Have you ever been in a situation like this before? Let me know down below!

I never realized "fetish farming" was the term for it before today, but I absolutely knew a guy who did exactly that, back on tumblr. For those who don't know, there was this guy in the Wreck-it Ralph fandom who would go around to different popular blogs and ask a seemingly innocent question, along the lines of "Can video game characters die of a broken heart?" Before going on for a few more sentences about... the science behind dying of a broken heart, I think? I don't recall exactly, it's been a long while, but that first sentence is chiseled into my brain at this point. I recall first encountering him in 2013-2014, but I've heard he was already a Thing(tm) years before that, and I've also seen him in more recent times around the Undertale fandom, asking more or less the same question, just swapping out "video game characters" for "monsters". I remember the posts being fairly recent, too, meaning this guy's been at it for nearly a decade, if not over a decade at this point. Some people just never change, I guess.

Cheerleaders, that can’t be that ba- *sudden flashback* Ooooooh…

I'm on Devianart so I have some tips on what do when someone asks for an art request at least on the website. - Always check what the user favorites is there's something off on their gallery, that's a red flag. - If they insists you to draw that feels off or makes you uncomfortable, ignore them, or even better, block them. - Add some rules of what what you can and can't draw, trust me on this one. That's why I limit requests and what people could ask me to draw. Especially if they sound like a fetish.

The worst part of fetiśh farming/mining is that the people who do it specifically get off on the fact they’re tricking someone into unknowingly providing them with material. That’s why they don’t just go to an adult artist or sex workers with their requests (like they should) and instead resort to targeting people, usually KIDS, who they think won’t know better. It’s predatory and despicable.

You're very lucky that you still got the old screenshot of your old KZfaq channel layout, Courtney. I miss the old KZfaq so much! AMVs, animation drawing, Windows Movie Maker, those were the good times. I feel like being a kid back in the 2000s again.

Ah, the universal story of fetish weirdos approaching art circles. I'm sure everyone old enough has one, for me it's the tutu guy from around 2013-2016 in the pokemon community, who did exactly as his name implies. EDIT: Holy crap, I didn't expect the tutu guy to actually be brought up in the video. I knew he was everywhere on tumblr, but geez...

I’m glad she made this video for old and new artists that are coming here to post art and make themselves and other people happy! It’s good that she puts this information out there!

What a lovely young man, I sure hope he doesn't do something absolutely horrific

Back when I used DeviantART, I did a series called “Ask Nix!” (Very original, I know) around the age of 12, someone kept asking me if I could draw my OC with her head detached, no gore, just her head popped off like a broken doll. I was so creeped out that I addressed him as my OC just saying “haha, no”

"now draw her getting bad gacha rolls in Fate Grand Order."

I have had people "innocently" ask me to draw fetish art before when I opened up requests as a young artist. I never followed through with those requests mostly because I just didn't want to draw them. I didn't know they were fetishes back then, but I obviously know now that I'm older. I have somehow dodged those bullets due to lacking the motivation to draw such art.

I have never interacted or knew about “The Cheerleader Man” at all, but I did do some research about this person because I got too interested about this user. I won’t mention all of the details for obvious reasons but I will mention that this user was mutual or friends with one of my followers, so small world, and I will also mention that KZfaq wasn’t the only place they did this. This is a pretty good cautionary tale for younger viewers and artists with a pretty good moral at the end. It shows the dangers of requests and to avoid them in case it fuels someone’s desires. The questions you’ve mentioned are also comments I’ve seen before on two art related websites, one of course being Deviantart and the other site I won’t mention since the latter is more NSFW based. Like you said, it's okay to have a fetish but given how much the user was doing this, it's so creepy. Anyways, great job with this video!

I'd heard of the burp guy. But have you heard of the weirdest example that I recently learned of...THE "buy a lot of Wonder Bread" fetish farmer?

That's awful! What kind of sick person would ask someone to draw their OC in a cheerleader outfit? Disgusting! Anyways, can you draw Sonic the Hedgehog and Shrek giving b-

As I take the time to recontextualize everything in my childhood I find it oddly humorous in a way that the things I saw frequently in my childhood may or may not have had sinister or completely benign origins, just the power of innocence to see the best in everything I suppose. I barely interacted with anyone when youtube and the sonic fandom started out because my family warned me so I was relatively fearful but still enjoyed seeing trends without actually engaging to understand where they come from. Sonic characters in Cheerleader outfits was one of the trends and in my mind I was like "Oh my gosh that is so cute, I love seeing Cream wear that little get up Isn't she just adorable" weird to me that there was an actual person *requesting* this art instead of the fandom doing it just because they genuinely might find it cute themselves.

I'm really glad situations like this are becoming more known because something similar happened when I was about 12 and I was fairly new to posting art at the time. Basically someone asked me to draw inflation art of a character they liked and I didn't know it was a f3tish until my older brother pointed it out and I immediately stopped drawing that person's requests.

i remember once that someone requested me to draw Lucario's feet on Gardevoir. Younger me took it as Lucario winning against Gardevoir, lol

well it could be worse; you could be asked to draw your OC bound and gagged with wonder-bread and deforestation...

Wow This video brought back a memory I had completely forgotten about. Back when I was about 12 (so like 2014 or 2015) or something I started taking art requests on deviant art. I would draw peoples ocs, or even a tv show character. One day I got a comment from some guy who was obsessed with this childrens tv show. It was a super crappy animated mouse show or something. And he said something along the lines of “could you draw the main mouse character huge and holding his mouse friend?” I was confused but willing to do it, however before I could get to drawing it, another user commented under my post and saved me. They said “hey, dont do that. They’re well known for asking tons of artists for this stuff, its their fetish.” So thanks to that user, I dodged a bullet.

I don't get these kinds of people, like plenty of artists exist who do fetish art normally, there's really no reason to exploit artists who don't for it when you can just go and pay an artist who makes that kind of stuff already for it. I've had friends from the SFW side of my artist circles get these exact kind of messages and it's always weird to me because plenty of Fetish artists exist so why go out of your way to get it from the handful of artists who don't do that kind of work?

Holy crap, this suddenly took me back to my DeviantArt years, I think I was about twelve or thirteen? Some rando kept asking me to draw characters wearing pyjamas. It never struck me as weird back then, but I still never did what they asked out of sheer laziness… x) I wonder what they’re up to know…

it's interesting hearing about strange and rather unusual incidents like this. I knew some fans who were into Streetfighter who were... into some things I will not mention here. And it became very apparent the person was rather obsessed with this thing. To a point where whenever I saw this person, I would avoid mentioning any female characters from anything. It was a really creepy experience.

"Can you draw your Oc holding your breath" Aw man... the fact I knew where this was going

I remember this one time someone asked me to draw Vanny from fnaf in latex gloves, and I knew IMMEDIATELY that this was a fetish, but I honestly didn't have anything better to do, so I did it and it actually helped me improve my art Then they asked again so I just drew a quick shitpost the most asexually way possible and they got pissed off and when they asked for the real deal I just blocked them lmao

Once I received a request to draw some characters from Witch cuddling under a tree. I denied it because I'm not in the fandom but I took a peek at the requester's favorites. It was chock full of the same characters "cuddling" under trees. And I use the term "cuddling" loosely.

There’s only one good “fetish farmer” and that’s the Macro StarFox Falco guy because he’s actually a good human being who actually cares about the artist he commissions

These people are the most heinous people I can think of in the art community. Like how depraved do you have to be to go to CHILDREN to get them to draw your sexual fantasy. It's so disgusting.

