Also Tucker coming out and posting art of Genny again is absolutely a manipulation tactic. He knows you can see him posting clown art again instead of offering updates or coming clean about the Dakis.
He’s toying with you lot because he knows he stole $6,000 and doesn’t have to be held accountable for it. He’s spitting in your face after you gave him your money and he has no remorse for it.
That’s the low, vile kind of person Ghost-Oakes is and don’t ever forget it.
Call your banks, take your money back.
Seriously, don’t let him get away with this. It’ll only embolden him to try the same thing with any other fandoms that he tries to snake his way into if he doesn’t face consequences for his dishonesty/ manipulation/ disrespect.
It should be fairly clear by now that he has no intention of seeing this through to completion or ever delivering the goods he promised, just look at the time line here:
Only 3 real updates were made within the last 6 weeks of the year, the last of them being posted around the initially promised delivery date: Christmas of 2017. (Yes I am counting both sticker posts as one bc they should’ve just been posted on the same day since they reveal no new information about the status of the other goods individually)
Then the silent treatment FOR 5 MONTHS. We were given only 3 new updates with nothing but hollow words, sloppy sketches, and still no tangible progress that our goods are any closer to being delivered than they were before. Even now, as of November 15th, 2018, we have YET to receive any new updates since the last one 4 MONTHS AGO.
Here’s the thing though, he does not even consider just going ahead with what he’s got. He keeps making excuses for his lack of progress on (or physical proof of) the campaign’s promised merchandise. He’s refusing to admit fault or failure, and continues to string people along with vague promises, wishywashy plans, etc. NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR EXCUSES. ITS BEEN AN ENTIRE YEAR. THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN SAY TO JUSTIFY THE LACK OF BASIC COMMUNICATION WITH YOUR BACKERS.
You’re telling me he can post this finished gore Genny daki on tumblr, BUT NOT ON KICKSTARTER?? WHERE, NEED I REMIND YOU, 75 PEOPLE WHO HAD GIVEN YOU OVER $6000 WERE WAITING ALMOST 2 MONTHS FOR A NEW UPDATE AT THAT POINT???
But let’s not look at the past, let’s look to the future~! /s Here are a few ideas, given generously & freely, on how to BEGIN righting this:
How about sending out the stickers first while diligently working on the dakis with regular/ consistent updates?? Making a poll where we give your our t-shirt sizes & showing us the new designs so that a vendor can be contacted to print them off?? Sending out an email asking for addresses to send out those hand-written thank you notes??? Or, AND I MUST STRESS THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT OPTION NOT TO FORGET,OFFERREFUNDS TO THE PEOPLE THAT DONT WANT ANY OF THIS SHIT ANYMORE???
DON’T PRETEND TO BE UNSURE OF WHETHER OR NOT YOUR BACKERS WANT THESE DAKIS OR YOUR OCS ANYMORE UNLESS YOU ASK THEM AND GET A *REAL* ANSWER. BUT HE WON’T,BECAUSE HE KNOWS PEOPLE WILL ASK FOR REFUNDS AND HE CANT GIVE THEM THAT. NOT ONLY BECAUSE THAT WOULD DAMAGEHIS FRAIL EGO AND EXCESSIVE NEED FOR ATTENTION AND ADMIRATION,BUT BECAUSE HE DOESN’T HAVE THE MONEY ANYMORE.
He tries to dismiss it as people being too nosy/ extroverted/ insensitive for rightly questioning his impulsive, irresponsible, and extravagant purchases. Excusing himself of not answering (orin reality just deleting) the anons/asks he’d gotten by blaming differing personalities or mental illness is a form of denial called Minimization, a manipulative technique often coupled with Rationalization(read more hereandhere.)
Ridiculous.
Soooooo, a lot has happened since the last additions were made on the original post and unfortunately nothing’s improved or progressed much…if at all tbfh.
Most of the links above don’t work/direct you to the proper source because Ghost Oakes deleted his tumblr around Christmas of 2018 (approximately.) I probably have screenshots for the majority of them though and will work on uploading them in a separate post(s). The current owner(s?) of the url are using it to reblog warnings and testimonials about Ghost Oakes/TwistedTeeth’s history of abuse, manipulation, scams, shady business practices, etc.
He finally set up refund forms for the Kickstarterspecifically and provided a link to his website to fill them out in an update on 12-6-2018, along with a poll that was ultimately redundant and pointless. HOWEVER. As of 3-12-2019, his website displays an ‘404 Error’ message because the domain wasn’t renewed/expired…now no one else can fill out or submit any more refund forms. Then on 3-22-2019, Ghost Oakes mentioned in a FurAffinity journal that he no longer has a PayPal because it’s a “temptation” he doesn’t need…
Seems pretty convenient to no longer have a PayPal account where people can file a claim/open up a dispute or a website where more clients just add to the list of money he owes them for unfulfilled/forgotten commissions or a Kickstarter scam that’s almost 16 months past due…
He’s also now claiming to have been “professionally/officially diagnosed with severe adhd” (just like he claimed to have severe bpd, screenshot below)…which he says apparently “explains a lot” with his past “mistakes and fumbles”…and that he’ll be taking meds for too…along with some other unspecified medications he claimed to be taking for some reason back in a February FurAffinity journal…
It was probably just another excuse (like “not being happy with [his] art style currently…”) to explain away his lack of progress and communication with other people & spend time drawing stuff for personal projects of his to “work off the rust,” since he hasn’t really made any headway on his commission queue or the dakis yet.
