my name is evie, and i'm making this post to ask for your help.
around a month ago, i got let go from my stable full time job. i haven't had any luck securing a job since then, and the search has only gotten harder. even with the help from some friends, my financial situation is only getting worse.
here's the really big dilemma: rent's coming up in less than a month's time. i need to gather a bit over $750 to cover it, and to not take any more out of my current survival budget. if i don't cover it in time.. i really don't have anywhere to reliably go.
that's why i need your help. if you're able to, i'll have my paypal info listed below so you can send something through. it's a long shot that this'll actually reach far enough to get the funds needed.. but i wanted to try at the very least.
if you can spare something, any amount possible.. it would mean the world to me. thank you.
Go to paypal.me/eviecad0 and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
I'm terribly sorry but I don't think there will be a TPoH page this week. I've tried repeatedly but I simply can't do it. It won't let me. I've never not been able to asides from when my tendonitis flared up or the one time I burned out, this is very frightening. I'm hoping that taking a week off will work (which I really didn't want to do, having already taken a week off recently) but idk. This feels like. really bad? I'm scared tbh
Lux comic will keep posting, I have lots of pages in hand and other things I can work on.
In support of Sarah Jolly, aka ModMad, I've created several versions of what Mr. Puzzles might have looked like if he'd been original.
Why couldn't such a huge creator as smg4 afford to hire proper designers? Why did RGB become so called "inspiration" when in reality, they simply took his jacket off and added eyes? Probably because the author isn't popular enough for anyone to defend him, huh?
BUT, now even some fan content makers and just fans of SMG4 are switching to Mod's side. The situation isn't staying hidden in the depths of the networks and is becoming more known. Now (not counting Mod subscribers and tpoh fans) there are AT LEAST 1,000 people who know, and that's just in one day and just from one,mostly CIS countries, messenger. What about other socials?
TL:DR I do not want to cancel the show, I don't want it to cancel me.
So I have been forced, basically, to make this statement as I am being asked about this character or 'introduced' to it (and the incoming new show) against my desires. I have deleted all previous posts about my encounters with this problem long ago for personal reasons that will be apparent, but people don't know about my situation and do deserve an explanation. I will keep this post short for my own mental health. This is the first time I have disclosed any of this information to the public, and it is hopefully the last. My silence has been a part of my uncomfortable situation, but it's clear the world won't let me try to just ignore it any longer, so it's full disclosure time.
1, Yes. I know about Mr Puzzles and his uncanny resemblance to RGB, my character from the on going comic The Property of Hate, who pre-exists Mr Puzzles by approximately ten years.
I did not, as a consequence, base RGB off Mr Puzzles...
2, I have received very violent and manipulative hate mail from fans of that character over the past few years due to this similarity, many threatening to slander me via cancel culture to discredit my own creations. The worst of these messages almost caused me to commit suicide which close friends can attest to (this period coincided with the death of my father which they used against me to full effect).
Since then the hatemail has been less frequent, but continues, and I am afraid it will pick up again with the advent of this new show.
3, I have contacted the smg4 management about these issues, to no avail. My first email was a request to tell their followers to cease sending me hatemail, which they did not attempt in any way. They have never responded to the large overlaps in terms of RGB's design, and when I finally sent them an email via a lawyer as a last resort (which cost me £4000) they did not respond. Please note that I did not ask for a cease and desist, I only wanted the hatemail to stop, and perhaps for them to alter Mr Puzzle's design very slightly to be a little less like RGB's. I even made this simple suggestion as an example:
Despite going out of my way (against the lawyer's wishes) to phrase the letter in a none-hostile manner, and offer them an alternative, they did not reply to this email at all.
I am a disabled indie cartoonist; I do not have the money to take further legal action, and in any case I do not want to. I hate conflict, and the emotional toll of sending that email alone was enough to make me miserable and exhausted for months. All I want is to be left alone, and for people to know that RGB was invented first. I cannot afford to do anything to protect myself or make anyone listen legally; this post is the most I can do, and it is the only post I intend to make about it.
that's it. that's the whole situation. please do not message me about the show, or the character, as both are very distressing to me: if you do I will either delete the message, or block you, depending on the angle. I have blocked all related tags, and I will unfollow if I see posts, so I am doing everything I can to take care of myself in a non-aggressive fashion. I have only made this statement so that people understand.
a small example of some of the hatemail (which was preserved only to be sent to the makers as evidence which, again, they did not respond to) below the readmore. read at your own discretion, it is unpleasant.
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