I just read this and honestly, I'm stunned. I used to look up to them when I was younger, and even got to the point I have 2 ocs designed by him. I'm just so heartbroken over this whole thing. My heart goes out to everyone who's been affected by him. :(
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.
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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.
im truly disappointed and disgusted by this, i hope the people involved are okay they are very brave for coming forward and sharing their experiences. i cant believe someone i use to look up to would do such things. i have alot of characters designed by them is it okay for me to still have them? should i get rid of them? i would love a second opinion on this.
:-( this is aboustely horrible, my heart goes out to all of the victims. This is deplorable behavior, thank you so much for making this document and spreading the news, I hope all of you can heal and feel better soon ❤️
HiraethMushroom Hi friend ! If you wanted our opinion on owning characters by him, i think as long as you can separate the art from the artist and the character hasn't got any triggering/offensive content it's totally still ok to use ! Of course you had no idea what he has done, and that's not on you at all, so no one is going to judge you for owning them/using them ! You can also totally redesign them, which might bring you some peace of mind over all this. I hope you're doing well, and take care <3 -Author bat
cowplaza We've seen this, and he has recently posted that he and a friend are writing a response PSA (which is ? i hope he means apology by this but we will see) so we will be periodically updating everyone on what goes down. We can respect his maturity about what has been happening, but i absolutely agree it is horrifying to just reply "ill stop doing that" to very serious claims. Thank you for the heads up, and i hope you're doing well. <3 -Author Bat
I can't ping everyone in the documents at once, but thank you all for your maturity on this and thank you for all the kind words about the making of the document. Everyone on our side is happy to know we've brought information to you in a light that's easy to understand and informative. I hope everyone who's taken the time to read the whole thing is doing well and taking care of themselves as it is NOT a light read that's for sure. If you ever need any support relating to this feel free to message us here or on our instagram. Thank you all <3 -Author Bat
I haven't read up about someone this disgusting for a long time. The grooming was already enough to convince me, but everything else that was past that point was disturbing. I hope all the victims of this guy are doing alright, and can heal.
And I honestly hope this guy gets put in jail or something of that ilk, there's no way his several disgusting actions aren't illegal in some way.
And thank you to the person who made this doc in the first place. I admired this guy for a few years before but, stopped interacting when it just started to feel weird.
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sorry for the late response, I ended up passing out like a rock-
Anyways, no problem, I just thought y’all needed to know. Sadly the apologies from problematic people tend to end up showing more of their problematic behaviors. I hope it doesn’t this time, though from the other comments in this thread, others really believe it may. Keeping my fingers crossed it doesn’t get worse.
Jesus fucking Christ. I'm mortified. I have been following him since his early FNAF days and I was a pretty big fan (even commissioned him once, which I usually don't do), tho I never took the time to read the descriptions of all his characters in detail (or look over all the characters in general), can't believe I missed so much vile stuff. And the other infinitely worse things are just...god. How the fuck did he get away with this for so long??