Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-32988707-20180128173444/@comment-66.150.8.161-20180208180013

Hi Diz, I saw your apology on the controversial post you made on VO, but you are falling into your old habits by jumping to switching the target from Purin to pin the blame their friends for drawing weeb art. The reason I buy Vocalo's apology more so over yours, is because they didn't give an excuse for starting drama and instead owned up to it. A moderator has a certain degree of power and influence over the community and everything you post as a moderator is and will always be held in high regard. Your guilty until proven innocent mindset is something that bothers me.

From my viewpoint, there are two places in which you jumped the gun or if if I use your words, had acted out due to "implications that bothered you". The first place is in saying that their artwork is shotacon. This is a very vague blanket term in the anime fandom that can range from something innocent like a cutesy drawing (popular with most anime fans) to sexually explicit content like Boku no Pico.

I will state once again that there is nothing about their friend's anime artwork that is sexually explicit. Their entire art gallery is safe for work. Kawaii style artwork is not shotacon and it's certainly not porn, like you're making it out to be.

However, you did qualify your statement that "even Cillia posts these pictures  so I don't think this accusation is a big deal since the fandom is used to it". I am seeing a double standard on your attitude towards what a popular producer like Cillia does versus some random person like Purin's friend supposedly draws. According to you, you dug through purin's twitter, looking for certain keywords to shade Purin versus just shaking your head Cillia's actions. These two actions you took are not equal and what you did to Purin is a lot more calculated, and it escalated and claimed more victims than just Purin. This is a complex set of actions that you took to throw a multitude of people under the bus. I'm not trying to call you out on a personal vendetta but I'm seeing one just because you chose to do something shady to purin and now, that Purin's tweet has been debunked into a joke, you want to shade their friend (who according to you, was your original intended target). If you don't like that friend's art, speak out about it like you did with Cillia, maybe even @ them on twitter. But, doing a keyword search on Purin based on assumptions you have about his friend and grabbing a two year old joke tweet out of context and framing the post on VO the way you did is what screams shady to me.

The second jump in your logic is that you somehow came to the conclusion that in the original context of the tweet, the friend was reading shotacon porn? The rest of the tweet clearly lists the mangas they read when they got the FBI ad spam and it definitely is not shotacon porn. This is a guilty until proven innovent mindset that I'm seeing from you. You did not see the whole things through, did not bother to understand the context of the tweet (hey, you could have asked purin first right?). You make the worst possible assumptions about people and run off with it. Slander, whether due to intent or ignorance of the facts is still malicious and is a crime by law.

If you regret the witch hunt you instigated back on VO, then do not be the one to start anymore. Whatever negative opinions you hold about people, I want to see you address those opinions directly to those people instead of framing it and trying to pass it off as something Vocaloid related. That is all I expect from a moderator.