#helluvareceipts

[adarlingmess]

I am speaking up about the leaks of my messages with Andrew Wincott, refuting rumors of sending him unsolicited NSFW against my former client weeirdvileheart's wishes, and discussing the harassment I received at large.

Thank you to all who supported me.

Summary/TL;DR:

Andrew asked me directly to see NSFW art of his character Raphael in April 2024, and had requested to see risqué art of Raphael as early as January 2024.

Weeirdvileheart's original voicemail instructions request to not tag her in the post. She did not ask that I not show it to Andrew until it was already too late since I already sent Andrew a link to my public NSFW twitter an hour before she made that request.

Bonjeacon/Jojo admits to being the one behind the leaks, which was then circulated to serial harassers such as helluvareceipts

The allegations of parasocial behavior and sending Andrew unsolicited porn became a smokescreen against the racism, harassment and abuse I've been receiving from BG3twt serial harassers.

I address the contents of the leaks as well, and providing omitted information the leakers did not include.

[rattataprincess2007]

To anyone wondering why HR left, it is BECAUSE THE HAZBIN/HELLUVA FANDOM HARASSED THEM AND CALLED THEM SLURS! If this doesn't scream racism in the Hazbin/Helluva fandom, then I don't know what does.

And let's not forget that the Hazbin/Helluva fandom allows genuinely bad people within their community off the hook (such as NorryNator).

[chaifootsteps]

What happened to HR??

They reminded everyone that Ang wasn't a perfect victim and allegedly has real life, non-drawing victims of their own. Also, that Ang had victims outside of Jane, and yes, this is real because I've seen and heard some it too, and seen the screenshots.

Viv stans cooked up the narrative that they were defending Kyle Carrozza and harassed them with racial slurs, driving them off the platform.

Of course, the standom celebrated and immediately started saying things like "One down, three to go!" because they're the worst people alive.

[faggot-billcipher]

litreally this is strictly caused by antis thinking they can be as maean as they want with no conseuences to anyone called a pedophile. this is a distint problem not seen in toehr groups that aren't the anti community. it's also facilitated by antis' problems of their rbains shutting off the moment they see somenoe callde a pedophile. they refuse to accept that minorities can be called pedophiles for bigoted reaosns.e ven though it happens a lot and many conservative groups use this manipulation tactic to justify killing minorities. again these are all behaviors clddled by the extremeist echo chamber antis have created for themselves. as a result of them thinking being an anti means you're never abusive and can never be wrong in calling someone a pedophile. in fact the seocnd is actively caused yb the first thinking you can never have abusive reasons behind making a callout pos if you're an anti doig it it's at a point where even when antis finally accept there was a bad perosn in their community their rewrite history. and try to claim the bad person was a proshipper in disguise all along. i've seent that many times.t. it's 100% important to acknowledge that this was fuelde yb anti culture as it is now. stop letting antis get away with their behavior by claiming its abd to acknowledge when shitty thigns like this are a complete result f anti culture.

[tommycorriander]

Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss, And Disability

I am disabled. This is something I've talked about a handful of times on this blog and on my Twitter, and anyone who knows me knows I am a disabled man. As a result, while I do enjoy dissecting media and politics, the need to be an advocate for disability issues would have fallen on me to some extent regardless. Disabled folks are often left out of conversations regarding diversity in media, in a continued oversight from able bodied peers.

What does this have to do with the Hellaverse?

Both shows contain at least some small amount of disability representation; specifically, they both have characters that are physically disabled. In Hazbin Hotel this is Vaggie, as she is missing an eye and prior to the finale had lost her wings. In Helluva Boss, the characters would be Fizzarolli, a quad amputee, and the unnamed deaf child in the special. The only character I ever see talked about in regards to their disability by the wider fanbase is the unnamed child, and on a smaller scale in critical spaces I occasionally see remarks on Fizzarolli's disability.

This is a problem.

For as much as fans of one or both shows would love to claim diversity in their shows, the lack of disability representation and the lackluster portrayal of the minimal representation is poor. And I haven't seen any of my fellow critics discuss this, which I feel is an oversight, though I don't fault them for this as there are many problems with both shows and they tend to have their hands full. However, this angle of viewing the shows has been overlooked, which is why I wish to discuss it today.

