In my previous blog post I mentioned this 'I'll still occasionally post here on Eka's but for the most part my art will be on DeviantArt and Twitter.'
'I'll still occasionaly post here' has now been updated to 'I have deleted the majority of my gallery.'
I've deleted everything to do with the Fractured Realm, the Lifeshot Universe, Eva, and alomst all the animations.
There are many reasons for this, the harrassment I suffered, especially from people demanding I tell them how to use DAZ and giving them the products I'd purchased, violating DAZ's terms of service and would have made them shut down my account.
The death threats and threats of physical harm I recieved over either my characters, or because I wouldn't open commissions or finish their favourite comic, especially the ones that I had completely abandoned.
People downloading my animations and them giving them to other people online claiming to be me, or in one case, posing as me on youtube and directing people to my deviantart telling them I'd be doing requests and giving out cash for views on 'my' videos. And instead of reporting the rogue youtube channel, some users from this site were repeatedly watching the videos and praising the art theif.
And now to add to this list, my art and the actions of my characters in it are being described as 'Hate crimes'.
Now as someone whose extended family went through the single worst hate crime in human history, with most not making it out alive. I find this sort of description to be fucking vile. And despite the claim from the person that they say this sort of thing on so many other peoples art, I have never once seen it, whether other artists deleted the comments because they were so repulsive or not, I can't tell. Regardless, this just adds to the list of all the people that seem to single out my art for attack, either at the art or at me the artist.
For my own mental health, and sanity, I've removing the majority of my gallery here and will no longer be posting on this site.
If you want to see my art, go to either my deviantArt
https://www.deviantart.com/voraciousartistry or my twitter
https://twitter.com/VoraciousArtist, where I can actually block people from viewing my art when they start harrasing, threatening or abusing me.
I have already blocked some of the harrassers on twitter to preserve my mental health.
Oh, and before anyone says 'but I love your art', sure but when my posts are getting less than 50 favourites for over 6,000 views, and I get three times more pm's and comments attacking my art than praising it, it's pretty clear how much my art is 'liked' on this site.
Posted by Thunderclese4 2 years ago Report
I'm sorry you're going through all of this. No matter how much I or anyone else like's your art, you're mental heath is much more important. So you do what you need to get better.
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Posted by Wheatmemes1717 2 years ago Report
What the fuck is wrong with people
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Posted by Afogutu 2 years ago Report
For real...the entitlement of these assholes...SMH
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Posted by YajimaDori 2 years ago Report
Do you actually have the notes of messages off these harassment?
Because while this level of harassment isn't unheard of, it is really rare unless you are in a massive spotlight on a place like Twitch or Youtube, a place with a diverse amount of people with varying views. On a vore fetish site, people generally don't care.
Hell, there's even actual pedophiles who left after the server swap that people beg for to come back, there was never backlash to them or any problems with harassment, and you are someone making the kind of content that's most favored on the site, female human preds, you aren't going on rants about politics or doing anything to attract any harassment of this severity.
Seeing how its here you're removing the stuff it sounds like all this hate comes only from Eka's, and I can assure you. Reporting these people, just linking the chat logs to Eka would get these people banned immediately, and not just burner account deleted but IP ban, gone. They accept no level of harassment.
And things like videos getting taken and re-uploaded, what's to prove that that's being done by people here and not on DeviantArt?
Lots of artists who've spent years publishing their art on DeviantArt complain that they're being used as a free art gallery for people making Redbubble shirts and lately NFTs so it sound like if anything, those thieves are just as likely if not more likely to come from there as they are from here.
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Posted by VoraciousArtistry 2 years ago Report
The messages from the start of this harrasment over 4 years ago have been deleted, I had hoped that people would stop but they never did, and I kept deleting the messages as a way of coping. And the harrassment was more, demanding I reopen commissions or restart taking requests or they'd find where I live and hold a gun to my head, or demanding I teach soemone how to use DAZ, and how to make 3D vore art, again saying things like if I didn't teach them, they'd kill themselves.
