CityShep - in memoriam

an incredibly talented trackmaker and a prolific member in the community, CityShep has passed away. feel free to use this thread to share memories, tributes, and to pay your respects. please keep it respectful and do not speculate on the cause of death.

the staff has added a "Memoriam" role for their account.

if you'd like to contribute to the gofundme hosted by the family, here's a link to that page: https://gofund.me/b7b09124 (thank you Eli for the link)

if you're interested in helping with a charity stream, here's a link to the post by Volund with more info: https://community.freeriderhd.com/posts/349417/

 

rip cypress, i wouldnt be an artist without you. rest easy

 

I never expected something like this to happen to the frhd community so soon. Although I haven't interacted with him personally I've always admired his tracks. I'm not sure if this will happen but I hope that this thread can be a place for his loved ones to look back at to see how much of an impact he had to so many of us.

Rest in peace man.

 

I’m usually one of many words but I don’t really know what to say. All I will say is I never spoke to CityShep personally but some of the things I have seen Shep accomplish in FRHD and other games is quite inspiring, making them a legend of our community. Keep riding free cypress, wherever you may rest.

 

A good person, a good artist, and a good friend. Rest in peace Cypress. The world is less without you

 

just heartbreaking. such a talented artist, changed the game on here and inspired countless ppl across different communities. have really enjoyed watching his art develop on insta, his creativity and unique style of art has touched so many

if anyone has any old codes/collabs from him, would be lovely to upload no matter what state theyre in

will always look back fondly on our voice chat sessions on discord, shooting the **** with a few others until late at night. rip

 

Shep is, and aways will be, a massive legend and inspiration to so many people both in and out of this community. The impact he had on the game can’t be understated. He’ll be missed.

rest easy cypress.

 

How’d you guys know they passed was it sent by a close relative to you

 

Have to retire the letter B in his honour

 

Now it be like eliloodthirst

 

fuċk man. never saw anything like this happening in the community ever. rip to one of the greatest to ever do it

 

never chatted with him seriously and I was never a track maker so I never knew him well outside of shitposting but this is something I never thought i'd have to see in all my time here.
rest easy big fella I hope we made your time here fun <3

 

rest in peace cityshep. I never really knew you personally but your work on this site was legendary and lead many people to be inspired. may you find peace in whatever afterlife actually exists, if any.

 

still unbelievable he's gone. could never predict his life would be cut short like that. i was too young when he was around to really get to know him but he was a huge inspiration to me and had a huge influence on my art (straight up trying to copy him at times) and even on the way I interacted with ppl online; I thought he was the coolest individual when I was young. its incredible how many lives he impacted beyond frhd, seeing hundreds of people on twitter mourn his loss, even people that didn't really know him. because his twitter is private i think i want to upload all of the art he posted there to a google drive so everyone gets to see it.

may he rest in peace.

 

https://www.gofundme.com/f/thomas-c...&utm_source=instagram_feed&utm_term=undefined

To confirm from family. If anyone wants to chip in or say a piece.

Very upset for the family. I know we aren't the most serious bunch but we are a tight knit group, this has been quite the shock to the system. A lot of us have grown up with this lads in our lives on a daily basis, some of us have known him a decade of our lives and he will be missed.

 

Shep was the reason I wanted to learn how to draw. It seemed like he could effortlessly represent whatever he wanted with just a few lines.
His style was so unique it inspired an entire generation of artists to try to imitate it. I hope he knew what kind of affect he had on every community he was in, May he rest in peace.

 

Terrible news. Man, while I didn’t know him personally, I had just always thought of him as one of the coolest people on here, and I know many others feel the same. Kind of like what Zycerak said, when I was younger and new to the forums I just thought he was so cool, and reasonably so. I remember getting excited if he were to just like a post of mine. I have fond memories of him joking around in the featured ghost thread and just whatever banter went on between him, backtwice, and noob, which I always found funny and entertaining. He was obviously one of the very best trackmakers, with a very captivating art style that virtually everyone wanted to copy at one point. Even someone like me who isn’t a trackmaker wanted to make tracks like him and while it didn’t take shape for me, it did for others who’ve been inspired by him to go on and be the best artists they can be. When he made a return at one point and started accepting friend requests from some more people at the time, I remember some younger players being excited to become his friend on the game, and I totally understand why. He’s one of my favorite authors who’s made some of my favorite tracks that have fantastic detail and rides that I’ve just so enjoyed to play. He’s clearly made a great impact on the community here and just made it that much better, and to echo what silentfinger said, I hope he realized that.

 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FM_Q0lXLfvHrs27iCTxlveCLH65ig11p?usp=sharing

uploaded some of his work. anyone with the link should be able to access the folder. scrolled down his media tab as far as I could go but im probably missing some. if anyone has access to his twitter and wants to add some I might have missed then LMK and I can make you an editor. theres probably some overlap with his IG (@dotmaybes / @cypress.etc) but I tried to keep it to the things I only saw on twitter

 

Not excited to see this after logging in, very sad. I remember having some good convos with shep and being super impressed with his trackmaking as a newcomer to the game, he brought a new light in a new era that was needed. We talked about collabing on BHR, I wish that happened, heck I wish I could even go back and read the messages we shot back and forth. Thoughts out to his family and friends, he was far too young to be gone from this earth. I'm glad he was able to make an impact not only in our communities but others as well.

And if I could say anything to Cypress it would simply be - Rest easy my friend. I still don't get the furry thing, but I wish I had gotten to know you a little better.