Firstly, I'd like to specify what I mean when I discuss disability. While the conversation regarding the Hellaverse is primarily centered around physical disability as this is the only form of disability portrayed in the shows, coded or otherwise, disability comes in many different forms. Intellectual disabilities and mental disabilities are just as important for representation in the media as physical disabilities. Among physical disabilities, there's also a difference in visible and invisible disabilities, the latter of which is hardly ever shown in media compared to the former. Ideally all forms of disability would be portrayed equally and with respect, but unfortunately this isn't the case. I also don't expect every show to tackle every demographic at once; this isn't a reasonable request, and to be very clear, my issue with the representation in HH/HB does not come from every single unique experience with disability not being covered, but rather with the narrative the creatives behind the show and the show's fans continue to push: that both shows are diverse and are, in some way, more progressive than other shows.

This isn't the case for many reasons. Fellow critics have gone into depth about the show's lack of representation of women in nuanced roles, the lack of queer women, the racist ways in which the very few characters of colour are presented, the lack of trans representation, and even the way sex and sexuality is presented being rather conservative at times. That isn't the focus of this essay, but I would implore anyone who is reading this who is somehow unaware of the previous issues to seek out essays that talk about those points; Cassidy Whiskey on YouTube has a three-part series that covers a multitude of topics, not just issues of representation, and I would have recommended helluvareceipts on Twitter, but her account has sadly been deactivated. I'm sure there are others, but I'll lose focus if I try to name every single person to go to. If you're willing to trawl through general pettiness in the critical tag (which, let's be real, that is probably how you found this post) you'll find well-worded critiques as well.

Back to the topic at hand. The lack of representation of people with disabilities is already frustrating, but there isn't a complete drought: Vaggie, Fizzarolli, and the unnamed imp child do exist, after all. However, their representation is not just flawed, but even exploitative in some ways.

First we have Vaggie. Aside from the visual of her missing eye and seeing the incident in which she lost that eye, nothing comes of it. She never has to contend with the difficulties that come with impaired sight, and it's never brought up by other characters. In the training scene between her and Carmilla, it's not a factor: instead, her greater flaw in the physical realm when it comes to combat is having longer hair. This is an extreme oversight, which I believe shows that Vivienne and the various writers for the show never actually take into consideration what should be a major element of a character, that being her impaired vision. Furthermore, the loss of her wings isn't even considered at all, with her somehow gaining them back at the end of her training montage with Carmilla. This could have been an excellent vector to discuss physical disability in a coded form, with her wings being a stand in for more traditional forms of limb loss. Still not ideal, as I believe it's better to have forthright depictions of disability over metaphors, but it would have been something. Instead, it's never a factor, and worse, it's effectively cured. As far as representation goes, Vaggie might as well not even count.

That's all that exists for Hazbin Hotel. In Helluva Boss, we have two characters, and I will save the unnamed child for last, because that is where the real issue with the representation is on full display.

So, Fizzarolli. He is a quad amputee and potentially hearing impaired, though the latter is speculated on due to a single scene which I discuss later. Since that scene is the only time it ever comes up, I will focus on his amputee status. He lost his limbs in a fire, something we see on screen. I will disagree with some of my fellow critics in that this scene should have been more detailed; I feel that had the scene shown more of the damage dealt to Fizz's body it would have come across in poor taste, and focusing on the tragic aspect of disability usually ends up feeling like trauma porn in the hands of poor writers, which Vivienne most certainly is. I do not trust her to handle a more detailed scene with grace, especially given her track record (more on that later). It is ultimately for the best that the scene is mostly brushed over, even if it would have been better in the hands of someone with the maturity and sensitivity to cover such a topic for more to be shown in regards to his injuries.

Otherwise, Fizzarolli is mostly fine. He's shown not just surviving but thriving, he has a loving partner (criticisms of the portrayal of said relationship not withstanding) and generally sees success in his life while still having to grapple with the realities of his disability when it comes to his prosthetics being prone to damage and potentially shutting down. I would, in the hands of anyone else, like to see more of this character and what his daily routine looks like as a disabled man.

