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The Biggest Piece of Bullshit I’ve Ever Received...
3 years ago
So first off, I’m honestly the biggest anti-drama people out there. I don’t like causing it, I don’t want to get involved. But by god, I just can’t understand the bloody gall of this person who thinks their excuse for tracing art was in any way acceptable and I definitely need to vent. While I’ll leave this person’s username out of this, I have ZERO tolerance for art thieves, PARTICULARLY ones trying to profit from it. Please do not ask, or note me who this person is, as I won’t respond.
The other day, I caught a thief red-handed. They had traced a piece done by another with my character in it, then tried to hide it by mirroring the image and changing the arms, and tried to make gender variations then auction it off as a YCH. Welp, I’m a bit smarter than that, so I left a comment and demanded a takedown of the pieces. I also overlaid the original and their trace and literally everything of the body and head was an exact trace, nostrils, ears, eyes, brows, pecks, and nipples. It’s clear as day it’s 100% traced.
They did take it down, to their credit, so I was not going to pursue any other action.
Butttttt... their excuse is the absolute biggest piece of bullshit I’ve ever heard, and I’m sure others will get some very nice entertainment out of it:
Apparently they have this super duper strong photographic memory and he drew that from memory and totally didn’t intentionally trace it. Yeahhhh, ummm, no, I’m not buying it. Even if said person’s memory is that good, you’re still admitting to plagiarism there. Plus remembering some piece on the internet, then also flipping it horizontally and having it *perfectly* match the original? In your mind? Uh huh... suuuuuuuuuuurrrrrre...
They then tried to also deflect blame to another friend of mine saying they okayed it, which was a total lie as they never saw it. Even if that was true, it’s the original artist and I that own the piece, not my friend, so again, my friend’s say would mean absolutely nothing.
I mean, like it’s one thing to trace my character without my permission, but to not accept the blame, make bullshit excuses AND trying to put blame on a fellow friend into this? That’s the LOWEST of lows I’ve ever seen in all my years of my life. Like the tracing crime was bad enough, but by god, be a man and accept you got caught.
Anyway, rant over. As a reminder, due to the rules of FA, I will not share the person’s username as I don’t want people harassing the person. Hopefully they have learned a valuable lesson, and have grown as a person. Feel free to leave your thoughts here, but let it stay here.
Hopefully my next journal won’t be a rant one. :-P
The other day, I caught a thief red-handed. They had traced a piece done by another with my character in it, then tried to hide it by mirroring the image and changing the arms, and tried to make gender variations then auction it off as a YCH. Welp, I’m a bit smarter than that, so I left a comment and demanded a takedown of the pieces. I also overlaid the original and their trace and literally everything of the body and head was an exact trace, nostrils, ears, eyes, brows, pecks, and nipples. It’s clear as day it’s 100% traced.
They did take it down, to their credit, so I was not going to pursue any other action.
Butttttt... their excuse is the absolute biggest piece of bullshit I’ve ever heard, and I’m sure others will get some very nice entertainment out of it:
Apparently they have this super duper strong photographic memory and he drew that from memory and totally didn’t intentionally trace it. Yeahhhh, ummm, no, I’m not buying it. Even if said person’s memory is that good, you’re still admitting to plagiarism there. Plus remembering some piece on the internet, then also flipping it horizontally and having it *perfectly* match the original? In your mind? Uh huh... suuuuuuuuuuurrrrrre...
They then tried to also deflect blame to another friend of mine saying they okayed it, which was a total lie as they never saw it. Even if that was true, it’s the original artist and I that own the piece, not my friend, so again, my friend’s say would mean absolutely nothing.
I mean, like it’s one thing to trace my character without my permission, but to not accept the blame, make bullshit excuses AND trying to put blame on a fellow friend into this? That’s the LOWEST of lows I’ve ever seen in all my years of my life. Like the tracing crime was bad enough, but by god, be a man and accept you got caught.
Anyway, rant over. As a reminder, due to the rules of FA, I will not share the person’s username as I don’t want people harassing the person. Hopefully they have learned a valuable lesson, and have grown as a person. Feel free to leave your thoughts here, but let it stay here.
Hopefully my next journal won’t be a rant one. :-P
I’ve always had it that I try my best to make each of my pieces unique and my own. Like, technically, I could sell like multiple copies of a YCH or make adopts from the same base over and over again, but then again, that would be something I would have made clear from the start and make it heavily discounted. $800 bucks should be enough to guarantee an original work, at least in my mind. :-P
As much as I want to leave a transcript of them here, I’ll save them for the next rainy day when I need something to smile about. :-P
I must say, it was interesting reading his excuses.
Also, the audacity he has to ask me to give him respect after all he's done... LMAO 😂