The Final Countdown

Post #2

 Now That My Artwork is Safe...

I have remained relatively quiet up until this point about my real feelings regarding this entire situation.
Some people have known for a while that I was leaving DeviantArt and why, but not everyone. This is where I choose to talk about the incident…
where I am SAFE from retaliation against people, and I don’t have to worry about my art being wiped away. 13 years of art.
On Friday, November 30th, Spar, Mario, Ivy, Spar’s Mother, and 7 other people were reported to DeviantArt. The reasons were varied, but every single one
of the reports held zero validity to them. Individuals that had not been online in months were suddenly banned. Years upon years of hard work, wiped off the map.
Why?

This. This is why. Spar dared to speak up and call someone out for trying to start drama. Not just anyone though, ohhhh no.
No, the person that wanted drama this time was SAKI.
Saki couldn’t let that go. Saki needed vengeance. Saki felt oh so incredibly butthurt and the regular ointment of grow-the-fuck-up was sold out at the local pharmacy.
How do I know it was Saki?

It’s really not that hard to figure it out, even though she does such a terrific job of playing dumb.
Toxic handed over the chats between herself and Saki. In these chats, Saki is seen quite blatantly threatening everyone. “They’ll get their comeuppance.”
Then Saki goes to great lengths to attempt to clear her name of the act, making elaborate journal posts and all the like… much to the ire of several of the people
involved in this incident. Someone else said it quite perfectly: This wasn’t about you, Saki, but you went ahead and made it about yourself anyways.
Then, kinda adding the perfect little insulting cherry on top, she goes on to claim that she had admitted she was in the wrong for creating accounts in an attempt to bait drama…

She made no such posts.
It was incredibly ironic considering the entire time, she had been making posts on her Twitter claiming to be completely neutral to the entire situation…
Yanno, like she HADN’T just created fake accounts while using someone else to incite drama. Boy, she sure didn’t like it when I called her out on the post on Twitter.
Apparently calling someone out for quite literally setting traps for drama immediately after it happens is “being unable to let things go.”
Even more hilarious is the fact that Saki REPEATEDLY goes on and on and on and on and ON about how she “does not want to be involved in drama"...

Yet she has repeatedly, time and time again, directly shoved herself into drama involving Toxic.
Toxic, up until she finally came clean about Saki’s behavior, very much deserved the drama that had befallen her. Toxic is an individual that had been
harassing Spar for almost a year at this point. From huge insults put out toward other individuals, to faking her age to incite drama, to doing everything she could
to piss others off, to stealing other people’s art constantly, to pretending to be her parents, to wrangling her brother into it... the entire incident was very much
worthy of the ire that had been generated toward Toxic. She had been BANNED from DeviantArt for her behavior, and per the rules of DeviantArt...
You HAVE to appeal the ban in order to return.
You’re not allowed to just keep making new accounts.

OF COURSE WE KEPT REPORTING TOXIC WHEN WE FOUND HER ACCOUNTS.
SHE.WAS.BREAKING.THE.FUCKING.RULES.
 
It was legitimate.
IN FACT, if anyone cared to know,
YOU HAVE TO HAVE A HISTORY OF MAKING SURE RULES ARE ENFORCED ON THE SITE IN ORDER TO APPLY TO BE A MODERATOR.
That includes a certain number of LEGITIMATE reports and FOLLOWING UP on things like what Toxic was doing.
Saki wasn’t even involved in this drama, at all. Not even a little bit. But she HAD to stick her nose into it, she just could not help herself. She comes onto Toxic’s page
and starts lying to Toxic about Spar and Mario. SHE PURPOSEFULLY PUT HERSELF INTO THE DRAMA SHE CLAIMS SHE DETESTS,
OUT OF ABSOLUTE NOWHERE. I mean for fucks sake, if you hate drama so much, don’t you think you’d do what you could to AVOID inserting yourself
smack dab into the middle of some drama you stumble across?

What really makes my stomach turn, though, is the journal Saki has up on her DeviantArt that speaks about her knowledge of “who she is”.
She claims she knows that she is a terrible person and that she does horrible things… yet claims she has zero desire to do anything about it.
She embraces it as some sort of come-to-Jesus-kumbaya-self-acceptance tripe that reeks of pure BULLSHIT, and then goes on further to claim people treating
each other decently and striving to be better human beings is “just a desire to be liked.” What kind of moral degenerate do you have to be to accept zero responsibility
for your behavior in the slightest like that? I find that to be so completely disgusting that it turns my stomach.

