Let's talk about X real quick

Heyo!

So I don't like sandbagging new packs that come out, but this is important to talk about.

I've attached two pics, one is the version I posted to X, one is a different version that is still fully "worked up" through all the upscaling and editing I normally do to a pic. I've been experimenting a lot to see what the new algo on X tolerates. And the steamy Sabine red riding hood pic is how far I had to take post processing to get the pic through without any flags.

On one hand, it's a beautiful pic. On the other, I get that the details of Sabine's skin being obfuscated by steam and blur isn't ideal for a lot of you. And that's ok! It sucks that the new algo is so strict and I had to break up the details so much for it to pass muster with the new algo.

I had to darken the image, then I made Sabine's eyes glow so they would standout more in the steam. I had to add a lot of stream rising off the water. Which, in turn, made me change the background to more of an onsen for it to make more sense. I had to do a tilt shift, which is a gradient blur from the top right to the bottom left to blur out her butt details a bit for the algo. After all that, had to add a noise filter over it all before it passed.

I don't neccassarily mind the time just post processing like that takes? I'm limit testing right now and if I'm being honest I like flexing my photoshop abilities against everyone else in AI land is isn't going to be at the same proficiency and so just has to deal with the algo not being able to do anything about it. xP

But, it presents an issue where you guys won't always see what I originally intended a pic to be. Again, this is an edge case because I like the end product with the steam and onsen more, but that isn't always the case. So I suppose my question is should I just start uploading both versions of pics I make to the upscale packs? One I intended, and then the one I had to make a bunch of further edits to make it so X wouldn't flag it. I don't have an issue doing that, I save every step of my editing process from start to finish for every pic. But I just don't want to blow you guys up with multi-versions of every single pic. It won't be every pic, cause not every pic I make is a thong in a pool lol. But on the spiciers ones, would you guys appreciate both versions in the upscale packs I post?

And I just want to apologize for posting less on X lately. Like I said, I'm experimenting, practicing, limit testing what I need to do in order to keep posting as I always have. As much as it sucks, complaining about the changes does nothing. I'm in a unique position where I'm already good at editing and I can take advantage of my ability to stylize things in order to keep posting sultry style pics without tripping filters. So I need to keep at it and see what the new breakpoints are for getting flagged.

And I suppose that's it. Just a quick aside about the changes to X and what I'm doing to deal with it. : ) This does not effect the weekly NSFW packs at all btw. Those will continue to be what they've always been as I don't post those to X. (Other than a few pics here and there as a preview.)