Unfortunately all the good will built with Fizz comes crashing down when we get to the unnamed imp child in the Fizzarolli special episode. This child is the poster child for virtue signalling. Frankly, it's disgusting how a majority of the fandom seemed to ignore how fetishistic this portrayal was. This is where the real meat of the essay comes in to play.

This unnamed child is given a single scene, and is then promptly forgotten about and never mentioned again. They are introduced as being a fan of Fizz here to view the competition, there is a brief exchange between the two, and then we all move on. And yet this scene was championed as somehow revolutionary or a sign of the top-tier diversity and progressiveness in Helluva, when in reality this type of scene has been done to death. This is tokenism.

One major stumbling block many of the people championing this scene seem to get tripped up on is a very simple question: why was this child a child to begin with? Really, this seems like a simple question, it shouldn't have much thought. Sometimes characters are kids. But within the episode it's clearly shown through multiple different avenues that this is an adult show. The performances are dripping with sexuality, several of the fans of Fizzarolli are there because Mammon sells sex robots of the guy, there is no mistaking that this is something no child should be at, let alone by themselves.

So why was this child a child? Simple: brownie points.

It's a lot more difficult for people to share clips of a wholesome moment from your show if the person Fizz was interacting with was an adult. People are ableist, this is pretty par for the course; as a disabled person I find it generally safer to assume people are ableist before proven otherwise. I can guarantee if this scene were to be between Fizzarolli and a deaf adult fan as opposed to a young child, it would not have been championed as this amazing representation by mostly able bodied fans. And that is by design: if Vivienne genuinely cared about representation, if she truly wanted to show something meaningful to her adult fans in her adult show, she would have had the interaction be with an adult. But that doesn't get her clip shared around on social media. That doesn't get her brownie points for inclusion. It's safe, it's palatable, it's sickeningly wholesome, and it's insulting for that. This is a show for adults, something Vivienne and company is adamant on, and yet they treat their audience like children. As a fan, you should be insulted to have this key-jingling one minute clip presented to you. You should demand more, demand better.

Unfortunately I do not see ever getting better from Vivienne. She has made it very clear she truly does not care about creating art, she really only stumbled into being championed as a paragon for animation because her majority white and able bodied fans saw the inclusion of primarily gay men and thought that was good enough. She does not give a damn about disabled people, and she never will. To expect good disabled representation from her is like expecting good queer representation from a Marvel movie; she is in it for the money, and it just so happens that the inclusion of that scene makes money.

Addendum thoughts that were too long to put into the tags: I would like to make it clear that disability, because it presents very differently, is experienced very differently by many different people. If you felt seen or represented by the disability representation in either show, that's fine, and I don't want you to feel bad for feeling seen. Ultimately disabled people are largely given scraps; I have not once seen someone with my particular physical disability portrayed in media. Sometimes we latch onto things that are subpar or lacking; my criticism of reception to this scene is targeted primarily at able bodied audience members who may be lacking in this perspective and to also champion fellow disabled people to rightfully demand and expect better. Thank you for your time.

[theoddest1]

i swear ppl dont know how merchandise works. viv gets a percentage from helluva boss merch sells because she owns the characters and uses the money to go on vacations. she doesnt pay her animators well at all. you cant say you don’t support viv and still give her your money.

https://x.com/doodles_20destiny/status/1796022623454765334

https://www.tumblr.com/fortunelowtier/755051989850898432/444?source=share

https://twitter.com/helluvareceipts/status/1808960384767791444?t=HdOd9AZfYYxqMS2CXkD2pw&s=19

Not to mention the fact that she be burning through animators like crazy and even straight up ADMITTED that she outsources animators!

Cutting corners to spend less, yet going to France, Alaska, and more sure will help, right Viv?

[tocomplainfriend]

I think more ppl should take about this: https://twitter.com/helluvareceipts/status/1784974820154683574 Like the hazbin VA's are saying its ok and PREPUBESCENT children should watch hazbin hotel.

and now all those stans have flipped a switch and are like "oh yea, we love kids, this is great for kids, kids should totally watch it and join our fandom and cosplay" after harassing the shit out of minors and being creepy as fuck like insinuating kids can trick people into grooming them.

