The LavenderTowne Hazbin Hotel Redesign Controversy Explained

Recently there’s been a bit of uproar surrounding a hazbin hotel redesign controversy. I’ll break it down.

So the other day youtuber lavendertowne did a video discussing the hazbin casts designs and making her own redesigns of them. The video was poorly researched and contained a bunch of mistakes, like when she coloured over fanart thinking that it was official. The biggest issue was at the end where she showed her redesigns and to put it lightly, people despised them.

Lavender later made a comment apologising saying that she hadn’t actually watched the entire show yet, so to most people it just reaffirmed that the video was made to cash in on the show’s popularity.

Eventually lavender took the video down and did an apology on twitter, saying she’ll do more research and make a second version later.

Overall the video was a disaster and it’s good she apologised, but she should’ve kept the video up. I had an entire script written about the video and redesigns as a whole, but i forgot to download the video and now it’s lost media. I couldn’t find a reupload online, so if any of you have it downloaded please send me it on tiktok instagram or youtube and you’ll have my eternal thanks.

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[xXRavening_ZwodderXx]

Props to her for owning up and fixing her mistakes without being rude

[kaibird]

I normally like Lavender’s art— it’s pretty clear her designs were EXTREMELY rushed. Her art is usually better than what was shown, and the fact that a lot of basic mistakes were made just affirms that it was a grab for attention and not an actual redesign attempt. I’ve seen projects on twitter, tumblr, and tiktok that do a much better job at redesigns by lesser known artists. Needless to say, it’s disappointing.

[Yellowbeing]

She literally took the spider and the deer out of Angel and Alastor-

[icemagiciangh]

I watched the video. Lavender is sweet, and in her dialogue tried to affirm that she wasn’t trying to stir drama, but she didn’t really know about the characters, and therefore removed key elements of their designs (i.e.- Alastor’s antlers, 1930’s mic, and ears). It’s usually interesting to see redesigns for different styles, but definitely do research first. The one thing I liked is the idea of variety in characters’ body types. (Not for Vaggie because her design needs to be thin for her previous Exorcist purpose, or Charlie due to how tall Lilith is, of course). If we do get any new, long-standing characters, though, it would be cool for them to have varying body types.

[Lachel]

Okay, I like Lavendertowne, but these redesigns are awful! What happened to Vaggie 😭

[Ostralucia]

o. usually I love lavendertowne’s art but its really clear she didn’t spend as much time on this as her other videos. soo glad she handled this really maturely

[iclynnx]

I can see why people didn't like the redesigns. They're dull, colorless and don't have their unique traits. There's lore details to why Alastor resembles a deer, and his design and colour scheme oddly fits with what deer see. And Angel Dust is already perfect, he's recognizable for his pink and white colours and his extra pair of arms, and of course, a golden tooth. He was in a mafia / mob, after all.

Edit: I'm kind of scared by the amount of likes this has gotten. I expected this comment to be just another small one near the bottom of the comment section lol...

[jackofhearts]

The redesigns aren't great but LavenderTowne is genuinely unproblematic and has never had controversies before and seeing all the hate she's getting for this is sad. Even in the video, she states she likes the original designs and Viv's art style, she personally just likes sticking to simpler designs and saw the redesign trend going around so she wanted to take a shot at it. It was poorly researched but not malicious, and she absolutely does not need to be attacked for a simple mistake she already aplogized for. This fandom has a bad enough reputation so don't flame her channel please ya'll.

[atenathechair]

just putting this out there for the people who havent actually seen the video before it was taken down and/or are curious as to why the re-designs look the way they do

Lavender was mostly taking into consideration the critiques she's seen on twitter, with how the characters all have similar silhouettes and with how they blend into the background too much.
In one part of the video she edited some screenshots to make the background less... red, and it certainly made the characters pop off much more and made the whole thing far easier to read
thats also why she toned the colour palettes of the characters down - to make them stand out more against the very red backgrounds
Another thing she mentioned was the incredibly detailed designs - which, mind you, she said she actually liked designs with a lot going on!! - so she tried simplifying them (in order to make the characters easier to animate)

she DID say she knew about alastor being deer themed and angel dust being based on a spider - why she didnt play more into those themes i really dont know pffff

tl;dr - lavender did have her reasons for the changes she's made
BUT, and i cant stress this enough, she made it VERY CLEAR that she wasnt trying to "fix" these designs. In fact, as i said, the whole vid was mostly done because she's seen a lot of hate/critique on the art style of the show online. The whole entire vid was very chill and there was no hate or any other strong feelings involved.
sure, the designs ended up looking rather wonky, but i see no crime in that
as for the poorly done research - yeah, she said it herself. And apologised, so i think theres no need for a 'controversy'

