{"id":356553,"date":"2024-11-26T09:45:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T14:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/?p=356553"},"modified":"2024-12-13T23:35:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T04:35:12","slug":"mouthwashing-developer-defends-fan-artists-over-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/mouthwashing-developer-defends-fan-artists-over-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Mouthwashing developer defends artists harassed by fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-356555\" src=\"https:\/\/media.nichegamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/mouthwashing-11-26-2024.jpg\" alt=\"Mouthwashing\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.nichegamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/mouthwashing-11-26-2024.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/media.nichegamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/mouthwashing-11-26-2024-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media.nichegamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/mouthwashing-11-26-2024-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media.nichegamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/mouthwashing-11-26-2024-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/media.nichegamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/mouthwashing-11-26-2024-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wrong Organ, the developer of the popular indie game&nbsp;<em>Mouthwashing<\/em> came out to admonish some fans who had begun harassing fan artists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spoilers ahead for&nbsp;<em>Mouthwashing<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most of the harassment is directed at <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Arg0se\/status\/1861166236731678860\">artists<\/a> who have depicted the character Anya in ways that the harassers consider &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/search?q=anya%20gross%20fanart&amp;src=typed_query\">sexualized<\/a>&#8220;. A prime example is the artist <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/USA37107692\/status\/1859987790840426657\">USA<\/a> who drew Anya in their style while also giving her elf ears (because why not, they&#8217;re cute).<\/p>\n<p>As a result of this incident, and others, Wrong Organ put out an announcement telling them that:&nbsp;<em>&#8220;If you can&#8217;t be respectful and considerate, this fandom is not the place for you&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Some MW fan creators have been receiving harassment over works that others have found distasteful. If you see fan works that you do not like, block\/ignore it. ANY form of harassment is unacceptable. If you can&#8217;t be respectful and considerate, this fandom is not the place for you.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wrong Organ (@Wrong_Organ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wrong_Organ\/status\/1860669574284193933?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;In recent years, &#8220;fan cops&#8221; have become a growing problem in fandom spaces, policing what sort of content they feel that others are allowed to draw, write, or otherwise create. Their stance is that some content or characters shouldn&#8217;t be depicted in certain ways despite being fictional. In this case, the character Anya is a victim of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, creators like Wrong Organ and even&nbsp;<em>Nier Automata<\/em> creator <a href=\"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/taro-yoko-tells-people-to-stop-complaining-about-cosplay-and-fan-art\/\">Yoko Taro<\/a> have called out this sort of behavior from fans.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mouthwashing<\/em> is available now on Windows PC (via <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2475490\/Mouthwashing\/\">Steam<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrong Organ, the developer of the popular indie game&nbsp;Mouthwashing came out to admonish some fans who had begun harassing fan artists. Spoilers ahead for&nbsp;Mouthwashing Most of the harassment is directed at artists who have depicted the character Anya in ways that the harassers consider &#8220;sexualized&#8220;. A prime example is the artist USA who drew Anya [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":356555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4542,12],"tags":[3071,11297,26826,26827],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356557,"href":"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356553\/revisions\/356557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}