"That monkey dude you all hate" - Thats how his personal message sounds like on his user page. Now, im just gonna be straight honest with ya'll here. I was once inspired by Wonchop. I actually like his cartoony style, because its random and the quality is quite slick. But whenever i confront NG users about Wonchop, they tend to not giving a fuck, or for some reason disgust him. But again on the other side, he still seems to be one of NG's respected artists judging from the numerous of times his work show up on the front page through the years. Even the bytesize player contains one of his flash shorts. But then again, many users disregard his body of work and they decide to ignore him, or worse, set him up.
One example is, when a year ago, Wonchop was struck with a host controlling virus, which turned out that the Star Syndicate was behind it. They sent the virus to humiliate him, to obviously "pwn" him, where they messed around with his net accounts. Another example that could be relevant is, when Wonchop somehow got mixed up in the Piconjo war. I guess he was on LF's side, so he got involved. Piconjo pet named him "WantCock". Again another example, some say that he acts like hes the king of SheezyArt. And not that many people like that place, where you can find nothing more than loads of anime and naruto fan drawings made by thousands of little kids. One of the reasons NG users say about his fame is that he easily wins support and famedom among the immature viewers and artist wannabes of SheezyArt. In other words, he makes cheap shots. And before he made a name for himself, he started out rough. Animation was simple, as well as his art. Then this buzz came about Wonchop and art theft. Cycon (ProjectDCK) made a flash where he stated that Wonchop was a thief. Somewhere i also heard that he copied Joanimes style and suited it for himself, but i dunno if thats even true. Last example (sounds stupid and therefore not considerable), he doesnt reply to EVERYONE who post on his journal. Many fans bother him with fan drawings, and Wonchop just cant handle all of them, especially when theres this one obsessive fanboy named Favic who chases him. Fanboys who get ignored, turn their hate against their idol and aggressively express their hatred.
Wonchop had and still have many enemies, or just anti-wonchops who think that hes too arrogant and fake to deserve the attention that he gets today. While many others love him and his flash works that literally float around on the net. Many think that hes a funny artist who makes us all laugh because of the jokes and the randomness he puts in his work. And his fandom is still increasing in high rates. But sometimes i just dont get it why many other people just hate him for some reason. Im no total hardcore fan of him, i think hes sometimes amusing. But many others protest against him. Is it because of jealousy? Or is it something else, as i wrote about the examples above?
Wonchop - love him or hate him. And just to end this news post in a relevant way, here is my satirical view on Wonchop when he makes commissions. Post your opinions about this news post if you must.
RubberNinja
He didn't immitate Joanime's style, he posted a drawing of a "Joanime Clock" that she made on MrSimons clockcrew.co.uk when it was up under his account without permission. Cycon didn't already like him for a few other reasons I believe.
I was a part of the original "Anti-Wonchop" movement on SheezyArt, for a while it was quite heated.
Now I don't really give as much a shit. Though I still dislike is work, I wouldn't be an ass if I met him in person.
Hammi
Nice, thanx for the info, that answered some of my questions :) And i didnt know that you were against Wonchop at that time. Well, we all gotta take a side. And my side is definitely not with LF(which has nothing to do with my news post). Well, the truth is that my trust to Wonchop is decreasing lil by lil now. Thats one of the reasons that i wrote this news post. But hey, just because im expressing doubt in a guy, that doesnt mean i wouldve disrespected him in person. So yeah i agree with you xP