awww Im so late to the party I didnt knew this happend to you! I was wondering

why everything is so silent and just found out about this by accident >.<; still wanne send you some positive vibes!

its always super hard to make people understand that this kind of stuff is not intentional and do can happend! (I never check all

people I follow either) 

youre a very sweet soft bean and I know not everyone has the luxery to have meet you irl like I did or they would see that

youre definatly not into this kind of stuff nather be interested in doing harm. much love!!!

Honestly, I'm sorry people attacked you for this accident and that you've had to reiterate several times that it's part of Japanese culture to follow social media of people you meet. I keep seeing Western users attack Eastern users again and again out of not understanding or even caring to try to understand that there are different customs over there. It isn't fishy and suspicious that you mass followed accounts without paying attention to them: the social atmosphere that created the mass following was linked to your culture. That's abundantly clear to me, and I hope it becomes clear to others, too. I hope that unfollowing all those unsettling accounts has helped you with the skin-crawling feelings and any guilt you have over this. Personally, I don't see how you did anything wrong since as soon as you were made aware, you took action. That person should have contacted you privately instead of making a call-out post, though. The situation would have been resolved without putting you through unneeded stress.

I hope you're doing alright, Seel. This must be really stressful, stay safe. Sending love & support your way :]

Personally I would kinda like to see the call out post. Both you and Onta followed (Pujo? I think is their name?) The person responsible for alot of shota content and I think is the writer behind boku no pico, I know he has had another doujin turned into a hentai. (If I recall Onta has another twitter that he followed them on too, but that twitter has not been touched in a while.) Still, it seems rather odd you guys would follow this person that many times. (granted, you did only once but your close with Onta) I am sorry its just really sus.

Sending love your way <3 Everything you're saying makes perfect sense. I wish you weren't under such scrutiny.

what made me weirded out in the first place was them using the “child-like bodies” argument. The characters all seemed to be adult in the video shown. Though the whole going through your nsfw acc and picking out media they saw and their lack of even asking for a possible logical response and reason just shows it was flimsy to begin with. It irked me and came off as heavily biased. There was barely any evidence to show it was proving anything besides maybe a couple of them being an issue. I feel like they brought up the other creators to make you and them look bad. But I'm glad you said something that was actually reasonable and logical to it.

This is honestly one of my biggest pet peeves. When someone makes a callout or accuses you of something without having any info or contacting you first. Unless its something very serious with lots of evidence (Like pedophilia) I think that people should address the issue privately first before making a beware.  All of that aside, everyone makes mistakes. People can be careless or not pay attention to things, but that doesn't mean they condone underage NSFW behavior. I honestly didn't hear a thing about this until you made this bulletin, and is an understandable mistake, I'm glad it didn't blow up too bad :) 

they definitely shouldve just communicated in private with you about this :( this is such a big problem on twitter with people having secret accounts or dogwhistles in their bio most people wouldnt know, being purposefully obscure about what they like, going from posting content that's fine to content that's disgusting, etc. and a lot of the time you won't even see if they post it (whether you're following lots of people, rarely check the app, have words muted and don't see it, whatever.) and a lot of it is twitter's problem in the first place for allowing such content. i'm very glad you don't support that kind of thing and sorry that it had to be a huge public thing rather than cleared up in DMs. having sexual trauma i know how sickened and upset i would be to find out i had been following someone like that, so i hope you're okay and it isn't weighing too heavy on you. take care seel!

I hate how everyone is trying to cancel ugh

I'm happy everyone is supporting you <3 thanks for explaining you didn't do anything wrong aaa :0

some things said here kinda feel like [incredibly clear sign right there you'd have to be blind to miss] "i didn't know" but idk-

To be honest- I didn't hear anything about this. It really doesn't surprise me that something like this happened though- Considering your size and popularity. I think your explanation makes sense, hell. I know I'm still subscribed to people on YouTube I don't like or maybe agree with anymore- But I have so many subscriptions, it would be painful to search through all- To check every channels content to see if I still like them. People expecting that of you is kind of BS- But I do see where they got their point of view based on the things you said you've previously liked without knowledge/context of the character featured. 

