“it’s unacceptable for this guy to coerce people into relationships with self-harm threats or excessive flattery, then treat them like shit, and then tell mutual friends that all that happened is his target made him ‘really sad, not to say they’re bad, but they just ask so much from me… so many things that make me sad… I’m just innocently complaining to you about how sad they’re making me…. no don’t hate them, I’m just really sad….. okay, if you say they’re wrong for this then I guess you’re right, it’s your idea after all…….’ over and over and over again as a way of covering up the bizarre and inherently unhealthy relationship dynamics he creates”
-so they get it without seeing it for themselves, so imo it’s just best to make sure the info’s there waiting for them when they start to figure out that it’s not okay just because it happens to other people.
Oh, and that’s how he gets money out of people, too.
“I really want this but I’m ssoooo poor……. Hey, I really want this but after bills eheh… no big deal just complaining to my favorite person in the whole world who I must remind you is at the top of my favorites list on messenger….. man I wish I had this, though…… It’d really help my depression….. hey I want this fake thing on a virtual petsite but I’m sssooooo fake money poor……… oh you won’t volunteer the funds? it’s ok someone else bought it for me, I don’t know why lol”
…Basically yeah, it’s guilt-tripping 101 ☑️
[Not the real G.O. here, just trying to raise awareness with the username he abandoned. Have a great day friends~]
From this screenshot taken from Twitter just a few days ago, it’s pretty obvious he hasn’t worked on the dakis at all since he first posted them 20 months ago…
And from screenshots taken by his past partner at the time, we have proof he went out and spent the money raised from that Kickstarter campaign on personal items…so he never intended to fulfill this project…
Which means we could sue him for civil fraud.
But wait, you might be saying to yourself, ‘intent to deceive can be hard to prove, right?’ And you’d be correct, it can be difficult to do so although I’d argue that given Tucker’s history of lying about literally anything & everything under the sun, I don’t think it’d be too hard… So let’s put that aside for now…
What we do know is he’s definitely committed a breach of contract (that of which is laid out in Kickstarter’s rules, screenshots below.)
He’s failed to live up to the most basic obligations of this agreement by leaving the project unfulfilled for 20+ months…
So that makes him guilty of committing a breach of warranty as well…
And ever since he deleted all clown content/Kickstarter-related posts from his blog, jumped into the Bloodborne fandom & churned out art almost daily, tried to e-beg for money from said fandom just a few months after joining… Ghost Oakes/TwistedTeeth/ TuckSawyer was neglecting to work on, or even update, his backers on having already spent the funds on weed, lush products, dild0s/vibrat0rs, a new phone & plan, jewelry for his partner at the time, etc. or any possible delays he *might* have encountered.
If you consider it had already been 5 months past the original date he’d planned to have everything DELIVERED BY at the time he finally *did* update it, it’s a rather reasonable conclusion to draw that he was scamming us. But did he reassure us with proof of the final art/ pics of all the products printed & in his possession when he did? No, instead he lied to our faces and said he’d already given most of the vendors the appropriate funds, yet somehow hadn’t found someone to print the shirts…and I find that very hard to believe considering he’d already gotten shirts with two different designs printed just a few months before he launched his Kickstarter campaign in 2017… Did he admit that the funds he’d raised alone weren’t sufficient to cover the cost, therefore putting production on hold while promising to reimburse everyone in some small way for the delay? No, instead he actually attempted to threaten, intimidate, and punish his rightfully curious/ skeptical backers for simply asking about the status of said project, or requesting refunds…
That alone raises so many red flags.
And many people have caught on, making many warning posts about him & warning others about his shady business practices, manipulative behavior, and abusive past…
Currently I’m researching lawyers in my area that are versed in dealing with these types of lawsuits, as well as looking into the statute of limitations in my state and Ghost Oakes/TwistedTeeth/ TuckSawyer’s state (that he lived in when he committed said crime.) Before I start setting aside funds for that though, I’ll be writing/typing up a demands letter. I encourage all of you to do the same and send it to him, either on FurAffinity, Facebook, or Twitter (which I can give you links to.)
