First off, I'm annoyed that I even feel the need to type this out but some of you may actually be in the dark about this and may be wondering what's up with it. If you've seen those stupid "CB Tier List" videos by those burner YouTube accounts, this is regarding that.
TLDR; Consider the source, don't blindly believe anything that has zero evidence. The end.
If you're wondering who, what, where, when and how it all started, have fun with the following novel.
TLDR; Consider the source, don't blindly believe anything that has zero evidence. The end.
If you're wondering who, what, where, when and how it all started, have fun with the following novel.
The Old Accusation:
So what's happened and what's being said is nothing new. I've been accused of being an "art tracer" in which I am not. As one creep once said "my art's not even good enough to be traced." As rude as that was, I do feel like it has some merit to it. I'm already insecure af about my art as is and I know the quality of my work. It's all drawn in MSPaint with jagged edges if it's not smoothed out by a blur effect. Imo, it doesn't even seem like it could have been traced but whatever. The other art I do, and a lot of mind you is pixel art. It doesn't even make sense to call pixels traced.
My thoughts on tracing. It's scummy and lazy. It's only understandable if you are doing it in attempts to learn or even if you're simply tracing your own work which is actually something I've done. No biggie. If you're selling traced work though, yeah that's a bit messed up and I wouldn't recommend it nor condone it.
Do I think tracers deserve to be put on blast? No. It's honestly uncalled for but if anything, someone should encourage them to try to learn to draw by reference rather than basically erasing the majority of someone else's work, coloring over it and adding to it.
What originally started this accusation?
It started in like 2022 and it was a rumor that was started by a vindictive and petty user who is known to be unhinged and start crap with many other users, thus they are pretty well unliked and obviously I wont be name dropping anyone here.
They were however, someone who I once saw as a close friend and were in my community. I ignored several red flags with them, regretfully so and then when their unhingery started to cross the line in my community, they were reprehended for their actions. Instead of them working with us on adhering to the community guide lines and common decency, they retaliated and saw us trying to talk to them about it as a personal attack. Thus they started the first little Ralo hate group by telling people lies about me, the aforementioned tracing accusations and that I "gaslight my community". Why? Again, because my partner A and I DMd them that what they were doing was inappropriate.
This accusation in recent times
Now it's being said by the infamous doxxing group. Most of you already know who they are but for those of you who don't, this entry and information is mainly for you. This group is known to harass, stalk and obviously doxx people, myself included. First and foremost, take a moment to consider the source. What does that mean? It means, how credible is the source that is putting out these accusations. For one, those YouTube videos aren't even from legit accounts, they're burner accounts for a reason, just like all of their Gaia profiles. It's because they're trouble makers that are constantly getting banned.
Secondly, where the crap is the evidence of any of this? What's that? There is none? Wow, what a shocker. People, please, when there's zero evidence of accusations, please take it with a grain of salt, if even that. If you blindly believe things like this after these 3 facts, has zero evidence, the source (those accusing) is proven to be untrustworthy, and the simple fact that they are clearly harassing and doxxing people.
How can anyone in their right mind trust someone doing that? If so, it makes you look bad and it's proving that you are incredibly ignorant and you're blatantly supporting these toxic and harmful groups if you buy into them after all that.
If you've simply just heard the rumors and are unaware of how that group is, I'd say to just consider thinking more logically, not just for your own good, but for those around you because it's harmful towards the victims of all this. It's just spreads more hate, ignorance and lies.
Most importantly, why am I being targeted by this doxxing group?
They claim to hate me, "because I steal art." No, they don't even know that I do or don't. Fact is, there's no way to prove it. The real reason is because I'm someone who's made quite a name for myself because I'm one to call out bullshit and never tolerate any type of unhingery. I run several online communities and I always aim to keep them safe and drama free.
That being said, full disclosure, I also use to have a community blacklist. It had usernames of all those who are known to be trouble makers on Gaia and on Discord as well as their user IDs which is simply found on profile links. It also had links to screenshots of evidence against each individual. The evidence was links to offending threads, post history, threats being made, past harassment and so on. No one was doxxed and it was all just public information found on Gaia or Discord. Not that deep.
