Emily Artful

Emily Artful (born: ) is an American YouTuber, voice actress and artist specializing in watercolor and gouache paintings. Her videos are of her illustrating art over a time lapse that combine comedy, commentary, story times, and life advice with her art footage. 
==Content==
Her first video was called Sketchbook Storytime | Stuck in a Blizzard PT 1 | Self Portrait where she talked about the time she was stuck while a blizzard occured. Soon, she started to do art challengeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHfk-5YUBTQ, reviewing paintshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK9gk4ppP-Ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0yoly0Ssbg and speedpaint charactershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI4ybeSt8lM. She would also make tutorials on how to draw features like smoke and hairhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erDux2ZN7uY. Her video about drawing YouTubers garnered praise from Alex Meyershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1TtIvV_XJY and she has collaborated with AstroPughttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8s0t3VQ6Xs. She would also stream for charityhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqVJzB5BpOI. Though not a drama channel, she has commented on Nicole Arbourhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRsp-GrfmhU and Tiktok's art theft problemhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57yUuokLT0k. 
For Inktober 2016, she started a series called #InktoberTuesdayshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUa8skGsfiQ where on Tuesdays, she would draw various things. In the same year she talked about being involved in singinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHdlu4V0dQ4. She has also featured artwork from her fanbasehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxvcfH_timE. When Christina Grimmie was tragically murdered, she drew artwork to commemorate herhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhKk2qqCLZY. 
In 2017, Emily announced that she was becoming a mother, and a lot of her videos were related to motherhoodhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFIA0WmB9jghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLEWfZZ68kw, even revealing the baby's gender with artworkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g31lm9ispxk. Her family have been the topic of a lot of her art projects, such as one where she incorporated the story of her grandparents in a paintinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9tVXjmnwY0. She also once customized a Nintendo 64 controller.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-QwsoGzEFY
She is the host of the Behind the Canvashttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii2frTFxAIc podcast which so far has featured SuperRaeDizzle, Dangelowallacehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUKyCLbtQNM and Adamhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKfklvBzoEY and Stephhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuQHY94gK5Y from Doodle Date. 
As of 2022, Emily has expressed a desire to become a children's book illustrator and is writing one called "Mommy's Nest of Stars".https://twitter.com/EmilyArtful/status/1536528714455990272
==Controversy==
===CreepShow Art and her husband's stalking of Emily===
On the morning of June 7, 2021, an admin had revealed that CreepShow Art had been posing as an anon on a "lolcow" sitehttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3C_ozhXoAYgtyd?format=jpg&name=900x900, pretending to be her fans/haters and shit-talking herself and her friends sexyedwin, READY TO GLARE and Dangelowallace. Lolcow sites do keep your anonymity, but if you break their rules, they revoke your anonymity. 
Before this, she had claimed her stalker "Amy" had hacked her channel and also spoofed her IP address (the hacking was doubted as all this supposed hacker did was change her channel banner/icon to glitches, and nothing severe like attempting to delete the channel or leak personal information). Many people pointed out that the fact that Shannon saw the message of being banned was proof that it was her, as no one else would be able to see it. 
On the sites she had also called people "fat" and "retarded", and called others slurs such as "tranny". She also called Hopeless Peaches a "leech who sucks Creepshow's dick", Tobi a "Shannon 2.0" and mocked Sykkuno's skin issues despite claiming to be in favor of body positivity. Creepshow also bragged about her finances and her influence over YouTube and even went as far as to post her sibling 's own personal social media account to encourage people to harass them for being an 'SJW', while said sibling was in the ICUhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3OuLIiX0AAWLPt?format=jpg&name=mediumhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3OuLhRXoAEjseB?format=jpg&name=medium. Her doxxing her sibling was the final straw for the lolcow admins, who decided to revoke Shannon's anonymity, therefore exposing her for being a two-faced liar. 
With the leak of this information, Emily tweeted "This just needs to be said. This woman has tormented me for years and years. I know her because my ex-boyfriend dated her after me. I moved on but she/they continued to harass and stalk me" and attached a notes app post where she wrote "I am currently shaking and crying because CreepShow Art is FINALLY being exposed for the absolute terrible person she is. I have known Shannon for many years, even years before she started her YouTube channel. She has copied, stalked, harassed, and threatened me and my children's lives. She has used revenge porn against me. Tried to use my drug addiction against me. She has literally gotten me FIRED from multiple jobs, causing me to be homeless. This person has pushed me to the brink of suicide multiple times and then tried to blame it on a mutual friend when I finally caught her red handed by tracing her IP. 
Shannon, YOU are Amy. All the things you claimed "Amy" did to you are the things you did to me. Receipts to come, I've got years worth of them."
