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.
@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!]
Time Lapse in 4 parts! Most of the time I forget to record while editing, especially the edits I’m most proud of.. But at least I can prove that one single edit takes a lot of time and dedication!
A rather random idea that popped up in my mind. Not quite satisfied with it, but I love the idea to use the handwritings and little notes from the book for new edits, so this definitely won’t be the last.
You have no idea how hard it is to find images that actually match in perspective, let alone finding pictures of Pennywise WITH legs. So I want to thank Elite Creature Collectibles for providing pictures of their amazing Pennywise figure/sculpture that was perfect for this setting!
