u/MattSmuggy12

I’m MattSmuggy12, the guy who made this meme, and the guy who’s going to explain why I made it. So, for my explanation, I dislike Vivienne Medrano as a person and who she is. First things first, I do think her show can use improvement, but I’m not going to talk about that because I feel like it’s always talked about and everything has already been said about her show’s writing and consistency.

Anyways, I’m going to get straight to the point. I don’t like Vivienne Medrano as a person because she can’t handle criticism. She acts annoyed or stubborn when people criticize her. “Oh, but most of the criticism is harassment.” Yeah, fair point, but when it isn’t harassment, she’s either telling people to get lost (not word for word) or gets highly defensive and frustrated. Vivziepop isn’t free from criticism. There are going to be people who will criticize some flaws in your show, maybe even make light-hearted jokes about it (not talking about “if blank was written by Vivziepop”). But it’s the fact that she wants everyone to be kiss-ass to where she thinks criticism = hate.

I will cut Viv some slack though because I know assholes on the internet have harassed her because they’re homophobic/transphobic MAGA Christians. And also I know Viv is an SA victim, which is terrible. I genuinely feel sorry for Viv and I would NOT wish that on anyone. And also people who drew pictures of Viv being r*ped are fucking monsters because genuinely wtf.

But on the topic, that doesn’t excuse being a stubborn asshole to those who just want your show to improve.

If you’re passionate about your project and people who genuinely like it and want to see it become something better, then blocking or being some thin-skinned, arrogant, egotistical righteous goddess who can do no wrong, and everyone who criticizes are the enemy will make you be seen as an unlikable lolcow.

I believe her shows can be good. The art style is good and the visuals are amazing from what I’ve seen of it, but it does need improvements with consistency and writing.

So now to why I drew Viv as an exaggerated raging soyjak.

It was completely out of spite. I grew tired of a bunch of boot-licking scabs flocking towards the defense of Viv whenever someone says anything remotely negative about Viv or the show. I decided to draw the soyjak to represent both the artist and the fans. I know not all fans are like this, but a good majority of them are. I honestly grew tired of seeing other people’s opinions get dismissed or invalidated because their opinions weren’t “positive.” That honestly is just it, just wanted to make fun of Viv and the fans.

The drawing represents Viv because she’s the creator of her show, obviously. I was planning on having Viv’s fans represent Viv as small little clones, mostly to keep it gender neutral, but poetically the smaller clones of Viv as her fans represent how some fans act just like Viv. I just wanted to mock Vivziepop fans and Viv because I wanted to reflect on how ridiculous they can be when it comes to responding to critics or opinions online.

So now I should address how I came off when I made this tweet. I came off as a dick, and I only get enjoyment in seeing the misery of this specific indie artist. The intention was to mock how Viv responds to criticism, which is mostly blocking those in order to avoid it, but no, I came off more mean-spirited than intended. Am I sorry for that? Yeah, I’ll definitely improve on how I come off because I genuinely don’t want to be compared to those who made the horrific art of Viv being SA’d.

I’m a harsh critic, yes, but like, no, I’m nowhere near those cuckolds who do monstrous shit like that. But does my opinion on Vivienne Medrano still stand? Yeah, I still dislike how Vivienne Medrano is as a person, but it’s not like I can change who she is, so I’ll leave it at that.

So am I apologizing and addressing this now? Because the post blew up, which caught me by surprise. I even laughed seeing some of the pissed-off comments, but I just wanted to clarify that I am NOT like one of those sickos who drew that weird shit about Viv. I do not want to associate myself with those kinds of people, and I wanted to explain why I don’t like Viv, unlike those who just hate to hate.

But anyways, I’ll leave it here. I’ll most likely not talk about Viv for a while, mostly because I want to talk about other shit, but I’ll also address other stuff. I’ll still keep the post up because it’ll be a lesson for myself so I can learn from my mistakes, but yeah. This was my explanation. You're free to agree or disagree with this post, but I just wanted to address it.

I made this as a satire to the whole idea of Vivienne Medrano making hate merch of herself.

(Peter represents me and my personal thoughts.)

P: "I did not care for Mid fight masses"

L: "What?"

P: "I just didn't like it..."

L: "H-How could you even say that? It's such a classic mod! The songs are peak and the character designs-"

P: "This is what everyone says, it's always-"

C:"You probably don't like it because of the charting!"

P: I don't care about the charting, I just did not like the mod."

B: "Why not?"

P: "just couldn't get into it."

L: "explain yourself, what didn't you like about it."

P: The vocals are terrible, Boyfriends custom vocals are terrible."

L: "What? What does that even mean?"

P: Boyfriends vocals are too obnoxious and the-"

C: "Because FNF mods couldn't use Boyfriends vocals because they weren't public so they had to make their own!"

P: "The vocals are terrible, the songs are mediocre, Sarvente is over glazed, Ruv feels like those edge lords, and I hated the country humans art style, and I couldn't even finish the mod... It was never good, not in 2021, and not now, I've never even played against Raz-"

C: "You didn't even finish mod!?"

S: "How could you even say you hate the mod if you never even gave it chance?"

L: "I agree with stewie, it's not really fair.."

P: "I've tried on different occasions to play it, and I get to the part where Sarvente turns into a succubus, and-"

L: "Yeah, that's a cool reveal... And the characters design is really attractive..."

P: "It's just full on goonerbait that somehow managed to turn a bunch of chuds on with its janky ass animations and art style... That's where I lose interest, the animations and then I just close the mod to never touch again.."

C: "Someones art can improve over time!"

L: "You know peter, just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's terrible, something you don't understand."

P: "I love it when mods actually have decent quality and good art that replicates Phantom Arcades style... That is my answer to that statement..."

L: "Exactly..."

P: "Well there you go..."

Hey guys, this is a serious post I wanna address for those who use Gmod but if you see these kind of Nextbots I advise not to download them. The one I'm talking about is the one that's says "Ricardo Lopez (Björk Stalker)" Mostly because this comes from a gore video of the guy killing himself, and I haven't downloaded or used the nextbot, mostly because I have a feeling the nextbot is animated which shows the video. I saw another Nextbot for Ronnie Mcnutt and if you know who that is then you'll know it's also another gore video. Please don't use these Nextbots as I fear they're animated and I don't want anyone seeing real life gore on this platform. (Which is ironic because there's a half life 2 asset that uses a burned body) But still, please be aware.