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Can't believe I'm having to post this...
3 years ago
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Listen... I didn't think it needed to be said in 2022, but here we are and it needs put into words and immortalized on ye olde internet with less than 4 months to go until 2023.
DON'T BE A CREEPER TO ARTISTS!
Some of you need to pull a Bart Simpson and write that last sentence over and over and over again on a chalk board until your fingers are raw, bleeding nubbies. Unless we enter into a binding commission contract, we literally owe you nothing. We do not appreciate being harassed. We do not appreciate being poked over and over and over again by people who demand our time, attention, and then our patronage to another page (or pages). If you wind up going from artist to artist and repeatedly harrassing them over every form of communication you can find of theirs, asking about commissions leading from the initially benign and continuing to escalate to the extremely sketchy and inappropriate (even for those of us that adore erotic/NSFW art and are FAR from prudes!) and then never pulling the trigger/paying for services, but then request that we like/follow your art pages and continuing to try and have inappropriate conversations... AND/OR attempt to go RL... You're gonna be blocked. Especially if the hint of non-response isn't taken... Or the hint of being banned/blocked from groups these artists are in... Or or or or or.
Sadly, this journal entry comes from a a personal experience that the entire Hawt Horse Herd has experienced over the past 48 hours or so. We've also been hearing that it reaches far beyond our group with many other equine-centric artists.
It's not that we're snobs or prudes - it's that we literally are being made to feel extremely uncomfortable. No one should ever be made to feel like that. We deserve to feel safe within our communities - especially one like FA and the spawn off satellite groups that have evolved from it. We are not your endless source of sexual entertainment and unless we willingly engage in that kinda chatter, do not come at us like that or continue to provoke us when we have given you every signal that we are unwilling to continue to engage you in conversation.
So... Moral of the story? Don't be a freaking creeper. Treat artists with respect. Be excellent to one another.
DON'T BE A CREEPER TO ARTISTS!
Some of you need to pull a Bart Simpson and write that last sentence over and over and over again on a chalk board until your fingers are raw, bleeding nubbies. Unless we enter into a binding commission contract, we literally owe you nothing. We do not appreciate being harassed. We do not appreciate being poked over and over and over again by people who demand our time, attention, and then our patronage to another page (or pages). If you wind up going from artist to artist and repeatedly harrassing them over every form of communication you can find of theirs, asking about commissions leading from the initially benign and continuing to escalate to the extremely sketchy and inappropriate (even for those of us that adore erotic/NSFW art and are FAR from prudes!) and then never pulling the trigger/paying for services, but then request that we like/follow your art pages and continuing to try and have inappropriate conversations... AND/OR attempt to go RL... You're gonna be blocked. Especially if the hint of non-response isn't taken... Or the hint of being banned/blocked from groups these artists are in... Or or or or or.
Sadly, this journal entry comes from a a personal experience that the entire Hawt Horse Herd has experienced over the past 48 hours or so. We've also been hearing that it reaches far beyond our group with many other equine-centric artists.
It's not that we're snobs or prudes - it's that we literally are being made to feel extremely uncomfortable. No one should ever be made to feel like that. We deserve to feel safe within our communities - especially one like FA and the spawn off satellite groups that have evolved from it. We are not your endless source of sexual entertainment and unless we willingly engage in that kinda chatter, do not come at us like that or continue to provoke us when we have given you every signal that we are unwilling to continue to engage you in conversation.
So... Moral of the story? Don't be a freaking creeper. Treat artists with respect. Be excellent to one another.
Like, in just 3 days, this guy basically became obsessed over us for whatever reason.
Like I tried to be nice, and give them the benefit of my doubt. I think I was spared the worst of it since I’m a guy. After we all agreed that he was making all of us uncomfortable, I banned him from the server, just for him to go into this stalker mode and chase us through multiple social platforms… He’s also been messaging some of our non-artist furry friends of ours as well…. I really wish there was a stronger way to block this person, as I don’t want him to even see anything I draw or say. Honestly, his behavior shouldn’t be tolerated anywhere, but alas, FA can only act on things that happen on FA.