>>28971664saruei ran a competition for fanart of her character, prize was 5k. The winner was her close friend and already successful artist. this annoyed people, but it got much worse after it came out that a lot of people got disqualified for illegitimate reasons, with saruei's discord mod being extremely rude and telling people they were disqualified for tracing, even though most of these drawings had their process fully streamed so tracing was not an option.
THEN, people who had worked for her/attempted to work for her in the past exposed her nasty dismissive DMs to them on twitter and she was exposed for being all around nasty and difficult to work with. when her colleagues attempted to get her to stop pushing blame around, including popular indies/artists/riggers (i think dya rikku was one of them) she blocked them. it was only after a while of getting pounded on SNS that she finally apologized for her rudeness and said she would do better in the future.
her shitty attitude and all around disrespectful treatment of fans just made her seem extremely vile so i'm deeply uninterested in her or her work.
