Butch Hartman

Elmer Earl "Butch" "I created your childhood" Hartman IV is a once fairly popular but now washed-up and disgraced cartoonist best known for his work on Originally famous for his work on cartoon shows like and he also has a YouTube channel with over 870,000 subscribers as of January 2024.Butch Hartman, YouTube However, declining interest in his shows (his newest show received terrible reviewsBunsen Is a Beast, IMDB while The Fairly OddParents is infamous for its seasonal decline)Seasonal Rot / The Fairly OddParents!, TV Tropes on top of a number of scandals (detailed below) have derailed his reputation. Hartman and his wife are both born-again Christians, and they have recently created a series called The Garden for the Christian streaming service PureFlix.Former Nickelodeon kids show creator launches 'The Garden' series to help viewers learn Bible lessons, Jeannie Ortega Law, The Christian Post 2 April 2023
==The OAXIS scam==
In June 2018, Hartman released a Kickstarter for "OAXIS Entertainment". It promised a "family-friendly" streaming service that would allow users to upload their own content.OAXIS Entertainment, Kickstarter After raising over $268,000, a presentation was leaked in which Hartman said that OAXIS would be a Christian network, something that wasn't mentioned on the original Kickstarter.Butch Hartman OAXIS Streaming Service Controversy, Know Your Meme Over years later, the OAXIS website still has nothing to show, with the website still saying "Streaming service coming soon".OAXIS Entertainment Due to the deceptive way it was marketed and nothing being accomplished with all the money, OAXIS is widely considered to be a scam.What the HELL is Oaxis? (come on Butch...$270,000 for this mess?), Saberspark, YouTube
==Praying away autism==
Hartman is a firm believer in the healing power of prayer and has claimed that praying cured his wife's fibromyalgia. He and his wife started a website that was focused on the supposed healing powers of prayer, which included such gems as autism supposedly being "cured" by prayer.Why is Fairly Odd Parents’ Butch Hartman controversial now?, Olivia Richman, win.gg 7 September 2022
==Tracing and art theft==
Hartman has been accused multiple times of tracing other people's artwork for commissions without the original artists' permission, which is a form of plagiarism.'Fairly Odd Parents' creator accused of plagiarizing from Japanese Twitter artist for commissions, Steven Asarch, Business Insider 22 February 2021 He has also been accused of not paying an animator he commissioned, only paying up after said animator made a video with receipts saying what happened.Ripping People Off in The Fairly Oddparents Style, The Ink Tank, YouTube (archived from the original 14 June 2022)
==Other facts==
*Hartmann was on The Match Game Hollywood Squares Hour back in 1984, and won three thousand dollars during his appearance.Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour (#45): January 3, 1984 (First episode of 1984)
*The character of Dr. Elmer Hartman on Family Guy is named after Butch, who is good friends with Seth McFarlane.Elmer Hartman
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