Saw mention of radiant pikachus: they totally still exist, and not only they still exist, but they also were being sold in the 5$ - 35$ range
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There was one person in particular who tried to own the concept of "unique pikachus", Rii, the creator of glowchus
Also notable for creating a glowchu contest featuring a pedophilic, incestuous pairing, and not seeing an issue with generally exposing/ fetishizing incest/ rape to minors
More notes on the contest: her ( mostly underage fans ) were encouraged to design an offspring for two of these pikachu characters
Except one so happens to be raised by the other since infancy, and then as soon as she turned legal age was immediately courted by her father-figure ( hence the offspring )
Most of this information has been lost to time by now, at best some screenshots remain somewhere
There are several examples of promoting incest via her art but this one requires the least context
Her 13 year old fans think it's very hot, because she had completely normalized this kind of content among her orbiters
Enjoys using "they're just characters" as an excuse
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Currently she is on her 20th "indefinite hiatus" so most of her direct internet history is brushed under the carpet, but give her a bit and she'll crawl straight back to the surface
Very long story short the "closed chu species" part of deviantart is a whole nasty can of worms in itself, it's just very well kept under wraps for the outside world