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Managed to ink part of this traditional sketch for ShockOP Day 3 (reverence), as announced on @shockopweek

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This Post is by someone that wants to remain anonymous, they DM'd me this and asked me to post

The callout campaign against Kagebros has gone WAY too far. The lengths these people have gone to violate someone’s boundaries and privacy in order to “warn” people is incredibly excessive and is dealing horrible damage to their mental health and wellbeing. It needs to fucking stop.

The situation has spiraled completely out of control, spurred on by people who would rather side with a proud AI artist than have a civilized, adult discussion about tracing. Said AI artist has a history of attempting to ruin Kagebros’ credibility, spreading disinformation and rumors about them and their nonprofit charity zines, now going as far as to allegedly incite people to nonconsensually take photos of them at their booth at TFcon Baltimore, and block-evading their socials in order to find more posts to pick apart.

As they have stated already, Kagebros never had ANY intention to scam people, which understandably doesn’t change how those affected may feel. That being said, they could have very easily traced over things without altering them in any way at all, like many others within the convention vending sphere have blatantly done without a callout from these same people who care so much about “calling out tracing”. There tends to be a gray area in the realm of tracing techniques within the art industry (especially professionally), and there is plenty of merit for their actions to be criticized. As they’ve stated, they were under the impression that Official artwork/figures were okay to trace over and alter, which they now know to avoid doing so in the future. Even if the details and credibility of the piece can be scrutinized, they still made a conscious effort to alter the pieces in question to be more original.

Although said effort may not be enough for most, they now KNOW that. End of story. They can't immediately change the pieces they had available for sale, and they should be showing change through their future pieces and actions, which is something that’s up for judgment by anyone. And yet the people starting this have needlessly dragged it on, inciting others to keep spreading the accusations to further audiences, leading to more harassment.

Seafoamsol had admittedly unblocked Kagebros and “offered” to have a talk with them about the situation, but their own intentions are extremely questionable, as a conversation should have been the first priority, rather than a callout post. They assumed Kagebros’ intentions without giving them a single chance to address it themselves before the callout, and are now going forward with the narrative of them being a scammer.

Again, if they truly were concerned, they could have unblocked them and had a conversation before the callout was made, instead of assuming their intentions were to deceive people.

The situation is very nuanced, meaning there's a lot of points to be acknowledged on both sides in order to come to a conclusion, which could have happened peacefully if adults just had a civil discussion with each other. There is a justifiable talk to be had here, and reasonable changes to be made, but this can’t be accomplished productively if people continue to jump to conclusions and assume intentions. This has done nothing–and WILL do nothing–but hurt people, if this behavior doesn’t stop. mistakes will be made, lessons will be learned. Please look at this situation in its entirety before coming to your own conclusions based on assumptions made by people with evidently questionable motives and a history of causing problems for others and driving them out of the community. 

Thank you for reading.

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Back on my pharma kick yeaaagggg

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Red looks real good on him

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Now you can view a shitpost in the privacy of your own home when you shop at Bean Apparel on redbubble!

Here you can find this blog classic on many items such as these:

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Managed to clean up an old arcee sketch

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Final Pharma of the year!

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It's been too long 🥺🏍

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another rushed one hhhh

But like- you cant tell me Pharma had all that much time or room for sleep while studying in med school?

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a late entry to Pharma Phriday

very much inspired on a bakery AU by @thiccsyringe

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a sleeping beauty

(I haven't updated on here for over 6 months so uhhhh take this bit I was coloring while waiting for my run to finish)

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super late christmas art piece

Pharma caught up to Ratchet with some mistletoe

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Three weeks later, Prime Arcee is finished! I tried a new layering method for the armour that used a lot more fabric, but I think it was worth it.

These wheels can actually spin! I used a cotter pin sewn between the spokes just to be extra.

bonus: 🤔

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I splashed some color on it- just trying to figure them out visually

Sketchy sketchy sketch

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Sketchy sketchy sketch

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Part of something I doodled over on the oc sideblog

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Progress of my latest attempt at Cee