I got asked once on DA to draw Roxanne Wolf and Vanny and as they put “Trapped in bubbles” I never responded- And then another one which featured one of my oc’s known as Chance which someone commented talking about their oc being a contortionist and oddly enough they kept talking about wanting their characters neck to be snapped?? 💀

I had this similar story, not just in the Sonic community, but in other communities. I dealt with this in Deviantart days years ago, back around 2014 -2016. One who is very into ticklish, One who wanted me to draw feet (sadly did...) and one who into toilet fetish that ask me to borrow my art for it. (Thankfully I didn’t replied to him) I'm so happy you spread this awareness whitch, I wish it spread more, so people don't make this mistake as I did.

I sooooo miss this era with people making stories of their Sonic OCs on youtube. It was the start and inspiration of why I have my OCs today. :3

It reminds me a guy who kept wanting commission me to draw cream as a giant. I did it once (needed money) and I felt weird and when they asked again I told them I was uncomfortable with the concept and they stop.

this is a certified Wonderbread Man moment

god it's so funny how exactly half of the examples you gave rang alarm bells for me. both times I knew all too well about one and had never heard of the other.

My first and only experience with fetish farming has been in the Moomin Tumblr fandom. There was this person who went around asking artists to draw Sniff, a Moomin character, wearing flip flops and/or swimming trunks. It became sort of an inside joke and I was kinda aware of it until I got an ask from the guy’s main blog requesting I partake in this... tradition???? I forgot about the ask by the time a friend actually confirmed this was, in fact, fetish farming and all of my mutual and I blocked them

Oh gosh, I've had an encounter with a tutu fetish farmer. In 2016 I created a Deviantart account to separate Sonic stuff from main, and after posting a single pic of my OC, someone asked me to draw that OC in a tutu. I didn't really know what fetishes were at the time (though at least I was 18+), so I drew it, thinking it was a cute idea. Then they tried RPing with me and felt a lil pushy despite me saying I have no interest in RPing It wasn't even anything big, but now I'm hesitant on drawing tutus, whether in Sonic art or not. Which is a shame because I think they're cute :C

why were 2013-2016 fandoms infiltrated by mfs with the most OUT THERE fetishes commissioning random people with innocuous terms??? did everyone want to be the wonder bread guy???

Thanks for sharing your beautiful cautionary tale. Well I’ve never been in an incident like this. I agree about the moral of the story you said at the end.

Never knew there was as term for it-- 'fetish farming' makes a lot of sense now. Happened to me a few years ago, "harmless" request for Astra from "How To Train Your Dragon" getting hypnotized by Kaa from "The Jungle Book." Doodled it without thinking too hard other than "who tf is Kaa" Only realized it was a fetish when a good friend of mine, who was way more familiar with the internet asked me "when did you start drawing fetish art?" I'm glad she told me, but holy shit did she startle me!

The thing that upsets me is These Fetish Farmers always target younger and naive artists. And the sweethearts fall for it because this is a form of validation for their art and Ocs. It's even worst in Fandoms where Ocs and their creators tend to be singled out too. If you have a fetish, good for you. But commission a NSFW or fetish artist. A lot of them will draw their ocs for your kink/fetish because money is money. Plus Ya know, They know exactly what they are getting into with that line of commission.

I pretty much agree, Exploiting young artists for your fetish is a no no and it's best to ask or commission an fetish artist to do that tbh

Thank you for putting out this video. I wish I saw it when I was younger or someone told me. I’ve had a long history of posting my art on the internet and have encountered many of these types of people. It happens in all fandoms and on any platforms. Fetish farming people usually target smaller/younger artists because they are more likely to be unaware that a mundane yet weirdly specific request is a fetish. Bigger/older artists will usually see the pattern and call them out for trying to use them for their own pleasure. It’s sad that it’s so common.

so. when I was in amino, there was this guy in the adventure time amino that kept asking artists including me to draw specifically pb and Marceline with a pig nose. we've reported him multiple times but the "leaders" did nothing because they were friends with this creep, so I left and I doubt anything's changed. there was this other guy in sonic amino that wanted a nsfw of Tails in a maid dress and a diaper, and I declined so fast and blocked him. at the end of the day Amino is trash and a cesspool for predator's.

