Got some shit on NaomiRomeroArt/Anxiety Fox from ~Japanese Furries~ on Line.
TLDR version, having 20k+ followers means rules don't apply and you can rig a lottery if you beg the day before.
Mochiri Works announces commissions for new fursuits, including 2 slots for people to submit their own
original designs. This is the first time she's accepted designs from other people on a global scale, so obviously a lot of people are planning to apply.
Tweet archive:
https://archive.fo/RBk0l
She adds a tweet (3rd one down on the archive) to clearly indicate she cannot make characters based on copyright, which she's elaborated on the last time she opened commissions clearly stating:
・Characters that resemble anime characters will not be accepted.
Furaffinity archive:
https://archive.fo/CoCHV
This is mostly due to Japan having a huge faux par about copyrights and doujin artists etc. getting into shit for it. In Mochiri's defence she genuinely might not have realized as she's never expressed an interest in anime. Naomi may very well have just pulled the wool over her eyes.
The day before the commissions are due to open Naomi Romero visits Mochiri in person and makes purchases from her booth at Design Fes.
Twitter:
https://archive.is/fAygi
Commissions open and Mochiri is flooded with applications, she confirms that the winners will be chosen by
lottery.
Same link as before scroll down:
https://archive.fo/RBk0l
The winners are chosen and Naomi is one of the winners, no surprise there. She creates an account for her new fursuit, one named Hero that is the spitting image of her furry art of Deku from Boku no Hero Academia. Not even subtle, a straight up copyright character. So not only does she manage to "win" a lottery against hundreds of other applicants, but her character is accepted despite being against Mochiri's terms and conditions.
Account:
https://archive.is/EU9Bi
Proof she claims the character is Deku and this isn't a co-incidence:
https://archive.is/QwUwy
Japanese users start flipping their shit at how she gets to break the rules, mostly among themselves but a few take it to her newly created fursuit account. Unfortunately most of them got suspended and the kemono_hero account even got suspended for a short while. There was another person today who I managed to archive when I thought "shit i should probably cap this" but I actually didn't expect it to keep going.
https://archive.is/DzLwf
I'm not gonna bother posting the Line caps over them being upset and discussing it because there's the hard facts, but some of them are threatening to throw stuff over the suit if they see it at a con and lots of racist foreigner weeaboo comments. Fun times.
Edit: I should point out that it's not even salt over not getting a slot, some of the people involved actually own Mochiri suits (or worse, KLine).