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Let's talk about Sprigatito: an acknowldgement/apology.
3 years ago
Back in March I drew a gas picture of Sprigatito, the grass type starter for the 9th gen of Pokémon. At the time, I was simply following the wave of popularity and wanted to throw my art into the ring.
This caught the attention of a couple of followers (who will remain anonymous) who approached me to talk about the implications of drawing kink art of a starter Pokémon. Their argument: it was cub.
My initial reaction was defensive because I had not considered Sprigatito to be a cub character. There was no official source for its age or classification outside of Bulbapedia.
My solution was to delete the picture from both Twitter and FA and go on my way. I hadn't given it much thought after that and decided to upload the most recent Sprigatito image yesterday, thinking that it was over with.
Today,
Pheromoan18 a close friend of mine, received harassment from someone over their defense of my art. This is NOT okay.
We don't know who it was, but we suspect it was someone within the gassyfur community. If you have a problem with me, talk to me. My DMs are open. Don't drag other people down for the sake of slighting me.
If you come forward, I'll keep this on the DL. I don't think you deserve a callout, but you do deserve a personal kick in the ass for trying to attack someone who wasn't involved.
That being said, I realize now that even if I don't think that a character is underage, that doesn't stop other people from thinking that way, and I can't be in an echo chamber.
After a conversation in my personal Discord server, I've been exposed to different perspectives and come to the conclusion that I could have unintentionally invited pedophilic behavior into my circle.
I acknowledge that my previous art can be interpreted as cub, even if I did not intend for it to be. I intend to own up to my actions and resolve to portray any NSFW of future potentially underage characters with a different design.
Ideally, I wouldn't be drawing any NSFW of underage characters at all, but I won't know until I've done my research. I apologize for my behavior and any damage I may have done as a result of it.
If you made it this far, thank you for reading. I'll try to keep the content I produce as free of controversy as possible.
This caught the attention of a couple of followers (who will remain anonymous) who approached me to talk about the implications of drawing kink art of a starter Pokémon. Their argument: it was cub.
My initial reaction was defensive because I had not considered Sprigatito to be a cub character. There was no official source for its age or classification outside of Bulbapedia.
My solution was to delete the picture from both Twitter and FA and go on my way. I hadn't given it much thought after that and decided to upload the most recent Sprigatito image yesterday, thinking that it was over with.
Today,
Pheromoan18 a close friend of mine, received harassment from someone over their defense of my art. This is NOT okay.We don't know who it was, but we suspect it was someone within the gassyfur community. If you have a problem with me, talk to me. My DMs are open. Don't drag other people down for the sake of slighting me.
If you come forward, I'll keep this on the DL. I don't think you deserve a callout, but you do deserve a personal kick in the ass for trying to attack someone who wasn't involved.
That being said, I realize now that even if I don't think that a character is underage, that doesn't stop other people from thinking that way, and I can't be in an echo chamber.
After a conversation in my personal Discord server, I've been exposed to different perspectives and come to the conclusion that I could have unintentionally invited pedophilic behavior into my circle.
I acknowledge that my previous art can be interpreted as cub, even if I did not intend for it to be. I intend to own up to my actions and resolve to portray any NSFW of future potentially underage characters with a different design.
Ideally, I wouldn't be drawing any NSFW of underage characters at all, but I won't know until I've done my research. I apologize for my behavior and any damage I may have done as a result of it.
If you made it this far, thank you for reading. I'll try to keep the content I produce as free of controversy as possible.