Glad you talked about this. Ugh...reminds me of a time on DA when I still did free requests. I thought putting up rules for them was a no brainer, stick to the rules, I even put in bold NO FETISHES......and what does the thrid person do? Ask me for one....I was a confused people pleaser at the time, as the request was of a fakemon with swirly eyes and I didn't know that was a fetish. I had drawn (not uploading it yet) it with it's eyes closed walking in a field (though my gut was still screaming the red flag at me, despite trying to make the piece innocent. Listen to your gut, people. It knows somehow.) but later, the guy DM'd me and showed me a picture of a dog laying on it's back, belly exposed, looking up at the camera and wanted me to draw his fakemon like that. I deleted what I'd drawn right after and (after breaking away from my annoying people pleasing self) asked the guy if this was for a feitish. He was honest, surprisingly, and said it was, so I was honest, told him I deleted the pic and would not to his request.....Dude had a small tantrum after that, DMing me about 5 times wanting me to continue, denying yet not denying that the request really was a weird fetish. I ignored him, blocked him and stopped doing free requests after that. One bad apple spoiled the bunch for me. Even now, not touching DA ever again, I'm not giving free requests to just anyone ever again. Respect an artist's rules. Seriously.

Never heard of this incident till now, and I’m a little confused.

Yeah once had someone attempt by asking "I wonder what this character would look in a Tutu!"...apparently attempted this with both me, and a former friend of mine, and when neither of us complied he buggered off :/

I commission consenting artists to draw fetish work for me, but I will admit I fell victim to fetish farming multiple times from seemingly innocent things. Guess even as someone with a fetish I can’t tell what’s a fetish and what’s not :(

As someone who used deviantart regularly as a kid, I'm surprised I never got these kinds of requests. However, I did have similar situations. I had an irl "friend" who would beg me to become apart of his foot fetish, even after telling him time after time I wasnt into that. And I saw an artist get fetish fanart of their characters. It doesnt help that its a normalized thing for people on deviantart to flaunt their fetish around where minors can see it. I guess what i'm trying to get at is, if you're a young or beginner artist, and something makes you uncomfortable: set boundaries, tell them no. And if people dont respect those boundaries then they probably arent worth your time.

Back in my deviantArt days once upon a time I posted an innocent drawing of myself wearing a turtleneck sweater and long skirt, what I usually wore at the time, for one of those "meet the artist" things you'd had for your profile, and I got this ond dude in my comments aggressively begging me to draw "that character" (me...) in that same outfit but... tied up and with a bag covering my head. Like I was being kidnapped. Yeah. One glance at that guy's favorites and it was all the same theme: young girls wearing turtleneck sweaters and long skirts tied up with bags over their heads. Most of them drawn by young artists who got hounded by that guy's requests. There were over a hundred pieces, that guy was dedicated. I was what, 14 at the time? Maybe 15? Not entirely sure cause I'm 24 now, it's been a while lol. Just my luck that something so innocent I did as a kid would attract the attention of the creep with the most specific fetish ever x_x I don't miss being an unattended kid in fandom

Oh god, when I was 13-14 I did so many Deviantart requests for a guy who would always ask for characters on pogo sticks. His whole gallery was just stock photos of pogosticks. Wasn't until a few years later it suddenly hit me and I felt really weird about it.

I knew a guy who had one for characters getting wrapped in tissues like a mummy he was a chill dude

The 2000s were a wild time 💀

I think the most relevant example I can think of that most people might know due to meme status is the wonderbread guy

I once got a request to draw one of my OCs who wore glasses losing those glasses in a Velma from Scooby Doo type situation. I thought this prompt was funny and innocent so I did it. I didn’t bother questioning it cuz it seemed harmless. This same person later came back and asked me to draw “shoe loss art”. so I blocked them and joked about it with my friends. I was 14.

