Photoshop Skephalo Kiss
| Fan Art | |
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| Title: | miss you |
| Artist: | Abandoned by Creator who wishes to remain Anonymous |
| Date(s): | 2023 |
| First Published: | |
| Medium: | Photoshop Digital Art |
| Genre/Style: | Romantic Shipping |
| Fandom: | MCYT RPF BadBoyHalo & Skeppy |
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A piece of digital photoshop art depicting MCYTers BadBoyHalo and Skeppy kissing (see Skephalo for more about their ship). It caused brief drama in the Youtubers' combined twitter fandom known as HappyTwt. The drama was centered around the reoccurring argument of whether it's boundary crossing to produce romantic RPF fanworks (which it is not with these particular creators) with the added spice of if it was specifically boundary breaking to make realistic fanart or use AI (although the artist said it was not AI done and produced the original photo[1] they photoshopped from to prove it, as there was some question on if it was AI from the shadows on the fingers).
One of BadBoyHalo's twitch mods, and who also collaborated with him in designing official merch, named Mid_Daze, deactivated their twitter account after getting into arguments with happytwt over this image. Mid_Daze was concerned that photoshopped images, AI and deep fakes like it could be used to trick people into thinking Bad and Skeppy were actually a couple.[2]
Happytwt took their concern for how it could be boundary crossing to make photorealistic Skephalo art into Mid_Daze simply being against romantic Skephalo shipping in general, calling them homophobic and a hypocrite for having drawn romantic Skephalo art in the past. It also started a brief trend mocking them by tagging Skephalo kissing art with "/p" for platonic.
Even after things had calmed down, some people believed Mid_Daze was being overdramatic for deactivating and also for insulting happytwt by saying happytwt's priorities were fucked. People also said Mid_Daze overstepped by assuming and trying to speak for Bad and Skeppy, insisting that Bad or Skeppy needed to be the ones to set any boundaries and that the manip was fine since only explicit NSFW would be breaking Bad's boundaries.[3]
the reason mid deactivated was cuz when they said that making those edits are something fucked almost noone agreed with her so she said our priorities as a fandom are fucked up and decided they were done with their twitter account /genTweet summarizing the situation posted Feb 25, 2023
The artist also deleted the work and apologized for having made it.
Romantic RPF Skephalo kissing fanworks seem to spark a fresh debate a couple times a year, usually because of new fans or outsiders clashing with old fans and simply because of the stigma around RPF in general. This work was unique in that it was old fans clashing with other old fans over it and debating the morality of the rarer manip artform and AI art that's not often seen in this particular subfandom.
References
- ^ Link to a copy of the original reference photo
- ^ Final message from Mid_Daze.
- ^ Tweet about the Mid_Daze situation saying "they were speaking over bad bads a grown ass man he can set boundaries by himself lmfao"
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