Shadman...
I'm new to his thread here but I can advocate second hand experience with this child/incestral lunatic
I was among his discord server over 2 summers ago and God...the entire server was full of dimwitted asses who tried to more less play "Pin The Hentai on Shad" as far as pornography competition goes. Even some of the other high industry R34 artists was on there
Luckily the Loli shit was banned on his server due to the ToS of Discord, but nonetheless I'm still appalled to this day in how he's not thrown off into the FBI's hands by now
I think the reason why Shad's been able to skate by for so long is because he's just smart enough to not cross the line of no return. Loli and Shota are federally legal in the United States as long as it's obviously fake and not meant to be a depiction of an actual child. Some states do have state laws that ban it specifically or be used to add more charges if found with the real deal, but Shad likely doesn't live in one of those states.
Closest he came to getting in trouble for real was when he did those drawings of real life kids in a cartoon style. Once the notion of the law getting involved was brought up, he quickly deleted the works and pleaded ignorance.
Shad's a sick fuck, but he's slightly smarter and in more self-control than your average pedo.
To this day, we don't fully know for sure what he actually looks like. The one unmasked photo of him that circulated around hasn't been fully verified as actually being him.
Again, he's also smart enough to cloak a lot of his degeneracy in irony and edgy shock humor so it becomes trickier to tell what's actually him and what's part of his dark edgy persona.
He's even admitted that not everything he draws is stuff he's into and that some things he actually dislikes but drew them as commissions in the early days of his site.
There's only a handful of things that we know for sure he's actually into because he keeps on drawing them even when he's not doing requests, being extra edgy, or cashing in on memes.
I think Shad is one of those guys who might not be a full-blown clinical pedophile but does have enough tendencies to border it. Sort of like the difference between a schizotypical personality and a full-fledged schizophrenic.
TL;DR-Shad's a degenerate but he's got just enough self-control to avoid going to prison