I’ve been in a similar situation. When I was 12, someone asked me to draw their human version of Lapis Lazuli from Steven Universe. I don’t think this was really the fetish part? But I drew it bc the design was cute! Then, later, they messaged me again with something like “I have another request” so I asked what it was. Then they said something like “please draw something for me… my fetish…” and uhh. I said “no” before they could specify. What a creep…

I remember seeing one of these in the comments of Ask The Sonic Heroes about five years ago. Forget what that person's vice was. Thought to myself "Why would you do this, _especially_ so publicly?" I think you put a good message in the end there, too. If you've got a thing, and it's not hurting anyone, there's really no shame to be had, but also don't try to manipulate people into doing it without knowing what it's for; there's fetish artists for a reason, bruh. They're all over the place. Commission one.

There's this one dude on Twitter who has an account dedicated to female Simpsons characters wearing ninja outfits. I actually got asked by this guy to do a drawing for him, which I took as "holy shit I'm popular enough to get noticed by Simpsons Ninja Guy!" I didn't end up doing the request though, he didn't want to order a commission from me. At least he was applicable about it!

This is a tale that needs to be talked about more.

I remember always wanting to join in on the fun and post my sonic ocs on youtube or deviantart, but my older brother would always tell me how dangerous the sites could be. It always frustrated me, but now I can see why he did it- And to think, i thought the wonderbread guy was bad

see in this day and age we've seen enough wonderbread guys to know what to look out for, but we didn't have that back in 2007. jesus it was a scary ass time to be a minor with 20 year olds lurking around hoping to groom someone into their fetish

Me & my friends have dealt with a dude who has an uncomfortable obsession with buzzcuts, and this guy would be asking for characters like Spinel getting one, and he would ask minors to draw it as well as grown adults. Hell I even fell for it myself with the caption "hope I didn't get fetish farmed haha" Me & my friends make fun of him and crack jokes about it, and unfortunately he's still out there creeping up on people. The line "Hello my name is Josh" is permanently engraved in our memories

I remember this guy, oh nooooooo Also the sound that came out of me to see my old video pop up on the screen was not human. I am honored that one of my old creations has made its way so far that it showed up here. It is honestly so surreal to me

I think the most infamous version of this is the wonderbread guy. I’m glad that at least the tactics have become obvious for a lot of people now, and are more easily avoided in some way.

Similar, but a little different for me! Rather than draw art, I once got dm-ed by someone asking me to play a "scene making" game. I was younger and kind of bored and I had played similar games with friends before as just some kind of silly roleplay thing at, so I agreed. It seemed pretty innocent at first but the questions felt stranger and stranger as they went on as they began to hyperfixate on the subject matter (a character jumping into a body of water) more and more. I was starting to get really creeped out when they began wanting me to describe how the character felt "as the water enveloped their body" and, no joke, what they were wearing what they jumped in. Needless to say, I stopped messaging that person *very* quickly.

As someone who watched the video already, I can tell you all exactly what the incident was about... ...but I'm not gonna >:)

This is going to be an interesting story

2:28 Technically you can still do that today with Community posts...but the main difference is that the comments USUALLY have to pertain to what the Community post was about. Any unrelated comments (unless it's for a good laugh) will be overlooked.

Yoo, I just made a PSA post on tumblr talking about fetish farming/mining. I guess it's happening a lot more frequently recently? But yeah man. These people are gross. It's fine to have a fetish, but to get artists to unknowingly and nonconsensually draw their material is so wrong. ESPECIALLY when they're getting minors involved. Then they act like it's not a fetish and that it's completely innocent, and it's just... Man we know what you're doing just stop. They're scumbags for not paying, not being honest, and preying on those who are naive or are minors.

do i even wanna know... OF COURSE I DO!