I think really anyone would have come to that conclusion based on EVERYTHING you've said did happen- But the difference is immediately assuming, or looking into it. Unfortunately- On the internet peoples first response most of the time is to blast it. 

Woah . . . I was just popping onto your TH to browse your OCs.  I hadn't even heard of this going down.  That's really scary. . .  I've always been low-key worried that someone I'm watching may turn out to be a sketchy person and that people will try to accuse me of supporting questionable content while I'm just blissfully unaware of it existing.  I appreciate you coming out to address things and go bullet by bullet.  I tend to stay away from 99% of NSFW stuff just because I'm paranoid/it makes me uncomfy, but that whole situation sounds like it could really just happen to anybody.  Hell, there are probably numerous people we all watch that post problematic stuff and we'd be none the wiser for not going through every artist's entire gallery whenever we follow/watch someone.

I'm glad to see such positive comments on here, getting 'cancelled' is scary especially if you didn't even know there was an issue going on.
That person 'knew for a year' they said on the twitter mirror which makes the PSA seem really... stalkery. 

Not only does your explanation make complete sense, but that person really needs to work out their own issues, clearly.
Especially since a lot of their post was, honestly, more like a promotion piece for those artists... the whole thing was just handled horribly imo.

Hope you're doing well, be safe.

The idea that someone took the time to try and force connections to you, regardless of what kind of accusation, honestly makes me worried to even be on the internet these days XD I watch thousands of people, most of them 100% randomly and without any digging into who they are because there's just so many artists and people in the world - there's not enough time to vet everyone in such horrifying depths. I'd be more concerned this person stalked you just to stir some drama. lol I'm sorry you had to deal with this at all, and hope this person manages to find the energy to do less destructive things with their time than point fingers.

I appreciate the clarity and honesty of your response. I never saw the original callout but I know from my own experience on Twitter that it's hard to know what people have or will post on their accounts. It's also a little unreasonable to expect someone to research every artist they follow... I wish artists who drew pedophilic art would identify themselves but I guess that's not a very popular title for them, huh? Anyways, you handled this really well but I'm sorry you were blindsided by a callout altogether.

I'm really really bad at explaining my thoughts but the OG callout seems a little ableist to me as someone with autism. I am very frequently just liking and following willy nilly especially when I'm having a hard day. It has become a coping mechanism (stim?) for me. This of course wouldn't exempt me for liking anything blatantly bad but as someone who struggles to look into stuff and read practically anything at all, it would be extremely hard for me to research who I'm following. If someone calls out said person for crap and I see it I will unfollow them of course. But beyond that I rarely have the time or ability to push myself to look deep into a persons stuff. 

I know the OP didn't intend it like this but its important to remember that not everyone online (even those with a small-large following) are neurotypical. It doesn't excuse purposefully bad behavior or content but we often make mistakes or misunderstand things in every part of our lives. 

Hope this made sense, I'm bad at writing. Love you Seel, I hope everything gets better.

I really appreciate this response. I didnt think you were the type of person who would be into that sort of thing and the post seemed kinda reaching... seeing you respond so quickly, clearly, and honestly is awesome.  And im totally guilty of faving stuff or following people for one piece of art or thing they do and not knowing about the other stuff.  My biggest blunder was following and being a fan of sixpenceee on tumblr. I never knew they had all those things they did or any drama because it was just some random creepy aesthetic on my dash that I saw every so often. 

And honestly? I've probably faved at least one problematic thing on my old nsfw blog (now deleted lol)  not knowing much about the character. Honestly I didnt even know link was mentally a 10 year old, and I just like art of him in that blue outfit cuz it's pretty. So nobody's perfect, bit it's good to own up to mistakes. I personally will be avoiding anything remotely sexual looking with that character from now on so I learned something new myself today! D:

Your fine, no need to be sorry or feel bad. I use to follow people mindlessly without knowing there content on twitter. I never really put mind and thought into what they posted.

i hate callout culture, it makes no sense. you didn't do anything bad

It's really that simple to just unfollow and/or deactivate if you don't want to interact with stuff like that. Once it was made aware to you, you took the steps to do so, and made a post as soon as you could. Nothing in your post is guilting, manipulative, or anything at all to me. It seems honest and genuine and I do the same with my own NSFW accounts; I simply like art, as an asexual myself, and totally understand that point of view.
I feel like, while there are valid concerns that I agree with as well if I wasn't understanding of the whole context, it largely bases off of popularity. Not to say this is a hit-piece either - again, valid concerns! But if you weren't so popular, I feel like this could've been resolved more quietly. Then again, it may have been the only way the original poster might have felt they could have reached you in some sort of groundbreaking way.

