TF, and maybe even love you, it has just become a personal or professional liability for them to have their TF art up and about on the net and drawing attention.
The sad irony being if these people sucked as artists, they probably wouldn't have draw enough attention to create personal or professional problems and might still be doing TF stuff actively – though no one would care because in this hypothetical example it wouldn't be good. All good things must come to an end.
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But, according to what you just said here, it bothers people. I understand that to a lot of people it's a fetish, but does TF really bother people "outside" that much that popular artists have to totally give it up?
What I just posted was tl;dr, I know.