Paintpawz0w0

18 | digital artist, 🎩🦅💢🏹/✒️🔮 Currently into: Sonic and Vtubers (I back in the fucking building again)

[paintpawz0w0]

Hello I'm Paintpawz0w0🐾 or blu for short. I'm a Multifandom, digital artist. I mainly draw sonic and Vtubers.

🚫Do NOT repost my art (especially to pinterest), feed my art to AI, sell my art, or trace it.

Socials

Strawpage Sheezy.Art My Website Twitter (somewhat active)

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Any tips are good

Support me on patreon

General tags

#Vtuber

⁎ #holostars or #holostars en

⁎ #my art

⁎ #Paintpawz0w0 art

FAQ

• What apps/programs do you use?

-I use Clip studio paint on the HUION KAMVAS 13, and Blockbench for 3D art.

• Do you draw commissions/customs?

-Nope.

• Can I use your art for my profile (headers, icons, backgrounds)

-Sure, but if you do please credit me.

[coffeebrownn]

chris and ethan..😢

[chloreotheoreo]

Nakahiro spider-man au….. ok……?

[milltheinfinity]

Finally crying into your pillow representation

[ompompomm]

who's that handsome sailor ???

[una-hive5]

Ganbare, Hirose-kun

[lazyrunawayphilosopher]

THE PARALLELS WITH THE SCENE IN EPISODE 6!!!!

[arachu-a]

5 tHinGs yOu mIgHt hAvE mIsSeD iN GaNbArE NaKaMurA KuN eP 12

[kitkraft1]

Hirose wondering what love is rlly like then realizing love is right in front of him

Beautiful beauty boy I wanna know your perspective

[maggotfeed]

gay ever since he was born

[kewmsluvsvtubers]

A List Of Every PL/New Account For Holostars JP & EN

Hello fellow starmin, as we all know, things in the company are not going well for our boys. Half of JP is leaving and the EN boys are getting project funds instead of merch, and the higher-ups loooove merch sales.

Before the company implodes (not saying it's any time soon) I wanted to get a list together of every member's (some past and all present) pl/new accounts so that we can all continue to support them in the future! Thank you to the 2 awesome starmin who helped me find these accounts but didn't want to be credited, I couldn't have made this list without you!

Holostars JP:

Miyabi: From what I've been told, he will not return to streaming. Here's a link to his old youtube account just in case. Edit: He will return to that channel sometime this month! Yippie!!!

Izuru: His Utaite channel is here but hasn't had an upload in 4 years.

Aruran: His pl is Chanfabuchannel on youtube, he did some streams on that account half a year ago, so it's likely he'll go back to that account hopefully.

Rikka: His pl is here. Some people were surprised to find out he was a pretty popular Utaite back in the day. Highly recommend you go listen.

Astel: Edit: PL found with some help! He was just live 10 days ago on twitch!

Temma: He has returned to his pl on youtube and has been streaming games like Elden Ring, Amoung us, and Apex Legends!

Roberu: He's streamed a few times in the last year on this youtube channel.

Shien: I found this yt channel with a single short, he also seemed to post on this twitter account at the beginning of the year.

Oga: Holy shit he's an illustrator for 100% Orange Juice.

Fuma: He was apart of this now defunct vtuber group. I didn't find anything recent.

Uyu: So far, nothing has been found. :(

Gamma: He's been working on his own manga and posting funny shorts on this youtube channel!

Rio: It's not confirmed at the time of posting, but it seems that these twitter and youtube accounts under the name Yoriuta may be Rio's new persona.

Holostars EN:

Altare: He has streamed on his pl on and off for a while, check him out on twitch!

Axel: His pl yt channel has no content atm, but you never know.

Vesper: He's been regularly streaming as Randon Neuring/Randon the Orc on twitch and youtube.

Magni: Oh dude cracks knuckles get a load of this. He streams under his new vtuber pesona, Caspurr Catacini, on twitch and youtube. But, he also streams as Professor Lando on twitch and youtube where he talks about nsfw subjects in an entertaining way. But wait, there's more. He also runs a channel called Best In Jest alongside Commander Connor aka Bettel.

