Buzzfeed: Ren & Stimpy Creator Preyed on Underage Girls

[mastermind]

Robyn Byrd thought her plan was working when the letter from her hero arrived in the mail. It was 1994, and the 13-year-old had sent the creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show a video of herself talking about her drawings and the animation career she envisioned; she thought if she got the attention of the studio behind the hit Nickelodeon show, she might get a job there someday. John Kricfalusi’s effusive letter, Byrd said, seemed like the first step toward her dream.

She could hardly believe he’d responded. “I had built up these characters and this mythos of Ren & Stimpy in my head,” Byrd, now 37, told BuzzFeed News. “It was exciting.”

Soon, she said, she began receiving boxes of toys and art supplies from 39-year-old Kricfalusi, better known as John K. He helped her get her first AOL account, through which he convinced her he could help her become a great artist. He visited her at the trailer park where she lived in Tucson, Arizona. “I thought I was still his little cute friend,” she said. And then, when she was still in 11th grade, he flew her to Los Angeles to show her his studio and talk about her future. She said that on the same trip, in a room with a sliding glass door that led to his pool, he touched her genitals through her pajamas as she lay frozen on a blanket he’d placed on the floor. She was 16.

In the summer of 1997, before her senior year of high school, he flew her to Los Angeles again, where Byrd had an internship at Spumco, Kricfalusi’s studio, and lived with him as his 16-year-old girlfriend and intern. After finishing her senior year in Tucson, the tiny, dark-haired girl moved in with Kricfalusi permanently at age 17. She told herself that Kricfalusi was helping to launch her career; in the end, she fled animation to get away from him.

On Oct. 19, 2004, when Rice was working at Disney, 49-year-old Kricfalusi contacted Rice via her work email. He wrote that he’d been resentful, as a 41-year-old man, of the classmate Rice liked when she was 15. “You used to make me very jealous … and you would never admit you liked me in a romantic way.” At the end of that email, he begged her to be in a relationship with him, writing, “I would worship you and bve [sic] your best partner and friend and everything that would be good to be.”

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

i'm not saiyan that at 17 you should have thought 'maybe this isn't right '

but ya

 

[Blankthawtz]

 

[Norrin Radd]

The creator of Ren & Stimpy is fukked up? Ya don't say

 

[BlackMajik]

As disturbing as that show is how could anyone be surprised lol

 

[Ain't That Something]

The creator of Ren & Stimpy is fukked up? Ya don't say

This. Don't know how motherfukker watched that shyt

 

[My Girl is Bow Legged]

as homoerotic as that show was I'm more surprised he was messing with girls

 

[BlackMajik]

 

[Kingshango]

Yeah, when someone creates this, that person ain't exactly right in the head.

 

[HipHopStan]

The creator of Ren & Stimpy is fukked up? Ya don't say

 

[Family Lives Matter]

Can't say I'm shocked

 

[patscorpio]

so for some reason all i can do is go lol..i still cant understand how this shyt got aired on nick and kids (like me) were allowed to watch it

 

[HipHopStan]

so for some reason all i can do is go lol..i still cant understand how this shyt got aired on nick and kids (like me) were allowed to watch it

Not to mention ALL OF THE KIDS MERCHANDISE!!!!!

For the record, yes, that is my Ren and Stimpy dolls and I have no idea why I still have them. They were in my old toy box.

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

you iiiiidiot

 

[King Static X]

This is not surprising but still .