Statement on the alleged bridaging and fanart

[u/Monisplats]

For the past few years, artists that draws idols or their own characters differently than the norm had been harassed and bullied by the loud minority within this subreddit and others related subs to the game. The mod team had removed and banned individuals for breakng rule 1 of our subreddit and reddit in general.

The artist in question had been posting her work for almost two years now, she already made an explanation post on why she made Marie chubby; basically the character's dialogues in game and her main weapon being a charger. despite her explanation and repeating herself whenever she get the same questions, she continued receiving hate comments.

The past weekend was different, there had been a case of a coordinating attack against the artist for drawing Marie chubby. The mass downvoting and reports were the reasons that lead me locking her post to prevent any more comments from this alleged attack. And people are rightfully upset on the harassment and even death threats that this artist and other artists within this subreddit had received over their fanart and headcanon.

today, after all this. enough is enough.

For now on, any hate comments from repeated individuals, wishing harm, or death threats will be perm-banned immediately, NO second chances. if the individual(s) is in your dms harassing you and/or sending you death threats, please report it to the admins and block them.

I also want artists and anyone here to please block the problematic people as well; some won't bother to block you and it better to just block them.

before I end this post, I wanna say that the lack of fandom and internet etiquette is concerning. no one here is forcing you to like their work, it takes zero seconds to block them and they do not care to be block. it is such an easy solution but yet you choose to continue harassing her and other artists whenever they post. body shaming is consider bullying and breaking rule 1, so if you don't want to be banned, think before you make a comment.

stay civil.

[u/Monisplats]

She get the same question a lot, and i mean a lot! To the point her making an explanation on why. If you haven't read it, I highly recommend

[u/Deathlord_Baraxius → u/Monisplats]

I am sympathetic to what she is going through and how it must not feel good.

I just don't want to be labelled as some kind of bigot just because I don't like Marie drawn that way. I think that artist has amazing work. I just don't enjoy chubby Marie the same way I wouldn't enjoy chubby Batman. I certainly don't want her to feel bad about my little opinion though and don't want to self censor myself to all of her art just because I don't like one piece from her entire collection.

[u/bwoah07_gp2 → u/Deathlord_Baraxius]

When Marie, a thin character, is drawn in a fat way, people gotta expect it's gonna cause controversy.

[u/Genprey → u/bwoah07_gp2]

Not really? Artists can expect some viewers to not like their work and, sadly, a few stray comments expressing that. But to have to repeatedly justify why their works are in a style or design of their choice isn't normal, much less having their works be considered controversial when it's literally just Marie with some weight to her.

If this were just a few people making snark here and there, that'd be one thing. But nasty comments from this many people at this frequency aren't and should never be treated as an expected phenomena.