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This was a surprise, to say the least. For those who're not in the know, Zaid Magenta, or MisAnthroPony, he was a content reviewer. You may've heard of him through his less than pleasent discussions of Doug Walker, The Last of Us Part 2, the new Star Wars movies, and if there was anything else he did it pales in comparison.


Those of you who followed me way back would know I didn't particularly like him. While I'm no fan of toxic positivity, that owed to something more personal, Zaid fit the opposite extreme to a T. I felt like he embodied the worst aspects of those who support the causes he preached, referring to his views on media. He's essentially what those on the other side consider that side to be, negative, aggressive and petty as fuck.


When it comes to progression and how far you push your support, it can come off as disingenuous at best, as if you just took an idea at face value and ran with it without any sense of what you are fighting for, or you just took a kernel of what's going on and sought to inflate it based on the words of others alone... or you were just trying to be cool and thus put little thought into how to present yourself, or worst case, you're hopping onto a bandwagon to cover the fact that you're attached to something ten times worse than what you're trying to confront.


Zaid isn't a predator, he just has a fixation on par with Star Giant Productions.


Throughout his heyday, it was clear that Zaid had no filter, and he had the idea that if someone tried to talk him down he took it as a personal attack, and he stuck with that mentality no matter what. It doesn't help that a lot of his comments came off as immature, I mean, compared to parody accounts where he comes off the most like a self-parody, it's hilarious, no cap.

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He had no self-awareness, it was his way or no effin way when it came to what he wanted to talk about. Naturally such behavior got him in trouble. Case and point, Cartoonshi. Cartoonshi to me is a mixed bag, but I will never deny that he has faced constant harassment because of his opinions on cartoons people enjoy, and that neither he, nor anybody, deserve that. But if you want the full scope, I'll provide a link to the video.

And somehow, in spite of all that, he kept a devoted following. I mean then again anyone could get a following so why complain. For a time, Zaid had managed to get into a circle of friends consisting of LioConvoy, Tek-No, among others. It began earlier, but really began to set in following a call between Lio and meat puppet Rosa Rey Ramsey regarding constant discussions of Star Wars.


Don't get it twisted, I'm not here to justify either side here, Ramsey especially, because keep in mind, she was complicit, she had turned a blind eye to not one but apparently two predators in Star Giant's Discord server, and I say apparently in the event it's on Star Giant's head for the second, Sean Sohr.


Because of his connections at this point, as well as the fact that Zaid's biggest enemies happened to be total goons like Crimson Mayhem and Star Giant, in a way Zaid felt like he was essentially untouchable, that if anyone tried to criticize Zaid in any way, it would be met with a counter-attack. When it comes to the internet, never make anyone feel like they are invincible, because chances are you're gonna slowly destroy them.


Of course he even had the bright idea to make a documentary relating to his haters, a documentary that surprisingly I was not considered for given how much shit I talked about him. While it would've been funny to see it come out... it didn't, and it's never going to.

Fallout

To nobody's surprise, Zaid's attitude and actions would soon cause him to collapse in on himself. To make matters worse, these events came after he claimed he would try to improve himself. But bad habits die hard, his continued negativity, and we're talking destructive negativity here, even making burner accounts to harass those that blocked him, the message was clear. Zaid can't change.


He would make a community post and a video vowing to be better, with the latter featuring a blatant case of emotional manipulation. If I were his father and he was holding my heart, it would surely ignite from the anger in his soul. And then, after all that, he quit. He lost everybody that stuck with him, with the big one being LioConvoy.

And with that, he's gone. His YouTube, his deviantArt, his Facebook, his Twitter longer ago, they're all gone. All that's left is his now empty Patreon profile, along with any burner accounts he forgot to delete, hypothetically.

Is he ever going to return?

To reiterate, what led Zaid to finally close his account, beyond the negative comments he got, was his own friends telling him that he's fubared, he burned his bridges and cannot possibly restore any good faith, and that all he can do is just leave.


Worst case, he would frame this as him leaving the internet for a while to clear his head... or just hope the drama died down long enough to trick newcomers into backing him up. Maybe he'll come back under a more discreet identity, who knows?


I'm going with the majority on this one, he's not ever gonna change for the better, and we'll be better off if he never comes back. Any good he has done is easily overshadowed by the bad, and if we supported him in his more toxic episodes, we'd give him validation and make him believe he'd never do anything wrong.


So what's the lesson here? If you see a fire, keep an eye on it, otherwise it will grow out of control.

UPDATE

So it seems Zaid couldn't keep to his word. He is allegedly running a sock account on Twitter and responding to people who're calling him out.


Thanks to @Themastermushroom for bringing this to my attention.


You may be thinking, well he was tied to making burner accounts and there were parody accounts on Twitter back then, perhaps someone is just looking to stir the pot. And while that is something to consider, you should also consider the account went up after Zaid closed his account, and apparently their handles having Oak (according to MikeTheHuman113). Not to mention where he turns up.


When it comes to sock puppeteers, it goes something like this. If it's a parody account they would exaggerate certain traits of the user in question to troll people. If it's a sock account, they would use it to defend certain users in particular and typically align to the base account's beliefs. A key example on the latter here is 0ak discussing the Cartoonshi situation claiming Zaid felt remorse. How would this 0ak fellow know Zaid felt remorse about a situation he caused, especially after he tried to pass off a burner account as a separate person?