Oh yeah. No new art has been posted in the Kickstarter yet he’s sharing art WIPs and sob stories/pity parties/meltdowns fairly regularly on Twitter (probably because there’s less info on that site warning people about him) and posting vague journals as well as personal art to FA (commenting has been disabled, likely due to people calling him out on his neglected Kickstarter.)As of 3-27-19, there’s only been 1 new completed commission- uploaded over 2 weeks ago to FurAffinity- by Ghost Oakes within the past 3 months.ADDITIONALLY. It’s been about 3 & ½ months since he’s logged onto or updated his Kickstarter.
Between his move at the beginning of the year to go live with Strawbebby/Rockdownu/Locky and now having a job that occupies more of his time…ON TOP OF EVERYTHING ELSE STATED ABOVE…shouldn’t he update his Kickstarter backers already and let them know his current situation/schedule? (in-so-far-as how it will affect the rate at which they’ll be getting refunded or their products delivered, no oversharing or guilt-tripping anymore.) Wouldn’t it be a good idea to plan out a timeline/date by which he’ll have everyone either refunded or delivered their promised merchandise, if only just to sate the more vocal dissenters for a time?
Realistically, that should’ve been addressed and figured out wayyy before trying to launch the clown dakimakura campaign…along with research on which vendors have the best rates for wholesale printing and shipping body pillows, shirts, stickers, etc.
ANYWAYS.We all know Ghost Oakes *has* actually printed shirts before and also offered daki commissions on FurAffinity, so he should know the proper dimensions to use as well as a business that he could return to for custom shirt printing…but instead he lied to us about the status of the project, even after telling us half a year ago that he already had all his wholesale places lined up. And when people noticed he’d jumped fandoms to bloodborne and was creating a lot of free content for them during that period of inactivity on Kickstarter— as well as drawing his & his friends’ ocs— he offered this contradictory & easily falsifiable bullshit in an update:“Money has been allocated to the respectful vendors (except shirts, haven’t found anything both affordable AND do what I want so I may have to change the design somewhat.”/ “A few designs are being reworked in order to fill out the pillow dimensions better…”
Tucker became passive aggressive & markedly manipulative after that, threatening to punish us with ‘the silent treatment’ (which he would continue to do for months- and still does to this day.)“Sending me nasty messages and slandering my name does not make me want to work harder or faster on this.”/“Repeatedly calling me names and generally being abusive to me in my ask box is not going to get them done any faster.”/“Harass me further and see how fast it gets done now.”/“Dakis are still on hiatus in production…being nasty to me in anons won’t change that. Just makes me feel less inclined to work on it.”/“Threating me with both violence and litigation isn’t really going to make me move faster…”/“The more you guys act like assholes the less I want to do anything.”
It’s been almost a full year of dealing with this fuckery. And if it isn’t any othose excuses, it’s either gaslighting(“Really, if I wanted to scam y’all I would have. I’m just 1 guy with 500 things to do.”)playing the victim of circumstances(“I’m drafting a large update (with visuals…) if I can find the time to get it looking how I want…”/ “I had some [sketches] complete before, but I’m just not happy with them.”/ “Making a thing for the daki/Kickstarter stuff…people will still complain…”/ “I do not like how my art looks currently…but I’m not sure how to change that.”/ “Still not happy with my art lately…”) minimization(“this amateur mistake on my part”/ “ill prepared and too ambitious”/ “made a refund link n stuff and proper update for that thing.” [ all referring to the clown dakimakura Kickstarter.] ) ALL OF THE ABOVE, or any of the several other psychological manipulation tactics he’s used multiple times before.
Here’s the thing….. I don’t want to have a sour/bitter taste in my mouth whenever I hear or see the word “Kickstarter.” I don’t want to be afraid of being scammed whenever I consider commissioning someone…
I just want to be free of this festering wound and the rustyfork blade that inflicted it as it slowly sinks, twists and digs deeper with every personal piece he posts, every extended stint in silence, every excuse- old or new- and faux update he offers us…
I swear I’ve been ranting and raging so long about this it feels like I’m just screaming into the void, that i feel like a broken record/ talking in circles/ etc. I know he won’t change…
And I know I shouldn’t be optimistic that eventually, maybe,he’ll just get so tired of all the stress & negativity it’s brought him and refund all of us as fast as possible… But it seems like it’s exactly that kindheartednesss, that “naivety” and hope/faith he relies on, thrives on.
How else do you think he’s been able to get away with this for as long as he has?
Some of the most up to date info out there on Tucker currently, seems like he still hasn’t learned anything yet though…
[Not the real G.O. here, no need to panic. Just trying to spread awareness/ warn people about his past history & current behavior of manipulation/ sordid business practices/ general disrespect, dishonesty and immaturity. Stay safe out there everyone!]
