Fixed it For Ya harbenges a new digital Fig-Leaf movement. Defacement of fanart ad maius bonum.

Fixed it for ya has become the destroyer of worlds:

Yes, this is because of the MysticMaryy Sonic fanart fucktardery freakout.

A disturbing but "of course, this" phenomenon has started to occur on the inter-web-tubes, spreading beyond the intellectual compost pile that is the tumblr-sphere and other deep dark depths of the zomgtrigggrz xenocentric thought bubble.  It has risen.  This new disturbance is the next step in the "fixed it for ya" trend in fandom artwork.  Do you not know what that is?  Well good, let's hope this is the only time you hear about it because it never becomes a thing and just goes away.  That means in 18 months, this issue is gonna be all over the place from DevianTart to Patreon accounts to FurAffinity yiff atrocities and probably an as-yet-to-happen great purge of vTubers who dared use the wrong color palette/boobie size/species-incorrect cat ears, so say the masses.

Fucking... Patient Zero right here.

I'd like to establish that "fixed it for ya" is sometimes confused with something called "race bending" which it genuinely isn't, they are two different things (more on that later).  Fixed it for ya was at one point, just a self-righteous turd of an artist re-drawing characters in a way that conformed to their own explicit sensibilities in some sort of sociocultural fetishism masquerading as artistic inclusivity.  It was always a shitty thing to do and there are far better critiques about what it began as out there than I'll make, such as:

That's how it started, but the current emerging trend of fixed it for ya, is now deliberate changes to the existing artwork of others, not just a re-draw done on one's own.  Fixers are literally just taking the art of others and using software to alter it, in order to have it adhere to a visual classification of what they the fixer, have deemed to be either racial or ethnic (sometimes both) or some other quality.  Apparently they have a need to do this because a character, as portrayed, is inconsistent with their own cerebral interpretations.  When one simply alters existing artwork that is not their own, in order to have it conform to criteria of  aesthetic attributes, and then says "fixed it for ya" and sends it back to the original artist, it is malicious defacement and the only "art" it qualifies as is "performance art" in the same way Interior Semiotics counts as theater.  Yes, fixed it for ya is now the Interior Semiotics of the fanart world.

And you thought it couldn't get any worse than ZeeFixesArt....

Now we have some dumb awful pile of lawn clippings, going by MYSTICMARYY, here to deface original art, call it shit to the original artist's face, and enforce the racial purity laws of the internet, with the smug righteousness of a high school vice principal trying to make the senior class follow the student dress-code on the last day of school.

 

The ridiculous back-peddling apology that this wonder-bread warrior put out after getting figuratively cuntpunted by the entire internet, has all the sincerity of the script every Republican reads at a press conference after they get caught doing something naughty in an airport bathroom.  Seriously, this person actually wrote something like "I give black people money, so it's ok."   Then after that didn't work (shock of all shocks), they did the classic delete-fucking-everything and nuked their twitter but not before the wayback machine sucked up all the juicy morsels.

This recent ridiculousness reminisces real redundancy, in that it is evocative of the Zami070 saga involving the toxic waste dump that was the Steven Universe fandom.   tl;dr version is that high-school girl gets bullied into suicide attempt by fans of the show because her fanart did not conform to their absolutist views of body-image and some sort of vague criteria regarding anthropomorphized crystalline rocks who evaporate the swimming pool at the motel, and ostensibly release a cloud of Cl₂ one would assume...  It is fan artists who are the subject of deliberate vitriol and forceful corrective measures by a person or persons who have no real authority to do so, and even if they did, it would still be unethical to say the least.

When the actual show staff have to point that out...

Such is how fixed it for ya (FIFY?), has become the Fig-Leaf campaign of current-year digital art.  While the irreparable harm of the actual Fig-Leaf campaign is something that the digital nature of this new phenomenon renders moot, this modern incarnation is indeed harmful none the less. Issuing decrees, attempts to socially and financially harm artists (professionals or fans), and a wrongful assumption of authority to enforce such "rules" makes the actor of fixed it the guilty party, changing someone else's work to conform to a standard that they shall set and enforce.  Much the same as when the fig-leaf was chiseled into, painted over, or bolted through works of art with a dangerous zealotry to puritanical hatefulness that would make Oliver Cromwell say "hey, dial it back a bit" 

Do you want me to "fix it for ya?"

Indefensible from every angle:

I've seen literal threats of violence made by people who think a fictional character must be recreated a specific way (skin tone, gender, orientation age, hair length, fan of whatever sports team, you name it, it's out there). There is no excuse for that when such threats are worded seriously.

