wait what happened why are you angry
This is public because I want pyokeke/ pyoblog to hear me loud and clear.
The original Pyokeke was a Japanese based artist who was making an RPG Maker game called The Solar Emissary (forgive me, I didn’t tag the game as well as I could have), a game about a Moon Rabbit & her adventures trying to save the solar system. All of his characters for the game were based off of planets & while Pyokeke did the “only draw six faces” thing, all of the characters designs were fun, & full of life, and I could tell what planet or solar body each was based off of. He planned on making more comics too (I didn’t read up on those as much as I did the Solar Emissary, sorry!), but I couldn’t tell you about those.
This was the original pyokeke’s avatar:
This is some of the barest explanation I can find of their game (because google hasn’t updated their stuff to tumblr I suppose)
It has the basic story structure of “Go on a quest and collect/repair the macguffin,” but so many stories have that that it’s not a cliche but an archetype. He had some really cute characters, some cute art in general, and a love of birds (which he would post on his regular blog, pyoblog!).
Pyokeke even drew me 2 pictures to make up for replying late to questions! AND I WAS MESSAGING HIM THAT HE DIDN’T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT MOGEKO AND THAT HIS STYLE WASN’T THE SAME AS MOGEKO’S
His first picture was part of my last theme.
About two weeks ago (right as I got my ulcer), he sent me a message along the lines of “Can I ask you a question about my characters, sorry if it’s a bother” which I gladly said yes to. He then sent me this message (please forgive me for showing off spoilers of your character pyokeke, but you don’t have any more art of Jupiter up and I’m trying to defend you I hope you understand):
He was concerned that his character Jupiter looked too similar to one of Mogeko’s designs. He even cited fandom drama that happened:
they were actually scared of this situation happening.
I re-assured that the Dolls of Rozenheim incident happened because someone traced DoR’s stuff, and that the Ib drama was because we had several dicks who posted draw child pornography without tagging it. I told him what I thought: it was a lovely design he put a lot of thought into, and that I honestly can’t name any Mogeko characters off the top of my head that resembled his.
This was his last message to me.
You can find the art here!
Anyways, a few days later someone asked me about Pyokeke (same link as above). I told them I didn’t know where they were, and I was very worried about them. They seemed to have totally purged themselves off the internet. Yesterday (aug 14), a blog called pyokeke followed me, but with a Sal icon.
Whoever is behind pyokeke & pyoblog must of bullied pyokeke off of tumblr (and as a side effect, probably the entire internet). They are condescendingly comparing Mogeko’s art and characters to Pyokeke, and are basically rubbing in the fact they took the two urls and chased them off the net with their terrible attitude (I should of saved them if I knew this was going to happen).
I’m devastated: I told him the fandom was safe, the fandom was good. I still stand by this notion, but we have one terrible terrible person who decided that the integrity of Mogeko’s own personal style was so important that they had to mock & belittle the original Pyokeke over it. Whether or not you think the two artist are similar, they are not similar enough for this kind of behavior. I see no harm in two artist having a similar style to each other, as no style belongs to one person (oohh two artist have similar styles whoopde fucking do there’s only so many ways to stylize art guh i’m too upset to find examples of stuff).
There’s enough room for the fun saturated colors & angles of Pyokeke, and the more desaturated, rounder, & flowing style of Mogeko. We could of have both of their ideas exist in the same space at the same time. Pyokeke wasn’t even taking any of Mogeko’s stoy concepts, he wasn’t inspired by Mogeko at all. Pyokeke had totally different ideas that didn’t even include the triggering content of mogeko’s work! His game could of been a cute game straight up, no mogekoing around. But no, because of the actions of one (or possibly more!) person/people, we lost a great artist with a sweet personality. Whoever owns the pyo-urls now loves mogeko SO MUCH that it blinded them to do this. Pyokeke was NOT tracing. Pyokeke was NOT stealing. His art style may be reminiscent of mogeko, but honestly, I think whoever designs these figurines is closer. Pyokeke did not deserved to be called out and insulted over this.
Pyokeke is gone. This isn’t a victory whoever has the pyokeke & pyoblog url, this is a loss.
Please do not follow the current owner of the pyo-urls. They are terrible, and should be ignored.
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