It's been said here over 9000 times, but Heyuri isn't a "retro" site or attempting to "emulate the past". It's heavily inspired by ye web of olde, but it isn't a site that blindly bans things simply because they're "contemporary" - whoever told you that was mistaken!

Certain overused memes (wojak/pepe/rage faces/etc.), stock troll phrases ("cringe", "based", "seethe"), and lame behaviors are b& under Rule 8, but that has more to do with the kind of site culture we want to cultivate here - not how new things are. Rule 8 is not the "everything after [insert year] = B&" rule

AI-generated material - which kaguya and other staff-san had repeatedly stated was allowed on Heyuri since such a concept has existed - was brought up at the most recent townhall (July) as there had been a few complaints like your own. After discussing it as a community, this was the collective conclusion we came to: On the image-dumping boards (/c/, /h/, /l/, and /s/), AI-generated imagery will only be allowed in threads dedicated to AI pics. This does not apply to Off-Topic, which has no limits on AI-generated imagery. ( Summary of changes: https://wiki.heyuri.net/index.php?title=Heyuri#12th_Townhall , townhall logs: https://up.heyuri.net/src/4593.txt - relevant section starts at [2025-07-05 23:15:29] )

You can see this change referenced on the rules page ( https://www.heyuri.net/index.php?p=rules ) under the relevant board sections liek this: AI-generated images are only allowed if the OP is also AI-generated. That doesn't mean we'll allow any and all non-Heyurian/non-Japanese-generated material to crap up Heyuri, but the only thing even remotely close to that here is the one you reposted... which I guarantee would have been reposted all over early 4chan ad nauseam had the video existed back then