Bettel: As stated above, his pl is Commander Connor on twitch but he he's also apart of Best In Jest alongside Lando aka Magni. As for the twitch channel, if you don't use twitch, there's this fan archive channel that seems to be consistent.

Flayon: He has a youtube and twitch account under the name Ais Riale, a cute dog boy vtuber, but these accounts haven't been used in 3 years.

Hakka: He's posted a few covers on his Utaite channel in the past year. Go check it out!

Shinri: He's streamed on this twitch channel in the past month, he also has a youtube channel.

Jurard: We all know this guy is gonna sink with the ship, but when it does sink, we can hopefully find him on this youtube account.

Goldbullet: He streamed on his twitch pl, SuperKrazyBones, 2 months ago. He also has a vod channel on youtube.

Octavio: He's back to making music and doing covers on his yt pl, Karol Sol! Check it out!!

Ruze: He's been on his pl, Liminal Lark, on and off for quite some time. 10/10 would recommend his chill af streams. He has a youtube and twitch.

I hope to eventually update this if anything is found for Fuma/Rio/Uyu or anyone else. Let's support the boys no matter what happens!

Sorry for the tag spam, I want to make sure everyone can find their oshi!

[xerith-42]

So about that AI post huh?

If you're in the Aphverse fandom and you don't know what that title is referring to, you might want to sit down to read this. It's not... the best.

I want to use this post to both compile all the information I have from my own sleuthing, and express my thoughts and nuanced opinions in one place. I'm incredibly depressed by this whole situation, and I think everyone who's ever been a fan of anything made by this team deserves to sit with this uncomfortable truth with as much information as they need for as long as they need it. So lets get started.

This whole ordeal starts in the summer of 2026 on the main aphmau website, aka Aphmeow.com. As a promotion for their back to school line, this image was uploaded to the website.

Now you might not have clocked this as AI generated immediately, I was skeptical, but you can see where the cracks are showing when you look at the notebook on the right. It looks totally wrong, and once you see it, you can't unsee it.

People rightfully clocked this as an AI generated/assisted image within hours of it's posting, both fans and people who have previously worked with CatFace. I first cocked an ear at this whole controversy because of posts made by a voice actor who used to work with them, and when I dug into it, there was not any confirmation from the official team. In this stage of speculation I also heard a claim that I'm going to put in this post, but I need it to be read with many grains of salt.

There have been allegations made that on a job listing for CatFace studios within the last few years, there was a requirement for applicants to "be comfortable with the use of generative AI in the creative process." I have not seen any screenshots proving this, I have checked their recent LinkedIn listings and not found anything to this effect, and I cannot verify the truth of this claim. I bring it up because its a claim that you will hear thrown around this discussion, and I want it to be treated with a critical eye.

I don't think it's impossible that such a thing was on their job listings, I just cannot find proof that it ever was. Also I think it's important to remember that some companies use products and services that have generative AI features built into them, so comfort with those is necessary if you're going to work with them. It's possible that's what the listing is talking about, or it's possible that higher ups will ask writers to use ChatGPT to improve their workflow. We don't know.

Now let's get back to the thing we have proof of, that promotional picture. This we know was AI generated/assisted because shortly after it was posted, the image was taken off of the website and CatFace posted a statement on their Instagram addressing the controversy.

This statement is... a mess. I don't like it, it gave me a bad feeling the first time I read it, and it's only getting worse the more I sit with it. On the surface this seems... fine, but any additional thinking about it shows some flaws in the arguments proposed by the team who posted it.

The main thing that gets to me is the second paragraph, talking about contract artists and previous incidents. To be frank, CatFace seems like a terrible company to work at as a contract artist. Looking up "catface glassdoor" pulls up numerous reviews left by employees past and present, and discussions about how the reviews left aren't even news to some people. Some controversy about people lying in those reviews, and maybe some of them did, but if enough reviews of your company say the same thing, then it's not judt ex employees with an axe to grind.

