I personally think the guy is a zelous, self-entitled jerk who has no sense of context in the world but his art is fucking fantastic. I will probably post some stuff here later.
On another related subject, I feel like there has to be a better way to collect, archive, and preserve stuff from artists than what we do in these sorts of threads. We get lots of pictures posted, yes, but often there are duplicates. Duplicates on there own are fine I guess but sometimes some duplicates have been degraded by compression or down-scaling that then get saved and passed on instead of using the highest quality available. Also Im sure not all of an artists stuff gets saved and posted in these threads. Generally you only get a subset of the poster's favorite stuff, leaving other potentially good stuff to the void. And also there are often pictures that have been removed by the original poster (especially for artists like laserbeam/hamster-burrito who for god knows why tend to delete their old or even moderately old stuff) that we may never know about from a present day scrape of their pixiv or whatever. And sure you get some of those back in these threads, but there are plenty that will surely get missed. Now if literally nobody has those then they will be gone for good, but once these threads get large enough I feel like people think "oh everything has been posted already, theres no way I have something that hasnt been posted yet" and they may well have some missing gem. And of course the same goes where artists make alts of images, whether they be modifications or just removing censoring, etc. I feel like there has to be a better way to do this, something that maximizes the recovery and preservation rate while minimizing the difficulty of curating it. Is there open software out there that can easily identify duplicate images from an uploaded batch/zip and select the ones of highest quality, putting duplicates and degraded/downscaled versions in a separate thing (just in case it made a mistake so the user can double check or something)? What about something that you can just dump a large mess of images into from all sorts of different artists and sources and it tries to sort out who drew them based on style? That im sure would require some sort of neural network to do, where finding duplicates and highest quality of those duplicates could be done by checking the content of each pixel against another and using metadata resolution tags, etc. To clarify, this isnt just me obsessing over this particular artists, this is my combined, collective obsession over ALL artists that is prompting these thoughts.