I tried to find the account on Twitter, but I couldn't. Either the username was changed or the account was deleted at some point. The above video managed to capture key exchanges, so make your impression on that. If we ever see Zaid again, it would be on burner accounts attempting to downplay the situation or get back at both his haters and recent detractors.


I guess Zaid never did care for his father, he used him for emotional manipulation, and now he's breaking his vow to him.

UPDATE 2

The video above has since been taken down, the circumstances behind that are not known. The Oaktreelov account hasn't posted anything since November 1st and little confirmation exists to prove or disprove much.

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10 Years

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As of this date, I've been on deviantArt for 10 years. Barring sites I joined in 2010, deviantArt was the first site I began regularly posting content on, and now it has been ten years I made this account.


Even in spite of the site's faults, I had stayed on for better or worse, made a lot of friends, lost a lot of friends, made posts or took part in things I'm not proud of, but over the years, I grew some, learned some, and here I am now.


Thank you to everyone who has stuck by me and allowed me to keep going, I hope to continue to do well and better to the future.

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There's been another Writer's Guild strike. However long this may be. When it comes to labor and fair treatment, cracks in that foundation always show, and here's another case for it. But, what makes this one more interesting is the lengths people would go to fight for better treatment.


In this case, Seth MacFarlane, announced he has quit Family Guy until the Guild would agree to better practices.


For this, Seth may seem like a bargaining chip, one of the most prolific television writers ever, for a network that has banked on his name and contributions, is stepping down from his ongoing projects as a middle finger to the Guild. But that's probably not what you're thinking.


Thing of it is, while Seth has no longer been active on Family Guy as a writer, remember, he voices a stark bulk of the characters, and thus had to stay on to keep things consistent. Family Guy has only had two actor changes in his history, from Mila Kunis replacing Lacey Chabert as Meg, to Mike Henry losing his role as Cleveland to Arif Zahir, Seth brought the characters to life, and literally gave life to them playing a majority of them, and of course he'd make bank for it.


With so many characters Seth plays, with such a distinct voice and the fact he had stayed on to play the characters for whatever reason, it's clear he is still a very important figure in the series. So if he leaves, Fox would scramble to find replacements, and a key component would be lost.


And if they didn't want to replace Seth, it may be the final nail in the coffin for Family Guy, and I only say Family Guy because though American Dad is still going it seems to not have suffered the same amount of backlash. Once Seth is out of the picture the show would lose a major familiarity to it, and replacing him would be like a huge middle finger to modern and classic fans who had something in common.


On one hand, I hope the Writer's Guild can start treating its unions better. On the other, we may finally see the end to one of many shows that've been going on for years.

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Not too long ago PIEGUYRULZ formally announced his resignation from content creation. It seems he decided to wait to address this to avoid unjust speculation, and I give him credit on that, you always need to give things time when it comes to abandoning a platform so you can really think about whether or not you're making the right decision.


In his post, PIEGUY points out the exact reasons why he lost the desire to make content, with some key reasons being that the internet at large is unwelcome to particular opinions, how many degenerates the community holds (and not just Cosmodore, CC West may be even worse) and general stagnation. All justifiable reasons given the circumstances.


However, I do have one particular issue with one of his reasons. Yes, the internet is toxic when it comes to opinions, just go on Twitter, hiveminds and the like. My problem is that I feel like PIEGUY underestimates his own influence, and influence is a key factor to how toxicity begins, it's all about spreading the word and will of someone people deem to be the voice of a community.


And I'm saying this because whether PIEGUY intended this or not, he had a hand in fermenting toxicity. He played a big hand in the SpongeBob SquarePants fandom becoming toxic. Paul Tibbit was the one who made the tweet that started it all, and PIEGUY's discussion of it spread like wildfire, and now people become deeply obsessed with continuity, in a dumb cartoon. Boy, LambHoot and MoBros were ahead of the curve in the worst possible way.


I just find it kinda insulting he would claim toxicity as one of many reasons why he is quitting, when he contributed to destroying any good faith the SpongeBob fandom had by inspiring the Stephen's wishes bullshit. It's always important to have your nose to the grindstone when you have a community hinging on your every word, because while you don't know it, someone else might and hold it against you. People had gotten away with indirectly changing communities for the worst, and I feel like PIEGUY either didn't realize it or was in his right mind and assumed he did the right thing.


MoBros is the reason people made those spergy rants about new SpongeBob episodes, and PIEGUY is the reason people are so concerned with SpongeBob continuity, Paul Tibbit was the ball, PIEGUY was the shove that got it rolling, and I feel like that is something few people ever discussed.


I'm sorry for going off like this, but stuff like that reflects a lack of genuine connection to a community and ignorance over how much influence one has because the positives drown them out. The point is to reflect on one's experience and understand how big your supporters made you. PIEGUY's lack of evolution in creation reflect that he never did this for growth, which is a double edged sword. It can make you humble, but when you hit a certain size you need to understand the impact you hold.


PIEGUY left humbly, but I doubt he knows the true extent of his contributions to the community, particularly the bad. If he uses toxicity as a point, it seems like he held little self-awareness for how he could've contributed to it intentionally or not.

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Given that nearly everyone had left this site for wherever else, I'm just gonna work on building myself up elsewhere, sticking to three websites and that's it. I'm still posting videos on YouTube, infrequently but whatever, I'm doing the same on TikTok, and for any future written posts, they will be on Tumblr.


I'll still be here to talk to people who haven't left this site yet, but that's gonna be it.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Channeleven2345789/videos

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@channe1even?lang=en

Tumblr: https://channeleven.tumblr.com/

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