(dont mind the long ass comment lolll i dont know why i felt the need to get involved)

[trh]

I hate people being like "oH nO how could someone cash in on a trend?!" bro its YouTube they are gonna do that.

[mewmewdow]

it's not even about her being uneducated about the show, as someone studying character design this is just plain bad, she's making common mistakes people learn to avoid within first months of learning, the colors are not working together, the silhouettes are unbalanced, and the worst part is that she's an awesome artists, I really don't know what happened....

[flyingrats]

I really did understand her point. The characters are all very similar, with similar body shapes, and similar coloring. But her designs kind of just... got rid of everything? Everything that makes the characters themselves. Angel just looks like... Some guy, who happens to be covered in fur. Charlie looks okay, but kind of awkward. Vaggie also just looks like some lady with grey skin. She didnt even keep the X over Vaggie's (nonexistent) eye, which was one of her main focal points, and it kind of just looks like she forgot to finish coloring Vaggie. Niffty looks interesting, and I think it's an interesting portrayal of her character, but it also kind of just looks like what you'd imagine when you hear "tiny demon maid girl". And Alastor is the biggest example of just being made into "just some guy!", like, I like her idea of Alastor being entirely sepia tone except for maybe a splash of red, but she kind of just got rid of everything that made alastor, alastor???? He just looks like some dude. His suit looks cool I guess, and his iconic smile is still there, but everything else is really kind of basic. And she didnt even bother to do Husk, which I'm both sad and happy about, because Husk is my favorite character, but also I wouldnt wanna see how she'd redesign him😭😭😭😭

[Alastor.]

Well good on her for making an apology, but still I don’t think it’s right for people to just try to cash in on Hazbin’s popularity, especially when they haven’t seen it

[Not_Fish]

Why is no one talking about how she gave Alastor a MODERN DAY mic?! I can tell she was just cashing in on all the hype which is REALLY disappointing to see as a fan….
Hello! I’m clarifying that this comment was simply meant to express how disappointed I was when this video dropped, I honestly don’t care about the designs. However Lavender giving a lengthy review of a show she didn’t fully watch rubbed me the wrong way, as she usually does a lot of research!

[Dromeosaur]

All the redesigns are giving sad beige mom vibes :/

[unicornPOW]

WOW. i really like lavendertowne, i didnt expect to see her in a controversy one day. at least she apologized and owned up to her mistake, a lot of YouTubers fail to do that :D

[PurpleMoth.]

As a fan of LavenderTowne, these redesigns are absolutely horrid. The Nifty, Alastor and Anthony(Angel Dust) redesigns hardly even look like the original characters at all-

[Mossymoss]

I really like Lavendertowne and I’m glad that the fandom didn’t eat her alive

[OneOfThemSprinkles]

I think this whole thing is a HUGE overreaction from Hasbin Hotel fans.

LavanderTown was very clear (as she always is when it's about redesigns) that she didn't intend it to be a "fix" to the og designs, simply her interpretation of it. Her recent video also explained why the designs were lower quality compared to her usual standards (without getting too deep in it because privacy is a thing) and remade some of them.

I don't even think she Had to apologise for more than using a fanart on her video (which she did also apologise for). Hasbin Hotel fandom is known for being toxic and franky, i was scared of their reactions from the moment i got the notification. I am not saying everyone who reacted badly was a terrible person or something, but it was a pretty strong reaction to a chill resigning video. Lavander town frequently does t, em and while it's quality was lower than usual, it was certainly not offensive in any way.

[vanveleca]

Angel looks kind like a fusion between his original designs and pilot Vaggie