It has been brought to my attention that people have been mass-messaging Yandere Simulator fan artists with the following copied-and-pasted message:

There’s a lot of nice art here, too bad you don’t own any of it. Alex owns all of your OCs and any creative ideas are not yours according to his mod, clevelandrocklovesick.

I said nothing of the sort. These messages are the work of a certain hate community that is twisting my words.

What I really said is that the creator of a work owns the rights to derivatives of their work. For example, if you draw a picture of something that belongs to somebody else, then you don’t own it. If it’s somebody else’s, then it’s not yours. Your intelligent, creative minds understand that simple concept, right? Well, the people who are sending you these messages apparently don’t.

I would never say something as stupid as “Alex owns all of your OCs and any creative ideas.” Your original characters, creations, and ideas are yours. That’s why they’re called “original.”

Don’t listen to these horrible people. They know that fan art is one of the only things in life that makes YandereDev happy and keeps him alive and motivated, so of course they’re trying their best to discourage fan artists. They’re trying to kill him, and they’re trying to twist my words to use them as a weapon. I won’t stand for it. I repeat, don’t listen to these horrible people.

Spread the word and keep on artin’.

