Hiya! I just wanted to make a brief statement on something in case anyone ever has any concerns. 

I was on DeviantArt as a kid back in the mid to late 2010's as a casual member of the "emo doggo" community. I never really made a name for myself. I just grew up being inspired by the artists within that community. I had a lot going on during that time though, and as a result, it was hard for me to keep up with many events that happened within that community online, especially pertaining to problematic individuals (except for peaceskiies, dogesaur, & more recently spacemvtt; I know about them). Time and time again I've found myself going down internet rabbit holes when I come across some artists or characters on TH out of anxiety, trying to figure out if a person has a history because I want to avoid any controversy that could come from unknowingly subscribing to someone with a bad rep or favoriting their character.

This is really time consuming. I'll spend anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour or more just trying to figure out who someone is. It doesn't help that 1) people change their names all the time and have alt accounts 2) lots of people's art or characters look similar to me so I get them mixed up 3) I have an awful memory. I am a college student. I can't keep up with this stuff. Frankly, it's impractical and exhausting to do such extensive searches on people. I just want to look at pretty characters :( So to avoid any issues, I wanted to say the following: