Yogfan

As the title says. DeviantArt fucked around and found out, and I've made the decision that I can't deal with this site anymore. I'm finally leaving for good. I will be moving to Inkblot for most of my artwork from now on! https://inkblot.art/profile/yogfan14

Twitter may be going to shit as well, but I'm gonna survive there for as long as possible. For those who want to follow me there as well, here you go! https://twitter.com/yogfan14

I also stream on Twitch! I stream just about every Friday. I play a lot of games and I work on webcomic stuff sometimes! https://www.twitch.tv/yogfan0414 You can catch TriGem War on Webtoons for every update as well! https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/the-legend-of-zelda-trigem-war/list?title_no=480060

And, finally, I do have a Discord server where we chat, play games, overall have a good time and I post WIP's of the comic as I work on it sometimes! I also announce anything going on in my life as well as announcing when stream goes live. https://discord.gg/uPPmNz7

You are all more than welcome to follow me on these sites since I will be deleting my DA account before the end of the weekend in order to protect my art from these AI fucks as best I can. I will be working on updating my Inkblot account in the coming days with the comics and with recent artwork in general, so be sure to follow me for art updates there!! Thank you to everyone who is still here and continued to support me throughout everything. I knew the day would come eventually where I finally leave DeviantArt behind; I just didn't expect it to be like this. You're all amazing, thank you so much <3

When you make money off of a commission that is revealed to be a trick and troll art after you've already given them the file.

I can't make this shit up. This just happened to me.

A few years ago, I made a "buyer beware" post about a guy named "DaemonBomb" who had been consistently harassing my friend, Mackey, over a commission Daemon had ordered. They were being very rude and impatient to a grown woman who was in college AND holding a full-time job. A lot of sensible artists ended up blocking them because they did not want to go through the hellscape that Mackey had to. I thought they were gone, I'd never have to deal with them again. I was wrong.

A couple of months ago, someone by the name of MP3Framework commissioned me to draw what I believed was a fanfiction cover for their story of their OC. They just just revealed to me today after finishing it that I was instead tricked into drawing troll art, and they also came clean and announced who they were: Daemon.

They asked me not post this piece anywhere, but in light of the news, I'm no longer abiding by that since they have made it clear that they are not interested in paying me a hefty fee for tricking me in order to be allowed to post it.

Here the piece I was tricked into making:

I don't know who the OC owner is. I can't seem to find them here. The OC name is Love Note and I would love to find whoever owns this OC and apologize to them straight and explain everything.

If you see this posted anywhere NOT in a warning, IT WASN'T ME AND WAS POSTED WITHOUT MY PERMISSION.

Had I known the true nature of this commission beforehand, I never would have accepted it. I would never make troll art of someone's OC, no matter how much I disliked them. This is against my nature as a person and I feel HORRIBLE about this.

Please spread the warning and help me find the owner of this OC.

Don't be fooled.

The anti-NFT system that DeviantArt has in place is actually a result of a paid collaboration with Opensea, which is an NFT dealer.

For those who don't know what an NFT is, let me give you a good analogy:

Imagine you go to a museum and you want to buy the Mona Lisa. The curator says "sure, I'll burn down part of the Amazon for you in order to own it if you pay me 7 Million." So you buy it, they write down a note that you own it, but throw it in some obscure closet, so no one actually knows if you already own it and can also buy it for themselves and it's so lost in the junk that people would have to jump through hoops in order to figure out that, yes, it's you that owns it. However, even though you now "own" the Mona Lisa, you can't actually take it home. Instead, they just give you a cheap copy of it, likely a laminated poster of it that comes in the cardboard tube. If none of that made any sense, then, unfortunately, you understood it perfectly. NFT's are incredibly dangerous for both artists and the environment. Art theft is worse now than ever before, and the energy consumption of one NFT is comparable to that of the entirety of Sweden in a whole year.

Opensea is a dealer of NFT's. Which DeviantArt collaborated with. By owning a CORE membership, you are willingly giving some of your money to an NFT dealer for this stupid deal that isn't even effective.

