Thank you for your honest answer. I’ve always been curious as to how people who actually helped him feel about it because when myself and others initially posted about him approaching us when we were minors and being sexually aggressive a lot of people just kind of ignored it and went on with lol yall cowards smoke crack lol like he was just a funny guy. it always felt like no one cared until the charges dropped because all those “music videos” of him forcing himself on women and trying to get underaged girls to be his gf just werent enough apparently. it is a really personal thing for me and i have yet to see anyone else who participated in making him a meme like ever go “yeah maybe we shouldn’t have platformed this guy with terrible vibes” it really is a failure on every level that serial predator lee carter was allowed to do his thing for so long he started kidnapping women to assault, which i’ll say is really hard not to dwell on when you’ve had this guy sexually harass you
Very sorry to hear that Iguferon.
I was introduced to viper by a friend who just told me he was the “hehehe smoke crack” guy. I made about 50-100 album covers for him before I actually researched the guy, and immediately deleted the burner email I had used for correspondence.
For a while I tried to seek out other people who had worked for Viper, but after a lot of then just went “Free my man Lee, he’s innocent” I sorta stopped talking about it. Except of course when I remembered I had an account here and responded to the thread made years ago. When I do talk about Viper it’s mostly to tell folks not to egg on a monster via memes, as this shit does have consequences.
It’s a strange feeling, to know the album covers I made for him when I was 20 are more known than any of my professional or personal academic/creative work. Not really something to be proud of, but also not anything I can remove from the internet either.
When we were young, we all hard to know discovering how many devils hidden in popular culture. Even in games like Yakuza series, many players pretend not to see what the Yakuza did irl, even Toshihiro Nagoshi have cosplayed a real involved in heinous crimes like rape-extortion-murder Yakuza in every events, we still celebrated him and pay for that shit.
I’m been watching Sean Combs: The Reckoning these days, I’m sure every story of all rappers right now on the stage could make a documentary like this.
Your courage to respond is admirable. Don’t push yourself too hard.