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Butch Hartman is a well-known producer for Nickelodeon, who has some questionable at best online history and has most recently pulled off a scam to the tune of a little more than a quarter million dollars.
The face of a TRUE & HONEST Christian who dindu nuffin'.
If you've watched Nickelodeon within the last twenty years, you've probably seen Butch Hartman's work. He's most closely associated with The Fairly OddParents and Danny Phantom, both of which most strongly display his art style. Similar to beloved cow Andrew Dobson, Butch's style has unique eyebrows; instead of floating eyebrows, Butch's trademark is huge fucking rectangles. But Hartman definitely is not the same libtard Dobson is; the opposite, rather. Let's begin.
Brief History
Hartman was born and raised in Michigan as the eldest of four boys. During an interview, Butch describes himself as a big fan of anime in his youth (archive), citing Speed Racer, Kimba the Lion, and Astro Boy as some of his favorites. Cartoons like The Flinstones and other Hanna-Barbera productions were among his inspirations as a child. He was always interested in being a cartoonist from a young age, and eventually moved to California to attend California Institute of the Arts, also known as CalArts.
As a self-professed Christian, moving to California from humble Michigan was a huge culture shock for Butch. Describing the animation/entertainment industry as mostly secular, he felt out of place talking about his religion and being openly Christian around the Hollywood crowd. He discusses this in a video he put on YouTube with his wife. (archive)
Being a Christian alone does not a lolcow make, of course. What makes Hartman so interesting have been his online antics and very recently, his Kickstarter to fund a project called OAXIS, but more on that later.
On the Internet
Butch Hartman created and ran a forum for fans of his cartoons, (archive) located at butchhartman.com (now defunct). The story goes that Butch and his moderation team were extremely against gay pairings. If you posted about shipping any gay couples from his shows, you would be banned from Butch's forums, even if you weren't even posting on the forums themselves. (archive) He says himself that, "I’m not a big fan of people who use children’s entertainment to push a political agenda. Can’t things just stay fun?" (archive) I can't find concrete archives, but you can see many people talk about this around places like deviantART. This old JournalFen post does a thorough job of covering Butch's antics related to shipping, though many links are dead. Here's a screenshot (archive) of a supposed announcement posted on his forums.
The LGBTQLMAOP+ community and Butch have seemed to always be at odds; when Tumblr began to push the headcanon that Danny Fenton, titular character of Danny Phantom, was transgender, Butch was not a fan. People are very (couldn't archive) into (archive) this idea, but Butch? Not so much. When he answered someone asking if Danny Fenton was trans, he outright denied it (archive), causing a lot of butthurt (archive) to ripple out of from Tumblr.
Misc.
Other than that, he's not done anything extremely noteworthy, but I'll run down a list of current events related to him.
OAXIS
Hartman debuted his Kickstarter to create the basis for a "kid-friendly" entertainment streaming service on June 18, 2018 called "OAXIS Entertainment." (archive) He presented OAXIS as a network meant to "re-connect families and bring them back together" via "high quality entertainment" for the entire family. The name itself is a portmanteau of "oasis" and "axis." Butch mentions in the video that he wants OAXIS to impact popular culture in a world he sees as too dark and violent. Nowhere in the Kickstarter description or video does her mention his Christian faith or that it will have any sort of Christian undertones. It was was fully funded on July 18, 2018, with its total funds raised amounting to $268,134.
However, in mid-July, cracks began to show in Butch's facade. A video emerged of Butch preaching to a church where he reveals (archive) that OAXIS is meant to be specifically Christian oriented sometime during March 2018. This was not entirely to the pleasure of the Kickstarter backers who had no clue about this.
People who were duped into funding this covertly Christian network, understandably want their money back after being played a fool. (archive) Too bad Butch seems to have taken the money and run, deleting any negative comments on his campaign page.
