#made a capitalist oc bruh

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FYI: Alastor was created by Viv when she was in high school. He's not an attempt to appeal to the Onceler crowd

Bruh thats not even an excuse.

She legit could have redesigned him to not do that, since Lucifer and Charlie and Angel and Husk are a thing. He definitely was after.

She could have choosen to be more creative with it.

But NOOOoooooo crowd appeal is more important apparently. 

Especially nowadays, seeing how the series has become for the past... three or more years. It also makes me miss the 2019 Hazbin days (besides... the toxic as all hell fandom 😬). It just felt like Vivziepop used to be more bright and passionate. Now- she just overworks herself a ton for crowd appeal, and seems a quite miserable if I were to be 100% honest. If she wasnt so rude and weaponizing her trauma like she did a week ago against people who were also traumatized (from generations of discrimination) by the very representation she promised to "improve", (and yet barely does so unless it benefits mostly herself.) I would genuinely feel bad for her. But Hazbin wise- she did this to herself.

Pitching Hazbin and causing herself to no longer 100% own her own ocs- by herself. When she could have made Hazbin indiependent, post poned Helluva Boss, and none of this would happened. Instead, she bit off more than she can chew, and now herself and her freinds are having to suffer for it. Helluva Boss being created while she was in the middle of pitching an entire cartoon? Also, her own fault. She keeps complaining about her workload with HB/H and such, but how can I actuallt feel bad for her if again- she did that to herself. This was supposed to be a passion project, and now its just a overworked stressed out mess that's more about profit and validation above all else. To the point where it's production is filled with artist mistreatment (of multiple people! stop with the "erin frost!" bullshit!), stress venting every few months, constantly trying to appeal to what's "hip" in adult animation (Brandon Rodgers modern family guy "adult comedy" and all) and Vivziepop just stressing the hell out of herself and effecting her own health while all anyone can do is watch as she piles herself with more and more stress.

(more on this down below...)

The series is becoming the very thing Vivziepop herself said that she was against a year or so back- a mainstream, overproduced, fame focused franchise from a big name studio (Spindlehorse) that mistreats the people it promises to help. Does this franchise even need the "indie" title anymore? It has big name actors, thousands of pieces of merchandising, hundreds of artists, and millions of dollars behind it. It might as well just be another big name studio's sellout cartoon. Studio mistreatment, overproduction, constant merchandising, and all. Its gone from " a little passion project that was made to get away from the harsh conditions of large studio production"- to a "bigger is better" capitalistic, sell out of it's former self. Sure, there's passion left, but not enough to where there's actual care for those who produce it. It's come to a point where both Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss are now as close to a "capitalism embracing, big name cartoon" that a "indie" franchise can get. A big name, capitalism embracing, money hoarding, big name cartoon. The very thing indie creators go freelance to stay away from, in the first place! Now, it takes advantage of it's "indie" label to trick freelance artists into going back into the very conditions they were trying to avoid. Truly, a depressing case of a indie creator letting both fame, fortune, and validation take control of their intentions, with their treatment of others along with it.

AKA: The Butch Hartman story. Except its being speedrun by a scene girl with a show full of suit wearing sparkledog furries.

(Not that theres anything wrong with the other details (sparkledogs are nice away from animation.) but you get the idea 😞)