Hello.
My name is Oleg Klishin, also known online as Phoenix849. I know that I'm doing wrong starting an online holy war. But my patience is up, so I wanted to share with you some info about following individual.
The subject is Valery Kim currently living in Russia, St. Petersburg.
His known online handles and nicknames are:
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Valery Kim- velerykimart / valerykimart_pub
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Thu / onethu
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Paleskins- starscream_dev (twitch)
- venusianb (email)
- Deviance (on
http://xgm.guru/ forums)
- deviance15 (skype)
He is best known for having a bunch of golden cups on pixeljoint (for best art of the month), and creating current header of Pixel Dailies community on twitter.
Besides that, subject has been spotted in following activities, more than once:
1. Constantly verbally harassing people in russian pixel communities, namely including Phoenix849 (that's me), Arcade Hero, Dehtyar, HUG and many others. Using a lot of curse words, shit talking, slander, defamation, racist, sexist, homophobic jokes and much more.
2. Streaming pixel art on twitch with the same attitude: calling names, insulting his followers and watchers, publicly insulting some known pixel artists in russian community (see pt. 1) and much more.
3. Following statements about artists both beginner and long-time practicing: "you are shit and you art art is shitty", "learn how to draw shithead".
4. Behaving like attention whore on his vk.com community: "You want pixel stream today?", "Guess not enough of you want it, fuck you all, idiots". He is unable to keep his word and meet his own terms after promising something. Afterwards he shows disdain and disrespect towards his followers instead of apologizing.
5. Statements towards pixeljoint: "Time to bend over PJ", "Time to fuck PJ, golden cup is mine!", "Fuck Fool (
aka Yuri Gusev) for posting this, I wanted the first place this month".
6. Public statements towards his clients for being idiots and too poor for his talent, including his Twitch stream and pixel-themed public chat in Skype.
7. Taking upfont payment for a job and never completing it.
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Taking upfront payment from a client on pixeljoint and disappearing (01 March 2014):
http://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=17155&PID=183534#183534http://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=13078&PID=183535#183535==================================================
Publicly insulting artist known as Arcade Hero by renaming his own public community on vk.com (known as "Russian Facebook") to "Arcade Gnida" for 1232 followers. Also desecrating original art by Arcade Hero (who I dare to call a friend of mine). Gnida/Гнида translates from Russian like nit, crum or moron (1 April 2016):
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Taking my personal photo (Oleg Klishin aka Phoenix849) and drawing a penis over my face while publicly streaming this on twitch for 8 viewers. Then posting this on his community with the words "stream results" for 1273 followers (21 May 2016):
Proof pic 1Proof pic 2A few hours later on twitter. He doesn't hold himself a bit responsible for his deeds and continues to publicly insult me:
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His attitude towards fellow artists and communities (namely pixeljoint). Also, he's clever enough to delete his threats and insults afterwards, so I just found a few.
On public russian chat (36 people) about Fool (
aka Yuri Gusev):
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It's not the first and not the last time he's doing something similar. He is
perfectly aware of what he is doing and he has always been that way since I first met him online
2 or 3 years ago. He continues to behave like this and calls those "jokes", justifying it for being bored. Most people somehow connected with russian pixel art communities know this, but they don't oppose him fearing they would be publicly mocked afterwards. He has also earned his reputation for making art liked by broad audience and for being a public asshole simultaneously, that brings him a lot of younger watchers and followers who are hungry for drama and edgy personality. Overral, he is behaving like The One and The Only God of pixel art, and others being not worthy. His two-faced behaviour for being "professional" and "caring about his reputation" on english-speaking internet segment contradicts a lot with what he really is.
Closing thoughts. It's none of my business if you are going to pay him money. I just wanted to finally make public what kind of person he is. So if you are considering hiring him, think does all of the above sound "professional" to you? Your call.
P.S.: Yes, I know I'm wrong for posting this, because I'm taking this as a personal offence. I will get over knowing someone's directly insulting me on the internet. But he never personally approached me with any claims on my account, preferring to publicly humiliate me on the web with no reason. So I don't know what's his problem with me. He is just behaving like this with many people I know and never holds himself responsible for his words and actions.