It has been claimed (archive) that OAXIS is collaborating with Daystar, who openly support the Bethel church, where the author of the tweet goes into their supposed beliefs and calls them a cult. The only evidence I can find of Hartman's "collaboration" with Daystar is an interview (archive) he and his family gave them on July 16, 2018, where they don't say anything they haven't already said. (Their part starts around 07:25)
Social Media
tl;dr: Another big-name cartoonist in children's entertainment turns out to be a complete freak. Discuss. (Also this is my first thread, pwease no bully)
The face of a TRUE & HONEST Christian who dindu nuffin'.
If you've watched Nickelodeon within the last twenty years, you've probably seen Butch Hartman's work. He's most closely associated with The Fairly OddParents and Danny Phantom, both of which most strongly display his art style. Similar to beloved cow Andrew Dobson, Butch's style has unique eyebrows; instead of floating eyebrows, Butch's trademark is huge fucking rectangles. But Hartman definitely is not the same libtard Dobson is; the opposite, rather. Let's begin.
Brief History
Hartman was born and raised in Michigan as the eldest of four boys. During an interview, Butch describes himself as a big fan of anime in his youth (archive), citing Speed Racer, Kimba the Lion, and Astro Boy as some of his favorites. Cartoons like The Flinstones and other Hanna-Barbera productions were among his inspirations as a child. He was always interested in being a cartoonist from a young age, and eventually moved to California to attend California Institute of the Arts, also known as CalArts.
As a self-professed Christian, moving to California from humble Michigan was a huge culture shock for Butch. Describing the animation/entertainment industry as mostly secular, he felt out of place talking about his religion and being openly Christian around the Hollywood crowd. He discusses this in a video he put on YouTube with his wife. (archive)
- 01:53 - "The secular media has done a really good job of painting Christians as sort of nutcases and things like that."
- 03:15 - "When you say you're a Christian, uh, people look at you differently."
- 03:32 - "It [being openly Christian] is almost like what the Bible said like uh, 'If the world hates you,' as Jesus said, 'if the world hates you, uh, fear not because before the hated Jews, they hated [Jesus].'"
- 04:10 - "Y'know, back in the 60's when the Bible, Bibles were taken out of school, uh, the American society started to go into decline; teenage pregnancies went up, crime went up, and things like that, because when God was taken out of the classroom, people were starting to get taught evolution and then everything just kind of made itself."
- 07:05 - "I got saved in the year 2000. [...] I needed a lot more help [in reference to being the head of a TV show]; I couldn't find any help with other people, because I was the one in charge [of Fairly OddParents]. So my wife here, Julieann, [dragged] me to this church in Los Angeles called [fumbles over words] Crenshaw Christian Center."
- 13:30 - "And by the way, when you start fleeing from things that are immoral, [...] your life will change."
Being a Christian alone does not a lolcow make, of course. What makes Hartman so interesting have been his online antics and very recently, his Kickstarter to fund a project called OAXIS, but more on that later.
On the Internet
Butch Hartman created and ran a forum for fans of his cartoons, (archive) located at butchhartman.com (now defunct). The story goes that Butch and his moderation team were extremely against gay pairings. If you posted about shipping any gay couples from his shows, you would be banned from Butch's forums, even if you weren't even posting on the forums themselves. (archive) He says himself that, "I’m not a big fan of people who use children’s entertainment to push a political agenda. Can’t things just stay fun?" (archive) I can't find concrete archives, but you can see many people talk about this around places like deviantART. This old JournalFen post does a thorough job of covering Butch's antics related to shipping, though many links are dead. Here's a screenshot (archive) of a supposed announcement posted on his forums.
The LGBTQLMAOP+ community and Butch have seemed to always be at odds; when Tumblr began to push the headcanon that Danny Fenton, titular character of Danny Phantom, was transgender, Butch was not a fan. People are very (couldn't archive) into (archive) this idea, but Butch? Not so much. When he answered someone asking if Danny Fenton was trans, he outright denied it (archive), causing a lot of butthurt (archive) to ripple out of from Tumblr.
Misc.
Other than that, he's not done anything extremely noteworthy, but I'll run down a list of current events related to him.
