My journey to Hell
Warning: Long post. Not suitable for dial-up users or those with a short attention span. (For mobile users, just keep scrolling until you see the picture with the inflated Shantae.)
I remember when it all started. It was when I was taking my break from this site (when I shouldāve been revising), and I was browsing DeviantArt.
My journey down the rabbit hole began when I came across this account that did fanart involving characters from OK KO engaging in holy Christian activities, like denouncing Atheism as Satanism:
But then, I found out that it was part of this collection...
Most of it was just ironic and intentionally bad art, but then, after some searching, I came across some stamps.
I thought to myself something along the lines ofĀ āWhat the fuckā, andĀ āThis must be some kind of a joke. So, I went to this guyās user page, and it all went downhill from there.
First of all, I must admit, this guy has some form of intellect to him, with him occasionally displaying his expertise with computers, which I can personally applaud.
However, in order to actually get to that point, I needed to go through boatloads of confusing and morally questionable content.
First of all, this guy has made it clear numerous times in the past that he is a sufferer of autism, so itās likely that youād find a lot of art based on specific interests, but these ideas and interests are so closed and obscure that theyāre truly something to behold.
He describes himself as an advocate for numerous ideas, but they all just appear so trivial. For example:
He really wants to have Luvs (a brand of diapers, by the way) imported to his home country of Australia, Lord knows why:
He protested against McDonaldās on the issue of child obesity, using low quality thinly-veiled weight gain fetish art (more on that later):
He also doesnāt like how Avon (a company specialising in feminine beauty products) has a mostly-female board of directors:
And, to top it all off, he refuses to believe that men can be victims of sexual assault:
(By the way, the generic white man with the Tom Baker-brand thousand-yard stare is how he draws himself.)
He also believes thatās itās extremely important for cartoon characters (including non-humans) to have navels, and also believes that one of the most important life lessons you would teach kids is why they have one. My best guess is that itās all just for the satisfaction of his not-so closeted fetishes, but this guy never gives straight answers so I canāt really tell:
Speaking of not-so closeted fetishes, heās also made a hefty load of fan-art of cartoon characters for the raising of awareness on child obesity, based on this image that you might have seen floating around the web about ten years ago:
The results are rather unsettling. I mean, heās sticking to an idea that he wishes to advocate for, but youād think that after about a hundred of these damn things he would have made the message clear enough (yes, he made over a hundred of these things).
Actually, you know what, letās zoom in on that last image, and think about how he actually communicates to people. I know this might sound harsh, considering that Iām aware of his autism, but Iām well aware, as someone who suffers from a slightly more minor form of his condition, that communication is only really tough when speaking in person, with typing in the privacy of your own room being much easier; and while he does type in coherent sentences, he avoids questions as often as a politician. Hereās a few discussions between him and those who donāt approve of his art:
(you may have noticed that he comments in pre-set messages.)
Oh yeah. He also answers his opponents in a debate with the questionĀ ādo you drive a Mitsubishi?ā, because apparently that company is the personification of evil, because they build vehicles and tools that assist in chopping down trees. I mean, Mercedes do the same thing, but I donāt go around telling their owners that they worship Satan!
Anyhoo, back to his odd interests.
He seems to have some odd fixation for this brand of toilet cleaner, called Toilet Duck, which has an odd duck-shaped head. He says he first gained an interest for the generally-obscure bleach brand, when he first heard a news story about a burglar, who was found pleasuring himself, using the head of the product. Letās leave it at that for now.
He also has a strong interest in parenthood. (I guess the man has thought to himself that these events would just remain fantasies.)
He appears to be attempting to give his pictures a cutesy-vibe, but his unnatural drawing style stops them from looking anywhere outside of creepy.
And finally, perhaps his most confusing and unexplainable interest of them all: bumpbows!
If youāve heard of this guy before, then chances are that it was through this. He first found out about bumpbows about two years ago. They functioned as a solution to a minor problem in pregnancy, involving the misshaping of the navel. Since thatās two interests for the price of one, obviously he was going to jump on the bumpbow bandwagon almost immediately after he discovered them!
(This oneās my personal favourite!)
Heās even made a group about them!
(I love how this group doesnāt have any pictures of bumpbows showing their actual intended purpose!)
Now, it might seem all right (if not, only a little bit creepy), but things start getting weird when he starts getting people to use bumpbows, not because theyāre expecting children, but as a fashion statement, as well as raising awareness for autism (even though thereās barely any correlation between them), among other hard-pressing issues. I guess I could maybe start wearing bumpbows at anti-war rallies, but, I digress.
(Spoiler alert: There doesnāt appear to be any sign of that group actually going ahead with the plan.)
However, perhaps the strangest of his ideas for bumpbows, would be throwing parties, with them functioning as the primary dress-code.
Heās even thrown his own private parties! (By private, I mean he was the only one there.)
But Iād say the weirdest thing about them is that thereās this strange sexual undertone to them. Now, actually, I wouldnāt say that theyāre undertones, considering that he has outright said that they should be adult-only events. Heās even regularly connected them with sex. It all seems so weird, since he usually makes drawings with such an innocent tone (at least on the surface).
(Well, at least we now know why heās interested in that Toilet Duck bottle!)
I could go on forever about this guy, but this post is getting long enough as it is. So Iāll just leave a couple of links, just please donāt send any hate over to him. I know it sounds hypocritical of me, but this guyās getting enough flack as it is. Heās got an ED page, a thread on Kiwi Farms, AND thereās even and anti-Dev-Catscratch group on his home base of DeviantArt, so just feel free to explore some of these links, but leave it at that:
His DA:Ā https://dev-catscratch.deviantart.com/
His ED page (NSFW of course):Ā https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Dev-catscratch
His Kiwi Farms thread (gave me easy access to the things I was looking for): https://kiwifarms.net/threads/bryce-cherry-dev-catscratch.17621/
Oh. And P.S: Whatās a bad DeviantArt page without a favourites section full of fetish art!
But remember, itās all for raising awareness on child obesity!