Here's a thread with more detail on it than I can explain:

I have already cancelled my subscription to CORE. As a result, scheduled updates for the comics are not possible anymore. It'll be whenever I remember to update, and, considering that I'm rarely active here anymore, it's probably not going to be too often.

If you want better, more frequent updates on my works, you can follow me on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/yogfan14

And subscribe to the comic on Webtoons, where I'm updating it much more frequently and regularly as opposed to DeviantArt anymore:

And ALSO join my Discord for regular updates on the comic's progress and also hear me complain about Genshin Impact (I say as I'm in a Genshin brainrot once again)

I'm kind of terrified that DeviantArt is eventually going to go full NFT mode, and if that day does come to pass, you can expect that I will be deleting my account here and moving fully to Twitter/Webtoons. I'm not even active here anymore all that much so tbh it'd probably be better for y'all to follow me elsewhere, anyway.

#fucknfts

I didn't want to do this, nor do I like doing journals like this, but at this point I am legitimately being harassed (I have receipts) and since he has blocked me back, I need your guys' help. I beg of you: Go REPORT and BLOCK Banjoisawesome2019.

He and I used to be acquaintances (he claims "friends" but he was never actually a friend to me, just a fan of my works). Recently, we had a pretty bad fallout and I was forced to block him, but he is obsessed with me and is continuing to badmouth me in public, slandering my name when he was the one in the wrong.

He is childish, entitled, simping over MINORS (he's a decade older than me. I'm 21.), and is overall very pushy, insensitive, and has a tendency to manipulate for attention/forgiveness via guilt-tripping. The final push was when I had found that he was talking shit about me behind my back. I have dealt with enough people trying to abuse and manipulate me. I'm done, and he's angry that I won't bend over for him, and is now actively harassing me because he couldn't grow up and listen to me when I expressed discomfort at his actions.

My friends on my Discord server can vouch for me on ALL of these.

I unfortunately do not have receipts for this one because he was a coward and deleted his messages after being called out, but he was caught simping over Callie from Splatoon. Granted, she is an adult, though it's still creepy that a 32 y/o grown man is simping over a teenager, adult or not (Callie is confirmed 18 by Nintendo). Mere days after being told not to go after younger people because it's creepy, he was caught simping over BotW Zelda, who is, canonically, stated in the game, 17. She is a MINOR, and a grown adult is simping over a minor. When called out for this by my moderators, he became extremely angry and defensive, going so far as to threaten and insult my moderators.

He also would consistently bother me in DM's on Discord, to the point where I would have to leave him on read just to get some air and relax on my lonesome, especially while streaming or just working on TriGem War (which I usually do alone, just listening to music). If I didn't respond right away, usually because I was at work and retail thinks that phones are the tool of the devil, he would start to guilt me and act like the victim, as if I really had any choice in ignoring him in that instance. Even though I would tell him that I usually work afternoons, he would continue to do this. (No receipts for this one; I have long since blocked and removed my convos with him.)

When he started joining my streams, which I was okay with at first, he quickly proved incompetent and that he has no respect for the rules. My good friends and Twitch mods can vouch for me (The VODs might be deleted by Twitch by now so I don't think I have receipts, will update if I find any), but he would consistently ignore and disrespect the rules, including backseating constantly (aka telling me how to play instead of letting me learn and figure it out) as well as spoiling things quite often, which takes away the experience of learning things myself and takes out all of that joy. Despite being warned and even timed out by mods several times for this behavior, he continued to backseat and spoil, to the point where I would have to tell him off/yell at him live on camera, to which he would instead chicken out like a dog with its tail between its legs, and just leave instead of apologizing and abiding by the rules that I set down so that my stream can be a comfortable, cozy community where we all love and respect each other. He would also constantly DM me during stream, when I'm focused on chat and my game, and then get upset when I don't respond right away. I rarely check Discord AT ALL during stream unless my moderators need something.

