Smash Mouth Retweets Lolicon by Shadman, Deletes It
In reaffirming the fact of reality that we are now living in one of the weirdest timelines in the multiverse, Smash Mouth is back in the social media spotlight after giving a shout-out to a lolicon illustration by the notorious Rule 34 artist, Shaddai Prejean (a.k.a. Shadman) via Twitter yesterday.
It all began last night when America's favorite has-beens of the early 2000s tweeted out an illustration of a young girl wearing a Smash Mouth tank top while holding an “L” hand gesture to her forehead, accompanied by a lyric from the band’s viral hit “All Star”. Completely unbeknownst to them, they were actually retweeting one of the web’s most infamous artists, Shadman, best known for his sexually explicit Rule 34 illustrations and offensive humor.
Inevitably, the Internet soon erupted with curiosity and bafflement over Smash Mouth's embrace of Shadman's art, with several fans and followers of the band asking whether they knew anything about the artist behind the illustration.
Shortly after the retweet began circulating, Gizmodo ran an article with the headline "Smash Mouth Retweeted an Anime Porn Nazi," which referred to Shadman as “one of the alt-right's favorite artists.” The article was subsequently posted to threads on 4chan's /mu/, /co/ and /pol/ boards, where it was widely mocked for claiming that Shadman was a Nazi member of the "alt-right." Meanwhile, Shadman responded by tweeting screenshots of the article, sarcastically referring to it as "top tier journalism" and calling out the "alt-right" claim as "WTF?"
In an attempt to diffuse the controversy with humor, Smash Mouth tweeted “Just checked out his other ‘work’. Yes,….he may have issues,” before deleting the entire thread altogether. 2017… what a time to be alive.
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MissingN0pe
Shadman wouldn't be so bad if the worst he did is just sexualise cartoons, make incest comics and draw dicks to girls. Problem is the fucker is a genuine textbook pedophile.
And not in a "teens are cute, omg jailbaits" kinda way. He routinely draws pre-school age children in sexual situations and reposts other artists' stuff like that one pic of a toddler's gaping asshole post anal rape.
Monchete99
BlazingRomanSPQR
Though, to be honest, it could be worse
Clover_Indigo
Reminds me of when Coleen Clinkenbeard of Funimation fame once tweeted a picture of the girls from My Hero Academia as morbidly obese thinking it was meant to promote body positivity.
FBI Cyber Branch
why is this worse than what is going on globally
Clover_Indigo
Why must something be worse than a global crisis before people can pay attention to it?
Cyphon
Reminder that this man drew children having sex with horses and nobody batted an eye, but when he drew edgy ROBLOX fanart the authorities shut him down.
WELLLLMYNAMEISJOP
Every day, I await the apocalypse ever more eagerly.
Foolish88
Well, at least it isn't 2016.
Cresset
"Anime Porn Nazi" makes me think of people annoying him with stupid art requests and Shadman answering with "No anime porn for you!"
Mal Nexus
Now i'm not gonna sit here and act like I think Shadman is this saint or that what he draws a lot of the time is okay--but for fucks sake this is taking memes seriously.
What exactly was hoped to be accomplished by Gizmodo?
Gumshoe
>What exactly was hoped to be accomplished by Gizmodo?
They wanted people to click on their article, that's all really. They knew most readers would be unfamiliar with Shadbase and probably wouldn't be willing to go and look at the website for themselves, so it was quite easy to sensationalise and get away with.