Hosting almost 4 million images as of January 2024, the website is owned by Jan "Varka" Mulders, who is also the CEO of sex toy manufacturer Bad Dragon. e621 also maintains a safe for work (SFW) mirror site called e926, which runs on the same servers and thus maintains the same adults-only restriction e621 has. e621 is among the most-visited furry websites, alongside the art community FurAffinity.
Overview
e621 is a furry-themed booru-style imageboard: a gallery in which images, largely digital art, 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.[1][2][3] In this way, users can utilize the tagging function to search for artwork containing particular fetishes or kinks.[4] 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").[5][6][7]
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.[‡ 2]
As of January 2024, e621 had almost 4 million images.[1] The website is owned by Jan "Varka" Mulders, who is also the CEO of sex toy manufacturer Bad Dragon.[8] 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.[9] 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.
Age verification law; possible shutdown
On May 13, 2025, a new age verification law passed in e621's home state of Arizona was signed by state governor Katie Hobbs, throwing the website's future into doubt, forcing the website to comply, relocate, or shut down entirely once it takes effect, which would be 90 days after the legislature adjourns for the year.[10][11][12] The 57th 1st Regular Session of the Arizona State Legislature adjourned on June 27, 2025, meaning that the general effective date of the law is September 26, 2025.
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.[13]
e621 is among the most-visited furry websites, alongside FurAffinity.[1][15] 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.[16]
↑ Required to upload content, view blacklisted content, edit the wiki and content tags, and post comments, "blips", and forum posts.
↑ The most common pronunciations of the site's name are "ee-six-two-one" and "ee-six-twenty-one" (likewise, "ee-nine-two-six" and "ee-nine-twenty-six" for e926), though according to one of the site's administrators, "The proper way is ee-six-two-one. Sounding out each letter and number."[‡ 1] Collectively, both sites may also be referred to simply as eSix or e6.
↑ Arčon, Artur Quaglio (2020). "Olhar exploratório sobre a subcultura furry no Brasil"[Exploratory look at the furry subculture in Brazil]. Revista Iniciacom (Brazilian Journal of Scientific Initiation in Communication) (in Portuguese). 9 (1). Brazilian Society for Interdisciplinary Communication Studies: 1. Retrieved August 24, 2024.
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