Thank you for becoming my fandom aunt, Courtney

I don't even do much art, but I got this on a twitch stream of a Homestar Runner game of all things. There's an individual who lurks on twitch for streams of the Strong Bad point and click adventure game and asks them to play Chapter 2 so they can see the scene of Homestar crying. I later found their tumblr, where they constantly request art of the same scene... needless to say, I was uncomfortable.

i remember there was a similar guy on miiverse (primarily targeting young artists as well) who would always ask people to draw their characters with braids?? it was super bizarre and one of my online friends at the time was constantly getting messaged by this guy about it

reminds me of someone going around tumblr asking pokemon askblogs if they could puff their cheeks out 💀

I think I’ve been victim to this. I once had someone ask me to draw Peach running in her panties. I was a dumb kid and didn’t know any better and did it. Thankfully, it’s deleted but I unfortunately helped his fetish farming

I had a similar experience but it wasn’t the same guy. This guy commented for me to draw my Puyo Puyo oc with Juggler cookie from cookie run. They told me to draw them getting electrocuted, in the rain, and in a snowstorm. I checked their profile and they liked other art that I assume they asked other artists to draw with their characters or other characters. After watching your video I realized uhh that was a mistake- I didn’t know this term existed till now. Anyways, thank you Courtney

I still gotta wonder, why don't these... "fetish farmers" just draw the darn thing themselves? Like, I like to commission artists to draw their characters interacting with Dragon Quest monsters because I love to support both, the creator I like with a character design I already like AS IT IS, and an underappreciated (not so much anymore, thankfully) RPG series; and, plain and simple, because I love fictional universes interactions, and a crossover feels more "official" if it's done by the original author - so if it's with a series I enjoy, all the better. Now, I've seen fetish art of DQ monsters and... ugh, I'm not into it, OK? It's just not for me. And if I did want a cute fictional character appear in a certain way to appeal to some gross fantasy, I would definitely not go spreading my wish around. Or maybe they get more of a kick out of it when it's "official"?

I feel like I've experienced this sort of thing multiple times back in my deviantart days, but I can't remember any specifics. But I do recall browsing the Disney fandom about five years ago and there were a weird amount of drawings of Merida from Brave and Penny from Bolt being age-swapped. They all seemed to be done by different artists too, and I remember being very confused by this supposed "trend." I didn't do any investigating but I had a strong feeling it was just one person going around asking these artists to draw the same thing. Weird vibes all around.

Reminds me of that one guy in the fandom I'm in that's really into drawing... ADULT ART of the characters, usually involving feet and yoga. (Not naming him because he could be watching this) Normally I wouldn't have a problem with that, but I find it creepy because most of the characters are preteen boys and he's an adult. The KOTZ fandom as a whole kinda has a problem with that stuff, some people just are VERY obsessive over ships, some even involving underage characters with older ones, non-consenting acts, and siblings. Like can we not draw Saga and Kanon doing that stuff and just get back to discussing which magical sparkly battle armor is coolest like Athena intended?

omg I watched Mindai13's " ugly " video so much as a kid, I had no idea this video was made due to fetish farming wtf 😰😰 I'll never be able to watch that video the same way again 😭😅 thank you so much for the informative video Courtney ~!! ☺️🙏✨💖

I get a lot of these questions on my art tiktok and there have been so many times that they got pissed off because all I'd reply with is “🤡”

Damn i forgot YT used to be like that. Things change indeed.

God, I remember when my friend was having an art request stream and some guy decided to drop in and fetish farm from them. He only got one picture before he wanted more and it was only then did we realize that there was something up and blocked him. I also used to follow someone who would do fetish farming in DeviantArt, especially since they had a thing for long skirts and I just so happened to be drawing exactly that at the time. Don't think I ever did any of their requests though. But this thing still happens nowadays so you youngsters better be careful out there. Even if the fetish is tame, that person is still taking advantage of you for their gratification.

