[Effortpost] Tiktok art community goes apeshit over a drawing about the little stepbrother of the tiktok thirst trap artist pumpkingentlemen

One of the most popular artists on Tiktok is pumpkingentlemen, a user who got popular for drawing his pumpkin character in thirst traps. Most of his fanbase consists of girls who find his character attractive. In one of the pumpkingenlemen's posts, he shows a bright yellow kid character that is meant to represent his real life little stepbrother, the post itself was just some dumb "wholesome" comic of him talking with his little stepbrother. This is important because earlier this month pumpkingentlemen discovered a twitter post by a fan account called babyboopumpkin, in the post it shows artwork of his little stepbrother dead while being held by babyboopumpkin.

This is the post in question. This infuriated pumpkingentlemen and caused him to make a callout post to expose this person. The post was later deleted so unfortunatley but it still gained a bunch of attention, not just in his fanbase, but in the tiktok art community as a whole. Thousands of people made videos and went to babyboopumpkin's twitter until they made her go private and delete everything. This would seem to be the end, but no.

Later on, a tiktok account by the same name, babyboopumpkin, starts posting with the same oc and making the same kind of content. Her account has since been banned but her videos were usually either edgy posts about how angry she is about the hate she got and how you better not mess with her. The other kind was obvious ragebait, like posting herself curbstomping the pumpkingentlemen's brother or drawing her character as a chinese stereotype saying ching chong.

(the image in the right upper corner was one of the original posts babyboopumpkin made. unfortunatley the only things remaining of her posts are peoples posts responding to her posts)

This caused increased backlash to the point where people were making "fan"art where they would torture and murder babyboopumpkin in numerous different ways. This caused a divide in the art community as some people called out how hypocritical it was and that they were doing the same theing they criticized babyboopumpkin for.

(just one of the many numerous examples)

this lead to the pumpkingentlemen making a new updated post on the drama, and deleting the old one since it was outdated. Here is that video:

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLcnDS7U/

After this it brought more attention to the tiktok account to the point where the twitter account came out and exposed the tiktok account for being an imposter. She pointed out the different artsyles as proof and even made her own tiktok account to spread the word about the faker. Here is her video apologizing and exposing the tiktok account for being a fake:

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLcn95Xx/

After this, the imposter account was banned, but now there are more accounts claiming to be the real babyboopumpkin making the situation a lot more messier. That's all that has happened so far, but the drama is still ongoing. Thanks for reading.