LupisVulpes

Emily Arant (born: ), better known online as LupisVulpes, is an American YouTube animator and artist. She mainly uploads animation memes, MAPs, art, vlogs, and music videos.
==History==
LupisVulpes has created her own account on December 23, 2009, and her first upload was "Maya, Teffra, and star art!". On February 15, 2010, she uploaded her very first animation called "First Wolf Running Cycle". During this time, she produced few fan-made videos of novel series, Warriors, and then primarily produces speedpaints, artworks, original animations, and animation memes.
In 2013, she exponentially earned views in this year and become quite successful, reasonably of her "Oh Queen Paint!" original animation. Normally in this year, she uploads a lot of Multi-Animator-Project parts, especially at the following year, 2014.
In 2014, she uploaded the first pilot episode of her new animated series, Audience!, collaborating with ChaoticCanineCulture, producing music for Audience! The series has since been discontinued and cancelled.
===Transgender views controversy===
In 2020, Mio, a transgender, commissioned LupisVulpes on Discord for a drawing that included a transgender flag.https://imgur.com/a/dBz0fK6 On June 5, LupisVulpes posted,"[...] I wanted to say thank you for commissioning me- I am really excited to get to draw Arcade for you! It's been so long it feels like!! I can provide the clothes and earrings you mentioned, no prob- but, I'm not able to include the trans flag. I'm sorry I didn't make it clearer that I don't do certain things related to causes or sexual things in my art, but,  I hope you can understand, but if not I can give you your money back for sure. Otherwise- I'm looking forward to drawing Arcade again!"She quickly added:"If you want you can add the flag after the drawing is done, the picture is all yours to do with what you want to of course!"Mio messaged Jasper, a transgender who was once a friend of LupisVulpes, regarding the situation. On June 6, Jasper confronted LupisVulpes on the "use of pride flags in [her] work", proclaiming that "it is shocking and a little hurtful that [she sees] pride flags as anything sexual".https://archive.ph/o94Ss/26da44c538841aa408fd5c19afcc171aece31de8.png LupisVulpes responded detailing her Christian beliefs and love for everyone, an apology for "misspeaking", and a request to Jasper to cease gossiping about her:"Hey jasp, thank you for sharing your heart with me on this matter I know and understand how important it is to you and the rest of my friends on here. If i'm honest it's a little hurtful to think people feel compelled to talk about me behind my back just for living and doing art the way I choose to. As a follower of Jesus, I love everyone because God is love. I love you and the others too- not because you guys are following me but because you all are important human beings who deserve to be loved, understood and respected. I respect you and the others and how they want to live their life and I care deeply for you guys and I would not keep you or the others from living the way you choose to. But I would hope that my choices would be respected too for what I feel comfortable doing, I have set boundaries for what I want to draw and I felt I was ok in doing so. I understand I think I misspoke in saying the sexual thing and I don't see you guys as sexual people or anything crazy like that. So i'm sorry for saying the wrong thing and offending you, that is absolutely not my intention. You and I have been friends for years and I hope you understand my heart on the matter. I know this message will probably be spread around too, which is fine but I'd appreciate if you didn't join others in gossip about me.https://archive.ph/o94Ss/a86fa0443f95e947fa38176a06f814af49f5686b.png"On June 7, Mio apologized LupisVulpes for messaging Jasper about the situation:"Hey, I just wanted to give you an apology for messaging jasper on the matter, I didn't message jasper to gossip or start anything at all and I'm sorry if it came off that way [...] I'm really sorry if it came off as talking bad or gossiping about you I take responsibility for messaging jasp without thinking about it more deeply and should've asked you myself as a commissioner, I'm real sorry about that! Just know I have nothing against you or think of you badly in any way !"LupisVulpes forgave Mio the next day:"Hey Mio. Thank you for coming to me about this and apologizing, I appreciate you sharing and if you've ever experienced something similar- you know how hurtful it can be. I believe it's important to be understanding of one another and I would never attack or judge anyone who comes to my sites related to beliefs or their identity or anything else. Thanks again and I hope you have a good day."She also announced she was "going to close [her] private messaging for a bit" because she was "getting a lot of private messages from many people each day and it's been distracting [her] from working", but that it wasn't about Mio.
On August 19, 2020, however, Mio (@DurianChop on Twitter) denounced LupisVulpes and posted the screenshots of their Discord conversation on Twitter.https://web.archive.org/web/20200823164142/https://twitter.com/DurianChop/status/1296219257601024001 On August 20, Jasper (@kingjaspy on Twitter) also denounced LupisVulpes, claiming that "the things she said took a big toll on [Jasper's] mental health."https://archive.ph/o94Ss#selection-3001.122-3001.177 Many other accusations against LupisVulpes have been made during this time.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xTIqQS4knsxu2_e3NZdVioLpxkRcV8t9MmdSPMpECyA/edit?usp=sharing
On August 30, 2020, LupisVulpes made a response video on her channel.https://youtu.be/f9qPnzs9omc In the video, she asserted her love for all of her viewers, "even those who hate [her] and viciously attack [her]," and that she hopes they "all find joy and peace." She explained her Christian beliefs:"My bottom line is: my goal in saying this is not to please people, obviously. Nothing I say can do that. My goal is to lay my life and my business down for Christ. I do what I do because I believe it's what God wants me to do, and I say what I say because I want to honor Him. If anything I say can help someone realize how special they are and how much God loves them, then it's worth it to me to lose all that I have."On October of that same year, LupisVulpes had an interview on CBN News, where the incident was discussed.https://youtu.be/4_TAfYTa2p8https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2020/october/a-costly-decision-christian-animator-refuses-to-draw-a-trans-flag Pastor Lance Bacon, mentor to LupisVulpes at Regent University, testified that "she didn't ask 'how might I find legal representation, what can I do about the income, protecting my rights' but instead she said - 'how can I make sure I respond as a Christian and that I use this opportunity to let God develop me and to show Christian love?'" 
LupisVulpes announces in the interview that she will continue going to Regent "until the Lord closes that door," and "she believes the Lord will use the campaign for His purpose." She also stated her willingness to lose her entire business "if this could have helped one person to find Christ."
She has yet to make another video on her Youtube channel since then, and she has been blacklisted from the animation community.
==References==
Category:Animation YouTubers
Category:Art YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2009