Hello everyone.
This message is on the behalf of myself and nageko, the illustrator of Stella. In light of recent events, we see there is a general confusion, and we ourselves are confused. We hope that this message is able to clear some things up.
First of all, we would like to apologize. We (referring to Nageko and I) honestly are not certain as to what Stella is. We would like to believe Planty as we have, but there is a lot of proof mounting up in the opposite direction. We are still uncertain. But we feel that the community feels it is owed an apology, and we would like to go down the road that is not spiteful. We hope to clear up a few things in the paragraphs below.
In regards to Stella’s legitimacy, I cannot say Nageko nor I truly know what she is. When we joined the project, Planty told us she was real, and we took his word. He provided us with the same proof he provided the community and we believed him. Neither of us ever received a voicebank file for Stella, so we never came into direct contact with her. The project, as I will remind you, was for charity, so I don’t think there could have been any malicious intent in it.
So in a way, I suppose you could say nobody in the group was 100% sure of her status except for planty. However, this is not meant to single planty out. I’d like to remind you again that this project was for a charity, so it was not as if planty intended to rob everybody here. The intentions were some of the best I’ve ever seen and I applaud him.
Nageko and I have seen a large amount of proof against Stella’s legitimacy and right now we cannot ascertain for ourselves what is true and what is not.
We hope that nobody is bitter about this project. It appears to me that the project has been closed due to Planty appearing to leave the community according to his twitter account.
I understand that many of you feel duped, and if you feel like either Nageko or I have stolen something from you or hurt you, I encourage you to contact me, and I hope we can discuss the matter.
I hope that people do not becomes spiteful from this. I seriously discourage holding negative emotions against either Nageko, Planty, or Giraffe. They’ve done nothing wrong. If you’d like to send a nasty private message, please do not disturb any of them but rather contact me. I do not think they deserve to be berated for what has happened. As I have said above, hopefully we can discuss the matter and come to a resolution.
I would like to say on Nageko and my behalf that we sincerely apologize if you feel you have been hurt by us.
Something that I think we need to all take out of this experience however, is charity. We would be very happy if some of you would still consider donating to Americans for the Arts at the link below. They are an amazing charity that supports a great variety of arts and promote the creation of beautiful things.
My link
http://www.americansforthearts.org/Once more, we apologize, and hope there are no hard feelings!
Best Regards
heart★breaker and Nageko