If you have to make a new account to do so, specify who you are in your private message to him prefacing your demands letter.
If you’d like an example or template of my demands letter to help you write yours, I’ll gladly provide it.
Best of luck getting your money back, and spread the word every chance you get!
From this screenshot taken from Twitter just a few days ago, it’s pretty obvious he hasn’t worked on the dakis at all since he first posted them 20 months ago…
And from screenshots taken by his past partner at the time, we have proof he went out and spent the money raised from that Kickstarter campaign on personal items…so he never intended to fulfill this project…
Which means we could sue him for civil fraud.
But wait, you might be saying to yourself, ‘intent to deceive can be hard to prove, right?’ And you’d be correct, it can be difficult to do so although I’d argue that given Tucker’s history of lying about literally anything & everything under the sun, I don’t think it’d be too hard… So let’s put that aside for now…
What we do know is he’s definitely committed a breach of contract (that of which is laid out in Kickstarter’s rules, screenshots below.)
He’s failed to live up to the most basic obligations of this agreement by leaving the project unfulfilled for 20+ months…
So that makes him guilty of committing a breach of warranty as well…
And ever since he deleted all clown content/Kickstarter-related posts from his blog, jumped into the Bloodborne fandom & churned out art almost daily, tried to e-beg for money from said fandom just a few months after joining… Ghost Oakes/TwistedTeeth/ TuckSawyer was neglecting to work on, or even update, his backers on having already spent the funds on weed, lush products, dild0s/vibrat0rs, a new phone & plan, jewelry for his partner at the time, etc. or any possible delays he *might* have encountered.
If you consider it had already been 5 months past the original date he’d planned to have everything DELIVERED BY at the time he finally *did* update it, it’s a rather reasonable conclusion to draw that he was scamming us. But did he reassure us with proof of the final art/ pics of all the products printed & in his possession when he did? No, instead he lied to our faces and said he’d already given most of the vendors the appropriate funds, yet somehow hadn’t found someone to print the shirts…and I find that very hard to believe considering he’d already gotten shirts with two different designs printed just a few months before he launched his Kickstarter campaign in 2017… Did he admit that the funds he’d raised alone weren’t sufficient to cover the cost, therefore putting production on hold while promising to reimburse everyone in some small way for the delay? No, instead he actually attempted to threaten, intimidate, and punish his rightfully curious/ skeptical backers for simply asking about the status of said project, or requesting refunds…
That alone raises so many red flags.
And many people have caught on, making many warning posts about him & warning others about his shady business practices, manipulative behavior, and abusive past…
Currently I’m researching lawyers in my area that are versed in dealing with these types of lawsuits, as well as looking into the statute of limitations in my state and Ghost Oakes/TwistedTeeth/ TuckSawyer’s state (that he lived in when he committed said crime.) Before I start setting aside funds for that though, I’ll be writing/typing up a demands letter. I encourage all of you to do the same and send it to him, either on FurAffinity, Facebook, or Twitter (which I can give you links to.)
If you have to make a new account to do so, specify who you are in your private message to him prefacing your demands letter.
If you’d like an example or template of my demands letter to help you write yours, I’ll gladly provide it.
Best of luck getting your money back, and spread the word every chance you get!
Oh wow, people think Ghost Oakes is actually still in the clown/It fandom? That’s hilarious.
Obviously I’m not- well, we aren’t- the real Ghost Oakes here. He deleted his blog about five months ago when he received too much backlash over leaving his clown dakimakura backers on Kickstarter in the dark for a few months too long…and by a few I mean almost half a year at a time.
His last update in 2017 was 4 days before he’d promised to have everything delivered by, Christmas that year…and it had taken him an entire month after the campaign had ended on November 15th before asking his backers what style should the stickers be colored in…
*Keep in mind the update he posted one week after the campaign ended was basically him lying trying to assure his backers of his professionalism & that he hadn’t immediately misspent the $6135 he got from the campaign on jewelry & a vibrat0r for his partner at the time or weed, bad dragon dild0s, a new phone + plan, and other luxuries for himself…even though we have proof that he did.