More recently, I reported comments attacking my art/chracters/me, and the result was the comment was removed, however the person still has a gallery here and still has an active account. So no, they didn't receive an IP ban, they weren't even touched, just their comment.
And the one about the hate crime, I saved a screen shot but considering the last time all that happened was the comment was removed not the user, I doubt anything would actually happen.
As for people reuploading my videos, I never said it was solely Eka's, however some of the people commenting and praising the art theif were users on this site, I cross checked their user names.
And as for making the most favoured kind of art, the issue is I make 3D art, not 2D art and if a single thing looks wrong, like a seam out of place or an odd texture, people attack it and me, not criticise or provide any form of useful feedback, no, it was always telling me that I have no capability in making art and my art skills are offensive to this site.
Sure Deviantart is a free hub for art thieves but it has one thing that this portal sorely lacks, a meaniningful block function, that and a terms of service that DA does act upon, where people WILL be banned.
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Posted by YajimaDori 2 years ago Report
It sounds off to me, except the pedophilia part, because that's one thing Eka's well known for
-Vore
-Pedophiles
So i'd understand that as being the reason to want to get out, as well as the inability to block people from sending PMs. But in terms of harassment, as you said yourself. People who backlash against the pedophiles get punished, because they harass them. Its about the only enforced rule.
Hell, if you want to speedrun getting Eka's attention just go to the forums and find JustinRPG's daily blog and say something like "Are you that guy who made a song about getting ate by lugia?" and in 2.3 milliseconds Eka's will have sent you a note questioning why you commented that, just because that guy views anything commenting about him as harassment and Eka won't accept that.
As for quality, I can't mention names. But I've seen crayon drawings of vore get praise, I see people post gifs of the Skyrim vore mod which is just a stiff hug followed by a black screen and then a horribly rendered belly.
I can't of course speak for PMs, these people might be getting them there as they knew public comments can easily get some outside person to report it and get them in trouble, so instead they just do it in PMs instead. That is very likely. I can just go based on the public reception images get and the sort of errors or mistakes that get overlooked.
I've reported people in the past, which have resulted in bans, takedowns and people being forced to change. Sure its not as smooth since you have to go to the actual figure-head of the site and tell them the problem in person (But hey, on the plus side of no blocking PMs, they can't block your PMs and have to receive your complaints)
It often then leads to a punishment.
So long as the reported thing is targeting you, they'll care. If its something that's just "A matter of taste and interest" (Like illegal fucking child porn..) then they won't care.
I hope things turn out better for you though on DA. I wish this site could be better tbh. Since DeviantArt's restrictions on NSFW content and complicated layout, tagging system and notes are too much for me to handle. Maybe one day Eka will get a revelation that a 2 person crew for a site of this size isn't actually a good idea and try to steer it up a bit. But, that's only my wish.
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Posted by VoraciousArtistry 2 years ago Report
Also there was a massive backlash against the pedophiles and their supporters. However the only result was the people calling out the pedophiles got banned, not the sick fucks or their supporters.
Notice how the people who are making art that is litterally a crime are still allowed to post it on this site? The old servers owners were against it, the new servers owners aren't. That was one of the reasons behind the server swap.
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Posted by TheCyberEmpire 2 years ago Report
I'm really sorry that happened to you. :( I hope Deviantart will accept you then the mean people on here. :3
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Posted by Torchwood4 2 years ago Report
Damn... thats so rough. Hope you can get back to some level of normal.
I'm kinda sad that you deleted some of your works, I really enjoyed Fractured Realm, and Lifeshot. But if it helps you get some form of closure, then go for it.
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Posted by willofwii 2 years ago Report
I never knew you went through all that hate!
Sorry to hear it was so bad, hopefully your work get’s more views and is appreciated elsewhere.
I’ve bought alot of your comics and really liked them.
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Posted by Squall 2 years ago Report
Would you be willing to upload the deleted art to a mega or something, only available to Ekas users who you vet?
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