TW: Rape, SA, Endangering Children

KIDS SHOULDN'T WATCH ADULT MEDIA.

NO YOUR STUPID FUCKING SHOW IS NOTHING COMPARABLE TO HISTORY BOOKS, QUEER PEOPLE, OR WHAT EVER THE FUCK You PRETENDED IT TO BE.

This has sex, SA, r-pe jokes, swearing, drug use, misogyny.

Consuming that country as children is damaging and gross.

Joining a fandom full of porn and other adult content, and uwuing r-pist is not a healthy scenario or a kid.

Kids need sex ed- not the stupid show that says sex jokes every second. Sex ed is to tell children things like "if someone touched you here is bad tell someone, ask for help here" or "your period is going to happen-" shit like that. The show is nothing compared to any of this asshole.

Want to find queer media for a child? Great SHOW THEM A CHILDREN SHOW, NOT AN ADULT ONE. Just make the kid what Craig of the Creek, or the Owl house.

WTFFFFFFF

This person shouldn't be a parent. The kids are around 9 btw.

[crooked-wasteland]

An Exhaustive History of Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings by Dan Olson

Since the Hazbin Twitter has decided to deteriorate into ignorant cries of racism over Ralph Bakshi and his movies based on the valid intersectional social criticism of one HelluvaReceipts, I'm going to promote this video essay from Dan Olson. I have referenced his work in my own essays, and it appears I was just too early in discussing Bakshi and his effect on adult animation and how it pertains to Medrano's own lackluster contribution to the field due to her lack of meaning in her work. So while this situation is trending on Twitter, I'll plug one of my favorite video essayists and inspirations for you all to enjoy.

[antivivziepopparade]

A small request.

Hey guys!

Can you send me as many of HelluvaReceipts's critiques of Vivziepop that you can? I tried going through their blog but it had a lot of triggering political stuff on it so if anyone can help that'd be nice.

-and no, im not asking you to like the post. That never helps.

Please help.

[tranquil-slaughterhouse]

I heard that helluvareceipts has left twitter?

[adarlingmess]

Darling's Diary: A much needed vent

I am not surprised at all that lorroakan/Mike/Ari who accused me of being racist got outed as one, bonjeacon/Peak/Jojo who cropped my convo with Andrew Wincott to make me look parasocial got outed as parasocial himself, and helluvareceipts who spread said screenshots got outed as a p3do enabler. More often than not these people are projecting their own flaws or inventing them in others in order to rid themselves of their own shame. With these new revelations I hope everyone will take what they say will be taken with mounds of salt from this moment on.

And the more I read about helluvareceipts, their clique's serial harassment, and how they helped destroy Ang Vondra's livelihood, the more disgusted I am. They did the same thing with me by circulating those cropped screenshots and the backlash almost made me end my own life. helluvareceipts is not even a fucking part of BG3twt or the fandom in general but they're known moots with BG3twt's most notorious serial harassers. Somehow they gained access to my private messages to maliciously crop them, take them out of context, and even manipulate them. I know it's Peak who sent them too, because he's one of the few people I shared screenshots of my messages, and he's the only one who had a motive against me.

I lost clients, was booted from communities and I'm now in a financial crisis + on the verge of being homeless due to my inability to pay rent. All this damage against their victims in the name of internet clout. I am fucking appalled. I will never forgive BG3twt's serial harassers for accusing users they wanted to harass off the platform of unsavory shit when all along they've mutuals with helluvareceipts who enabled and supported actual p3dophile Kyle Carrozza's abuse.

"b-but HR called out Kyle when he was exposed as one-" Don't you fucking get it? It's the rabid smear campaign and misinformation that destroyed Ang Vondra while the actual p3do got away scot-free for YEARS. It's your mob mentality that destroyed real lives over made up BS. All things considered, e.g. hate mail, people making a meme out of my conversations, being blacklisted in communities I was welcome in, I handled what everyone did to me with grace. Now I'm extra pissed off seeing how there are more victims that suffered and they had it WORSE.

