Well, I'm here. Originally I was just attempting to sign up to see if you guys were interested in a write up on this, for an article, but I'll answer any questions I can.
Summary of the situation (based on a letter I'm writing to the Inkbunny admins):
Betawolf's notes were leaked. Leak reveals:
*Straight admissions to being a pedophile and creepy musings on the subject by PedoTaz (he thinks parents should have sex with their children for the sake of sex-ed).
*Attempts to coerce artists into A)drawing cub pornography for him against their preferences or B)giving him special treatment, by a variety of suspect methods including heavy cajoling, preying on artists in desperate financial situations, (partially-faked) peer pressure and misrepresentation of other artists (telling people that folks like Elton Portilho and Jilo were drawing cub porn for him when they weren't and had very strongly indicated that they would not do so).
*Betrayal of the trust of certain artists who did not want to be named as drawing cub pornography (basically they drew it for him on the condition that he not tell anyone - then he turned around and used their names to peer-pressure other artists).
*A tendency to intimidate others with empty threats in order to get his way (he did this to Jessica Elwood and Niis, IIRC).
*Claims of a certain level of intentional trolling of his haters. He sees himself as some sort of crusader for truth and freedom (ironically labelling himself a "shock-jock" while using the exact same term to disparage Freehaven), or at least that's how he represents himself to some people. To those who are more aligned with his own personality, though, he acts as though it's really mostly about getting stacks and stacks of extreme cub porn.
*He seems to be falsifying his identity to some degree. Either he's lying about his age and name and is really a sixty-or-so-year-old man, or he's pretending to be the owner/operator of an engineering firm in order to appear sucessful to other people.
*From what I understand, he seems to have blackmailed at least one artist who drew cub art (illegal in their country) for him by threatening to reveal it if they didn't finish up their commissions (they were procrastinating because they didn't really want to draw cub stuff for him, having originally gotten into this situation via financial desperation). Said artist's name was revealed in the original list posted to dammit (not by me, I just refined it and maintain it), and they came forward and clarified the situation, simultaneously clearing their name and removing PedoTaz's hold over them.
The list of names itself is now mostly about pointing out to artists that we have half the story and would now like their side of things. As more and more come forward, they are helping to paint the story of PedoTaz's behaviour, as above. Most of them seem to have been people in desperate situations who were cosying up to a large wallet. I'd eventually like to get most of them into the "cleared by affadavit" section, but I feel there are a couple of people in there who are just a little too much like Pedotaz himself to be shifted out of the "pedo pile".
