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E621 (website)

e621 is a furry-themed booru-style imageboard and art archive website launched on February 10, 2007. It is primarily known for hosting pornographic furry content.

Name
E621 is the E number for monosodium glutamate, a flavor enhancer. Dictionary.com proposes that the website was named after this as a reference to its content being "tasty"; the online dictionary website also notes that e621's safe for work mirror website, e926, is the E number for the bleaching agent chlorine dioxide, which they state is perhaps a "reference to figurative eye bleach". ==Overview==
Overview
that uses a tag system for image categorization. e621 is a furry-themed booru-style imageboard: a gallery in which "posts" (uploads encompassing images, videos, and Adobe Flash files under the SWF format prior to the format's discontinuation), largely digital art images, are categorized with tags. While e621 allows for both safe for work and not safe for work content, furry pornography—known as yiff—is the website's largest collection; it is also for what e621 is best known. In this way, users can utilize the tagging function to search for artwork containing particular fetishes or kinks. e621 also hosts other forms of artwork, such as kemonomimi, Pokémon, and ponies from the animated children's TV series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (the erotic art of which is known as clop). Over 82,469 posts on e621 were tagged My Little Pony by 2015; , the five most tagged characters on e621 are, in descending order, Twilight Sparkle with over 38,300 posts, Judy Hopps from Zootopia with over 37,600 posts, Fluttershy with over 30,700 posts, Rainbow Dash with over 29,600 posts, and Nick Wilde with over 28,900 posts. On March 5, 2020, e621 released its source code under the terms of the 2-clause BSD license. The site is a heavily-modified fork of the Danbooru anime-focused imageboard, and uses the Ruby on Rails framework. As of January 2024, e621 had almost 4 million posts. The website also contains a discussion forum and a wiki for its tags, as well as a safe for work (SFW) mirror site called e926. As of February 2025, AI-generated art or AI-assisted art is generally banned from being posted on e621 with exceptions for backgrounds, artwork that references, but does not directly use, AI-generated content, and for audio for video posts. AI-assisted and AI-generated content is now instead hosted on the sister site e6ai.net. ==Website blocks==
Website blocks
On December 21, 2023, access to e621 was blocked in Russia by the Russian censorship agency Roskomnadzor. Officially, this was due to the site allegedly hosting numerous pornographic illustrations depicting minors. On January 1, 2024, e621 blocked access to itself from IP addresses originating in the U.S. state of North Carolina following the passing of the Pornography Age Verification Enforcement (PAVE) Act, which requires pornographic websites to verify a user's age. ==Popularity==
Popularity
e621 is among the most-visited furry websites, alongside FurAffinity. A 2017 survey of attendees at Anthrocon—an annual furry convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—conducted by the International Anthropomorphic Research Project found that e621 was the 8th most-visited "furry-themed" website listed by participants. ==See also==
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