all I wanted was to address this situation with my audience without making it seem like a big issue since I don't want to add my troubles to their life.

I will be taking a little hiatus to clear my mind and start fresh.' I'm also sorry for how I acted it was really stupid and my fever didn't really help with my judgment call. Tostify also traced over other VTuber's emotes to create his own.

While he had copied some of Shoto, bao and Shylilly, most of the traced emotes were of Vienna. This wasn't his only instance of art plagiarism as he also traced over Sonnet's character design. Some have also accused his character design of plagiarizing bao's. On October 14, 2022, Tostify tweeted 'ai art is cool but cringe if you try to play it off as actual art'. However, days later, on October 16, 2022, he tweeted 'somewhere in an alternative universe where tostify is a female #vtuber' with a genderbent image of himself. When asked for the artist, Tostify claimed they did not have a Twitter as he had commissioned it on skeb. Many Twitter users were quick to notice the art itself was AI generated due to the eyes being inconsistently shaped and textured and the fingers being deformed. On the same day, he published a Twitlonger where he stated 'I got curious about the Ai art and decided to make some for myself just for fun and one of them came out really cute and I decided to upload it. Once I was called out I panicked and decided to lied about it which was a biggest mistake. Since I publicly lied I felt pressured by myself to continue with the lies but that's very stupid. sorry to everyone I disappointed in the community I promise to be better in the future'. On October 18, 2022, Senz held a stream where he discussed all these controversies with Tostify. Senz pointed out inconsistencies in Tostify's explanations of why he behaved the way he did.

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