Have you ever seen somebody post something online, and just thought to yourself . . . “you
should probably delete this, because this is not a very good post”.
“I won’t lie.
This is definitely me when I’m” looking at my own content.
But, the situation I'm talking about today is the first time I’ve seen someone post
something and thought “you probably shouldn’t have deleted this, for ethical reasons . . . but
I’m still glad you did because it was still a pretty bad post”.
So yes, it’s me.
Greetings parasocial parish.
Rejoice, for today father is blessing you with a mess.
Honestly there are no other words to describe this situation.
Sometimes in life, things just go to far, and we have reached that point everybody.
But fear not, for I am here to enlighten you all, and um get some views while at it.
So who deleted what, what am I even talking about , and why does it matter.
Well, it kind of doesn’t . . . but, nothing makes me laugh anymore except irony and ironic
TikTok compilations, which is actually still irony, and now I just admitted that I watch
TikTok, some of them are good, okay.
But this situation that happened a couple of weeks ago actually make me laugh, so we’re
going to talk about it anyway.
So today we’re talking about a big Art YouTuber that I put in the title for views named Holly
Brown.
Holly’s fans like to describe her as being blunt and honest.
But I guess after this, we'll just have to shorten it to blunt.
Long story short, she has hundreds of thousands of subscribers, millions of views, and she
made a YouTuber apology video.
Yes, we now have one of those in the YouTube Art community.
But there's one tiny problem with her video.
It’s completely fake.
And I have screenshots.
So let's go through it.
Also, I’m going to be drawing fanart in this video because um, graphic design is my
passion
Also, I’m obviously going to be cutting a lot of parts out of her video, but please
watch the full thing if you want to check my math.
And also, also, I’ll be adding some music to her video to kind of complete the YouTuber
apology aesthetic for her.
Now let's get into this.
"I'm sure somebody will think less of me for explaining this to you, but that's okay, people
hate me for various different things and if you don't like the fact that I use references
and I don't freehand everything, then that's fine."
Yeah see, I will say nobody should really get hate for using a reference.
Like, in all seriousness, artists use references.
I'm using one in the drawing I'm doing right there.
How can you freehand something if you've never seen it before?
So, I’m with her so far.
"And I realize no matter what I say, somebody is gonna think I'm lying, and that's fine.
Like, I don't care".
Uh oh.
"Um, a lot of people pointed out that I did not draw this Alphonse in the background.
That was actually just traced from a reference.
Um, well not even from a reference.
I straight up just like traced it".
Well that’s not using a reference then, that’s just . . . tracing.
And you didn’t mention that it was traced when you posted it to your Twitter.
"I just mostly do this to help with composition to figure out everything".
You trace . . . entire characters . . . with very neat lines just so you can like figure
out where they go?
I’m really trying to stay on your side here so could you please provide an example?
"And here's an example.
I will photoshop s--t in, to figure out how it's actually done, and then I will, you know,
adjust from there".
Yeah but that’s not what you did.
Unless by “adjust from there” you mean tracing.
In which case, interesting wording go off i guess.
"I do that a lot for a lot of my drawings, so sorry to say that I do Photoshop a lot
of s--t to figure things out.
But I don't just like take things like this and keep them in the final artwork."
Again, Photoshopping a lot of stuff is not what you were doing.
You literally just said that you straight-up traced over artwork.
And do you see how she keeps doing that?
Like “I’m sorry for this thing that’s not bad or wrong” and then her entire fanbase
is like “oh Holly!
you don’t have to be sorry for this thing!
Because it's not even bad or wrong thing!”
And it’s like . . . well, true, but that's not . . . what she did . . . so . . .
"And I apologize if anyone thought like that's just my process is just like stealing screenshots
from Full Metal Alchemist then drawing it.
That wasn't my intention".
See, she did it again.
"I honestly kind of forgot that I uh, I hadn't redrawn the final image.
Because again, these were-- when I originally had posted them, I posted like this one and
this one I think."
Okay I was really trying to give her the benefit of the doubt here but, let me get this straight.
She forgot that she traced it?
She forgot that she carefully, and neatly traced over the whole thing with a small brush,
left it in there, and then uploaded it to Twitter, because she was too distracted by
the fact that she also posted one other image.