The twitter thread went on to read "The fact that she is saying her “stalker” did all of this to frame her is FUCKING HILARIOUS because she has literally been making fake “EmilyArtful” accounts ALL OVER THE INTERNET for YEARS to try and cancel me over the most random shit. What’s even MORE fucked up is she’d fabricate this drama and then make sock puppet accounts posing as a viewer “concerned” and then would send me the screenshots that SHE took. When she first started out doing YouTube she would deliberately copy my thumbnails or titles. Then message me under a sock puppet account saying, “omg creepshowart is copying you!” Egging me on to attack her. But guess what? I never did! I *very politely* asked her to maybe change her title but also said it’s her channel and she can do whatever she wants with it. She was very nice in response and agreed to change it (mind you I still had no idea who she was at this point) then I guess she went to lolcow to claim that “EmilyArtful is bullying small creators”. with zero proof bc, as I said, I was very polite. Then she screenshot that post. And SENT IT TO ME UNDER ANOTHER SOCK PUPPET. I didn’t put 2 and 2 together for a LONG time."
Emily stated that Shannon and her boyfriend have stalked her over 3 phones and 3 laptops and she is gathering the evidence. May fans remembered that her second video was about her ex boyfriend's ex girlfriend, who stalked her, and they have speculated that the "ex girlfriend" is CreepShow Art. Emily later clarified that it wasn't Shannon, but someone else.
On June 13, Emily uploaded a 2 hour long videohttps://youtu.be/Y3xHC4GwNrQ where she chronicled the abuse and harassment Shannon and her husband, Anthony Parker, had put her through, with evidence. This included threatening to release compromising images of her from when she was 15, threatening the lives of her children, mocking her for being an addict, making Twitter accounts with the sole intent of gaslighting her. They went as far as to get her fired from her job as receptionist at a restuarant, by claiming she was a prostitute and they were her "clients", and sending said comprimising images to them. Emily also revealed that Anthony had raped her while she was unconscious. Shannon had met him at their job (they worked the same shift at a movie theater), and they chose to voluntarily be homeless and live the van life, partially to fuel Anthony's dreams of being a wannabe rockstar (for his band Ayla, later renamed Meteor Shower), despite Shannon claiming in her earlier videos that being homeless was something that she was forced into and made her life miserable. Emily also noted that Shannon called her stalker "Amy", which sounded like her real name. Shannon had also claimed that "Amy" was someone she envied, that she dressed like a goth, and that she would sneak boys to her house through her window, which suspicously similar traits to Emily. Shannon had previously stated she wanted to keep her husband's name secret due to privacy reasons, but Emily's revelations made some theorize that it was to ensure her reputation wasn't stained by marrying a rapist. 
According to Emily, what started the feud between the two was when Anthony recorded a song which involved a segment of Shannon's singing, and she had insulted Shannon's voice, calling it "weak", which fueled them to hack her Facebook and release her personal information, despite her later begging them to leave her alone and apologizing. Anthony would also send Emily cryptic and threatening messages through SnapChat, and Emily would often get plagued by comments, usually from new/troll accounts, telling her that her art and videos were reminiscent of Creepshow Art and encouraging her to check her channel out. Even Anthony mocked her channel's progress, and a lot of troll accounts would echo this accusation to her. The comments were so numerous, she was able to differentiate between Shannon and Anthony's typing. 
On Lolcow, Emily was one of the creators Shannon shit-talked, with Shannon accusing her of being a neglectful mother and "trying to kill her children". On Instagram, Emily found out that Anthony and Shannon were dating due to their mutual following of one another, and she messaged Shannon there, asking if Anthony was the one behind everything. Shannon became defensive and denied any such involvement, but also said that Anthony "had a trollish sense of humor" and also claimed that someone had sent her nudes back to her, which drove to her to consider suicide, something that the duo had done to Emily. Even though Emily felt uneasy, she tried to play it safe and be nice to Shannon, as she feared worsethings would happen if she didn't.
Later, an account by the name of Britta Filter messaged Emily, claiming her brother was the one who stalked her and did things such as sending her employer the compromising imagery. However, due to this message coming after Emily had notified Shannon of her intent to get the police involved for the stalking, Emily could tell it was really Anthony trying to cover his tracks, and called him outhttps://youtu.be/Y3xHC4GwNrQ?t=6875. However, Britta denied this, ending the DM by wishing Emily well. 
Emily ended the video by saying that she wasn't scared of Shannon anymore and there was nothing she could do that could hurt her.
