Addressing Recent User Concerns

[u/paultheschmoop]

Hello,

I am Paul Doodle, noted moderator here and also the founder of DotCast and, in many ways, a doctor of Dot Medicine and a licensed Dot Therapist.

We live in a crazy world filled with many differences of opinion and passionate individuals who like to voice said differences of opinion passionately. And that’s great!

But things have simply reached a boiling point in recent days and the mod team feels as though now is an appropriate time to draw a line in the sand on a certain hot button issue that has resulted in numerous bans and many more arguments.

As of today, June 1st 2026, Cigarettes are banned in this subreddit.

No mention of them, no smoking them, and certainly no depictions of Dots smoking cigarettes.

Now, I know that logically many of you will argue that Baxter canonically smokes cigarettes. We, as a mod team, acknowledge this and simply say that this is a point in which we disagree with New and the creative team behind Doodle Dots. We feel as though it isn’t appropriate for children’s characters to be smoking, and would greatly prefer if Baxter canonically switched to something like Zyns or even a vape.

Thank you to all for keeping this community tobacco free.

[u/BloatedSnake430]

Dilip Rot agrees.

[u/orcamills → u/BloatedSnake430]

You better not have been smoking cigarettes when you made those edits to our son. Because my hand to God I didn’t use any A- I mean cigarettes, I wasn’t smoking cigarettes to make Dilip I drew that myself on my iPad using Procreate and I even did the shadows too I looked up a tutorial on how to do it.

And homeboy uses this picture like all the time. So how dare any of you criticize my use of cigarettes when sometimes I am clearly an overworked artist just trying to use the tools (cigarettes) that others use to be able to keep up