Uh.
"But yeah I just wanted to be honest with you--"
"Another thing that I do is I use mood boards, uh where I take colors from various different
things".
Cool but that’s literally not part of the issue and nobody accused you of that so, now
that we know you’re a tracer and you tried to pass off tracing as using a reference,
let’s just skip to the part where you lie about deleting your twitter.
"Another thing is, I actually deleted Twitter.
Social media in general has been very uh toxic for me.
That's-- that's why I-- well it wasn't really why I deleted the Twitter.
Um, I deleted my Twitter because I was spending three hours a day on Twitter, not to mention
I don't think social media is necessarily good for my mental health.
Especially when there's drama".
Oh so you didn’t delete your twitter because this person called you for tracing?
It was only because you spend too much time on it and definitely not because you can’t
delete tweet replies so the callout was just kind of on your Twitter forever?
Hmm.
But wait!
As this person pointed out, (insert picture: hytc1.png) Holly didn’t even delete her
Twitter .She just protected it.
That's right, she just put her Twitter account on private and then told all of her subscribers
that she deleted it.
It's like-- She has . . . a quarter of a million subscribers, did she think . . . no one was
going to check?
"When I post sketches that are really rough like this, it means that it's not final artwork.
I kind of assumed people knew that, but again I can see how that's seen as like really bad.
And I'm sorry if like any of you were like *gasp*"
So now it’s my fault for not knowing.
You Know what, I am pretty much done with this video.
"I probably shouldn't have posted that picture on Twitter and I'm sorry."
That’s . . . That’s it.
That should have been your whole video.
It should have just been three seconds long.
"And yeah, I recognize that this is like lazy as ba--s to do something like this in your
process, I know.
And, I will probably just maybe do like a vague outline of something, and stop doing
this.
Just so I can avoid ever accidentally posting something again."
"Really funny right?
Hence my laughter and big smile."
"Okay.
I just wanted to like, say that.
Because again, I don't want to start any drama."
"That's not how it works!
That's not how any of this works!"
Spreading misinformation about professional artists . . . is kind of . . . can you—don't.
Professional artists do not trace over artwork and then upload it to their personal social
media accounts, without specifying.
In fact they wouldn't upload traced artwork to begin with.
The comment section was so badly informed even I was surprised.
I mean I know when it comes to finding accurate information online it’s pretty hit or miss
. . . but in Holly Brown’s comment section, I guess they never hit, huh.
I’m sorry, I’ve been watching a lot of TikTok videos lately and I don’t know what
to say for myself.
So we’ve all had our laugh at this trainwreck of a situation.
Or at least, I have.
And honestly, that’s good enough for me.
But, you know what, I need this video to be ten minutes for that extra ad revenue so . . .
I guess we’ll take a look at some of the positives in this situation.
If we have to
Over the 160 videos she’s uploaded, Holly Brown has undeniably helped a lot of people.
And 160 videos is a lot of work to put into a YouTube channel.
What we should not do is trace artwork and then upload it to Twitter without credit,
I think we should also not cancel Holly Brown.
It was an honest mistake (except it was extremely dishonest), but it doesn’t negate all of
the good that Holly has actually done on her channel and all of the good videos she's made.
I’ve made mistakes, you’ve made mistakes, it could be argued that YouTube itself is
a mistake.
And we can criticize those mistakes and laugh at them, but we can also do that without trying
to end someone else's career.
Know what I mean?
I don’t have time to cancel anybody, there are too many TikTok compilations for me to
watch.
We can cancel her after I'm done with those, okay?.
Sorry, but TikTok and the Word of God, are the only “trending topics” I’m following
right now.
This was all my opinion on the topic, I’m pretty curious as to what yours was.
Anyway, looks like I’ve gotten ten minutes of content out of this so, leave a like, tell
me what you think, and subscribe if you haven’t already.
Thank you for watching and a big thank you to my 42,000 subscribers.
Okay bye.
Draw or trace?
I guess you’re gonna trace, huh?
You’re using reference, you really thought you tricked us!
Nah!
You’re gonna delete your Twitter and we won’t miss ya!
Then go on YouTube and you act like you’re the victim!