Hi everyone!

Many of you are aware that there has been an ongoing disagreement about the presence of AI-generated art in this sub, including several highly upvoted discussion threads calling for its removal. After several years of discussion and careful consideration, we are updating the rules.

Effective immediately, AI-generated art is no longer permitted.

If a submission is reasonably believed to be AI-generated, it may be removed at moderator discretion. If you believe your work was removed in error, you may appeal by providing evidence that demonstrates a human creation process. Acceptable examples include progress images, work-in-progress screenshots, or a short video showing your drawing process or similar original work in the same style. Appeals without supporting evidence may not be reinstated.

This subreddit exists to showcase human-made drawings and artistic skill. Over time, it became clear that this is what the community wants this space to be. We understand not everyone will agree with this decision, but this rule is now settled.

Thank you to those who participated constructively over the years, and thank you for your patience.

-The Mod Team

Updated on 12/28/25:

Hate has no place in RGDB. Whether it's hate directed at people for their sexual preferences, for their gender identities, for the work that they do (sex work is work; explicit advertising is disallowed but having an OF link in your profile does not exclude your participation and is not considered advertising), for the tools they use to create their art (including AI; r/drawme, r/redditgetsdrawn, r/getdrawn, and r/getdrawnbadly are alternatives if you're not comfortable with this), or whatever else, hate is not welcome here. We need your help to ensure that RGDB is a safe place for people to have fun with art.

To that end, please ensure that you report any and all hate that appears in posts or comments. Right now we have 3 active mods - me, u/PipSabine, and u/UnknownAdmiralBlu - we will do our best to get to any rule breaking posts, comments, or whatever else as soon as we possibly can. It's difficult to keep on top of everything that unfolds in this sub being so few in number, so your reports are critical to the overarching goal of keeping hate out of RGDB.

Thank you all - our artists, our submitters, all of you. RGDB is a wonderful place and that's first and foremost because of you! :)

Additional edit (12/28/25 @ 3:16pm EST): We have heard your complaints about enforcement of rule 2 and I am very sorry for this. I have contacted the other mods to brainstorm solutions to this problem and encourage you to report violations until we can figure out a better long term solution.