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Anonymous Who’s John K?

John K is the creator of Ren & Stimpy who would use his position in animation to manipulate young female fans into dating him, referred to lesbians as d*kes, was an infamous perfectionist who would beliitle his employees when they failed to meet his expectations, got fired by Nickelodeon for never meeting deadlines and was such an all-round absolute asshole that he basically became the most infamous name in animation history. Yet, he is still cited as a major influence and animation pioneer by a lot of other showrunners and aspiring artists despite his reputation.
As for that “manipulating young female fans into dating him” thing, that picture above isn’t him having lunch with his daughter at a restaurant. That’s John K with his 15 year old girlfriend in 1996.
So, yeah, EVERYONE knew because he had no shame in flaunting around the fact that he was a gross pedophilic piece of shit who liked dating underage girls with no consequences, and everyone, particularly the men under him, lowkey disapproved but still just turned a blind eye to the situation for years. The exact extent of his abuse wasn’t made public until literally just 5 months ago by the two victims of his sexual abuse while working under him and it’s very apparent that the popularity of Ren & Stimpy and the power he had over people allowed him to take advantage of these aspiring young girls who wanted to be animators just like him.
(HUGE content warning for this buzzfeed article: it is very graphic and upsetting and I really wouldn’t recommend you reading it in its entirety if you’re a CSA survivor. So please be careful.)
Closing quotes from the article by the two victims of John K’s underage sexual abuse:
“Byrd is resolute. “He ruined a good bit of my childhood and my early adulthood, gave me PTSD, and forced me to change careers, putting my life 10 years or more behind,” she wrote in an email. In an interview, she said, “He is an abuser in the way that he will pull you into a relationship with him and then tell you who to be and what he wants from you. … Everybody needs to know about it.”
Rice, too, is unequivocal about Kricfalusi: “I became a better artist by working for him,” she said. “I’m not grateful for it. I wish I hadn’t. I wish I were a worse artist now and I didn’t have all this bullshit to deal with.” ●”
By the way, here’s his shitty, guilt-trippy Facebook apology he made shortly after to the victims where he further tries to manipulate them by reminding them about the “nice times they used to have” and tries to excuse his actions with “bipolar disorder and bad impulses :(”