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I'm not defending him either. I'm just saying I won't judge the guy beyond "doesn't source uploads" just because he could or could not be a good or bad guy beyond what I know about him.Like, one time a guy sent me a PM to tell me he hated all my art, no exceptions. So I immediately had him pegged as a troll, but I asked him why expecting a "lol because it sucks" reply. Instead he gave me this indepth, polite, well thought out analysis of why he simply could not enjoy it. Beyond that one admittedly blunt and dickish comment he's a decent guy, and it turns out we're both Game Grumps fans so we shoot the shit quite regularly now. Another guy I know here told me that as far as he's concerned artists like me who upload our own art here, as compared to people who like make mass uploadings of other people's art, don't contribute anything worthwhile to this site and aren't even worth having around. Again, I know the guy and outside of that one opinion I sincerely don't appreciate he's a good guy. Hell, on the flipside, there was a guy here who took stuff like me saying "it doesn't mean you're gay" in this pic's description as an anti-gay sentiment, but thankfully rather than just writing me off as a jackass he PM'ed me, gave me the benefit of the doubt, and asked if that's what it actually was. Of course I explained I actually am gay and it's just a good-natured jab at how some people are really "ew gay", and we're cool now.Long story short, I just can't bring myself to judge a guy I don't know based on one bad thing he does, since I certainly appreciate it when people give me that same benefit of the doubt.Also, if you want a good laugh, someone else once sent me this really aggressive PM accusing me of being a homophobe and a white supremacist because I "made anti-gay comments" and "drew nothing but white human characters". My response was "I am gay, I am Black, and that's simply not true (careful, it's explicit)". His reply was "Oh." and I _never heard from him again XD. I get tons of amazing private messages and have only gotten a handful of bad ones like that, but that one was my favorite "bad" message.