As soon as Emily had announced she was exposing Shannon and her husband, they both deleted all their social media (however Shannon' TikTok was still up). Many people such as Kat Blaque, JUST A ROBOT and HarleyTBS expressed their sympathy under the expose video, meanwhile Shannon's own video about her stalker was flooded with comments calling her out and mass disliked. Her latest video was similarly mass disliked and had comments from her former friends such as Nawnii stating they were ashamed of her.
Shannon has not responded to the video, though she has still been deleting videos that mention "Amy", even after the video dropped. A former classmate of Shannon's corroboratedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3ehYoyhQyQ Emily's story, saying that Shannon would brag to them about harassing Emily and gloated when Emily once said that she wanted to delete her channel. He also described Shannon and Anthony's relationship as toxic, despite Shannon insisting it wasn't.
Even family members of Creepshow Art corroborated Emily's claims. Shannon doxxed her own sibling, Jem, while they were in the Intensive Care Unit. Before, she made comments on Reddit claiming Jem called her a racist/white nationalist, claiming they would insult her body and caused her to have an eating disorder and said that they called Anthony abusive and hated him as he was a straight white male (despite Anthony being half Mexican). She also said that when she came out as bisexual, Jem (who's lesbian) said she wasn't "gay enough" to be part of the LGBT community. Jem alleged that Shannon and their parents were homophobic and hated them for being gay, but Shannon claimed her parents were nothing but supportive and paid for their bills to the point they went in debt. Shannon eventually cut Jem off when their father had a heart attack and was hospitalized for two months and they refused to visit him, despite their mother begging her to. Shannon also claimed that they both had a brother, Bobby, who sadly died, and Jem would claim that he was jealous of them. Jem was hospitalized in March 2021, and reached out to Shannon for support, only for Shannon to doxx them on to lolcow. However this action was what led the lolcow admins to revoke her anonymity. Even though Shannon had referred to Jem as a female and with she/her pronouns in the Reddit post, Jem is actually AFAB non binary and uses they/them pronouns.
After multiple people came out with their side of the story with Shannon, Jem decided to do the samehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4Suj4trNVM. They revealed that they caught Shannon in the act of spamming Emily Artful with hateful messages, and that they believed that Anthony was abusive and both of them were capable of doing harmful things. When they asked Shannon who the messages were supposed to be sent to, she claimed it was an ex of Anthony's. Jem gave their condolences to all the people affected by Shannon. In addition, Jem also revealed that Bobby was not their brother, but their cousin. 
Many former fans of Shannon did some research and found out more proof that Shannon was stalking Emily. In one video, Shannon had used the one of the burner accounts that was used to send Emily hateful messageshttps://twitter.com/EmilyArtful/status/1409740393567113217, and another Tiktok account that sent Emily threats was also shown to be used by Shannonhttps://twitter.com/EmilyArtful/status/1404192197461876737/photo/3.
On July 7, 2021, CreepShow Art reactivated her Instagram and left up her Instagram story where she insisted she was innocent. She attempted to get Gabbie Hanna to make a video about READY TO GLARE, but that failed. She then messaged Tipster, saying "you want me to talk to you after you commented on my husbands channel because of a proveably false rape accusation? Really??? You thought that was smart?"https://youtu.be/oPYXJoSaPDI?t=136. Tipster replied by telling her that he was no longer talking to her, but she went on to insult him further, which caused him to finally call her out for betraying all her friends and her attempt to get Gabbie to make a video on READY TO GLARE, before blocking her. Tipster made a video of what happened, which caused her husband to delete his channelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DOYgjI9d9w.
On August 22, 2021, Emily uploaded a part two to her video about Creepshow Art and her husband, where she included more evidence of the stalking.
===Response video ===
On December 31, 2021, Shannon uploaded a two-hour video titled "The Lies of Emily Artful (With Evidence)"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkgrQbCex0o where she responded to Emily's video, as well as controversies regarding Kevin Coulter, her sibling and other people. She also made a whole section on her Instagram dedicated to Emilyhttps://lolcow.farm/snow/src/1640972787475.jpg. However, this video was met with massive backlash, because despite Shannon claiming to debunk Emily's claims, she never did. In fact, the entire video is further proof that she indeed stalked Emily in an obsessive manner. She also kept bringing up bad things Emily did in the past despite them not being relevant to the controversy, and Emily having already apologized for them. She also claimed that Emily was forced in to camming by a former friend of hers.Some people didn't even consider the things Emily did "bad" becase they were just things like petty insults and mean jokes. The video quickly became infamous and was dislike bombed, with all the comments being angry at her and siding with Emily. Even other YouTubers like That Creepy Reading and THE VIEWERS VOICE called her out. Following the video, Shannon once again abandoned her channel and ran away.
