Okay so... here goes nothing. It's a bit of a big one but it's mainly here because I don't think I've got enough confirmed information on this one, even though there's a lot of claims going around.
Anyway, Purplekecleon aka PK.
Might sound familiar since there's been a lot of art from them and it's been spread around and is honestly good.
Unfortunately the artist in question is far from a good person. Really despite certain lolcow tenancies, this one seems more like a horrorcow.
Okay so main bits, most of them definitely true:
-Has a husband, a boyfriend and sometimes other partners. Apparently they have to do all the housework themselves and the boyfriend (Lexyeevee) is pretty much treated more as an attack dog than a S.O. as he basically has to deal with critics/trolls for PK
-Extremely ill tempered and will go into a rage over pretty much anything. Once even yelled at a guy because they were whining about some health problem and said guy insisted it's usually a hygiene thing. Will also react negatively to any sort of crit in art.
-Full-on sjw nut, one of those who thinks Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn are perfect angels and all men are murderers and such.
-Has a group of “friends” who she's often squeezed for things like free music.
-Despite that has ranted extensively over people asking for free art, even from friends for birthdays.
-Said “friends” she'll drop like a tonne of bricks and will often relentlessly punch down on them the minute they stop being convenient to have around.
-Have you worked out she's a massive hypocrite?
-Had a collab piece (“The creation of lemon”) that she did with a former partner. Said person fared a bit poorly at their second ever con where PK basically ignored his concerns despite knowing full well he had been scarred by an abusive relationship and had several mental problems like anxiety and paranoia. PK proceeded to quite brutally sever their relationship, calling him ungrateful (despite doing 50+ music tracks for her... for free) and a child with no future. She proceeded to continue selling their collab taking sole credit for it... and sole profits.
-Made a half-assed apology on the collab theft only when officially called out on it by other artist, was quite content to mock anyone else raising those concerns previously
-Said former partner made a callout post detailing manipulative and even abusive behaviours. PK immediately insisted it was made up... while acting in exactly the manner they'd been described as in the callout post, threatened legal action/doxxing.
-Ran a group on DA called “PMD-E” based on the pokemon games of a similar name. Of course, being a massive egotist, her character (a blatant self inset by the name of PK who's a Kecleon... that's purple) pretty much took the spotlight at all times while the other parts and players in the group were either phased out, booted out or ignored. Pulled the plug on the group even though people were heavily invested in it. Not confirmed (at least I can't) is that some people tried to keep it going without her. They were apparently harassed into dropping it.
-Despite the previous offences artwise, will get extremely bitchy over people trying to imitate and learn off her style, to the point she made a post flipping out because people were innocently asking about Sai brush settings.
There... well that came off as longer than I thought. There's a lot of things that aren't quite confirmed (particularly some stuff about her and/or partners acting inappropriately towards minors)
Unfortunately I'm a bit of a weakling and there's only so much horrible attitude and vile personality I can stand so I'm not gonna be much good at digging up any more. Perhaps someone better at researching/smarter than I am could look into it? There seems to be a tonne of dirt buried under blind adoration. Really, I think this could do with more investigation, allow me to supply a couple of leads if it may help:
http://badwebcomicswikiforum.yuku.com/topic/171/Bad-Deviant-Art-Comic-PMDE#.VEflwfldWSo The thread OP seems to know a fair bit about this mess of a human being. Unfortunately can't find proof of most of it and I don't think they're active on the forum.
http://tvface.tumblr.com/ an account from the former partner I mentioned above. Hosts the callout post, several chat logs and rather elaborate death/rape threats sent on PK's behalf.
http://kecrambles.tumblr.com/ PK's personal blog where most of the “magic” happens. Probably a goldmine of awful for those masochistic enough to dig through it.
Also the tumblr tag “Purplekecleon” seems to have a few extra stories and accounts from other users including alleged animal abuse/bestiality claims. It seems there's a lot of people who are afraid to speak up seeing as PK's bootlickers have no qualms with harassment and threats.
Just think this is something worth looking into because, well, this is prime horrorcow material with a bit of lol mixed in. Also, if the mods think this post was actually enough for a thread, feel free to move it. I just wasn't sure I had enough concrete evidence for a thread.
). The guy was constantly "attacked" by several members of the community all the while saying "I AM NOT A TROLL!" before closing his account not three days after I discovered him.
