#sd16 jewels

[berryevilpoptart]

They’re so beautiful!😭😭😭

[the-bjd-community-confess]

Something is Rotten in the V0lks Community. Well, the English speaking v0lks community... in all my years in the hobby I would have thought a fellow non-JP hobbyist having the honour to have a doll made of their sketch would be something to be proud of. Instead, there's been so much nastiness. People congratulating her or cautioning people not to be rude are called 'ass kissing'. People are stalking her social media to make sure she never says a single negative thing about any other sculpt because she's no longer allowed to if she 'gets upset' when people don't like hers. (never mind what she is upset about is not people disliking her head but the relentless hatred thrown at it from all sides, and people taking 'hey don't be rude' as a personal challenge, because they actually WANT her to know they hate this head.) They are pouncing on anything they can to make her look like a 'hypocrite', obsessed with 'knocking her down a peg', all because of some strange anger about her standing out.

What went wrong? I'm disappointed in so many of you. One of my favourite things about V0lks is the variety of heads there are, something for so many tastes. This means that it's a company that has both heads I adore and heads I genuinely dislike and find unappealing, and I imagine it's the same for many of us fans. It's natural then that there would be people who wouldn't like Diamond, just as there are people who don't like Michelle or Amethyst (as we as people who adore them) but I never see the level of hatred Diamond gets directed at any other sculpt, and never with the same sneering scorn where it's clear the author wants Arid3de to see their opinion and know. I am not just talking about this blog. On the V0lksUSA Facebook, several people were leaving cruel comments after Diamond's reveal, begging Volks to cancel her release

Asking V0lks WHY they'd make something 'horrifying' like that, imploring they not make another head like that again. I ask you, how do you think this feels? It's just not something you are proud of being trashed, it's being trashed by people you thought were your comrades, your fellow v0lks fans. Arid3de is a human, and a v0lks fan. Isn't she a comrade? What caused this gulf? I don't think Diamond looks out of place - she fits right in with the Jewel series of SD16 who all have very dramatic, mature lady shapes. Therefore it can't be because she looks 'too different'. Then is it jealousy, maybe from someone who also entered the contest and didn't become a finalist? Is it people who became angry at being 'told what to do' (ie be polite and stop going out of your way to insult something instead of a simple 'not for me'?)I really don't know. I just know I'm extremely disappointed in my fellow V0lks fans. I always thought we had more grace than this, but maybe that was just my fantasy.

~Anonymous

[dollsonmain]

Well that’s a rather different sculpt.