Omg I just saw the post you made about being blocked by half the stalker fandom and YES. ITS SO TRUE. I even know who you're referring to.
It's not the blocking thing that's problematic (if anything, PLEASE block me if you don't like my content, yk?) But good God what are they yapping about half the time? Telling people to block and sometimes even harass an artist just because "the 4729th pixel on their drawing somehow proves that they hold Nazist beliefs and personally hold hands with Putin during congress when he sends bombs on Ukraine". And while yes, I've never directly seen them say "go harass this artist", they know what they're doing and it's the same thing when you make public callout posts insulting them and even admitting to stalk their profiles like a witch hunt. Isn't fandom supposed to be fun? Do they feel good in this fandom? Not saying fandoms can't be political, they absolutely can be, as anything else, but there's a difference when you're outright seeking out problems. I've seen them say their objective is to make every Russian quit the fandom, which is a battle you can't win to begin with and just makes the fandom have a very bad reputation ngl.
Anyway, you don't have to post this, but just know that you're right. Me and so many other artists WHO ARENT EVEN RUSSIAN!! Changed platforms because of this. But at the end of the day, YOUR DRAWINGS ARE AMAZING AND DONT EVER LET ANYONE RUIN YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH THIS GAME!! ❤️❤️
How could I not post this when it’s SO WELL WRITTEN and SO RIGHT?? DAAAAAMN.
Yes people, as you see this is the state the fandom is in. To those who don’t know, they made a “Russian Blocklist” to get rid of everyone Russian, and non-Russian (yes.) I’ve texted all the people I found on it, but here, take a look at their “Crimes”
I asked for this list to see if I’m on it, (surprisingly not yet, patiently waiting for it lol) but the author said they will expand it shortly, even today added 3 new users. Some people don’t even have reasons written next to their usernames.
Ah, and all the people I texted (not) surprisingly turned out to be sweethearts, took the news, accepted them, and intelligently said “At least we won’t have toxic people around us this way” Which is very right.
And as for the end of your message.. THANK YOU 💙 All the unproblematic fandom artists are AMAZING!! Keep the good work up guys, we NEED to feed the fandom with DELICIOUS art.
And hey.. we began forming a small friendly circle together :D!!
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