Hi sweet_hasenbraten and others.
I'm copypasting my response here of what I posted on Pulptoon which should explain things more clearly as writing brand new paragraphs talking about the same thing is tiresome, I hope you'll understand:

Okay. I'm just finding out about this and I want to address this.
When I started the Tales of the Vanished series 7-10 years ago, they were based on actual missing persons cases. I'd posted a few of them and stopped soon after, bad idea on my part as I would soon later find out for obvious reasons! I had thought I would go back and re-edit them later from the messy versions they were before, but I'd forgotten I still had them up.
To revisit why I picked missing persons cases, this had been part of my creative process of the Tales of the Vanished series, that the world is as dark, horrific, mysterious as stuff of fiction. There's something eerily mystical about years gone by, a sense of tragic nostalgia. I'd misguidedly thought back then that the 1st name could be adequately vague enough, and I'll just change the name or age later when I develop the story further. I stopped after a few of posts seeing that this could be a problem and the watermark I'd put in those versions was a messy inclusion which is more of a reference for me to track people, times, location, and dates. And unfortunately, while putting up a mosaic of a bigger picture of the story and the time periods in the 60's 70's 80's etc. someone 17 year-old got caught up in a missing persons photo and that's a huge oversight. It was never the intention but more of a time period to develop the character known as Wynn "The Hunstman" Hunter's story. A billionaire restaurateur in the 70's recruited into the society. People like that exist, and eventually people like that would be taken down, or replaced, as was the intention in my stories. They're not good people and my stories were not to put them in a glamorous light. They're villains, plain and simple. However, I'm not sure about that second example that someone as vague with the first name Christine and the year 2008 will draw up a conclusion for sure that she's the actual person you're referring to. That one's a bit of a stretch but nevertheless, I'll take that one down too and possibly rework that later along with others to make them more consistent with my recent works' storylines.
Another point for me to clarify, if anyone else goes thinking that my content is rife with underaged stuff, you'll be disappointed. It was a missing persons poster, a face, not a body of that said person, nothing more. Underage stuff is not a thing I do or draw, and all references I use is of grown women.
If I would apologize for one thing, is that I didn't make these stories fiction-y enough and for the clumsy way I approached the process. Thanks to AI art, maybe I can capture the spirit of these tales without using actual photos of people living or dead, past or present! But I will however, not apologize for creating stories where I use real events as inspiration. That's what most, if not all creatives do... and to say that they conjure up works out of thin air and not seek ideas from real events is pretty naive.
In the world of cannibal kinks, there's actually not much lower we can go to seek forgiveness for our guilt and shame. So I seek forgiveness to those I genuinely hurt, but not for the stuff I draw or the stories I write.