Posted on 10/09/2020 6:59:24 AM PDT by Red Badger
A hate campaign has destroyed yet another business. But this time, it's a Regent University student's successful animation work that had paid for her education.
Ever since she's been able to hold a crayon, art has been Emily Arunt's passion. "At age 11, I saw people drawing online and animating online," she said. "I was just instantly [drawn] – I want to do that too."
That was 11 years ago. Since then, Arant has made a name for herself as Lupis Vulpes, a top animator known for her eye-popping animal characters and more than 200,000 YouTube subscribers.
Her business proved so successful that she used it to pay for college. So far, she's covered her tuition, room, and board for her first year and the fall semester of her sophomore year.
"I know it's just the Lord and He's blessed it so much," said Arunt.
But she's also known for some time that her public testimony is risky. On her Twitter bio, she openly identifies as a "follower of Jesus Christ."
"I kind of stood out in this community like a sore thumb because I love Christ and I didn't draw the same things that other people would draw," she explained.
The hammer came down this summer when she refused two customer requests.
The first commissioned her to draw a character and later asked that she include the flag for the transgender movement.
"I told them I don't feel comfortable doing that and I'm a Christian," she said.
Then Arunt says another customer insisted that she donate money towards and promote the organization, Black Lives Matter.
"They wanted me to earn a bunch of money for the organization as well as advertise for it but it just felt weird and manipulative so I wasn't going to do it."
That's when Arunt's world suddenly came crashing down. It happened as she was driving to Regent for the fall semester. "My phone started to blow up with messages and alerts from people," she said.
The animation community had quickly turned on her, beginning what's known as an "official callout," namely for what it labeled as her "transphobic and homophobic views."
It led to a six-page online document complete with links to screenshots and social media posts detailing her so-called crimes.
Multiple videos picked apart what she had done as well as her video response to critics, in which she didn't directly address their allegations but instead, focused on sharing the Gospel.
Pastor Lance Bacon teaches at Regent University and has become a mentor to Arunt. He admires how she's responded and the questions she's asked him.
"I was so very blessed by the fact 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?'" he said.
Despite demands from her online critics, Arunt will not apologize. So, the animation community that used to rave over and commission her work has now black-listed it.
"As far as my business I believe it's destroyed," she said. But Arant is not giving up on her education.
"The Lord has – He told me to go to Regent so I'm going to continue to go to Regent until the Lord closes that door," she explained.
And she believes he will use the hate campaign for his purposes.
"It looks like from the outside that I've lost but I really think that this has been a victory for the Lord. If this could have helped one person to find Christ then it's worth it to me to lose my whole business – and I really mean that," she said.
If you want to show your support for Emily Arunt and her new venture, Chapter Two Creations, you can follow her on Facebook, Etsy, and Instagram.
A truly tragic tale of our times.
God gave her this talent and passion for animation. He’ll honor her faithfulness with a better position to share her work and faith.
Satan is not behind, but at the forefront of the party that booed God in its convention, and is demanding religious tests for holding office in order to block Christians.
Most honorable, decent people confront such a challenge in their lives. She may not realize it now while she in the midst of her trial, but she will evolve from this a stronger, more successful, happier person. Better for sure than her vile tormenters.
God has another plan for her. He always does.
The customer is always right.
In the early 1920s in Russia, there were so many people wishing they had shot bolsheviks when they had a chance three or four years before. When they were just bullies, and rabble, menacing their fellow citizens.
Lots of Germans looked back and thought how easy it would have been to take care of Hitler in 1930.
The enemy does want us dead, they just can’t get away with it yet. NEVER give up the 2nd amendment.
“Then Arunt says another customer insisted that she donate money towards and promote the organization, Black Lives Matter.”
“They wanted me to earn a bunch of money for the organization as well as advertise for it but it just felt weird and manipulative so I wasn’t going to do it.”
Gee...sounds like Mafia
That would be relevant if they were customers. Since she declined the work for the trans person, they were not customers. Now if she agreed to work for them and then refused to do as they asked, you might have a point. As for BLM, that a straight up attempt at extortion.
Sounds to me like she has grounds to file a criminal complaint for extortion.
Yes, these actions are demonic.
It smacks of a deliberate set-up......................
As always, with the left, tolerance is a one-way street.
That’s slavery.
Anyone that won't kneel to their agenda must be destroyed.
They look for Christians to set up.
Notice they never do it to muslims?
I noticed.
I bet “Your Muslim Bakery” in Oakland Ca never gets asked to bake a cake for a gay wedding...................
The customer is not always right.
The customer always has a choice. Approaching a business and demanding they do something they don’t do, doesn’t make them right.
LOL!.......................
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