Hello everyone,
The artist of the bunny outfit artwork, yuzutoro-san, has expressed their discontent on twitter about my NSFW Mod and the circumstance that I didn’t reach out to them in advance.
My view until now has always been that artists inspire each other and create art that is to some degree derivatives of the ideas of others. Precisely that’s why art is always able to evoke and convey a plethora of unique emotions that is different from artist to artist and even from work to work by the same artist. Art is there to inspire other artists. These will then let the original idea grow into a completely different “plant” fostered by the creativity of the second and fertilized by the creativity of the first.
The first may not like what the second made from it, but that is only natural considering the unimaginable amount of directions creativity can grow into. I personally would never find it wrong if someone took my ideas and made something I dislike out of it, because the boundless freedom in the world of creativity and art is exactly what I love about it.
However, just as much as I believe in the importance of this very freedom, I also do believe in the necessity of respecting other artists. Without them, I wouldn’t be here, neither would any of us.
So, it came to me with much despair and guilt when I saw yuzutoro-san’s discomfort for using their ideas. Seeing that I have upset a Japanese artist that I look high up to, it made me feel awful about myself. I felt horrible realizing my ignorance of assuming that other artists would share the same views of what it means to be an artist.
I assured yuzutoro-san that I will never use other people’s designs without their approval every again, and I thanked them for opening my eyes on this issue of mine that I was unaware of. I also offered to delete all 18+ content that involves their design. I felt obliged to hold myself accountable for my own actions.
Thankfully though, yuzutoro-san had mercy on me and respect for the effort I put in. Perhaps because they saw how regretful I was and understanding about their perspective, they only requested me to not commercialize it as well as to not further distribute it on fanbox and advertise the mod in general. They don’t want others to misunderstand that their designs are free material, which I totally understand.
Thus I’ve decided to, according to yuzutoro-san’s wish, delete the twitter post and refrain from posting about it on pixiv or anywhere else and make the fanbox posts private. The full version of the mod will be made free but on my subscribestar account where there is barely any visibility as well as you need to log in to access it. For those of you that already downloaded it or want to download it on subscribestar, I ask you to please not redistribute the mod any further or share screenshots of parts visible in yuzutoro-san’s artwork online and just enjoy these by yourself. I don’t want to cause them any more harm than I already inflicted.
I hope that this is agreeable for all parties involved
I was in a very bad mental state yesterday. I hated myself for causing yuzutoro-san to be upset with me, despite me valuing them as an artist so so much.
But I want to end my sorrow now. This situation taught me a lot. It taught me how to be more compassionate with other artists. It taught me that I must overcome my own fear and shyness of engaging with other artists to ask for approval in the future, despite language barriers.
I’ll see this transgression of mine as a necessary thing that was fated to happen in order for me to live more carefully and compassionately amongst other artists.
So that I’ll never hurt any artist ever again.
I apologize to yuzutoro-san for not asking in advance, and I apologize to my fans for causing you inconvenience this whole situation might have caused.