- In 2015 Hartman launched a family-friendly app that showcased live shows and cartoons for kids called the Noog Network.
- On June 8, 2017, Randy Stair / Andrew Blaze shot up a Weis Market in Eaton Township, Pennsylvania in the name of Ember McLain, a minor character from Danny Phantom. He murdered three of his co-workers before turning the gun on himself. His highscore sucked, and Butch has never commented about the incident (archive) on record, though people have tried to poke him into it. (archive)
- On February 2, 2018, Butch reveals he left Nickelodeon
- On July 17, 2018, Butch came under fire for making a "transphobic tweet," and ended up deleting it just to get people to shut up. Luckily, the internet never forgets. (archive)
- Told Tara Strong that she was the reason Mary Kay Berman (fellow voice actor) committed suicide. (archive)
OAXIS
Hartman debuted his Kickstarter to create the basis for a "kid-friendly" entertainment streaming service on June 18, 2018 called "OAXIS Entertainment." (archive) He presented OAXIS as a network meant to "re-connect families and bring them back together" via "high quality entertainment" for the entire family. The name itself is a portmanteau of "oasis" and "axis." Butch mentions in the video that he wants OAXIS to impact popular culture in a world he sees as too dark and violent. Nowhere in the Kickstarter description or video does her mention his Christian faith or that it will have any sort of Christian undertones. It was was fully funded on July 18, 2018, with its total funds raised amounting to $268,134.
However, in mid-July, cracks began to show in Butch's facade. A video emerged of Butch preaching to a church where he reveals (archive) that OAXIS is meant to be specifically Christian oriented sometime during March 2018. This was not entirely to the pleasure of the Kickstarter backers who had no clue about this.
- 02:40 - "My point is my work has touched peoples' hearts. Because it has the gospel inside of it; it's like a Trojan horse. I have Christ inside of me and Christ is inside my shows, but you never hear about Christ in my shows, but you feel him."
- 03:12 - "My point is all of these shows are, um, they have Christ inside of them. Because I speak in parables, that's the way I speak. You feel the Kingdom in my shows."
- 10:29 -"...kids these days, they have no purpose. There's depression, there's suicide. Constant exposure to corrupt social media and entertainment is a primary contributor to this crisis."
- 13:35 - "We're going to change culture for today's families. We're going to speak to them in parables."
- 13:50 - Butch praises Golden Eagle Broadcasting and Daystar, very conservative Christian broadcasting
- 14:01 - "It [OAXIS] has to reach the secular people, who we're trying to reach."
- 16:18 - "These kids have figured out how to make [?] softcore pornography with people in Spiderman suits." (This is presumably in reference to Elsagate content.)
- 17:42 - "We are going to win freaking awards for our programming!"
- 18:30 - "We must win back our future and like [Lance?] says, we are the stone that will slay the giants."
- 19:25 - Butch compares OAXIS to Facebook's beginning.
- 20:05 - "The giant that I have to slay, that we have to slay, is so huge, it is not going to want to be slayed. [...] "....when we cut the head off the dragon, it's going to be really exciting. When David cut the head off of the dragon, it was exciting, people were stunned. But then [Soloman ?] got jealous; there's going to be a backlash against this..."
- 20:50 - "This [OAXIS] is my assignment, this is my life's work as of this point."
People who were duped into funding this covertly Christian network, understandably want their money back after being played a fool. (archive) Too bad Butch seems to have taken the money and run, deleting any negative comments on his campaign page.
It has been claimed (archive) that OAXIS is collaborating with Daystar, who openly support the Bethel church, where the author of the tweet goes into their supposed beliefs and calls them a cult. The only evidence I can find of Hartman's "collaboration" with Daystar is an interview (archive) he and his family gave them on July 16, 2018, where they don't say anything they haven't already said. (Their part starts around 07:25)
Social Media
tl;dr: Another big-name cartoonist in children's entertainment turns out to be a complete freak. Discuss. (Also this is my first thread, pwease no bully)
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