A lot of these GlassDoor posts talk about a very toxic work environment, one that is unfortunately common for big channels like this, but is still a problem. A lot of crunch culture, last minute changes to staff and plans, and generally leaving a very bad taste in their employees mouths when it comes to the higher ups of the company. In a culture of crunch, where deadlines are sometimes impossible, artists are pushed to their absolute limit in what they are physically capable of. And if they're a contract worker who's ability to keep getting contract work depends on fulfilling these impossible requirements, they might be pushed so far they take desperate measures.

Like using Generative AI to meet those deadlines. And this is why I take issue with the mention of contract artists and previous incicents in this post. If there is a previous history of contract artists using generative AI to meet production deadlines, that is not necessarily the fault of the individual contract artist, even if this post is trying to make it sound like it is. It's the fault of the company that pushed these artists to their absolute limit so much that this has taken place multiple times.

I've heard mutterings of other antics Jess and Jason have gotten up to with AI on twitter, but I have too much respect for myself to actually log onto that website. So if anyone has any proof of any of that, I'd love to see it. As you may be able to tell though, misinformation spreads fast.

That's why I'm making this post. So that way everyone can see what actual easily compiled evidence there is, and come to their own conclusion about continuing to give their viewership to this company and their products. It's on you to decide if you want to keep supporting these series, and I'm sure you won't be alone if you decide to disown it but take a small handful of your favorite characters and claim them as your own.

Just keep yourselves informed and sharp

[xerith-42]

Well... there was more stuff said because Jason can't not post on twitter. Screenshots and further discussion will be under the cut again because there's a lot more to it. Keep reading to see the bad meme I made in response to all of this

So Jason Bravura doesn't know when to shut his mouth and lie and now we're all paying the price for it. In response to... all the stuff I talked about in the original post, Jason took to his favorite website to give us an update (shout out to @menphias-flame for getting these screenshots for me so I don't have to open twitter).

There's so many problems with this I don't know where to even start. I guess the first thing is that clearly there needs to be some kind of work done on the internal Catface team if this kind of thing is happening without Jess or Jason's approval. That's a huge L on their parts.

The second thing is that comment about how this comes at the tail of character skin tones on merch and all I have to say is YEAH THAT'S NOTHING NEW. Skin tones of these characters have been off in merch for a while, and they have been completely butchered in thumbnails for even longer. Their thumbnails can't even get certain characters eye colors right, let alone their skin tone. That is a weak argument for why they weren't involved in this, because skin tones have been an issue for this team since they were Blujay studios.

Third, I really hate how Jason is making a martyr out of himself here. Talking about how he's responsible for everything, how he personally halved his salary for the team, how this is all his fault. I wish he just. Hadn't done that. Because if your content production is so overwhelming and incapable of keeping up with itself without using AI, MAYBE CHANGE YOUR CONTENT PRODUCTION SCHEDULE???

Nobody is making Catface upload that many cocomau videos a week, and I'm sure if they heard me say this, Jess or Jason would start talking about how much money it takes to run their operation. And my response to that is to downsize your operation along with downsizing your content generation. Because as it is now they are burning the cabdle at both ends, overworking every artist contracted under them, and still failing to meet their own requirements. Methinks their requirements might not actually be humanly possible anymore and they need to change what those requirements are in order to survive.

Fourth, and finally, we have confirmation. Confirmation of the job posting (lightly), and confirmation that yes Catface uses AI in their content creation. Now Jason is trying to convince you in this post that they use it in an ethical manner, that there is no art or writing generated for their works, only ideas and production tool creation, whatever that means. And uh, hey Jason...

THERE IS NO ETHICAL WAY TO USE THE STEALING AND LYING MACHINE THAT KILLS THE PLANET!! YOU ARE KILLING THE PLANET WITH EVERY TIME YOU ASK A CHATBOT TO GENERATE SOME IDEAS FOR AN ASMP VIDEO!!

We now have confirmation that Catface studios uses AI in the process of making cocomau videos. And that sucks!! I wish they had lied to us!! I wish that Jason had gone on twitter and told a bold face outright lie to the entire fandom! I wish we could've been forever stuck in speculation with squinted eyes, instead of having this ugly truth laid bare. This sucks.

That's all there is to this. This sucks.

