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While its not Wha-Chow, I happen to have an old piece made by Rittz himself. And just about everyone on this picture did not get out of that site unscathed. The other stuff I have are songs and such especially during the old days when they ran their own forum all the way back in the mid 2000s called "The Fallout Shelter".
There are only three on this picture I remember giving a shit about (even my cringelord teenage self hated most of Psy's work. Though I do have fond memories of him doing a weird review series in character as Wario and..a couple other characters.)
Scorch (the red cat on the top), Jen (the edgy black tails rip-off), and most worrying to me, O(riginal)M(anga)A(rtist), which is the dude in the off-brand Saiyaman costume, with the shades and black bandana.
OMA I specifically remember having a massive sperg out when Kids Next Door 'ripped off' his super original design of asian girl with black hair in an oversized green hoodie, which, to his credit, was strangely similar, but other than that, I have good memories of these three. Jen's comic was a rambling fangirl fest, but it seemed interesitng at the time, and introduced me to some shit like Monkey Island. Scorch's work never really got off the ground, but I still go back and watch one of her animations to this day, for it's simple, stupid joke.
But OMA was what got me into this shit. I followed him before Psyguy rolled up, and his work is probably why I have such a hard on for characters just...existing in a shared universe, ala ThePunchlineIsMachismo or CaptainSNES. I'm curious to know what they ended up, and frankly, more than a little worried.
Edit: Digging around with my novice google fu, I noticed OMA (real name: Alan Solivan, I don't think that counts as 'doxing' as he put his real name on all his art.) has seemed to fucking vanish from the internet, around 2007. DeviantArt was nuked from existence, but some art requests (i can't tell if they're meant to be fetish, as they're just to cartoony shit like flattening people like Rodger rabbit, but still) link to him around that time. His newground still exists (
https://bignasty4life.newgrounds.com/ (Warning, he has one of Psy's creepy porn games on his favorites, nothing showing on the thumbnail, but still)), but is similarly untouched, with the last noticeable action being favoriting a song from, you guessed it, Psyguy.
I'm willing to accept it as him just kissing his bosses ass, but it bears noticing.
I've found no other hits on either name, save for an unrelated nobody youtuber, and a blank facebook page.
