unifiedtheory Hi ! Yes it was cross-posted on tumblr, insta and twitter and tagged with hermitcraft/animation memes over on those platforms for bigger reach. Link to the tumblr post: https://at.tumblr.com/ak-archive/psa-on-ak-tastic/6mcv0i8fjh6r . Thank you for the bump ! ^__^ -Author Bat
The following document is a PSA compiled with the help of multiple people regarding the artist AK-Tastic to shed light onto what has happened to the victims involved and to serve as a way to bring awareness about what he did and his misconduct online between the years of 2017 to present day on his youtube (137k), deviantart (5k) and his most active social platform Toyhouse (1K).
We encourage you to not harass nor target anyone involved, specifically the victims who have come forward to help as well as AK himself as the document serves to educate and inform rather than tear down or berate him.
The document will be posted and shared on multiple social platforms to hopefully bring awareness for what has happened the past few years and shed light on the situation.
WARNING! THE DOCUMENT CONTAINS TRIGGERING CONTENT SUCH AS:
Mentions of Grooming, Gore, Abuse, Animal abuse, Abuse of a child, abuse of friends, depictions of r*pe, sexual abuse, sexual assault, poor depictions of mental health issues, self harm and general bad online behaviour.
Click the link below to head to the document detailing everything:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zx_SIi9Z3zlyWth53Brir4HRDqPCUGncxFAYrSDH-pE/edit?usp=sharing
If you have a personal experience with AK you'd like to share, feel free to message us on here, or on Instagram.
Tumblr Post / Twitter Post / Instagram Post
EDIT BY AUTHOR 72K4: Please direct any personal thoughts that do not provide additional information about the situation to this bulletin. If you have updates relating to the situation, or personal experiences relating to AK's behaviors, commenting them here is completely fine and in fact encouraged- to keep in line with the service review's rules.
ADDITIONAL EDIT BY 72K4: We would like to reiterate - please do not harass anyone who was/is close to AK, as well as AK himself, especially if they say they do not want to speak further on things. Do not ask for their stance. They most likely will give their stance on everything once they see the doc and are ready to speak on it, if they haven't already. AK himself is writing a response document, so anything you want to ask now will be properly responded to later once that is released. The VAST majority of the people AK interacted with were not remotely aware of most of the things on this document prior to its publishing, and with claims this graphic they are likely struggling as well. Please be mindful of this.
EDIT BY AUTHOR BAT: Hi there, it's me. In case you haven't seen, AK has made a response document . We are currently working on a way to formally respond to this in a mature manner, and waiting for a few members of the author team to wake up to see it. We appreciate the support thus far and encourage people to read the response to form their own opinions on the situation. If you plan to talk to him over all this PLEASE still be mindful of the victims and don't claim bias when he himself has already admitted he was in the wrong. Have a little decorum.
Oh gods. I didn’t follow him directly (other than youtube), but I use to follow his side accounts (this post made me decide otherwise-)
https://toyhou.se/banana-groove
https://toyhou.se/tiddy_sprinklez https://toyhou.se/eggy_bo_beggi
This is probably worth sharing.
MisfitRebels Hi friend ! Tysm for reading, we appreciate it ! We have already archived his side accounts at the bottom of the document in link archive hub since we needed to pull some of the evidence from them, but we really appreciate the mention !! Also thank you so much for the bump. Take care ^__^ - Author Bat
Thank you for making this post. I was going to try and get a design of theres, but if I found out this information after the fact, I’d be stuck with a character I’d be very uncomfortable owning. Plus Thanks to this whole thread, I no longer follow someone so problematic and risk finding something that could trigger any of my trauma. I’d rather not see if my trauma can be triggered by art and stuff. I hope you have a better day/night.
as a note, IP blocking just one account doesn’t seem to block all of them (at least, not on my end), so i would advise anyone who has no interest in communication with AK to hard block ALL of his known accounts individually.
This honestly makes me feel disgusted about this topic, it's hella sucks that your fav artists or animator turn terrible people in the end. I also feel bad for people who possibly felt inspired by them before they were called out.
Thank you for letting me be aware of this!
Hey, Uh, I went to block AK’s Tumblrs, and just wanted to say, they’ve seen the PSA and apparently will be talking about it.
I just thought it’s be best to tell you
thank you very much for letting us know about this!! we've seen the bulletin, and appreciate ak's maturity so far. also, we're incredibly glad that this document has helped inform people about the things ak has done. :) /gen
- 72K4
i'm looking at this document, and i know this doesn't add ANYTHING to the original PSA or anything, but it's absolutely lovely how professional the google document is formatted. it's very good looking and easy to read, so thank you for that!
The religion part literally made me lose it, although I'm not involved in any way, I just wanted to thank you for making this. I am deeply sorry to everyone involved, and I hope you are all doing well and taking care of yourselves. /gen
me after reading that doc:
all jokes aside, im pretty disappointed and heart broken w/ AK right now. theyre one of my inspirations of developing my art style throughout my art journey and creating character lores, heck i even bought few commissions and adoptables from them!
reading the document about them watch irl gore and gets turn on by it, and [ cw: animal death] killing and choking an animal makes me sick to my stomach. what's worse is that they're a fellow Filipino, which makes me more disappointed as a Filipino.
i dont know what to do with the designs that i was about to redesign as i still like them :(
thanks for the heads up and i hope they get the help they need.
i’m just ,,, i’m utterly disgusted. there are no other words for how i’m feeling, i’ve been following AK since the animation meme days, they’ve had a massive influence on my art and now they’ve got me second guessing EVERYTHING i won’t lie when i say this hurts. so much of this is worse than i thought it would be. the way they worded character profiles and such always seemed a bit off to me, i assumed it was due to english not being their first language but now i see it’s much more than that- fuck i’m so grossed out thank you for bringing this to light.