its practically an open secret that the creator of hazbin hotel/helluva boss sucks. i know artists who are familiar with viv’s abusive behavior that are too scared to do anything because she can simply namedrop them and they’ll be chased off of ANY website.
she blacklists people, she bullies people, she intimidates people, she’s incredibly insecure and entitled. wanna know why most people who try to come out about viv’s abuse tend to go silent? because she sends lawyers after them. I’ve seen leaked logs of what Viv is really like, she sucks, a whole lot actually.
I knew she sucked when she gave out that incredibly embarrassing “apology” where she plays victim, deflects blame, lovebombs her audience and doesn’t acknowledge her more horrific behavior and zones in on minor instances like being a fan of blaire white (and funnily enough couldn’t even be honest and admit she liked her! she had to pretend she was only a fan because she was “scared during political unrest”)
vivziepop is an anti feminist. flat out despises women and worships men (but only if they’re cis). she calls women she hates “bitches” and “cunts” and it bleeds into her incredibly misogynistic humor and writing. she’s made comics defending catcalling women and transphobic caricatures of people she dislikes. she thinks trans men are “women with internalized misogyny”. she makes man-hating female characters who are friendless losers that nobody likes, but her women-hating men are her personal favorite characters.
she treats her friends as people she can use and discard. she’s great if she likes you, horrible if she doesn’t. despite being familiar with how traumatizing cyberstalking and cyberbullying is, she weaponizes it against people she dislikes by playing victim. the scott cawthon incident was simply vivzie’s mask off moment. she loves seeing people she hates suffer, she loves seeing them deal with mass criticism and backlash, even better if they’re chased off the platform forever.
she thinks everyone who critiques her work are homophobic bigots because she doesn’t like being told off for her incredibly embarrassing caricatures of queer men. she can’t draw black people. she wrote an effeminate queer man with sexual trauma that she constantly sexualizes and makes a mockery of. her lead animator has a “rape ship” and an animatic to go with it that she approves of. she’s threatened by redesigns because they’re done by artists why have a basic grasp of character design and unironically thinks they’re only done to attack the crew (and refuses to stand against fan harassment because of it).
and also her design of beelzebub is still goddamn horrendous.
I am one of those artists who unfortunately ended up getting caught in the crossfire, though thankfully my experience wasn’t so bad as to where I was chased offline. It did however sour any goodwill I had towards her and her team, and the disappointment I’ve felt towards someone I used to look up to is incomparable.
I’ve seen the cases of her bullying and blacklisting people first hand— even now where she uses her audience of rabid fans to spin the story and make herself out to be the victim. I know how it feels to be scared— hell, I am too even typing this. I don’t have anything to say about the rest of what she does— because frankly, it’s appalling— but the fact a creator such as herself is being pioneered as the “head of indie animation” while being nothing but a high school bully behind the scenes AND in public is shameful.