It seems like this “poor soul from Texas” has a stronger moral and ethic backbone than you do. (Yea, I saw that, sweetheart. Bless your heart. :D )
That’s okay, us Texans are used to having a stronger moral fiber than people like you, namely in our ability to put our adult pants on, take a big swig of
grow-the-fuck-up juice, and take responsibility for our own growth in the world and our own fucking actions… namely how we treat others.
Funny, I was raised that YOU TREAT OTHERS HOW YOU WOULD WANT TO BE TREATED.
(Don’t mistake that for weakness: I was also raised to tell someone where they can go fuck themselves if they don’t wish to be kind.)

Literally 100% of all of this was because Spar chose me (someone she considers family) over you (someone pitching a fit in her discord server about a pokemon bot).

An admin (me) told you not to interact with Pokecord outside of the Pokecord channel.
You lost your ever living mind over that, became violently paranoid to the point of grand delusions, and made a grand dramatic,
lengthy, emo-as-all-fuck exit like a fucking soap opera... only to come back a couple months later still violently paranoid to thh
point of grand delusions, cause a HUGE scene, disrespect the admin when they finally smack your arrogant and assumptive ass down,
and stir up so much fucking bullshit with your overtalking and insulting that you were fucking BANNED from the server.

All because an admin dared to tell you “no”.
All because an admin dared to say to you:
“Please do not interact with the Pokecord bot outside of the Pokecord channel. We are working to fix the issue. Thank you :D”
Literally does not matter what happened after that. That sentence is the catalyst that set this entire string of dominos off.
THAT SINGLE SENTENCE is what caused you to fly off the deep end.
THAT SINGLE SENTENCE is what caused your dramatic exit from Spar’s Discord server and thus this severe hatred you have against her.

...Yup, that sure sounds like it was worth all this. Uhhh-huh. Suuuure does.
Neutral my ass. You’ve been eating this drama for breakfast since day fucking 1.
Let me break this down very clearly: You fucking destroyed Spar’s DeviantArt because of a goddamn 5 year old style temper tantrum you decided to have one day….

...You don’t get to pretend you’re an adult anymore. I don’t care how old you are. We’re all extremely rightfully pissed off at you.
You can pretend all you fucking like that someone being legitimately angry and voicing their frustrations is immature… but truly, the only thing that is immature here
is the fact that someone could be so fucking lazy, lack such character, and have such a lack of concern for anyone other than themselves that they’d rather
“accept who they are” than change the fact that they TREAT OTHER HUMAN BEINGS AS LITERAL GARBAGE. What a load of total horse shit.

So there, I’ve finally said my peace, and I can put this to rest now… because I’m quite tired of this bullshit.
But I absolutely was NOT about to be threatened into silence over this for fear of losing all my fucking artwork and all my fucking progress as a goddamn artist since TWO THOUSAND FUCKING FIVE.

Saki, you’re a piece of shit and you SERIOUSLY need to let it the fuck go, move the fuck on, GET SOME FUCKING HELP, and above all… grow the fuck up.
Christ, it’s like interacting with a spoiled toddler.

With that out of the way, I will say that having my own personal website for all my artwork is quite refreshing to say the least.
I have full creative control over every single aspect of my website, which is incredibly convenient and interesting. Building the website is like an art project in and of itself,
and even though it only took me 3 days to get my site up and running and completely transferred over from DeviantArt, there was still a HECK of a lot of work that went
into putting all of this together. Essentially, I shoved a solid 30 hours into creating this website in the past two days… I’ve been building websites since 1998,
so the process comes a little easier for me than it might for other people, but even so.

This was a monumental effort, but it feels so incredibly satisfying and gratifying to be able to look at this website and know that I have complete control over it.
No one can walk up and decide they are mad at me for telling them no about something and decide to take the past 13 years of my artistic life away from me.
No one can hold my artwork hostage and use emotional terrorism against me anymore.
I’m not subject to shitty enforcement of policies by a fucking website that can’t even moderate properly or that allows viruses to lurk in their advertisements.

I have the freedom to create at my own leisure, whatever I desire, and it can take any shape I want it to here.
I create the rules and the boundaries for this space. It’s truly a great feeling, especially considering how the internet really is turning out to be these days.
First, Youtube took videos down due to fake DMCA claims… then DeviantArt bans people for false, unsubstantiated reports, then Tumblr decides that the censorship
of all adult content and the sabotage of every adult artist on Tumblr just before Christmas is the best way to go… Honestly, I remember the internet before social media,
back when people made personal websites exactly like this one I’ve made here on sites like Geocities and Angelfire.
Those days were a lot calmer and a lot freer, liberating, full of artistic and creative expression, and less oppressive.
I do believe I’m going to remain here on this personal website I’ve created and turn it into something truly great for myself. ~<3

So today is my official goodbye to DeviantArt. 13 years and it’s over. It’s time. DeviantArt dated back to my High School years… it’s time to move on.
Here’s to a bold new future of artwork and creative expression here on this website!