I'll probably still finish Mermaid Tales because in my social circles I've been the only one who's watching it and reporting back to people on how bad it is, but once that's over? I doubt I'll watch another new Aphmau video. Even if MyStreet Season 7 actually comes back, even if Jeffory and Blaze and Cadenza are all in it, I'll not want to watch it. Because now I can't trust the creators or anything they make. I never can. Until I see a comprehensive behind the scenes production process on MyStreet with reliable proof of no gen AI usage, I can never trust them, and that kind of documentary would cost too much money to film.

I'll still work on my fanfictions, have my fun with these characters in my own worlds, and engage with other fan content. This fandom is a special thing to me, and I've never needed them actually making anything I wanted to watch for that to be the case. But I will probably talk less about critiques of the writing and just do more silly Blaze posting when I'm in the mood for it, cause he's mine now as far as I can tell.

Thank you for reading this far, thank you for keeping a critical eye about you, and remember that Jason can't take your childhood memories away from you. Sparkle on and remember to be yourself

Oh and here's that meme I promised, made in about 5 minutes with a reliable zero usage of generative AI in the creative process

[mysticlael]

Okay. So about the AI situation.

I already wasn't watching most ASMP content nor Mermaid Tales. So ig I'm not as affected as others here.

But needing AI get keep up with their schedules feels fake to me. One of the VAs (before AI was really a thing) said that some videos were just improv. Which... why switch from that to script only?

That being said, I will probably not watch MID s2 nor MS s7 if there is no statement about the use of AI being... abandoned? Discontinued? Idfk. As dear as MID is to my heart, it doesn't deserve AI's writing.

I'm just disappointed in them. If y'all wanna defend it, I'm blocking you.

I will still be posting about it, but make it known I'm officially adopting the characters of MID as mine.

[sweetiepotatofry]

Well I was right, so that's a thing.

I feel bad for people who genuinely enjoyed cocomau, and feel blindsided by this. Like I said I had a hunch this whole time, but I do know a lot of people in the fandom watched the 'smp' for comfort.

This is some biblical ultimatum, get your childhood series back but in order to fund it the creators make AI slop for children. Kids deserve better than Ai entertaining them, they deserve things made with passion and love not stolen art and an absurd amount of water.

They had a lot of options beyond choosing this. They could've alternated between having their team of writers write scripted stuff and going back to how cocomau started; mod reviews. They could've finally backpedaled on daily uploads and started uploading on weekends. Yet, they landed on this one.

I dunno if this will affect how I consume the roleplays yet, depends on how the next few episodes of mermaid tales go. But I do know it'll affect what merch I buy, unless they confirm AI isn't used for creating merchandise ideas I don't think I'll be purchasing.

[ministarfruit]

bro the evil spirits are about to infest my house again because I called the exorcist and he showed up looking like this

[sweetiepotatofry]

Well I was right, so that's a thing.

I feel bad for people who genuinely enjoyed cocomau, and feel blindsided by this. Like I said I had a hunch this whole time, but I do know a lot of people in the fandom watched the 'smp' for comfort.

This is some biblical ultimatum, get your childhood series back but in order to fund it the creators make AI slop for children. Kids deserve better than Ai entertaining them, they deserve things made with passion and love not stolen art and an absurd amount of water.

They had a lot of options beyond choosing this. They could've alternated between having their team of writers write scripted stuff and going back to how cocomau started; mod reviews. They could've finally backpedaled on daily uploads and started uploading on weekends. Yet, they landed on this one.

I dunno if this will affect how I consume the roleplays yet, depends on how the next few episodes of mermaid tales go. But I do know it'll affect what merch I buy, unless they confirm AI isn't used for creating merchandise ideas I don't think I'll be purchasing.

[neos-schlond-poofa]

ive been so distant from the aphmau fandom only to randomly get a post on twitter from jason and i really dont feel like writing all my thoughts here, especially cause i barely use twitter BUT i do hope some people in the fandom realize that jess and jason are NOT your friends. it is okay to accept that they are controversial. using ai is bad, even if they claim its not holding back the teams creativity. i highly encourage people to look into catface's glassdoor reviews, as seeing them around 2 years ago is one of the main things that has pushed me away from aphmaus brand as a whole. you dont need to defend these grown adults from the backlash of their own repeated mistakes.