Back then the dude got away with it but nowadays if he wasn’t kicked out someone would call him out on his malarkey… oh wait I miscounted, 30 someones would’ve called him out on his malarkey within a few hours at minimum.

Holy shit! I had someone ask for my character to be in a tutu multiple times. I made a video talking about this. However in was in a different fandom. But you know, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

Huh, this'll be news to me. I'm scared.

Okay cool but can you please draw SNT filling out a job application? Specifically for Jimmy John’s

I don't have a fetish farming story, but there is an ongoing situation on reddit that's similar, this is why if you have a crush on a fictional character you NEED to keep it in check So there's this guy who really likes Amy Rose, he goes around Sonic related subreddits posting about her On r/SonicTheHedgehog it's Amy Rose On r/MoonPissing it's Amy Rose Even if the subreddit is about a different Sonic character that isn't Amy, he would somehow include Amy in it, like her hanging out with Tails or a meme of Shadow with his gun with the title "To the Amy Rose haters" He even states that he has developed PTSD over people hating on Amy Rose on the Sonic News Network Edit: Turns out I do have a fetish farming story, there's a guy on DA who comments on people's profiles asking "Do you like Peach, Rosalina, or Daisy?" after answering with your favorite princess he would ask you to draw her in some outfit, sending a picture of her with her feet out as a reference

I remember back in 2018-2019 I had a “friend” who would use an alternate account to write… very questionable fanfictions about his OC and my OC. It was very off-putting considering my OC and I were both essentially children at that time.

God, I remember the tutu guy in the pokemon ask blog community on tumblr. He would ask me, but I always deleted the comments. Mostly because I did not want to draw clothes in the first place, haha

I’m glad we are beginning to acknowledge that people with fetishes are often but not always weirdos and Creeps that are problematic.

Now draw her accomplishing all her hopes and dreams.

When i made adventure time art a guy would ask if i could draw characters in animal suits it felt off and i entertained him only twice before refusing to do more and asking he pay commission he got upset and refused so i blocked him.

This just got on my reccomended. Around the time when Animal Crossing new horizons came out, there was a person with a strange fixation on male villagers bellies, more specifically if their bellies were ticklish. I knew of tickle fetishes but gave them the benefit of the doubt as I seen stuff like this that weren’t fetishes, but in retrospect they talked about it in a way that made me realize it was so clearly a fetish

*Fetish Farming*, darn I never knew there was a word for it!

*suddenly remembers the request i got from 2009* Me:NOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo My bro: what the fu- Me:*ends up finding the art piece and explaining why* Him: aOhhhhhhh shiiiiii-

As a pretty young artist on the internet I really hope I don’t run into any of those kinds of creeps. It makes me disgusted to think people actually do that.

there was this one guy on deviantart who would hop into peoples notes to ask them to draw the persons female oc/s (usually theyd use said ocs name/s) shivering in the cold or a snow storm. one of my old friends got him, then i saw someone else who fell victim to it

When I started using DeviantArt a few years ago, I got a request from someone to draw Daisy inside a bubble. Didn't mind much of it at the time, and drew it as a cute pixel art (with Peach included because honestly why not, it was funny innocent scenario). Only after I realize people apparently as a thing to bubbles for some reason. Weirded me out a little bit ngl. Overall, nothing bad happen from it, and I like what I've created, but it was a weird experience nonetheless.

To hear wind of this really baffles me. I kinda glad that I don't get comments like that with my fan fictions. I feel bad for the people who get them and are constantly annoyed by it. And to be asked to draw characters doing something harmless like burping or showing their feet. That's... Really gross, my friend. But great video Courtney! This is why I always watch videos about being aware on the internet.

Once upon a time... There was a man named "Pablo"... Pablo was not a very good man... He liked to... MAKE YOUNG ARTISTS DRAW WEIRD ART OF THEIR OCS!