Hello everyone first of all I would send my deepest apologies to the first place winner of the Cheerleader Contest Oradine. And to my Co-Founder BabyButta. I know I've been away for a long time and I feel so disgraced for it. Life has really knocked me down these past months that I had to change a lot of things in my life financially and family wise. I tend to shut people out when I am depressed and take my anger out on others.

Now things are starting to look up for me and my family Thank You Jesus. My new job is keeping me real busy and another part time job too. The first place winner and I have spoken on her payment just giving me a little time this week. Now as far as the group I thought long and hard about deleting but in the end I just couldn't do it. Please give me a little more time and promise I will work hard to keep ChocolateBeauties alive. In the mean time ebony-chan will take over in my absence. I thank all chocolate lovers for the love and support. I'll be back soon.
This group has been active for 3 years, a lot of members, a lot of views, a lot of amazing art work of black women. There are so many great members, some you know not so great. We've been through thick and thin, and it's been a ride....

BabyButta I am one of the mods of the group, I've been holding the group down for a while now. I don't know if it has been a year yet but it was a interesting experience. The chocolate beauties group was amazing to me, I love that there was a group that had representation for black women. Now it's time for me to talk about the things behind the scenes with the group.

As you may or may not know. There was a contest, the chocolate beauties cheerleader contest. This contest has been in the works for some time, and right in the end of April 2014 we launched it. We got so many great entries, and so many responses to the contest. I worked hard to get everyone ready for the final count down. We found our winners, thought it was a hassle just to get the third place winners. After some voting, and the great backlash of it, we were able to settle things and get the winners together.

It took some time to get everyone their prizes, but the 2nd, and 3rd place winners were able to get their winnings. Except for out 1st place winner. She lives in a another country so it was hard to get her the winnings, but that wasn't the problem. The problem lied with our founder BIGBOY2480 I've been working with the 1st place winner trying to ensure her that she would get her prize, but the problem was I wasn't sure if she was going to get her money. I've been back and forth messaging the winner and BIGBOY2480 trying to tie the lines of communication.

There were problems with BIGBOY2480's computer, so he wasn't able to do any of the messaging himself, so I kept at it and did it for him. Then his computer got fix'd and he said he would have her money for her that following friday, that following friday passed and he still didn't get it to her, time passed by between me messaging the winner and me trying to get answers from BIGBOY2480 This has been going on for four months. Four months of not being able to pay someone their winnings is embarrassing. Four months of telling someone they will get their money, and no proof or results of that. Four months of doing it all on my own pretty much.

Today was the last straw. I receive a message from the 1st place winner demanding answers to her prize, I didn't even know what to tell her exactly, because this month of august I tried to contact BIGBOY2480 on facebook and he has never responded to me. He has been active this whole month though...So I told her the truth, I told her I didn't know what to tell her anymore, I just couldn't sit her and keep her hopes up. She deserved the truth. Bigboy has been avoiding paying her on purpose now. There's a difference between not having the money, but still contacting people about progress on getting the money, and Ignoring people about the money and remaining active on social networks.

I told the 1st place winner this:

"It just hurts me to know that you put so much effort in your artwork, for it not to receive it's rightful winnings. For that I apologize, If I could I would give you something to part with, but I am not financially stable at the very moment. If you must leave the group I understand. For I am too parting my ways as well, because I cannot hold the weight of knowing that someone who I supported by helping out with his group, would stoop so low and dodge me when i'm trying to do what's right.

Thank you for participating in our contest, and sticking around when things were messy. I don't know if he ever thought that, that money would have probably helped in you in many ways, but I honestly doubt that he had.

my sincerest apologies BabyButta
"------Sent today---Not full message-----

Do you know how hard that is? I was damn near crying when I wrote this. I am deeply sorry that this happened like that. This whole experience was suppose to be fun, and exciting. We were suppose to have more contests but never again....

So this is why I'm leaving the group, and why the group will probably no longer be here...

Is BIGBOY2480 a bad guy. No he's not, he's not a bad person at all. I just think he bit off a little more than he can chew and just sucks at taking care of business himself. This group isn't something you run alone though, you have people there supporting the group with you and doing the modding duties, however as the founder you have more control of what happens here, and as founder you have to make sure things fall in place, if somethings broken, fix it.

Things have been broken here for a while and I did the fixing on my own...Would I take charge and just be the founder. No. Not saying I wouldn't like to but I know what my financial situation is, I wouldn't be able to give you guys the contests and the prizes you wanted. All I can do is make the group pretty, set the rules, and manage things. That's what I know I can do for you guys.

It's sad to see it end this way, but all good things come to an end eventually....

I talked to Bigboy about all of this and he said he was going to make a message, and delete the group. Be on the look out for that....
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So...Can we not harass the mods on their own DA pages regarding the group? Can we please keep things regarding the group inside of the group? CAN WE NOT DO THIS??!---------> comments.deviantart.com/20/120…

I really appreciate when people want to see better things for the group, it makes me want to work harder, because everyone's ideas are welcomed, they may not be applied but they would be heard. Now what I don't like is when people MISS THE POINT OF THE GROUP and decide to take things into full drive by trying to establish some sort of hierarchy, by shitting on the mods completely. I honestly did not understand why this person went into my featured folder and asked questions based on the group. I tried to make sense of the situation for them in a calm matter, but things started to escalate out of control.

First things first, I may reflect this group, but I will not accept ANYONE to attack me on my own page. That's just how it is, and it should be like that for everyone.

So please if you need to contact me about something pertaining to the group, I will gladly accept private messages and sort things out on the low, but do not surprise me with issues (in this case it wasn't even an issue, it was just a fucking mindless rant that had nothing to do with our group honestly..)  on my page, just move it to the group and it'll be viewed.

Other than that have a good night.
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To the people who keep submitting digital art  to the photography folder, you guys are some real assholes you know that right?

- The mod who does the cleaning up around here is tired of your shit, get it together.

*edit*

Okay now I see why this is happening. PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT APART OF THIS GROUP ARE TRYING TO SUBMIT THINGS IN. the only way they were able to submit work was through the photography folder. Well guess what, if you are not apart of our group then you can't submit anything until you join, like seriously we can't just take random submissions any more because it made the group messy. and clutters too much. plus people who aren't apart of the group don't care about the groups rules too much so yeah. You gotta be a member now babes.
I just wanted to bring to everyone's attention that a lot of artwork have been removed, or declined for submission due to a the lack of acknowledgment of the groups requirements.

We require-

ART WORK OF BLACK WOMEN: Meaning we do not accept art work of black men, non black women, or creatures.

for example today I had to remove an image of JYNX -The pokemon- from our group because she is NOT a black woman and her being submitted in our group is racist as hell....Like seriously I almost choked on my tongue seeing it in our group.  (Mr. Popo from dragon ball Z is racist as hell too, just wanna get that out there.)

Now for our sub categories a lot of artwork as been declined for submission and removed, or moved to their fitting sub categories. However a lot of them will now be removed since it's a lot of work cleaning for folders and you guys are just as able to to read which folder fits best for your creations.

For example we got a hefty amount of digital artwork in the Photography folder. If you keep doing this then without warning your work will be removed, if you are given a warning and keep making the same error then you may be kicked from the group.

Digital art goes in the digital art bin.

Photography does in the Photography bin.

We even have a separate folder for 3D works so please, place your 3D CGI works into the correct bin where it belongs.

That's pretty much it.

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