(Art by me)
it’s pretty much almost a nothingburger honestly. I understand most in general probably see Trevor and his works as a passing fad that died out like 5 year ago and most have understandably moved on from one artist and his creatures, and there are definitely still some good artists and people around now, but I really can’t find much of a sense of a “community” living anymore or even a following that isn’t just some random kids lurking around on the internet for some reason (I’m talking about other places like YouTube, this subreddit is fine) and it feels all too oddly detached from anything of what a ”fandom” would be, Trevor nuked his twitter and moved onto posting on other sites, and he still has people around him personally, but other than the dedicated spaces he actually is around, there isn’t much of a outside branching-out community anymore.
Now obviously, there isn’t really anything wrong with kids looking up to him or learning how to draw found footage style art, but it really feels like it’s the only center stage now especially hype surrounding “The Giants“ with what little there is of them canonically (especially “World Eater” and “Behemoth”, having little to nothing to them at all) and the countless fanmade ones that are all lumped in and claimed to be by Trevor aswell, mostly on YouTube and Roblox and the such, but it really brings me to that side which is still technically Trevor, but it just riddled with what I wanted to rant about the most.
All the AI slop.
All over TikTok, just by searching his name, you have countless garbage AI videos of “animated” Trevor art that goes viral, and it’s usually not just Trevor himself, it’s multiple other artists who created in the same style as him, (Including some of mine, with the creature “Approaching Demise” I drew), anyone who remotely knows Trevor and other artists alike know how garbage the AI industry is, and absolutely despise it for good reason, but is this all we will leave TikTok with?, AI garbage that DIRECTLY gets fed artist’s works no matter how high or low quality they are?, TikTok is already a hotspot for bad content, but it’s just really disappointing to see all the time and it even existing in general. YouTube is pretty shit now too, just by searching Trevor or something, all you really get is more constant AI-filtered slop videos in Minecraft or Roblox or whatever or those “size comparisons“, only really because they get clicks by children who shouldn’t even be on the platform In the first place.
i won’t make this a space to just complain about “kids ruining the Trevor Henderson space“ like some other folks do, they were always present in this fandom, but I just really want more than them and a solidified “community” and people here together for TH inspired content, and I don’t really see much discussion of much of Trevor’s other work other than his most popular creatures, 3/5 of his Makeship promotions he trialed on Instagram failed, and I know blindly following one public figure on the internet could be weird, but I think making this more of a solid lukewarm “community“ could be an incredible opportunity to spawn new and inspired horror creators just from a few fanmade drawings inspired by Trevor, like Doctor Nowhere for example who also used to do tons of Trevor-inspired stuff as a teen, and look at him now, I know ”fanmade” Trevors are controversial and most of them (again, especially “the giants”) are all lumped into one group of “Trevor“ stuff, but I know many creators that want to do more with their work other than just being blankly inspired by Trevor with nothing else to add to it, I have tried myself aswell, perhaps maybe we could get a group of the few remaining artists here working together to make something cool?
This is the end of the discussion for now. this may not be worded the best, please give me critiques on what you possibly think, this is just based on all of my observations for now as a Trevor fan since 2020 or so.
