Popular Internet Artist Sakimichan In Hot Water After Liking Anti-Black Lives Matter Tweets
Anime and fan artist Sakimichan is in hot water after liking several tweets from known right-wing provacateur Candace Owens criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement and the George Floyd protests.
The controversy started when Twitter user and artist Tajaé Keith posted about the anti-BLM tweets Sakimichan had liked, calling for her to be cancelled.
This led to a flurry of Twitter users revisiting issues they'd had with her art style, suggesting that her pin-up style had racist undertones.
Responding to the backlash, Sakimichan defended herself by saying that she doesn't closely follow American politics, supports peaceful protests, and took umbrage with the looting that has happened as a result of the protests due to her friendship with several small business owners and artists. Her statement reads:
The world has changed so quickly, and the power and hope of the BlackLivesMatter protests have sparked hope for many people who have been marginalized and oppressed for way too long. Change is not without it’s frustration though, and as a someone with many friends who are also small business owners in cities across the world, as well as friends who are police or family with law enforcement, our hearts break for the people harmed by some of the looting and rioting that have occurred in some areas. Please understand that I do not confuse people destroying things with the many people peacefully protesting for equality and change. I also don’t really follow American politics closely, and I’m not really interested in taking sides in any political discussion. I’m pro peaceful protest that have resulted in police reform and other positive changes and I’m against the violence from both the riots, looting as well as the police violence towards peaceful protestors."
Her statement still didn't sit well with some, who found her stance of neutrality to be an insufficient response to the ongoing protests.
Others were more generous with their thoughts.
Yet again, the lesson to take away here is: Never tweet. And also, don't like things on Twitter either.
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yojimboZ
>A bunch of simps/coomers stick her supporting racist idiots because titties.
Of course you idiots would, I bet you would've low-key supported proud boys if they were all anime girls. Unlike most other porn artists out there, she always gave me bad vibes, so hearing this more so disappointed me than surprised me.
King Crimson
You're not gonna be able to cancel somebody who can draw like that, Twitter. Don't even try.
Xtal
Does twitter make people actually mentally retarded or do they just pretend to be
AL2009man
So, how many times has Sakimichan been cancelled? because I'm losing count on the amount of cancellations she gotten. (last time I checked, it's the third time this year)
Flyfloon
Twitter is a disease.
OmegaV
Honestly, I find it pretty abnormal a like can be traced to the user in the first place.
Dracorex
This is fucking absurd. #IStandWithSakimichan
solid spice
Real grand how even just a like that probably wasn't even though twice about can be enough for the pitch forks to come out.
Three Words Maximum
Twitter is cancer.
Anyone00
It's amazing how may people don't realize that either the pendulum is going to swing back then people on one the other side will now feel perfectly justified in canceling them because the others were shown no leeway; or the pendulum will keep swinging the way it is eventually faster than they can keep up so they'll find themselves the evil alt-right Nazi.
shadow_lepus
I'm looking forward to watching all these glass houses get pelted with stones.
yojimboZ
And people would show leeway for others who hate them for existing…why?