help:upload rules (locked)
All uploads to Danbooru are subject to the following upload rules. Uploads that break these rules may be deleted.
Prohibited Content
You may not upload any of the following to Danbooru:
- Off-topic content (see below).
- Poorly drawn content.
- Paid rewards.
- Commercially licensed anime or manga.
- Real photos of any person under the age of 18.
- Works containing third-party watermarks (unless the unwatermarked picture is not available anywhere).
- Works upscaled or downscaled by third parties, including Waifu2x upscales (unless the original picture is not available anywhere).
- Hard translations to non-English languages (hard-translated (non-english)). The only exception is posts for which the original is not available anywhere.
- Third-party edits that substantially alter the content of the image, such as nude filters, headshops, fake translations, or meme or joke edits.
- Low effort or unoriginal memes, such as motivators (if not done by the original artist).
- Fully AI-generated art with no human input aside from prompting.
Off-Topic Content
Danbooru is primarily for anime-style or anime-related artwork. "Anime-related" is a broad term that includes anime, manga, videogames, original artwork, and other similar material.
The following things are considered off-topic:
- Real life pornographic photos or videos, such as Western porn actresses or Japanese JAV idols.
- Real life photos that have nothing to do with anime, manga, or videogames.
- Low effort or unoriginal memes.
Borderline Content
The following things are not strictly against the rules, but they have a much higher chance of being deleted than normal. Uploaders should be careful about uploading these things, and approvers should be careful about approving them.
- Extreme fetish content. This includes extreme guro, scat, bestiality, vore, "hyper" fetishism (monstrously large body parts), diaper fetishism, and other extreme or unusual fetishes.
- AI-assisted content. This includes works that were initially generated by AI but were considerably retouched by human effort.
- If you are unsure if your post qualifies as either AI-generated or AI-assisted, you can try asking in Danbooru topic #22285.
- Explicit furry content.
- 3D porn or SFM porn.
- Cosplay photos.
- Hard-translated comics.
- Anime screenshots.
- Third-party edits not in the "Prohibited Content" section above.
- Duplicates.
- Bad anatomy.