Also regarding stream, he once got very upset when I didn't get all overly-excited for his birthday while I was live, and then pulled THIS (grabbed by one of my mods when it happened):

Like that really just feels like guilt-tripping to me, and my mods all agreed with me. He had already made me fairly upset the days before, which is why I wasn't too enthusiastic alongside the fact that I was literally focused on my game. As you can see, he is also overusing tone indicators, and while I appreciated the hustle initially, as time went on, it was clear that he was using them to try and get out of trouble, which ain't okay. He would also advertise his own things in my stream. Advertising yourself on stream, unless given permission by the streamer, is extremely disrespectful. Ask any other twitch streamers, especially small ones like me, and they will agree with this. As well, he admitted to me live on stream that he is one of those Smash bros. fans that basically bullied Sakurai into adding Banjo & Kazooie, a series that has long been dead and likely is never going to relevant again. And he was proud of that. (Reminder that Sakurai wanted HERO from Dragon Quest in Smash, NOT BANJO & KAZOOIE. He was bullied into adding those two by smash fans like him.)

I eventually blocked him after finding out that he was talking shit about me behind my back, instead of actually talking to me and trying to work things out. Example A:

^^^ This was on someone's PUBLIC PROFILE. It began by him bringing me up into something I'm not even a part of with someone I don't even know. Continuing on, this person? I don't know them. I never, ever interacted with them. Yet they're calling me shallow as if they know me.

On the surface, it seems like just casual friend defense, but if you think about it, how would they have been able to form this opinion of me when I never even knew they existed? This indicates that Banjo was badmouting me to his so-called friends behind my back in public, and then acted like I wouldn't see it (note that I did no go looking for this, a friend brought this to my attention).

For context, some friends of mine went through Banjo's friend's favorites (they did it on their own), and found actual pedophilia, which already makes me feel very unsafe and discomforted with them. When we confronted Banjo about being friends with someone with pedophilia in their favorites, he, again, started to badmouth me and won't even call him out for having actual sexualized minors in his favorites (when, he'd probably listen to a friend before someone who he's already decided he doesn't like).

Note that this is all still PUBLIC. A convo like this should have been in DMs. It is no one else's business.

I don't have receipts for this next one unfortunately, but the day after I blocked the both of them for my own sanity and safety, I found a request for a group DM here on Discord, the two wanting to talk to me. However, it wasn't just the two of them. They had invited more people who I don't even know, and are probably their own friends. Basically, they got other people involved in their drama and tried to dogpile me instead of being civil and talking 1-on-1. This was, for me, the last straw. I blocked Banjo everywhere. You'd think this is the end of the story, oh no. It keeps going.

Banjo is so upset that I wouldn't bend the rules for him and baby him because he's autistic, that he is continuously calling me out and slandering me in public, when he's the one who crossed my boundaries and pushed my buttons too far. His friend also thinks that Banjo should be babied and given passes on taxic behavior due to his autism:

First off, this person has no idea what's actually going on behind the scenes, he is making assumptions based solely on Banjo's biased complaints because he has proven extremely entitled. ANY type of neurodivergency is no excuse for toxic behavior. I will adjust my approach based on such, but being autistic or holding any other kind of mental disorder does NOT grant you a "Get out of jail free" card for toxic behavior. I don't care if you're autistic, schizophrenic, ADHD, depressed, etc. I will hold you accountable for your toxic behavior towards myself and my friends. My autistic friends, who have been keeping me informed on what's going on backstage, are all very upset at this behavior. This behavior is EXACTLY why the autistic community has a bad reputation, because of people using their mental illnesses as an excuse for awful behavior.

Again, after being blocked, he was found to be talking shit about me, publicly, behind my back. He is OBSESSED with me and it's super creepy.

If someone doesn't like what you said, you apologize and learn from your mistakes, right? Nope. Banjo expects everything to be handed to him on a silver platter with no complaints. He has made numerous offensive comments that made both my minority and LGBT friends very suspicious and offended, which is why they also turned on him.

