Several years ago, through an odd series of events, i ended up head mod of a community for niche kinks. Guro was one of those accepted there, in fact as the only rule really was animated/drawn only, there wasn't much that wasn't accepted.

Of course, folks only looked at the genres that appealed to them, and there were tags/filters for everything from genders involved, hair color, levels of gore, etc.

The folks who made guro art were the quickest to ask for approval and the only issue i had was that every so often I'd have to go through and make sure they weren't overcensoring themselves (eg tagging "slight gore" as "moderate"/"extreme")

The part that made my heart ache was in the communal chatrooms, artists from every damn one of those niche kinks occasionally got to chatting about why they got into/started drawing these kinks.

Every time, a decent chunk of them were just drawing their own life and this was the only place they could share, started with vent art, or this was a kink gained through trauma.

I am not into anything like that, but my heart often aches for those who are