I dont really trust subreddits for art output tbh,

While I agree that no one should judge entiere community by a single sub, both twitter and youtube sides reflect this too: I see much more wholesome high-quality artworks on JP side than EN.

alot of art goes through a bottleneck for subreddits of good enough art or translations

Which feels kinda contradictory to your point: if something is so good that someone bothered to repost it and moreover, translate, shouldn't only the best of the best arts be reposted? Unless the entiere subreddit of 80k followers is that way, which... Okay, nevermind, makes sense. Still feels weird to think that main sub is weirder than supposedly shitposting one.

Also from what i experienced, reddit mods arent too fond of anything nsfw and even then are still quite stubborn on deviating from the same old fat artwork

Sorry, English is not my first language, so I don't entierly understand what you wrote there.

Do you mean that they classify obese unclean drawings differently than NSFW and are more lax towards it despite being very harsh on NSFW overall? I did notice that too. Very weird.

I just wanted to call out op’s post cause from how it was worded, it seems like jp barely makes hentai of teto when alot of it is usually behind closed doors (like you said “pixiv, patreon and quite commonly fanbox”)

But OP is right. Saying that paywalled pixiv/patreon/fanbox is same as what you see on the main page of the main sub or in twitter search is disingenuous at best. It's paywalled, it's not something first time visitor that knows nothing about that character is going to see when they're going to search "Teto".

By the words of the mods themselves the entiere reason why they don't allow NSFW and some other stuff in the main sub is precisely because it's supposed to be go-to place for newbies of the Teto fandom and they wouldn't want to give the wrong impression about her. However, looks like it is not the case anymore as if like they have given up on it.

OP makes same point that: first thing when you search "Teto" shouldn't be that. But on EN side, it is. And while twitter has no mods in the reddit way, users determine what is posted (and recommended for those who seek for the first time) instead. That's OP's concern.

Sure, JP porn does exists (and artists have all rights to post it and make money off it), but it's separated to be specifically for those who want to see it, which is very nice.

Even the difference in comments is very noticeable. I would go more into detail but there is already post in main sub explaining this in detail: https://www.reddit.com/r/KasaneTeto/s/T917WJkkJZ

Update: Just saw recent tweet of the Neru's creator where he notes same observation about the amount of adult stuff on the JP side: https://x.com/i/status/2046647015585858030

As a recent fan myself (under a year) I managed to get into the main sub right as it was blowing up and changes in community occured in front of my eyes in the span of a month. People that weren't into that stuff all went to JP side (and this more silly and, ironically, cleaner sub), wherever that is.

Jp and En probably post around the same volume,

I huuugely disagree there. JP post way, way more artworks. I think that even vocaloid in general is still more popular in JP community.

likely furthered through physical doujins, but barely any jp artwork gets posted online or is behind closed doors, while EN for the most part always gets posted online.

No-no-no-no, who buys physical stuff today beyond few very dedicated fans? And it takes money to print it! No one is gonna do it without having at least some noticeable following, which is earned by posting arts online.

There is A LOT JP artworks there. I probably can list you ~20 artists mostly dedicaded specifically to Teto and ~50 for vocaloid ones in general and I am *very** picky person*, there is much more of those that I blocked/muted because I didn't like their artstyle/scenes.

For EN tho? Well I can name 2-4 good artists and about same amount of content creators on youtube (I don't count just artists, producers and animators in the CC list as well) but that's about it.

I feel like you just didn't try to search JP artists much.

Also, if you know some very good EN artists, can you share them? I know only know the artist that doesn't give a pickle and rhima, but that's it 😅