So now that helluvareceipts got exposed for spreading false testimonies from Jane Amber to smear Ang Vondra, can people start seeing that the cropped screenshots they acquired from Peak that they spread is another attempt at a smear campaign?

I am contemplating publishing conversations I had with AW to dispel all accusations once and for all. If it didn't expose things he asked me to keep private such as a voicenote he sent me on my birthday, and personal information such as his complete DOB I would've done it from the get go. Plus, I've seen how some of the serial harassers reacted to the information of him asking for NSFW art from me and him dismissing my former client's concerns. They'll tear this man apart and for some damn reason my (possibly misplaced) sense of loyalty doesn't want to see that.

Whether or not I will set the record straight regarding the allegations against me once and for all is still something I'm unsure of. My mental health is on the mend after being nearly driven to suicide by the non-stop harassment, and I don't want to risk the progress that I made on myself.

Aside from venting there's nothing much I can do but wait, really. I didn't even have to lift a finger for people to uncover the truth about my accusers, I was busy trying not to off myself. Perhaps the truth about it will come out one day too.

[spidersonicbatl0]

Fun fact: if someone thinks a trans character, lgbt character, female character or black character is overrated that doesn’t make that person transphobic, homophobia, misogyny or racist!

But I not done yet! I also have to call out the actions of these two

Not cool helluvareceipts! Don’t send your followers to harass someone. Also the irony of calling someone for sending followers to harass a person, but saying you’re followers should do the same thing to that person!

Jesus Christ the zoophobia fandom have lost it mind😔

[chaifootsteps]

People are saying “Moxxie is good at sex because he’s in a committed relationship with one woman, Blitzø is bad at it because he has so many casual relationships”

a. That’s not how it works

b. This is a weirdly conservative slut shaming thing to say

And of course people are using it as evidence that stolas is special and ‘the one’ but hey that’s par for the course at this point.

Between this and the mask off racism of Helluvareceipts being driven off of Twitter with slurs, they've been really showing their true colors lately.

[s3tok41b4]

I’m an s/a survivor and I thought angel’s poison scene was done well. I don’t think it was romanticized at all. I remember one guy who leaked it said there was genitals and a full on r*pe scene but that was a lie. someone mentioned that you and helluvareceipts said that happened or retweeted people who leaked the scene or lied about it. Why would you do that and how can you be trusted if you’re a known liar and you leak things?

I've also seen sa survivors who quite literally had break downs from the episode. So like, glad you found it ok, I and others did not.

[wellthebardsdead]

For more context on the crap adarlingmess has done, here’s screenshots and link to a thread: https://x.com/helluvareceipts/status/1796230175266345278?s=46

The ONLY good thing to come out of this is the community rallying together and creating some of the funniest memes I’ve seen for weeks that I actually dry heaved from laughter

Your daily reminder that no matter how much you love a voice actors work. They. Are. Not. Your. Friends.

They do not owe you Jack shit!

Where is this coming from? Another parasocial freak came out of the woodwork and began harassing Andrew Wincott. Carrying on about his social media manager and him sharing artwork on his social media of a Raphael & Jaheira ship art that was honestly beautifully done. Me personally I ship jaheira with minthara but I digress.

To the person who did this. And I know for a fact you’ll see this.

You, and other delusional fuckheads who behave like you are the reason why artists distance themselves from fandoms.

Andrew loves interacting with the fan base, as do all the other VAs. But freaks like you often frighten them away and ruin it for everybody but especially the actor themselves. They become uncomfortable, afraid, irritated and remove themselves from the space.

Leave him alone. In fact, leave any and every Va alone. He is not your friend, he will never love you romantically and no doubt your behaviours left a foul taste in his mouth.

He is a human being. Not an object of your deluded fantasies.

[chaifootsteps]

Vivziepop stans: Chai is a disgusting pedozoo for liking aged-up ships and dragons!

The literal exact same Viv stans: Ang Vondra was a poor disabled artist who did nothing wrong and Helluvareceipts deserved to be called racial slurs for speaking out against them! Justice for poor Ang Vondra!

Ang Vondra: