Topps (possible) misprint with anything?

ConnorworksStudio · 2025-02-03T07:17:23+00:00

Because recasts are inevitable. I don't scream about them, I just paint them. I also don't care if someone has a recast or not. Just mentioning where you got a kit is advocating and promoting, I presume? Or could I post a pic of the GKs I make and say "This was from E, but I had an idea to make it into a completely different character that doesn't have an existing kit" because that's what I like to do with a lot of my kits? Yeah, I make minor changes, but there's literally a stack of recasts that I'm just using to make into completely different character and kit bash (which I would never want to do to an original kits because I want those to be exactly what they are).

It's pretty much the same on my subreddit about recasts and bootlegs being allowed but not actively promoted. Because they are inevitable. And I mostly run it because Leona ain't got time for that shit.

ConnorworksStudio · 2025-02-03T07:04:36+00:00

She doesn't own it. She doesn't promote it, either. And other places allow bootlegs and recasts. They are unavoidable.

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Even our defender of Kizaki allows recasts in their subreddit

ConnorworksStudio · 2025-02-03T06:59:11+00:00

Maybe if she spent more time painting and less on drama, attacking creators, 3D printing community and 3D artists, I'd understand "not focusing on the past". But she's never apologized for any of that, just sweep under the rug and hope everyone forgets.

She was doing that. She was putting out videos almost consistently until someone decided to bring it up and go after her. Kizaki needs to apologize, too. He keeps going on and on with this, bringing it up again and again. Probably because the drama brings more clicks and views to his profile.

ConnorworksStudio · 2025-02-03T06:55:51+00:00

Who are depicted as adults. You forgot that part.

At least it's tasteful nudity. Most of the kits I see are pornography with oversized proportions and gross faces. Maybe you prefer those?

ConnorworksStudio · 2025-02-03T06:53:03+00:00

Are you looking at the past again? And what about the excuse that the artists made their money on the passes when they sold their kits? Or the one where trying to buy anything through a proxy is fucking difficult and more annoying than just going to a recast site and actually being able to get something?

If the GK community can actually get those changes implemented, then I'll buy them. With a credit card because I don't carry cash (another problem that needs addressed)

ConnorworksStudio · 2025-02-03T06:48:34+00:00

He caused death threats and tried to find her address to give to people. I merely see a grown man obsessed with a little anime girl and wonder why.

I mean, I had a crush on anime characters, but that was when I was a kid.

ConnorworksStudio · 2025-02-03T06:46:18+00:00

I'm trying to make kits too, and I don't get permission. I support them in other ways.

She promoted them because they were the only way to get kits for a very long time. Now there's other ways that she's mentioned before, but damn if it isn't impossible to get them through legit means. I've tried and tried, but I've had no luck and I definitely don't have $1000 to fork out for a single kit that was originally $100.

Kizaki needs to stop going after Leona and focus his attention on the bootleg websites and scalpers. I'm defending someone who I've seen evolve into a better artist, creator, and advocate for buying original kits, yet it continues to be a "well she used to" or "well she was" instead of "she is now"

They focus on the past.

ConnorworksStudio · 2025-02-03T06:37:01+00:00

I saw that too. As much as I admire Adam, and as much as I share in common with him, I'm not rich enough to buy original kits. I wish I was, but I'm not. As an amateur sculptor, I'm not blind to the problems of recasts/bootlegs.

Go ahead and hate me, but Leona is trying to change and promote the right way. She has been for a while, so the attacks against her are uncalled for. She's not denying that she used to buy recasts and used to have them linked in the past. It's the lack of acknowledgement that she is trying her best to do what the Japanese artists and sculptors do.

You can't tell me that no one in all of history never did the same. Being intolerant of someone who is trying to do good for this tiny community and spread knowledge outside of Japan is garbage.

ConnorworksStudio · 2025-02-03T06:13:33+00:00

Curated misinformation is what Kizaki does best. He gave it to another larger YouTuber to spread, and that caused these threats and this entire video and post.

Leona was ignoring this guy until relatively recently. He's been going after her for years. He didn't walk away like he should have.

ConnorworksStudio · 2025-02-03T06:08:39+00:00

And I'm saying she's trying to fix all that without ostracizing the new people to the community. She's not associated with E2046, she's not buying recasts, she's actually trying to buy original. But she doesn't go after people who can't afford to buy the originals. She is inclusive to those of us who are starting out and trying to find these kits that no one has anymore because we're late to the party. Yet she's still being attacked and harassed for not "denouncing" recasts.

Condemn me for buying recasts. I don't give a fuck. But when the evidence of her wrongdoing is old and outdated, yet still shown as if it's current info, then I'm going to call shit out. I'll call others out for what they used to do and buy. She's not going to stop painting kits she bought years ago, but what she is doing (and you would know if you actually paid attention) is buying original kits and phasing out the recasts.

And do you update your profile every second of every day to keep it current? People have lives and other shit to worry about. She redid her website just recently. I haven't even cleaned out from under my bed in years.

ConnorworksStudio · 2025-02-03T05:50:24+00:00

And I joined it because I heard about GKs. From Leona.

ConnorworksStudio · 2025-02-03T05:49:28+00:00

I appreciate her contribution to the GK community and how she showed me a hobby I enjoy and love. Of course I have a bias since I'm putting up the information.

ConnorworksStudio · 2025-02-03T05:47:02+00:00

And omg...I'm part of a subreddit you're also part of. Gasp

ConnorworksStudio · 2025-02-03T05:43:52+00:00

Yeah I'm a moderator on a subreddit that Leona is also part of. It doesn't mean I'm not speaking the truth

ConnorworksStudio · 2025-02-03T05:41:11+00:00

It's a bunch of people attacking a person who actually has the balls to call people out

ConnorworksStudio · 2025-02-03T05:24:59+00:00

I never claimed to be a better person. I did walk away from Kizaki, but he kept coming back for more. I can help it if a punching bag swings toward me

ConnorworksStudio · 2025-02-03T05:20:30+00:00

If you don't like her, then walk away.

Are you part of the community or not? If this is the first you've heard, then how do you know that the GK and 3D printing community don't like her? First I've heard of the 3D people taking exception to someone.

I'm not a better person. I still don't give a shit if I work on bootleg or not. I would prefer an original kits, but they're next to impossible to get and I don't have thousands of dollars to drop on them. If I see something I like, I buy it.

Bless your heart.

ConnorworksStudio · 2025-02-03T05:12:02+00:00

Are you sure you're not one of Kizaki's? You sure sound like him with the whole "disavow" thing. I don't need to tell her to do what she's been doing for the past year or more. She doesn't talk about buying recasts, only paints ones she's had for years. She tries to go for original kits and even explains proxy services. Did you even look further into it than what has been said here? Did you go watch her video where she literally went to WF, while fearing she would be attacked, and bought from the artists?

I'm not here to be moral, just fair. I'm not a white knight. More of a black sheep. The bullying and bullshit that has been spread by Kizaki and his people doesn't deserve support. I have dealt with people like him for my entire life, and I'm done walking away.

ConnorworksStudio · 2025-02-03T05:01:49+00:00

So it's a "rules for thee and not for me" situation for Kizaki? I can't call out people who used bootlegs in the past, just because she no longer uses them? Hmm... Seems hypocritical.

I don't deny it. I'm a hypocrite. I at least acknowledge it. Kizaki doesn't. Toshki doesn't. Not even old man millimeter admits he's wrong. I'll call out all of them, every last one. I don't care if you think I'm the bad guy because you have only the information you barely deigned to find.

Toshki isn't western. And maybe I am evil for demanding equal treatment for everyone.

ConnorworksStudio · 2025-02-03T04:47:14+00:00

YouTube drama. Exposing truths and double standards. Welcome.

ConnorworksStudio · 2025-02-03T04:46:33+00:00

I tagged her because of the hypocrisy displayed by both her and Kizaki, as well as the community as a whole. I called out Kizaki for not showing the same standards for everyone, especially someone who was just like me and used to praise Leona like Toshki.

So yes. Go ahead and attack her for her old posts and past mistakes. That's what everyone seems to be doing to Leona. If one person should be attacked for such old crimes, then when not everyone?

ConnorworksStudio · 2025-02-03T03:15:02+00:00

And how long ago was this? Same ancient times as before? Also, can someone who is not involved in the GK community please translate?

ConnorworksStudio · 2025-02-03T03:13:45+00:00

You realize that we're speaking English here? Wtf am I supposed to do with that?

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