One person told me it was only a joke. Some of DudeMcRage's following over on tumblr insisted it was the same was when trans people say "down with cis" or when PoC say "fuck white people" but even those are not demanding self harm.

...And a lot of them were just saying "ya they actually should"

It is WILD to me how he and his friends and followers kept repeating it over on tumblr, and those defending it insisted it was a joke or on the same level as “down with cis”

It’s not.

To be clear, the threat didn't target me in this case. That said, it absolutely doesn't sit right with me to throw this shit around for every tiny perceived transgression. At the core of it, the issue is that it's so childish. Grow up. Learn how to express yourself without pulling the suicide card.

Maybe its just me but I think its kinda depressing to label and ridicule artists drawing skinny/thin characters as "easy mode" and then going scorched earth and calling everyone fatphobic when people point out how insane and mean that statement is.

The OP apparently has a history of telling people to kill themselves and I know for a fact he not only confronted and blocked people not even involved with his tirade, but took it to tumblr to keep ridiculing those not 100% aligned with him. He isn’t a maligned victim, he’s a hateful little jackass.

No my bad it was a DIFFERENT artist that lost their shit before but the energy was similar, lol

The harder you keep insisting it was humorous the worse it looks.

Why are you following me, lol. Begone with you.

It really did not come off as a joke and it’s a fair few degrees hotter than “down with cis.” Come on now.

There’s being hyperbolic and there’s being mean-spirited. Dude crashed the fuck out and won’t just accept that he crashed out.

FWIW I agreed with him 100% at first but the WILD hostility just doesn’t help and branding anyone who’s put off with it as some kind of closet fatphobe is fucking bananas.

I could swear that is the same person who had a bizarre public breakdown over some tongue-in-cheek unserious comment another fatfur artist made on their own feed

And tbh I was nodding to their points until I saw the T-shirt comment so, yeah, they kinda fuckin lost me lol