An official ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ artist is banned from the series subreddit following controversy

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Moderators from the official Five Nights at Freddy‘s subreddit have announced that an official artist for the series has been banned. This comes due to multiple allegations of transphobic comments, fan fiction with pedophilic undertones, and grooming allegations. This controversy is so bad that the franchise’s creator, Scott Cawthon released a short statement on the situation.

A very long statement was released by the r/fivenightsatfreddys subreddit’s head moderator u/Springpopo, which featured extensive details on the artist who goes by the name of LadyFiszi. It also shared links with timestamps to what this artist has said and done online.

LadyFizi is an official artist for the Five Nights At Freddy’s series who drew the cover art for multiple Five Nights at Freddy’s books, graphic novels, and assets in a few FNAF games. Before working on Five Nights at Freddy’s, they were a popular FNAF fan artist and fan fanfiction writer, with works posted across Reddit and DeviantArt. Unfortunately, the artist was accused of multiple problematic actions online which eventually lead to the ban.

The artist has a history of posting transphobic comments and has written fan fiction about the purple guy with pedophilic undertones. There were also accusations of grooming, which the artist denied aggressively multiple times through a variety of statements. Other allegations made against LadyFiszi include tracing, ableism comments, and other negative and problematic interactions with the community.

While the statement was met with support, there are a handful of LadyFiszi supporters who used horror author, Stephen King as an argument, claiming that he wrote grotesque content involving kids in his novel IT. However, what makes King and this fan