I always thought that the policy on the word "Nudity" or "Censored" in the thumbnails was to state that you couldn't just obscure the nudity with the word, something that was a somewhat common practice prior to this policy.  It seems illogical to make the words themselves forbidden.

As to why I might want to make such a thumbnail rather than use the generic "Content Advisory" icon, perhaps I want to have an identifiable "content advisory" icon, which I believe is what the artist in question was trying to do.  Much like many artists sign their names or add a logo to their icons to make them more identifiable as their particular art, I might want to do that for a thumbnail.  That way, if I cannot make a meaningful thumbnail without including any of the nudity from an image, I could at least brand it with my own personalized "content advisory" thumbnail.  If I had made a similar icon that merely stated "Content Advisory" rather than "Nudity" or "Censored", would that be allowed under this logic?  Or is any such text disallowed? 

For that matter, if I uploaded an image that was nothing but the word "Nudity" and allowed the site to generate an automatic thumbnail, (i.e. it would just scale the word down to the 200x200 box), would such an image be pulled for a thumbnail violation?

Dan among Den