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Copyright issues aside, the community’s ire was aroused when a support ticket received a response stating that the ages of the characters were not in question, but rather whether or not the piece possessed any artistic merit as subjectively judged by LiveJournal staff. Users protested that LiveJournal has no right to judge the contents of their journals based on whether or not the LiveJournal staff believes it has merit and that depictions of sex do not automatically remove artistic merit, as proved by many works of recognized art and literature depicting eroticism. Rampant speculation has ensued that in these deletions and in the previous May incident, the deletions may have been a result of homophobia rather than an attempt to target pedophilic content. Without an official statement from LiveJournal, the community has been left to outraged conjecture and over 10,000 comments of protest in an attempt to gain a response from LiveJournal. This time, users have resorted to spam tactics.