I Think I Found Zach's "Shademan" Impersonator

So I'm not 100% sure on this, but it seems like it all adds up.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTQ5rqpNwng

Basically, Zach talked about how he had an impostor who called themselves "Shademan" and traced still frames of his cartoons while claiming to be him. Eventually he got them to stop, I found this really interesting and wanted to see this impostor 'art' and after a while of searching I think I've found them; https://www.deviantart.com/shademan2013/gallery/all

This account checks off a lot of the marks mentioned:

• Named "Shademan"
• Has clear traces of Hellbenders faces in his earlier 'works' https://www.deviantart.com/shademan2013/art/Nothing-can-stop-true-love-371095332
• A lot of these traces are like the one Zach described where they simply take a Hellbenders frame and make the character bald
• He seems very aware of the general SleepyCabin crew and associates (Some are his traces are from Chris's Harry Potter Animations, he has his own custom GameGrumps face, Isaac traces as well as claiming to be "Better than Zone")

He also traces from pretty much anyone. He's got traces of Zach's Work, Chris's work, Zone's work, Odd1sOut, GameGrumps, Vivziepop, Binding of Isaac, Invader Zim, Adventure Time, ect ect. Everything seems to line up, the only thing that makes me doubt it is I don't see him directly linking Zach's Animations as his own like Zach said, however he could've deleted those after Zach told him to stop impersonating him. I did however find this post which is very close to that; https://www.deviantart.com/shademan2013/art/Shademan2013-Shares-Sh-t-373474609

It matches Zach's description of his post linking to 'new videos'. The videos are all private, so it's possible that he re-uploaded the Hellbenders cartoons privately to make it more believable that they were his own. On a lot of his posts a person named "SpinninJellyfishGirl" also pops up, normally doing some quick 'flirty roleplay' type stuff. ("*kisses his forehead" https://www.deviantart.com/shademan2013/art/collab-with-Nails-398803640?comment=1%3A398803640%3A3205497638 ) This could be the girl from Zach's story, their account is now deleted so all that's left are the comments on the Shademan account.

The account doesn't seem to have been active for years, it's just a gallery of strange traces to be confused by.

Submitted November 21, 2019 at 03:10AM by Jaken245 https://ift.tt/2XuEGWS