You almost single handedly ruined a struggling, chronically ill, indigenous, queer artists life.
(Last statement on this& resoonse)
Ruining his life? He himself stated he has a life far beyond being online. I have apologized countless times on twt and will do it here.
I have been rash and irresponsible, my original posts have cased harm to Dubuk and caused a panic in sharing information that wasn't true and poorly put together in a fit of emotions and was fueled by personal sentiments that had nothing to do with the issue. I regret having caused more stress over for Dubuk as he is already struggling.
I won't be sharing his post however, even after I remade my posts and very clearly explained the issue he completely didn't mention it in his response and even inquired that I support pirating 811 (mind you, I was very first to speak up about piracy of it when it first happened and stealing his work for commercial use. I bought the game and have been supporting his patreon for months before, financially contributing and defending him time and time again).
Dozens of ukrainians are still upset and his response did very little in case of problems I brought up, mostly reacting only to "Person A" whose screenshots I saw AFTER. I'm not afraid to take responsibility for the damage I have caused and won't go private, criticize me for it and I'll agree and I have been agreeing. But Dubuk simply spat in our faces in his response where he did barely touch on the issue saying he doesn't care and will keep making content for Patho (and I assume Mouthwashing, I don't care for jimcurly, you guys draw what you want) which supports popularizing the media that is published by russian based companies, money from which goes into the russian army.
Here you might say one person buying a game gives them barely any money, right? Well, when it's hundreds of thousands of people from every country doing that with russian product russia gets million of dollars worth of tax money that is used to bomb my people and ethnically cleanse us. Dubuk absolutely stayed silent about that even though before Person As screens ukrainians told me they sent him asks talking about the issue, which made me make the initial (terrible and malicious-leaning) threads because I was (rightfully) upset.
I have NEVER said every russian is bad, and Dubuk saying that absolutely set me and every ukrainian I talked with on the matter of, bringing a "good old russian friends" up as an example. Congrats, Dubuk, I have loved ones in russia who are trapped there and are obviously not bad, most of us have, you don't need to tell us.
And lastly, anyone bringing up the fact he's indigenous and that my post was racially motivated in ANY way is absolutely bullshit. I deeply respect every race and culture and ESPECIALLY indigenous people around the world, our culture and many tribes share similar cultural characteristics and have always been supportive of eachother, if Dubuk was ever facing violence due to his ethnicity I would be outraged by it even now and defend him without a back thought. + I have never took personal digs at him like many people who now hate me do, such as making fun of his art and characters and the way he speaks, it's disgusting. And not to mention I am also queer, ethnically oppressed and disabled, that has nothing to do with this conversation.
The only reason I brought up him having a russian character is the way he TREATS russian media, I never said you can't have russian characters. It was a supporting point to his ignorant posting of russian-cenetered media while not posting about Ukraine (again, online, if you Dubuk have done anything for Ukraine irl I am infinitely thankful above all else) but excusing it with old accounts deleted?
Anyone telling me to die/delete my socials/sending threats you are going against the very thing Dubuk accented on(thank you for that, by the way) and what I accented on after I realized just how awful my post about another living human was, I had no right to do that no matter what my state was or situation.
I am already getting death threats and hate campaigns against me mentioning mass art theft and people donating to the russian army and purposely buying more russian product to support the genocide, further proving that my issue was not LITTLE nor UNIMPORTANT, so I ask you, have compassion if not for me them for everyone else here and my loved ones, many of who live in areas where Frontline is advancing and they may get trapped under occupation. Really, hate me all you want, whatever, but points I brought up are still valid and ukrainians are greatly disappointed with the situation.
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