How can these people even be stopped? Does Instagram have a content takedown policy of sorts?

Yep

Scumbags...

They blocked me :) up to everyone else now

I'm more concerned that he says he's only 16 and is about || this close to posting nudes xD Grody

Ugh I hate when people do this. I run a blog where I repost art from FA, and for a while I wasn't asking permission first (I know, its bad) but I was giving credit/links/etc to the artists. Eventually I got fed up with people calling me out on it and got permission from artists to repost their stuff.

Art theft is a whole other animal tho, hopefully you can get this taken care of. And, I will always ask you first if I can repost your art, because its the right thing to do.

If it's something like tumblr it's always best to reblog the artists rather than post stuff yourself, I notice some people do that. But yeah, so long as you're asking it's fine.

I prefer to reblog if the artist has a tumblr anyways, makes it easier for me xD

Well for future reference, I have a tumblr ;)

Interestingly this person has a "disclaimer" saying they don't claim to own any art posted. But it doesn't really make it much better does it?

Not if they're cropping off watermarks. A lot of the stuff had been taken down since I posted this.

That's good to hear. Kind of silly to mess with the watermarks at that point too. Silly art thief.

I'm still comment spamming them. Everything I touch gets taken down because they're young and get stressed easily.

Hehe, good for you. We got yo back! In fact for the sake I'll setup instagram myself hehe

I should point out that the disclaimer wasn't there when I found them.

Yeah that's funny I'm not sure if I remember seeing that the first time I clicked. 0_0 sneaky?

They now claim you are doing harassment. Are they really trying to get people's sympathy?

That's an really bad try of getting popular or something (I don't know what is the point with this kind of people) flagged!!

Why the hell do people even do that. They just steal hundreds of artwork pieces, and for what? 1 comment each on how it's stolen? It's not like they are getting popular for doing it.... ._.

They are stealing it for like 1 view from themselves and 2 from their friends or something.

If I had an Instagram I'd probably go spam them too,
alas, I do not!

I hope this all gets resolved!

You don't deserve this stress i hate people who steal art and ive seen it done to my uncle its not right

This is why people put huge ugly watermarks on their art. :U