Overall, while this apology isn't really mine to accept as I'm not super active with you/your fanbase, I can appreciate the lengths you went to in order to clear everything out and apologize honestly. You admit you were careless and I can understand that too; Becoming popular can hold strange and new responsibilities and changes who you are from when you were first starting out. I guess that includes being judged in a new light to old, dusty stuff.

I don't normally comment on anything ever, but I wanted to let you know that there's one more person out there who supports you and understands the situation, and hopefully that could be a bit comforting.

I had a bad feeling about said callout. I can understand the cub porn part but the Inkling and Link proof? I felt like they kinda went overboard with that. Just like the Pokemon Protagonists, I see inklings as a representation of yourself, as the player. Mostly because you can customize your character and such.

Happy you did make a response though! I am more disappointed with the OP. I know it can be anxious talking to a big creator like yourself. But at the same time, they dug through your likes and following. That rubbed me the wrong way. 

I try not to comment too much, but honestly? They might just be misunderstanding. I don't think you should have to feel guilty or apologetic, though I understand why you feel the need to do it. It's hard because people cannot outright read your intentions or thought process, and you want to clarify that such intentions and thought processes aren't what others might think they are. It's simple to say, "fuck them and just do you; the only opinion that should matter is yourself," but sadly it's never that simple.  And it never helps when people don't understand or don't WANT to understand. And people can be quick to raise arms.

Just remember, you are not the people you follow.  

I used to, and to some extent still, very much enjoy the style of shadbase, yet he is a piece of shit that's done child porn and other questionable things. I don't support any of his actions nor like those things, but i do enjoy the way he colors and shades. Honestly gorgeous. From loosely explaining, some people would just assume someone like me is into CP or in general not caring about what he has done. But it's like they would never consider the idea that I would just avoid looking at those things and look at what I want of his content.  That I simply do not support his career. I don't fund anything of his. I don't follow him. I don't condone it, yet I can say I love his artstyle. I like the way he does his shading. And these are two disconnected facts that some might choose to connect. You can like the art without liking the artist. You can like a piece of art from an artist without liking everything they like or stand for.

People assume that because you like something, you have to like all of it. I probably also like questionable stuff. I like looking at poses for example, both sexy and non-sexy. I'm asexual as well so i understand completely when you are saying you like and follow people because of their art. When I love the way something looks, im not reading into more than that. Not thinking of this characters age unless it straight up looks like a toddler. (Even then it's one thing to like a drawing of a kid compared to a drawing of a kid in a suggestive manner.) However, it's not gonna be the same for all asexuals, or in general all people. And sadly maybe that character you really liked about- be it about its color method, style, pose, perspective, etc - is deemed bad by others. And it just might be. And that's okay to make that mistake, especially if it was a simple "I liked the way it was drawn". 

That being said, you both (you and the person who called you out) have the right to your own opinions. It seems their concerns are valid and I understand them as it feels more and more people are outed to be kiddy diddlers. We want to keep it safe for everyone, especially the kids, but know you did nothing wrong. From what I can tell you never actively pushed the idea around that you like those things. And as of the moment, it's hard to tell if this person called you out not understanding but scared and hurt that someone they might've looked up to could possibly be a bad person, and rectified it without trying to understand it first, or not wanting to understand. The world is often full of liars so it's hard to tell when the person you look up to is telling the truth. We hate feeling like we can't be trustful of others. We want to believe the people we follow, looked up to, and support are good people that can be trusted.. However..  It seems like a simple misunderstanding and I think you handled this nicely. 

Edit: granted as I am thinking about this perhaps it's easy for me to say this because I don't think I'm following anyone that does those type of drawings. It might also depend on how much they would draw those types. 

anyway sorry for long comment. Stay safe everyone. 

I honestly felt the same regarding it...