There was nothing but radio silence for 5 months while he deleted all clown/Pennywise content on his blog & jumped fandoms into Bloodborne, where he drew art of his, his partner’s, and his best friend’s ocs as well as designed stickers, answered asks, etc. and then attempted to e-beg a few months after joining, trying to make himself look like the poster child of the “starving artist” stereotype…just like he had done in the clown fandom…
He finally caught enough heat from his rightly pissed backers that he made a very passive aggressive update just to shut them up, maintaining the lie that he hadn’t blown all the Kickstarter money yet and that he’d already allocated it to the respectful vendors to print everything…yet also claimed he needed to rework/redesign all the dakis…
One problem there- well, actually three-
you can’t place a wholesale/bulk printing order like that without submitting your art first; you won’t be able get a quote.
a quick google search can tell you the proper dimensions for your art to be printed on a body pillow with minimal distortion.
he’s designed dakis before, offered them as ychs on FurAffinity a year earlier, so he should know how to scale the canvas when drawing one.
Literally the day after he posted update he made a suicide/self-harm baiting status trying to look like the victim of rude & impatient clients/backers and that during his annual“blog clean out” he just “accidentally” deleted stuff about the dakis… Sure.
Two months later, he offers a messy sketch dump page and still claims that he plans on redoing all of the daki designs, promising that “communication needs to be better about this project” …then leaves his backers in silence for another 5 months before finally- after much insistence & more negative attention from his backers- he set up refund forms for the Kickstarter on his website. Even then- 11 months after the campaign had ended with no visible proof of progress or work done to bring the project to life- he still claimed he wanted to do everything he offered, but couldn’t give an exact date by which the dakis, stickers, shirts, etc. would be finished by…nor could he guarantee when the refunds would actually (if ever) be filfullied…
*This is speculation only on my part, but another reason why he offered refunds when he did was because he’d started a commission queue/backlog on FurAffinity and the numbers for it just kept climbing; he had some commissions that were a year and a half overdue at that point…and racked up at least 30+ commissions within the first week or so of posting said journal request… He probably thought it would be easier to refund the few active backers on his Kickstarter than to try balancing work on fulfilling old commissions and the clown daki campaign.
…But apparently too many people were asking for refunds because just a few months later his website was no longer functional. He hadn’t renewed the domain name and as such no one else could file for refunds…on Kickstarter or FurAffinity. And he didn’t even realize it was gone, it took his backers trying to contact him on fixing it before he even made mention of it; he didn’t say when it would be up and running again- if it ever would be- and also stated that he deactivated his PayPal, so you can’t even try to get your money back that way now…
*By the way, his commission queue is now at 75+ and still climbing to this day…some of which are 2+ years overdue now. He hasn’t made any progress on them in over 4 months, nor has he updated his Kickstarter backers recently…and it’s been over 5 months AGAIN since his last one… YetSOMEHOW he still has time to draw 20 page self-insert comics for his newest fandom, sketch & plan “headworld” stuff with his best friend, draw gift art for friends, offer to draw random fursonas on Twitter, as well as set up & maintain a Patreon… How convenient.
Do with that information as you will, but when the first few hits of an artist you Google are things like this:
i was reading an article about how some professional clowns are afraid IT is going to cause business issues, and this one guy came forward to say he didn’t think it’d be a big deal and everything from his statement to description sounds like something made up for a tumblr shit post:
“‘A load of the folks who say ‘this is terrible for the industry’ have been clowning for about five minutes – they’ve not been through this before,’ says Ian Williams, honorary secretary of Clowns International, which claims to be the world’s oldest clown organisation. ‘It’s not going to kill off clowning. [The TV miniseries adaptation of It, starring Tim Curry] came out 27 years ago. I was clowning then, I’m still clowning now.’”
i’m sharing this again because this guy is possibly my hero he’s seen it all and does not give a fuck
he was clowning then and he’s clowning now
hes still clowin around
need a shirt that says “clowning then” on the front and “clowning now” on the back
@ghost-oakes O M G! you can’t do that! You have been - what? Clowning for about five minutes?