Attacking the first fallacy: Well who the fuck are you? The creator and sole licensing authority regarding these characters?  On no? Really?  Then by what authority do you make such demands that a certain character be depicted regarding known human physical criteria? Oh, your fucking fee-fees? Well that's worth at least 5 pounds of go-fuck-yourself because they don't dictate the actions or preferences of others.  You can go ahead and not like it all you want... so how about you draw your own version of what you think a better depiction should be?  There is nothing wrong with doing that, yet you chose defacement, taking away the work and creativity of another to force it to a standard you have set.  You are no one to do such things.

This attitude often comes from an conflagration of "emotional investment" with "tangible investment" and the failure to separate them in one's own cognitive processes.  Yes, you may totally "identify" and "get" a character, watch all the original content over and over, read and create non-canonical unlicensed works such a comics, audio dramas, fanart, 3D printing, cosplay, ...cosplay orgies etc, but your time, emotional connection, and accumulated knowledge, does not a tangible investment make.  You are not a stakeholder.  You do not own the property, you did not license any rights, you don't own common or preferred shares in whatever production company is making Title-Whatever you are a fan of.  You can either watch the show/buy the book/see the movie, or not.  So ends your sphere of influence.  You have zero control over the property or characters in the actions of others.

Attacking the second fallacy:
Oh, you are the original creator and have (somehow) retained all rights and licensing to said characters and associated I.P.?  Or you're the producer?  Ooooo the CEO of the big media company that bought and now controls the whole thing... globally?  Wow, color me impressed.  Now, go like it or lump it because what's going on is covered under fair use.  Oh yeah, even that really nasty stuff.  There's a reason you don't see Erin Esurance out there anymore... it's because, well; ( ´･ω･)    (‿!‿) ԅ(≖‿≖ԅ) was all over the internet and Allstate wasn't thrilled about that.  See, you can have a say in certain things, but even profit-generating activity gets to sit under that Fair Use umbrella of protection because US Supreme Court: Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.  You can ask, beg, plead, threaten to withhold new content, all day, but your authority can not force a stop to fanart, even if you and most other people find it repugnant. Previously, I've previously mentioned previous examples previously of horrible incarnations of I.P. the original creators absolutely hate.  So ends your sphere of influence.  You have zero control over the property or characters in the actions of others.

There, fixed it for ya.

The Second Fallacy is a combination of both gatekeeping and fixed it for ya style corrections of other people's fanart and are indefensible.  You defaced the work of another person because your value-set interpenetrated that work as unacceptable.  It is not government censorship, but it is equally tyrannical behavior.

This isn't about Race-Bending:
Racebending in fanart is fine. It's awesome.  Go gender-swap, race-bend, ambidextrous, large, curvy, skinny, everything versions of popular characters are great.  The existence of this creativity signifies a comforting diversity in a fandom.  Stepping that up to the big Hollywood version of something?  Maybe not great every time because, this:

Just... why?

And if you are actually portraying actual historical figures who actually existed in the actual history of actual human civilization, then ...actually, that might not be a practice one should always try to engage in by default.

In my own $10 Billion movie about the Aztec Empire, I will be casting Emperor Montezuma as a strong Korean non gender specific nekomimi!

So that's why this Fixed it For Ya, is not race-bending in creative work, rather it is just seeking to punish or harm someone for choosing not to engage in race bending, or if they do then not doing it the "right way" according to "your rules," ya big shot.  In marketing, there's a term called "brand-terrorist" which means a small but vocal group intent on no only not buying products from a specific brand/company, but actively encourages others to cease their customership as well, and dissuade even potential customers from making purchases.  This is done by any means the brand-terrorist can bring to bear, quite often involving the brutal shaming of others who have or continue to make purchases against their financial fatwa.  Sometimes this happens for good, sometimes for ill, this is just the mechanism I am referring to.  Such is a parallel here with fixed it for ya.  The defaced and altered fanart is publicly thrown back at the artist by the vandal in an effort to generate derision and harm via a snowballing internet hoard in a mob-rule event that leaves nothing constructive behind it.  Forgetting the rule that /b/ is not your personal army, the people who engage in this lack such self awareness that they are often the same group which are extraordinarily vocal about no one ever having "permission" to use or repost their own fanart in the (regarding characters they themselves did not create) or their own OCs in a fit of wanting complete dominance and control as if it were some closed-species insanity (such is the closed species mindset). This is in fact so bereft of self-awareness that it reminds you that a significant amount of the people who do this are friggin 16 year olds looking at hentai porn they shouldn't be accessing, with all the subtlety of a brick in a paper bag (very old street brawling reference there).

Your annoying younger cousins destroyed the internet.

One of the most intense spaces for this phenomenon and horrific toxicity in general at the moment, is the Hazbin Hotel / Helluva Boss fandoms, but the element of how that specific case can serve as an example of how fandom toxicity can derail an entertainment property before it even goes into legit production is an entire million-word post I have yet to finish. 

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