Big fan of the recent rise of silhouette use to circumvent censuring ❤️
Also I'm scared of what's coming, she's definitely biting bigger than she can chew rn and that desperation is gonna backfire at some point
With the phrase "recent rise" I can't help but point out they've been using the style to turn penises into lightsabers for years.
Jokes aside, it does make me interested in the timeline of censorship styles. Using negative space for legs and crotch does feel new, and it was certainly effective at getting past the censors while staying erotic. It reminds me of the flat use of space in screen printing, specifically
This famous Hokusai print. That's not exactly negative space, even if the flat shapes have an easily reversible figure-ground relationship. It's the first instance I've seen it but I wonder if it's the first ever, or if someone did it in a 17th century woodcut or a 60's acid jazz festival poster or something.
It's likewise interesting that the artist used a field of flowers, and the censors turned it into blank space. That's a case where the censors were driving the visual innovation, which has a whole history of its own. Like bloodless 4Kids dragon ball fights, or printing tentacle sex because it's clearly not a penis. Neat!