@ponyshats You’re right! He was literally in the clown fandom for only 2 months before he hosted that clown dakimakura Kickstarter scam in October of 2017. He stayed in it for another 6 months *AT BEST* before deleting everything, jumping into the Bloodborne community & e-begging after exclusively producing tons of content for them in just a few months.
The clown fandom/ It fandom was pretty vocal about that though & I’m pretty sure word got around because he never posted another e-begging sob story after that (within the Bloodborne fandom.) Around September last year he tried to work his way back into the clown fandom by posting losts of messy sketches of “Genny” & asked people to send drawing requests for him. Of course nobody bought it, so he jumped fandoms again to making Venom/ Symbrock/ terato n*sfw content; then as the Spyro reignited trilogy came out, he was drawing furry p0rn of those characters too. Eventually he deleted his whole tumblr blog around Christmas.
And that’s where we come in.
[Obviously not the “real” Ghost Oakes here, but a group of people dedicated to raising awareness/ warning other of his past history of lies, abuse, his current manipulation techniques, shady business practices, scams, etc.]
He’s claimed to have multiple illnesses not limited to cancer, sepsis, BPD, DID (multiple personality disorder), kidney problems, blood poisoning, and MANY more…
He spent all $6135 he’d been given through the Kickstarter he hosted on weed, bad dragon dild0s, a new phone & plan, jewelry & a vibrat0r for his partner at the time, along with other personal luxuries. Then he lied to his backers- and still is to this day- that he just got “overwhelmed” with “the amount of leg work” required for something like this & would still “do everything he offered.” But his actions tell a very different story…
He’s got a 75+ commission backlog on FurAffinity that he hasn’t touched in half a year (some of which are 2 years overdue) and the ENTIRELY unfulfilled clown/ Pennywise body pillow Kickstarter has been dragged out for 18 months with no new art having been shown in over 16 months, and his last “update”- if you can even call it *THAT*- was over 5 months ago. The “update” before that? Also posted 5 months prior…
So don’t commission, conduct business with, or support Ghost Oakes. He’s an unapologetic manipulator & narcissist with a victim complex.
I was looking for something else, but this seems relevant to Ghost-Oakes’s latest suicide threats. He’s always been like this.
It’s winter 2014. We’d been in conflict a lot, I mentioned to Locky that my friend had questioned his cancer story, and she told Tucker (now Ghost) and they both gave me a serious tongue-lashing for even communicating my friend’s thoughts. I’m serious. Lots of it was via text, but as I remember it I made no accusation myself. Those two still went into disciplinarian mode and I felt as if I was being spanked by my parents for a thought crime.
(At this point, I was trying his patience. We were past the honeymoon stage, things weren’t easy and perfect anymore, and I was asking too many questions about the inconsistencies in how he treated me versus how he saidhe treated me, and in his stories. These conversations always ended with me becoming the bad guy, and I really started to believe it. I was in conflict with myreality, which said that I have a right to point out mistreatment, and hisreality, where everything he says is true whether his actions show it or not.
I am a happy and stable person by nature. But I was miserable every day. I frequently cried while talking to him. I started having panic attacks because the world felt unpredictable and I didn’t feel safe or sane. Instead of giving satisfactory answers and being glad we could talk out our concerns, I was told I was being selfish and evil for doubting him. I’d thought I was a very perceptive person up until this point, so even though I tried to trust him, the truest part of mejustcouldn’t stop trusting my gut.)
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, he used to cut himself as a wooing technique. He would generally prick the existing scabs on his legs and send pictures of the blood. The context here was… much different, clearly. I tried to stay attentive but supportive because again, questioning him was a risky game. I didn’t understand why he was narrating this to me at the time, but it did its job and made me worry. Especially because he would go ten or more minutes without answering.
And eventually, he got what he wanted.
At the end there, there’s a taste of how he uses other people as villains in his stories. I’m still happily friends with the person whose name is blacked out. I’d muchrather have that “exaggerating lying secret-spilling” person in my life than whatever this is.
