- Best Known for the Fanservice: Despite being considered among English-speaking communities as a Japanese equivalent of DeviantArt, Pixiv has garnered a good amount of attention for the fact that unlike DeviantArt, it permits users to post and distribute hardcore pornography (though it does have to conform to Japan's censorship policies, which some straight up disregarded).
- Broken Base:
- A major one exists over the practice of sharing artwork found on Pixiv (e.g. posting them directly on social media rather than linking to the corresponding pages on Pixiv, using them as icons/avatars), especially without permission. Some folks, especially artists, view this as an act of disrespect for the artist unless the artist explicitly provides permission; indeed, many artists have an explicit "don't reproduce my artwork" warning on their profiles and some have outright resigned from publicly distributing their art because of users reposting their art without permission, and the Online Fanarts Protection
page exists to warn users against unauthorized redistribution of art. Some others, mostly those who don't produce art, see nothing wrong with the practice as long as the artist is credited, arguing that artists who don't want their art being spread beyond their control shouldn't be uploading it in the first place and point out that on some forms of social media, Pixiv links don't preview and therefore are worthless by themselves to use. Any sort of discussion on this topic between those with conflicting opinions goes nowhere at best and leads to insults at worst, with artists being seen as Attention Whores for wanting their artwork credited and fans being seen as Ungrateful Bastards. - Another one is about the genitalia censorship. The practice of keeping the genitalia uncensored there calls for massive negative attention from other artists and fans alike, some of artists even outright criticised those who did not add any censorship to the genitalia and wanted them out of the website. At worse, when Flame War breaks out, there are several insults, with the artists who follow the censorship practice being seen as hypocritical for making pornographic images but censoring them despite being for adults only, while artists who keep them uncensored being seen as disgusting creeps who are obsessed with sex. It doesn't help pixiv themselves sometimes do remove uncensored porn artwork.
- As with other art platform, the usage of AI has become a battlefield that has started because Pixiv made a compromise that AI images can stay but will be labelled as such. Some of the main points of contention include the ethics of using such apps, the quality of the images and the oversaturation which makes searching for art more difficult.
- A major one exists over the practice of sharing artwork found on Pixiv (e.g. posting them directly on social media rather than linking to the corresponding pages on Pixiv, using them as icons/avatars), especially without permission. Some folks, especially artists, view this as an act of disrespect for the artist unless the artist explicitly provides permission; indeed, many artists have an explicit "don't reproduce my artwork" warning on their profiles and some have outright resigned from publicly distributing their art because of users reposting their art without permission, and the Online Fanarts Protection
- Fandom Rivalry: Kind of, in terms of its fans and DeviantArt's and normally about which is better. Lately, artists with banned artwork from DeviantArt will often move to Pixiv for more artistic freedom as well as not having to deal with underage users reporting artwork that they were not meant to see at all, something that has been cited as a major problem with DeviantArt censorship.
- Portmanteau Couple Name: Dozens of tags for any two Touhou characters such as ReiMari, MariAri, and RemiSaki
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