Gremlin

----Presenting:---- ݁₊ ⊹ .📽 ᐟ My RGB cosplay ˋ.📽 ⊹ ݁₊

Because I wanna share my first time goofing around as this goof outside :D joy

Photos by: @/hera_jpg (Instagram)

What a hell of week that was- hell being entirely the right word. Celebrating my survival of it with the final update for Chapter Six of Into the Inkwell! Thank you so much to everyone who has sent such kind messages to keep me here. I love you all so much.

If you havent heard, @modmad the creator of the property of hate (one of my faborite webcomics ever) has been getting incessant hate mail for over a year due to simmularties between rgb and a certain other tv head that looks eerily simmular...tpoh is mods passion project and main source of income, so you can imagine how distressing all this must be to them after over a decades worth of work. if you'd like to help, or learn more, you can read this post thread here

Ive been a fan of modmads work since middleschool and shes probably the main reason I decided to pursue my love of making comics when i graduated despite chronic pain, illness, and being unable to attend college, her works are truly special and I encourage everyone to:

send her a nice ask

Check out her patron

"Moderation will not limit any talk that is related to the concerns with RGB/MR Puzzles since it's something that is on a lot of people's minds.

All we can say is just to try not to cause arguments here due to it because that will be handled.

And all we can suggest is to use the Email in ⁠❓│zam-faq and be patient." This quote is from one of the animators and mods from their server in a pinned post.

"Where can I contact ZAMination for business inquiries? [email protected]" The other quote is their mail from their Discord. I hope something will happen from their side because a lot of people are talking about this, even a short YouTube video with a lot of views. Keep your head above the water; it is very stormy right now, and keep yourself safe. ❤️

they could have had the decency to send me that message themselves. I haven't heard anything from anyone and the silence has been driving me to extremes. my suicidal ideation has come back with a vengeance and today I can't event draw the lux comic; that is the only thing that has been keeping me going. I'm so scared that I'm losing everything, and they're just sat there. saying nothing. like that's okay? like that's not hurting me, actively?

TL:DR I do not want to cancel the show, I don't want it to cancel me.

So I have been forced, basically, to make this statement as I am being asked about this character or 'introduced' to it (and the incoming new show) against my desires. I have deleted all previous posts about my encounters with this problem long ago for personal reasons that will be apparent, but people don't know about my situation and do deserve an explanation. I will keep this post short for my own mental health. This is the first time I have disclosed any of this information to the public, and it is hopefully the last. My silence has been a part of my uncomfortable situation, but it's clear the world won't let me try to just ignore it any longer, so it's full disclosure time.

1, Yes. I know about Mr Puzzles and his uncanny resemblance to RGB, my character from the on going comic The Property of Hate, who pre-exists Mr Puzzles by approximately ten years.

I did not, as a consequence, base RGB off Mr Puzzles...

2, I have received very violent and manipulative hate mail from fans of that character over the past few years due to this similarity, many threatening to slander me via cancel culture to discredit my own creations. The worst of these messages almost caused me to commit suicide which close friends can attest to (this period coincided with the death of my father which they used against me to full effect).

Since then the hatemail has been less frequent, but continues, and I am afraid it will pick up again with the advent of this new show.

3, I have contacted the smg4 management about these issues, to no avail. My first email was a request to tell their followers to cease sending me hatemail, which they did not attempt in any way. They have never responded to the large overlaps in terms of RGB's design, and when I finally sent them an email via a lawyer as a last resort (which cost me £4000) they did not respond. Please note that I did not ask for a cease and desist, I only wanted the hatemail to stop, and perhaps for them to alter Mr Puzzle's design very slightly to be a little less like RGB's. I even made this simple suggestion as an example:

Despite going out of my way (against the lawyer's wishes) to phrase the letter in a none-hostile manner, and offer them an alternative, they did not reply to this email at all.

I am a disabled indie cartoonist; I do not have the money to take further legal action, and in any case I do not want to. I hate conflict, and the emotional toll of sending that email alone was enough to make me miserable and exhausted for months. All I want is to be left alone, and for people to know that RGB was invented first. I cannot afford to do anything to protect myself or make anyone listen legally; this post is the most I can do, and it is the only post I intend to make about it.

that's it. that's the whole situation. please do not message me about the show, or the character, as both are very distressing to me: if you do I will either delete the message, or block you, depending on the angle. I have blocked all related tags, and I will unfollow if I see posts, so I am doing everything I can to take care of myself in a non-aggressive fashion. I have only made this statement so that people understand.

a small example of some of the hatemail (which was preserved only to be sent to the makers as evidence which, again, they did not respond to) below the readmore. read at your own discretion, it is unpleasant.

thank you for taking the time to read this.

THIS IS REGARDING RGB FROM THE PROPERTY OF HATE AND MR. PUZZLES FROM SMG4. DO NOT HARASS OR WITCH HUNT ANYONE MENTIONED IN THIS POST, THIS IS FOR AWARENESS PURPOSES ONLY.

Context: Basically, a user who goes by the name of ModMad made a character known as RGB. Mod is being accused of “stealing” the design of Mr. Puzzles, when RGB was created back in 2012, 11 years BEFORE Mr. Puzzles was made.

These are photos of the two characters:

This led to ModMad trying to contact SMG4 that they stole RGB’s design whilst creating Mr. Puzzles, but they refused to respond even through a legal letter. Eventually, this led to ModMad being harassed, doxxed and threatened by (mainly) anons in their Tumblr inbox, telling them to do you-know-what to themselves.

What can be done? Spreading awareness about this post and reblogging can help others learn more about what is happening, and contacting groups like Zamination and Glitch can help.

REBLOG NOW, DO NOT HARASS ANYONE MENTIONED.

And @modmad , if you see this, I’m very sorry about what’s happening to you.