The “latest” suicide threats/self-harm mentions by Ghost Oakes. (this post also references it, plus as of 4-30-2019, he has *AT LEAST* 75 backlogged commissions on FurAffinity [date format in the screenshot above is day/month/year, so May 9th 2018]
…and he posted them just one day after he made an incredibly nonsensical, rambling Kickstarter update, which was preceded by 5 months of complete silence while he deleted all “clown daki”/“Pennywise” content, jumped fandoms, and had rapidly been producing Bloodborne art for months…This post references it, but I’ve provided screenshots below so you can see just how manipulative, covertly intimidating, and scapegoating it is.
In the same breath he tells us he’s given the money to vendors for the dakis, he also claims to still be working on drawing and/or resizing the designs?? That- quite literally- is impossible. Printing companies/services **need** the dimensions of your designs first in order to give you a quote… And a quick google search can tell you the recommended dimensions for that sort of thing… AND he’s designed dakis before, yep, offered them as ychs in FurAffinity earlier in 2017… So he should know.
No excuse.
He then says he hasn’t found [a vendor/printing company] for the shirts, nor has he completed the other three (of five) sticker designs in the five months that he left his backers in total radio silence… BUT. He’s gotten his art printed on shirts before, ALSO earlier in 2017… So he should know.
No. Fucking. Excuse.
He then wants to claim he made 4– ONLY FOUR, NO MORE NO LESS— posts about the dakis on Tumblr, and blames us for not having seen it by trying dismiss our rightful anger with falsely projected absentmindedness/inattention. But how could we be expected to see those posts when you literally admitted that through your “blog clean out,” what little information there was about the dakis got deleted?? There was- very briefly- a shred of truth to that claim, but of course that’s exactly how scam artists are able to successfully con people. I found 1– ONLY ONE— daki update on his blog and took a screenshot of it before everything was deleted; it was afully-painted gory Genny (one of Ghost’s ocs/versions of Pennywise, and a stretch goal along with the gore option that was unlocked after the original funding goal for the two canon clowns was met…which we had only seen messy sketches of for 3 MONTHS at the time.) The problem: he posted it on Tumblr. NOT Kickstarter.
And no. We NEVER saw ANY sketches of “Grandad” (also one of his ocs/ versions of Pennywise and a stretch goal.) It’s been over 17 months since that stretch goal was reached.
AND HE **STILL** HAS NOTHING NEW TO SHOW. AFTER ALL THIS TIME.
The only “art” we’ve seen is a messy sketch dump page, an insulting half-assed platitude to try repairing his damaged reputation.
Ridiculous. Utterly unprofessional.
Also, the refund link is no longer available because his website is no longer available. The domain expired and he failed to renew it in time, so now no one else can file for a refund.
He’s just not being integrious about this at all, nor is he genuinely trying to notify all of his backers so he can actually make things right. He’s doing the bare fucking minimum and hoping people will forget about it so he doesn’t have to face consequences or admit fault of any kind for his actions (or rather inaction.)
We STILL haven’t received ANY of the stickers yet— even though he posted (on Tumblr only, yet again) about having physicals just one week after the two originally uploaded on Kickstarter 16 months ago…and also has the same designs listed on his RedBubble— TO. THIS. DAY.
Last- but certainly not least- of all, is that final tidbit: how he loves to play the victim and use the same tired excuses reworded over and over again… “Sending me nasty messages and slandering my name does not make me want to work any faster or harder on this. I am only one person doing all of this work…”
Honestly who the fuck cares what you want? Especially at this point?
You accepted $6135 from 75 people across 4 different countries to create clown body pillows, shirts and stickers; that is a business transaction. You are legally bound by law to fulfill that obligation and deliver those products to them, and if you don’t…that is civil fraud.
Draw the shit you said you would, refund the people that have asked for their money back already, and give your backers your email address so they can request one if they couldn’t before you let your website get deleted. Be a fucking adult for once in your life. Do better.
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!]
@ghost-oakes How come you scammed all those people?
OH MY GOD????
Accurate asf
[Not the real Ghost Oakes here, just raising awareness about his history of abuse, manipulative behavior, scams, etc. with the url he abandoned here. Have a great day and share a good laugh with me over this!]