And this, this was today.

He is now actively being hostile because he couldn't accept the fact that he pushed me too far. He couldn't make a server just to hang out with his own friend group. No, he's made it clear that this is solely an attack on me. Once again, calling me out in public, instead of just accepting that a friendship between us just didn't work out and moving on with his life. A grown man a whole decade older than me is obsessed with me to the point of downright harassment. Two of his watchers actually ended up calling him out on it, and, as per his routine, he immediately got angry and defensive.

I don't know who you two are, but thank you for standing up for me. I really appreciate it, I do.

In regards to being called out, he is instead being a pissbaby and deleted the journal, but had to add this little tidbit on the bottom:

As if I'm going to apologize for standing my ground and setting boundaries. I know my worth, and I've had enough of people stepping all over me. It happened with at least two other people who I won't name, and it left me traumatized and with trust issues. I couldn't even talk about my own goddamn story (TriGem War) for like a month because one of those people left me feeling super anxious and feeling as if no one even cares, so why bother. I'm not letting that happen ever again.

Notice how no one notices when you're being provoked, only when you retaliate? Or how as soon as you set boundaries, you're suddenly the asshole? Yeah, that's what happened here.

I do not want you to attack them. I do not want you to go bully them on my behalf.

Just report them for harassment, block them, and move on. If I find out that you went to bully them, you WILL get an earful from me. Be the better person and just report, block, and move on.

I hate calling people out like this but I feel as if Banjo is a genuine threat after how he's treated my friends and I.

Please know the signs of abuse and manipulation before it gets this point. I don't want anyone to have to go through the hell that I have with these kinds of people. It was thanks to previous accounts of this happening to me that I was able to recognize the signs as early as I did.

Edit 7/11/21:

Would you look at this, these guys just can't take a hint and leave me alone. This was today!!

Literally, I am being bullied for having boundaries and zero tolerance for toxic behavior. If you don't like me, then LEAVE ME ALONE and forget I exist, it's not that hard to just not fucking bully people.

Upload in question, btw:

I have to go off on this, there is just so much WRONG with it.

Women DO NOT sexualize themselves for men's pleasure. It's called sex work, it's real, it's valid, and you're just a piece of shit who clearly thinks that women are just your toys. Educate yourself, for once.

Also, my room is on the top floor of my house and the largest bedroom aside from my parents' room. I'm only 21, which makes you, a 29-y/o cishet, look pretty sad and miserable, huh? And yes, still living with my parents because I legitimately just cannot afford a place of my own without going bankrupt. My dad is the one who claimed the basement by the way, and he's the one who brings in the paycheck at a government position, so sit down and stop making sexist assumptions just because you don't like me. Also, I have a paying job.

Humans have also only been around for 200,000 years, which isn't even close to just half a million. Women have been sexualized by gross dudebros like yourself and treated like objects for thousands of years, often being r*ped in the process. It's recently that women have had this much power, and you're just angry that we're done with men's bullshit. Educate yourself before you come after me with shit like this.

Literally just admit that you're sexist and thirsty for women's touch, it's not that hard.

Also fuck you, Doritos and Mountain Dew are DELICIOUS, I take a shower every 2-3 days, and also I'm a sex-repulsed ace, miss me w/ that shit. Please report these guys for harassment and bullying. This is unacceptable behavior coming from two grown-ass adults.

So Clip Studio Paint just released a new feature that allows us to capture timelapses of our pieces. Fucking genius, in my honest opinion. I've always wanted to do timelapses, but never had the patience. Now it's simple for me!!!

As a result of this, I've decided to update my $5 tier on Patreon! Patrons who pledge $5 or more a month get access to timelapses of each and every page, and likely every piece I work on anymore!! I highly encourage all of you to check out my Patreon, and maybe support me for early access to the pages of TGW?? We're only a few pages into Chapter 2 but that's because I burned myself out and also Genshin Impact but SHHH

https://www.patreon.com/yogfan14

If you support me I'll love you forever, I promise <3