Original date of upload: February 26th 2024

Original description: Ok, I need to get things straight, since while I'll admit that I've not been as loud and clear as I should have been in the past, I KEEP on getting harassed for requests well after I closed them after 2022
due to being overwhelmed, overworked and tired almost every day. So this is the last time I will say this, but STOP! Even a few of my fellow graffiti taggers from Jet Set and Bomb Rush agree with me!

Midway through November 2022, there was this... Incident involving awful behaviour on DeviantArt's part that made me realise that I could simply just not stay wholly on this site forever, and that I needed
to also start making greatness in other places. Newgrounds, Odysee, FurAffinity, maybe more! In fact, DA's awful behaviour actually kinda opened my eyes and I was actually preparing to be more active on
Newgrounds, and I realised that requests were REALLY causing me a headache. Though a headache would be a severe understatement...

So I decided that once 2023 came along, I'd close requests once and for all, save for a few good friends of mine. Everyone else was just limited to doing art trades with me. However, even after 2023 had
arrived, I was STILL being told "Oooh request!" or "Oh draw Sonic and Vanilla inflation comic!" or some other crap like that. Listen, I've seen Sonic's fanbase, and they are DISGUSTING, and arguably,
downright evil at times, and I'd be damned if I allowed myself to be dragged into that absolute Commoragh of toxicity and entitlement. I've been used and manipulated about by requesters from the Sonic
fandom once, and that garbage will never happen again!

And now that we're in 2024, the year of Jet Set Radio Future, I will NOT tolerate being bossed around and chained up and unable to make literally any of my own stuff. I have a lot of plans for 2024, such
as actually starting to put together the lore of Street Soul, start drawing the first few pages of Ordna Awakens, and even start making animations!

But I can't do that if I'm constantly being bugged and harassed to draw requests all day, now can I? Your greed is literally crushing my dreams and spirit!

Too Long, Didn't Read: I closed requests in 2023 to all but a few good friends because I was losing sleep, being overworked and not getting to do other, greater stuff, but I've still been getting
harassed for more despite saying that I've closed requests, and now I've had enough of this greed and ignorance!

And to anyone who decides to just ignore what I've just said and beg for a request anyway, expect me to block you. You have been warned.

Yours truly, Ziyo.


Oh boy, yeah I sure did have some real bad problems with people STILL asking me for requests, even in the heat of 2024. Like, some users are just really rude, for reasons I have already explained enough in the original description of this image. Hell, even to this very day on my now-abandoned DeviantArt account I still get people saying "Request please?" and it's quite tragic.

The image itself is pretty cool though, with the JSRF menu style layout and me and some Jet Set Radio Future themed fellas protesting against the requesters. Felix from Bomb Rush Cyberfunk takes centre stage in the drawing which is only fitting since he's had to deal with toxic people within his own community before like I had to back on DeviantArt.

Of course just one final note here: The no requests thing still applies. Even though I've left DeviantArt that doesn't mean I'll allow myself to be used again.