Shannon also attached a google document with "evidence" which was nothing but old posts that had no relevance to the situation. She ended the video by saying "I am done. The video is over. I am not coming back to youtube. I have learned that the only people I can count on in my life are the people who actually know me, and that if a random person says I stalked them with no evidence, people I genuinely admired would just go with it. 
Two people who I barely know anymore, who literally have years of statements saying they hate me, came and cosigned this bullshit, meanwhile literally no one in my life, not one friend that I am actually close to came foward. And no one presented any evidence that holds up to even a little bit of speculation. Which is why every lawyer, police officer and pi Emily took this to immediately said she didn’t have a case. Meanwhile every lawyer I went to said I did, and was eager to pursue this. 
Tipster said that if I was able to prove that I didn’t actually stalk Emily, that he would apologize to me. And to that I say fuck you, you absolutely disgusting person. You maliciously attacked my husband because you couldn’t scroll down on Emily’s instagram and find the multiple posts that debunk her story. There is a reason your content stays getting fewer views than everyone else in the youtube commentary community, and that’s because it’s terrible, lazy, and reductive. You should rename your channel second hand news, since you can’t be fucked to actually research anything before opening your ugly mouth. You aren’t a reporter, you are a joke. Just know that you are a terrible person, truly,, and you are just as bad as Emily, if not worse for supporting a mob with no evidence while stating to be a journalist. 
To the people who reached out and said I don’t care if you did it, I still love your content, you’re fucking weird. That’s not comforting. To the people who told me to kill myself, you almost got what you wanted. To everyone else, go touch some fucking grass."
=====Contradictions=====
In Shannon's response video, she made a lot of contradictions that both commenters and other YouTubers pointed out:
*Shannon claimed that she never stalked Emily, yet she brought up journal entries, old Twitter accounts, old Facebook accounts, old MySpace accounts and old DeviantArt accounts from when Emily was thirteen years old. She also accidentally blurted that she knew what colors the wallpaper was at Emily's house.
*Shannon also claimed "Amy", her stalker, was real and not Emily. To prove this she showed screenshots of her emailing someone named Amy, and referring to them by that name. But in her community post she says Amy was a psuedonym she invented to keep her real name secrethttps://lolcow.farm/snow/src/1641009775422.jpeg.
*Shannon claimed to have called the police about the issue but never showed a police reporthttps://lolcow.farm/snow/src/1640980407045.png. She also claimed to have gotten law enforcement involved and said that they said she had a case, but some theorize that either Shannon is lying, or the person she talked to was a fraud, lied to her, or just said on purpose to make sure she fell in her face and looked stupid in public, because a proper lawyer would tell her to take the matter to court and not post a video which seemed to (unintentionally) prove Emily as in the right. Though as AugieRFC went over her videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kns39t2L-SE&list=PLTYZCV7ytTOZaLwsDOVcsP7OpcqUcYGrp, Emily Artful appaeared in the chat and revealed that Shannon's lawyer has spoken to hershttps://lolcow.farm/snow/src/1640981792612.png. 
*Shannon got angry at her former friends for not defending her but earlier she said that they shouldn't defend her.
*Shannon said that Amy had made a lot of posts that were hateful towards fat people and women, but Shannon herself had made racist, homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic and other bigoted statements on lolcow.
=== Emily's response to Shannon ===
Emily would announce a response to the video. She announced on January 10, 2021, she was finished with the script and on February 9, 2022, she finally uploaded the videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGTZqbwN-jI.
== Partnerships ==
Emily was part of artezaofficial's Fuel Your Creativity program.https://twitter.com/EmilyArtful/status/1542855934149550080
== Personal life ==
Emily is a mother of two boys. She is also part latino but mostly white.https://twitter.com/EmilyArtful/status/1267471397057593350
In late 2020, she was diagnosed with ADHD.https://twitter.com/EmilyArtful/status/1419861178646417411 She has a dog, Osa, that serves as an emotional support animal due to her trauma with Anthony.https://twitter.com/EmilyArtful/status/1231788598418169856/photo/1
Emily is 5'2.https://youtu.be/FGTZqbwN-jI?t=2002
=== Legal issues ===
In 2013, Emily was charged with a DUI due to driving under the influence.https://lolcow.farm/snow/src/1641246306956.png On January 21, 2022, Emily tweeted that she received confirmation that the letter sent to her by Shannon was from an actual law firm.https://twitter.com/EmilyArtful/status/1484536796084150275 She refused to comply to Shannon's demands.
==Trivia==
*She has been drawing since she was in 7th grade.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIQrmAjjMQk
*She was bullied severely in school.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMWO_GkUS6c
*She is a skilled singer, and she would sing for Anthony's band in the past.
*She is a fan of the Netflix animated musical .https://twitter.com/EmilyArtful/status/1428928516616249348?s=19
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