Thanks for the heads-up. Yeah, that stuff is most definitely not their art. HEll, some of it still has the artist's name on it. Not only is the art style all over the place, but so is the talent level. The only thing I'd say could be theirs is some of the first posts.

Thankfully my character isn't in anything they've posted, nor is anything I've written, but I've gone ahead and reported/blocked them anyway. Not that it'll do any good, as dA is notorious for straight-up ignoring these things (I've reported stuff before, and they either flat-out ignored me or yelled at me for 'false reporting').

Forgot to add, dA also openly supports NFTs, so the fact that they do exactly jack shit to remove art thieves isn't a surprise. I haven't used dA in several years. I'm honestly thinking about just deleting my stuff there and closing my account.

I never knew that seeing as NFT's are the biggest frown on topic that involves stolen artwork and such

From the DeviantArt Protect page:

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from Theft in Web3!
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Simply join the Beta and upload your images to a secure account.

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Heavily ironic that they say "Protect your art from theft" and "NFT" in the same sentence.