☆Max☆

Silly bonus

first off, i wanted to say thank you for reblogging my art, what was it, last year?

this one, right after the spudsy's episode haha! i was sooo surprised to find out you actually liked my silly dumb little drawing i made at 3am hehe;;

but yeah! i really love your work! <3

second off, i've heard glitch has a serious issue they're refusing to properly address?

https://www.tumblr.com/modmad/813676567818633216/sorry-to-have-to-boost-this-again-but-i-just-had?source=share

i mean, TECHNICALLY it was addressed, but it was very obviously low-effort and half-assed and.. well, they took AGES to get to that, but IMMEDIATELY spoke in regards to tadc releasing in theaters (congrats on that, btw!! :D) which is.. EXTREMELY suspicious tbh???

also, what most left out of the drama was, the creator of rgb got HARRASSMENT for this despite being the original. death threats and everything. this coincided with their fathers death, they almost took their own life..

so, since someones life was on the line because of this situation, i realllly dont think a vague and indirect address is the way to go about this tbh,,

they didnt even email modmad directly!! isnt that kiinda messed up?? modmad is THE only one who is negatively affected by this.. so it feels less like responsibility and more like "damage control" ..

we also do nottt have any ACTUAL PROOF that this was merely a coincidence sooo.. yeahh.. were only going off of word alone which is very very silly :/

i just wanted to ask if you knew about this!! i find it very upsetting that the company attached to tadc is complacent in this, im not mad at you btw!! you had nothing to do with this!! but i thought hey, maybe since you have a lot of power here and in the company, you could maybe signal boost a bit? or even try to reach out from inside or smth? idk.. anything helps tho!! tysmm <3<3

hey so i literally know nothing about this situation, i'm not at all involved with the smg4 side of things-- (and i don't "work for glitch", i am a freelance contractor for glitch)

but if this person truly sent a legal letter, as someone from a family of lawyers, i can tell you that that basically ties the hands of everyone involved from just reaching out or making a statement willy-nilly

i'd give some grace to the people in this situation for not saying anything, and i'd take their silence or "complacence" as you put it with a grain of salt. they might not be at liberty to say or do anything without potential legal reprecussions (or at least the fear of them)

putting pressure on them to just make a random public response or to go around the legal pitfalls and contact this person directly might be seriously straining people who have to be quiet

i know it's not 100% definitively the reason and i'm just guessing, but i think there's a very strong possibility i'm correct, so i don't think it's "odd" at all that they're addressing one and not the other

For anyone who wants my take: Yes, Glitch or Zaminations should address the unfair harassment and hate Modmad has received just because Puzzles and RGB look similar, they don’t deserve any of it and should be allowed to continue their comic in peace.

HOWEVER, there is not a chance in hell either Glitch or Zaminations intentionally “plagiarized” RGB’s design, it’s just a coincidence. I wasn’t going to say anything about this, but seeing Modmad push this blatantly false narrative that Puzzles is a rip-off of RGB is making me lose sympathy for them. Again, they do NOT deserve harassment or hate over something so trivial as similar character designs, but there is absolutely no way an indie animation studio happened to see some random artist’s OC design and stole it, every other artist with a TV head character would be making the same accusations if that were the case.

I have never even heard of The Property of Hate until this discourse started, and as far as I know it is a pretty obscure, decade old webcomic that I doubt has more than a couple dozen fans. I don’t know who Modmad thinks they are, but they are not special, they do not get to dictate who gets to use the generic traits of TV head OCs and who doesn’t. They ESPECIALLY do not get to dictate whether or not an animation studio should make changes to one of their characters- their intellectual property- just because the designs look a little too similar for their comfort. Puzzles CAV design has been finalized, there is nothing Modmad or anyone else can do about it, it would take way too much time and effort to change the design/model over something that…really shouldn’t matter to begin with.

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Smg4 dating simulator basically. I’ve been supposed obsessed with 2000’s anime stuff so I had to combine it with smg4 somehow