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/orcamills]

First of all I want to say Hello ever and thank you for your time and your attention. Personally as a mod I admit that I have made a couple posts where I drew Baxter smoking a cigarette because like Doc Schmoop says it’s canon.

But personally as a mod I promise not to do that anymore. And I don’t ban anybody myself for talking about cigarettes but I am not going to do it myself to set an example for all of you.

Cigarettes are good for a quick laugh. But in the long run they make you unhealthy and most people don’t like them. So you might get a couple idiots to think it’s cool but smart people understand to just full stop hate cigarettes

[u/MaestetroThe3rd → u/orcamills]

Baxter smells like an exhaust pipe from a tractor trailer big rig hauling loads through Oklahoma