hey, just a quick thing, there was this SVTFOE fanartist named @rakhall who made fake "leak" images that caused problems. (I sent the 3 fake images he did in chat) Some fans even wanted to quit watching the show because of it, others were raging out on the SVTFOE staff. Could you -as the director on SVTFOE- please call out on him and telling him never to do this again? If ther weren't @oddsomeoddy who busted him, the fandom would be a complete chaos by now.

arythusa:

First, I should clarify that I’m not “the” director on Star–there are three directors, of which I am one. Second, I don’t like calling people out, but could everyone who is making fake screenshots, fake episode lists–basically, pretty much every “leak” that has ever come out of Star–just stop? You cause a whole lot of unnecessary drama and it’s almost impossible to correct. Even though I’m making this correction post, my guess is the majority of people who saw and believed the leaks won’t see the correction at all.



I know some of you claim to be doing this “just for fun,” but it’s not fun for everyone else. It’s misleading and can even result in members of the crew being harassed. Y’all already stressed Ariel out so much she turned off her asks. Cut it out.



Third, I would really appreciate if the fandom as a whole would stop seeking out “leaks” and jumping to wild conclusions based on them. They’re almost always fake, but even if they were true, it’s frustrating to see fans assuming they can tell everything about an episode from a single (fake) screenshot or (fake) episode list. Even when Disney has released official episode titles and fans try to guess the content of the episodes, they’re almost always wrong. Quitting a show entirely based off a near-baseless assumption–without even taking the time to watch the actual episode–is disrespectful to the crew who worked so hard to put the show together. If you’re gonna talk trash, at least watch the thing first.

Greetings, Rakhall here, you know, the person who made the fake screens. First, before I begin the reply, I’d like to add this little comic here:

Now that this joke/Stump day reference is out of the way, it’s time for some serious talk about this topic here.



This is just a quick thought here, feel free to ignore it, but if you don’t want people to assume that you are “THE” director, you could always add an article, (I’d suggest “a”) into your bio in front of the word “Director” to make it less confusing.

Not everyone is a hardcore fan of this show, knowing the exact number and composition of the staff. But again, it is just a suggestion.



And now to the real reply;



You say you don’t like calling people out, yet I have two remarks about this. Firstly, you did it before (we’ll return to this later), secondly, even though you don’t like to do so, yet you seem to be willing to do it on request.

You say we cause drama in the fandom, but you know, the show itself does the same, so do all the fan arts, fanfictions, fan comics and theories too. (Yes, even theories, if you don’t believe me, check out some of them about mewberty on the subreddit -I won’t explain them here because I wouldn’t like to go beyond PG-13).

Drama is one of the few fuels of this -and every other fandom- therefore, none of it is unnecessary, plus it will be here with or without these fakes. Also, since you were one of the directors working on Gravity Falls, you probably remember this:



I don’t think that I need to explain this any further, so I’ll just point out that apparently if I, as a fan of the show do this, I am the literal reincarnation of Satan, but if a staff member or the creator of the show does the same, it’s wacky and silly fun.

I can’t help but notice that you say we just “claim” to do it for fun as if we were lying. Now 2 things about this, most of us really do it for fun, and you know, 90% of the fandom gets the joke. I know there is still the rest 10% but if you are afraid to make jokes because of the fear of offending a small group of the whole fandom, then we could basically censor most of the jokes in the show too.

You continue this saying that due to misleading content and single out of context frames result in fans “ jumping to wild conclusions based on them “ which ultimately results in people from the staff being harassed. Now, first of all, fan artists who make these leaks aren’t the only misleading people here.

I don’t think that I need to remind you that Disney does the same with the episode teasers, and you guys too, give titles to episodes in a way, which are very controversial in the context of a show with all the shipping drama in it.

You guys too keep putting landmines to the ground and jumping on them, but if someone else does it, you start to complain about getting blown up…

Also, you seem to forget one thing: NO ONE told these people to harass you, no one held guns to their heads and screamed at them to write all that hate, yet you make it seem like it were our fault. YOU hold US responsible for the hate, and not the haters who actually write it. Do you really think that the hate would be gone if we stopped making these leaks? people will always find subterfuges to hate on others, if not for the leaks then for example for their ship not becoming canon. Yet like I said before, you call us out instead of the actual harassers.



Do you think we artists and fans don’t get death threats? If I’d get 5 cents for every threat and hater message I get for a week, I’d be rich enough to start my own show… Ok, this was a small exaggeration, but believe me when I say, some people here get death threats just for interacting with other artists too. It’s sad that you guys get threats, and harassed, but so does 90% of the artists… The only way to COMPLETELY avoid hate is not interacting with the fandom, and you know this.



“ Quitting a show entirely based off a near-baseless assumption–without even taking the time to watch the actual episode–is disrespectful to the crew “ No it’s not just disrespectful, it’s stupid too, and no one actually does that, that was only made up by the asker…

But you know, fans who made fake leaks worked really hard on them too, to put them together -except me I mean anyone who follows me knows that I do stuff with black magic, and zero efforts, using sacrifices for ancient blood gods, but still- so calling them out is also kinda disrespectful too in my opinion, but hey, my opinion doesn’t matter.



“ If you’re gonna talk trash, at least watch the thing first. “ Ouch, this was really unprofessional if I may say, and brings us to our last problem. Like I said at the beginning of my response, once before you called people out on something, which resulted on certain individuals going on a witch hunt against half of the fandom, and all of its famous artists, putting them on lists, and anyone who defended them.

I didn’t see you doing ANYTHING to stop them when they justified their actions with your post. I won’t continue this, those who are included know what I’m talking about.

As a director, your words have a big impact on the fandom, whether or not you want it to have.

I’m already receiving anon letters saying that “the director of the show says you should stop your blog for making fakes” and things like this, and however I don’t care about these, I’d like to ask you in the future to be more considerate about calling people out or not in the fandom because others might do.



And don’t worry you won’t receive any death threats from followers of this blog because I’m sure they are more mature than that.