I will comment the same thing I did on the other persons callout. Everyone consider this,

I dont agree with saying seel is into this or that because art styles. Making things more cute means making things more round. Simple concept. Anime characters mostly have rounded heads. Especially moe characters. I disagree with this entirely. It´s a dumb argument. It´s like saying drawing nsfw of pikachu is cub art whenever there´s been a pikachu in the anime almost 90 years old. Pikachu is just a small creature. 

You see why this is a matter of opinion? Look maybe it´s true seel is not into certain fandoms and just liked the art without knowing. It´s easy to do specially if you consider it´s hard to tell age based on art styles.

Please NOTE: Maybe my pikachu example was a bad example but smaller creatures in general drawn accurately in anime style might confuse people to think it´s cub when a lot of the time it isn´t. I know there´s some special cases but try to consider the above argument for a sec. People want to have cute small characters. It´s not a problem and anime and moe are popular. Maybe blame the anime industry instead of people liking anime. It´s popular for what it is. Not everyone has ill intent when drawing this material.

While I'm glad you are able to...fix? this situation. While there is valid concerns in their post, most of it from what I can see is nickpicking and fair opinion on certain artstyles. I can poke out the Zelda stuff as dumb, since both BOTW Link and Twilight Link as well as Ocarina Zelda to be heavily suggested to be adult via in game dialog and basic game lore. (No I am not trusting a wiki- if I still had my hyrule historia I would be double checking through it, but personal opinion the only underage Links are WW, OoT, MM, 4swords and the old gameboy games)

Sure, some artists in those links is questionable and its good that you've unfollowed them, but even then. You are an adult. It's none of their business what you do or like. In my opinion, they most likely would have tried to do this anyways even if you have a private twitter account for that kind of content, I believe that cause I don't trust people not to pull that regardless. Their opinion is that most of that content is problematic and that's fine, some of that stuff can be problematic for obvious and logical reasons, but I say some is of valid concerns while others is purely based on art style alone.

Good for you to taking this situation into account and try to address it, but I'll say it for those who looked over the content as well. Take it with a grain of salt. The poster doesn't understandably don't want to be known, but if I could find out that they were a minor who was posting this, I would farther say take it with a grain of salt.

The fact that they posted this "callout" without even messaging you first about their concerns and just went straight into: PUBLIC CALLOUT Is suspicious itself and honestly they can make excuse about being an "anxious person who doesn't want to dm people or bother people" but that is countered by the fact the callout post even exists.

EDIT: I just noticed that they linked directly to your nsfw account. They're suggesting one of the reasons why they wanted to bring attention to this cause you are being followed by minors on all your sfw platforms...And they gave them a direct link to nsfw content that isn't censored. Good job callout OP. You really didn't think that through did you?

I completely feel this Seel, I’ll see one post someone makes in my TL and I just like and follow right away if I liked the art enough without even checking their other content. I try to check more often but for old follows that have built up from a 6 year old account, I literally have no time to sift through 1.8k follows OTL

It’s a bad habit but I don’t think anyone should be vindicated for it and certainly not presumed the worst thing without actually asking— I kinda wished the person contacted you to ask first rather than just posting a callout.

I see, thank you for responding to this situation so quickly. I became very fearful considering I spend around 90$ for the Chimereon MYO and the Grimbelle plush and I didnt want to believe that you would be interested for such things.

I totally understand u!! the fact ppl went thru ur likes to find something incriminating and never talked to you is also pretty shitty

Ive eveh accidentally done a similar thing myself!! And im a minor!!! I used to like every post i saw with a cute thumbnail, and thank god i decided to check what it was one time , and it was nsfw without any warnings :”D

♥ ♥ ♥

man I don't understand how people can just expect others to do in depth research about every piece of media or every artist they interact with 😒 as if they can't just dm you and let you know I case you weren't aware, but people nowadays think it's better to jump to the assumption that you're fully aware of everything at all times and that any mistake was intentional. sorry you're dealing with this kind of crap, it's not what you deserve and I hope it clears up soon, can't please everyone unfortunately 😔

Unfortunately people just want to call other's out for things and make a big deal out of nothing, it's a problem. I hope people won't try bothering you because of them.