I put an end to the list because it was just too much of a headache and it started drama which no body wanted, understandably so. I admit that I never should have made it a public thing in my community and that mistake is solely on me. With all my mental issues, I sometimes tend to over complicate simple things. Ie, I simply just could have kept all those on the list just on my block list. Also me being me, I fancy the idea of people in the community being made aware of who to look out for so they don't get harassed themselves.
Obviously and unfortunately, it's too great of a task for just me or even a handful of people to take on so it's no longer a thing. Some people felt safe having the list while others did not. I did what I did and it is what it is. No body got hurt and my intentions where good, albeit over complicated.
A little something extra
The Doxxing:
As I've already mentioned, that group doxxes people and I was included last year and they're still using the pictures they stole from me. First off, the way they got my pictures was because they found my private Facebook account in which, I thought had everything set to private, but Facebook being Facebook has broken settings to where if you set something to private, you need to do it more than once for it to actually work. It's really ******** dumb and dumb s**t like that leads to things like this. Though I think it's set up correctly now.
Anyways, I think that just about covers it. In closing though, I'd like to add one thing. If someone seems like a decent person and you become concerned about some sort of accusations that have no proof, you can just reach out and try to talk things out with them instead of just blocking them and disregarding them over some sort of petty bias. It happens and I understand as I've clearly done that myself. No one's perfect I get it but lets just try to do better for ourselves and those around us. Something like that really can go along way. I've lost good friends over things like this and it does hurt.
Lastly, please do not engage with this kind of harassment, even by means of making threads talking about it because it only spreads it further, just block, report if you like and carry on as usual.
Thank you for reading my ramble and remember to follow your intuition.
So what's happened and what's being said is nothing new. I've been accused of being an "art tracer" in which I am not. As one creep once said "my art's not even good enough to be traced." As rude as that was, I do feel like it has some merit to it. I'm already insecure af about my art as is and I know the quality of my work. It's all drawn in MSPaint with jagged edges if it's not smoothed out by a blur effect. Imo, it doesn't even seem like it could have been traced but whatever. The other art I do, and a lot of mind you is pixel art. It doesn't even make sense to call pixels traced.
My thoughts on tracing. It's scummy and lazy. It's only understandable if you are doing it in attempts to learn or even if you're simply tracing your own work which is actually something I've done. No biggie. If you're selling traced work though, yeah that's a bit messed up and I wouldn't recommend it nor condone it.
Do I think tracers deserve to be put on blast? No. It's honestly uncalled for but if anything, someone should encourage them to try to learn to draw by reference rather than basically erasing the majority of someone else's work, coloring over it and adding to it.
What originally started this accusation?
It started in like 2022 and it was a rumor that was started by a vindictive and petty user who is known to be unhinged and start crap with many other users, thus they are pretty well unliked and obviously I wont be name dropping anyone here.
They were however, someone who I once saw as a close friend and were in my community. I ignored several red flags with them, regretfully so and then when their unhingery started to cross the line in my community, they were reprehended for their actions. Instead of them working with us on adhering to the community guide lines and common decency, they retaliated and saw us trying to talk to them about it as a personal attack. Thus they started the first little Ralo hate group by telling people lies about me, the aforementioned tracing accusations and that I "gaslight my community". Why? Again, because my partner A and I DMd them that what they were doing was inappropriate.
This accusation in recent times
Now it's being said by the infamous doxxing group. Most of you already know who they are but for those of you who don't, this entry and information is mainly for you. This group is known to harass, stalk and obviously doxx people, myself included. First and foremost, take a moment to consider the source. What does that mean? It means, how credible is the source that is putting out these accusations. For one, those YouTube videos aren't even from legit accounts, they're burner accounts for a reason, just like all of their Gaia profiles. It's because they're trouble makers that are constantly getting banned.
