!PSA TO THE BACKYARD SPORTS FANDOM!
You may or may not have seen this account on deviantart floating around. and you might be wondering who this really is, considering pep has made herself very clear on where she stands on the topic of ai art and art theft.
This is actually a guy by the aliases of Punchcar and Guysmiley (or atleast close enough, im afraid I haven’t been in the fandom for awhile)
As you know right now, this is not Pep. So what is this account doing and why?
The Realgreenjunipertree account is stealing art from various artists in the fandom, and feeding it to AI, sometimes prompting it to generate fetish art.
While Pep has been attempting to prove this isn’t her, the impersonator has been making statements like these.
Even this response is 100% AI, not cool.
But why is he doing this?
Two things, for slander and attention.
Punchcar is a very infamous guy in general, I’ll make a separate post on what he’s done prior if enough people are interested. But due to his weird and creepy behavior in the past, he’s been avoided and shunned by the BYS fandom. But him being salty about it all, has decided to take this course of action. He wants to slander the people that have been most vocal about him and his actions.
SPREAD AWARENESS, REPORT THE ACCOUNT, AND HOLD HIM ACCOUNTABLE.