That's very sad to hear! :C

ive run into similar problems, not knowing an artist posts such things or not knowing about certain characters <:( it sucks, i know you dont intend to support underage nsfw. i wish people could approach and let someone know that something is worrying, because sometimes you really didnt know! a lotta folks get easily caught up in immediately blocking and assuming the worst

im sorry things couldnt be worked out better from the start

I don't understand what they meant by your apology being "lacking / a bit inadequate"? And as morupeko mentioned on the original PSA,  "its hard to monitor every single mutuals for years when you're a freelance artist on social messenger services" , "I was just doubtful if they were following one of them ... and the artist suddenly started drawing those...gross stuff"

I know it's really hard to directly confront someone, specially about a topic as sensitive as this one, when you suffer from anxiety, but I gotta say...... everything could have went so much easier if they tried to talk things out with you ;; 

They have all the right to be uncomfortable with these things, i'd be really upset if I found out someone I admired was into some shady stuff too... I hope they'll take some time to read this bulletin and try to understand your side of this situation, everyone commits mistakes ):

would you be willing to dm the original post?

Honestly, this is the best and most in-depth response to a callout I've ever seen. I've admired your work for years so I really hope that isn't coloring my opinion, but as far as I'm aware, for all the Buyer Beware/etc replies I've witnessed, yours has definitely been the most thorough and--.. uh, what's a good word for "not guilt-trippy?" That.

I haven't been on Twitter for the entire pandemic, so I'm just now finding out two other artists whose works I adored are also problematic folks, and I'm so relieved this appears to not be the case with you as well!

I hope everything goes alright and neither your professional nor personal life are tarnished by any of this.

Ah, 0k. Just kn0w y0u did the right thing t0 resp0nd t0 this in a well w0rded way, Im super s0rry t0 hear this. I wish they at least give a chance t0 hear y0ur side 0f st0ry. F0r this stuff can happen by accident. But w0nt be a f0rgivable accident (t0 s0me pe0ple). Just be m0re mindful and careful next time. Stay healthy Seel!

Thank you for responding to this!! I’d seen the bulletin a few days back. The evidence didn’t feel damning enough to me, but even so I wanted to hear your response.

Really this was such a well worded response- thank you 

Heya, random artist with their two cents here. New to this whole situation, but massive massive respect to you for publically explaining everything out and holding yourself accountable. Hoping the fallout isn't too terrible for you.

Nowadays, seems like people want us to be 100% fully aware of what other people do...
And we get it... but sometimes is not possible..., Sometimes we just like one specific image from someone we see on our home page and- we are not going to do a rabbit-hole search to see who is the artist before sharing/retweeting... especially because we all only want to enjoy our time on the internet, looking at stuff, sharing, having a nice time, etc
But sadly there's people (especially on Twitter) who is like "you can't make mistakes or we'll cancel you", acting like saints... as if they have never done the same mistakes before- or as if they background check every single account before they retweet/share
It's not your fault, it has never been your fault... you just were enjoying your time looking at art! And that's nothing to blame! And if they don't want to listen to you- then they are being stubborn and bubbled on their own rage
You do you Seel, enjoy what you like to enjoy and don't let people tell you what to do, same for your friends
Hopefully all of this gets on the past soon and they leave you alone

It’s unfortunate they never spoke to you at all before making such claims, regardless thank you for taking the time and to clear things up any possible anxieties that may have been caused.  If it means anything thing in nearly 2 decades of following your work I’ve never gotten the kind of vibes this person is trying to imply from you

sorry you have to deal with so much bs like this basically for not being Terminally Online, anyone that has followed you and knows your content should know better....
like, at what point does this level of policing get justified as harassment? hopefully this will help people back off :(

Oh jeez. I'm so sorry this had to happen Seel. I know for a fact you're in no way okay with underage nsfw and that's incredibly unfortunate circumstances that led to this whole thing. I ofc will keep supporting you and all that! Nothing has changed on my view of you since you didn't nothing wrong on purpose! Hope this blows over ;v;

Could you message me the post? I’d like to form my own opinion if that’s okay!

It's good that you own up to the carelessness and mistakes. hopefully people understand and leave you alone about it.