Secondly, where the crap is the evidence of any of this? What's that? There is none? Wow, what a shocker. People, please, when there's zero evidence of accusations, please take it with a grain of salt, if even that. If you blindly believe things like this after these 3 facts, has zero evidence, the source (those accusing) is proven to be untrustworthy, and the simple fact that they are clearly harassing and doxxing people.
How can anyone in their right mind trust someone doing that? If so, it makes you look bad and it's proving that you are incredibly ignorant and you're blatantly supporting these toxic and harmful groups if you buy into them after all that.
If you've simply just heard the rumors and are unaware of how that group is, I'd say to just consider thinking more logically, not just for your own good, but for those around you because it's harmful towards the victims of all this. It's just spreads more hate, ignorance and lies.
Most importantly, why am I being targeted by this doxxing group?
They claim to hate me, "because I steal art." No, they don't even know that I do or don't. Fact is, there's no way to prove it. The real reason is because I'm someone who's made quite a name for myself because I'm one to call out bullshit and never tolerate any type of unhingery. I run several online communities and I always aim to keep them safe and drama free.
That being said, full disclosure, I also use to have a community blacklist. It had usernames of all those who are known to be trouble makers on Gaia and on Discord as well as their user IDs which is simply found on profile links. It also had links to screenshots of evidence against each individual. The evidence was links to offending threads, post history, threats being made, past harassment and so on. No one was doxxed and it was all just public information found on Gaia or Discord. Not that deep.
I put an end to the list because it was just too much of a headache and it started drama which no body wanted, understandably so. I admit that I never should have made it a public thing in my community and that mistake is solely on me. With all my mental issues, I sometimes tend to over complicate simple things. Ie, I simply just could have kept all those on the list just on my block list. Also me being me, I fancy the idea of people in the community being made aware of who to look out for so they don't get harassed themselves.
Obviously and unfortunately, it's too great of a task for just me or even a handful of people to take on so it's no longer a thing. Some people felt safe having the list while others did not. I did what I did and it is what it is. No body got hurt and my intentions where good, albeit over complicated.
A little something extra
While I'm on the topic, I'm going to admit something else about myself. I did add one person to the list, possibly without evidence as a bias response. Another person who I thought I could trust told me about this individual and had some heavy accusations against them. Since I trusted this person, I added them and blocked them without a second thought. Since I and that person parted ways last year, I've been rethinking about having blocked that person but I just didn't as I didn't care to think about it much. Though yesterday when another friend got upset with me, over that blocked person, I decided to take them off my ignored list.
If you know who it was, or if you are that person, it's nothing personal, I was just dumb, very dumb for trusting that person and blocking you the way I did. I'm not going to beat myself up though because I understand why I did it, it's because I trusted that person who I thought was a friend. Anyways, I see nothing obviously red flagy about the person I unblocked yet and I have no real beef with them so bygones imo.
If you know who it was, or if you are that person, it's nothing personal, I was just dumb, very dumb for trusting that person and blocking you the way I did. I'm not going to beat myself up though because I understand why I did it, it's because I trusted that person who I thought was a friend. Anyways, I see nothing obviously red flagy about the person I unblocked yet and I have no real beef with them so bygones imo.
The Doxxing:
As I've already mentioned, that group doxxes people and I was included last year and they're still using the pictures they stole from me. First off, the way they got my pictures was because they found my private Facebook account in which, I thought had everything set to private, but Facebook being Facebook has broken settings to where if you set something to private, you need to do it more than once for it to actually work. It's really ******** dumb and dumb s**t like that leads to things like this. Though I think it's set up correctly now.
Anyways, I think that just about covers it. In closing though, I'd like to add one thing. If someone seems like a decent person and you become concerned about some sort of accusations that have no proof, you can just reach out and try to talk things out with them instead of just blocking them and disregarding them over some sort of petty bias. It happens and I understand as I've clearly done that myself. No one's perfect I get it but lets just try to do better for ourselves and those around us. Something like that really can go along way. I've lost good friends over things like this and it does hurt.
Lastly, please do not engage with this kind of harassment, even by means of making threads talking about it because it only spreads it further, just block, report if you like and carry on as usual.
Thank you for reading my ramble and remember to follow your intuition.
