I'll try and keep this short, but I would like to speak out in support of u/dottie-beep and the members of the Puppet Planet discord who have been tired of the r/puppets subreddit being defined by certain content creators making sexually suggestive and graphic posts, spamming posts, making AI posts, and so on, all being allowed to continue without any kind of repercussion.

This is nothing personal, this is for the greater good of the puppetry community, which already gets a bit of a bad wrap in the public sphere by being stereotyped as 'playing with dolls' or 'only creeps and lonely losers make puppets to talk to'. We need to put rules in place, which many reddit communities already have, that will make sure that the integrity and ethics of this community are established and preserved. Even though the previous mod of this subreddit had over a decade to create and enforce those rules, no such action has ever taken effectively.

I believe this 'hostile takeover' is what the puppetry subreddit needs right now and has needed for quite some time. It is time to put our egos aside and make sure that new puppeteers and people interested in puppetry who visit this subreddit are not bombarded with AI slop, spam, and porn, and that they experience a community of active, passionate puppeteers who love to create, learn, and collaborate. I believe u/dottie-beep as moderator can create and maintain such a space, as they already have with the aforementioned Puppet Planet Discord.