So recently i've had a chat with a friend and during that chat something interesting happend. He mentioned someone asking him for a collab or art trade. While this wouldn't normally be odd it did raise my curiosity as my freind doesn't actually draw, so i wanted to ask for the person's username. Because I had a hunch it was someone who frequently asked me before. It turned out to be someone by the name of Moonlover7 also going by CrimsonColt7 on tumblr and previously deviantart before his account got ip banned. This was the exact user I thought it'd be.

For me I never directly had a problem with this person other than the fact that they'd often message me in notes now and then asking for collabs, art trades and requests when I've clearly made visible on my profile when I do or don't do that sort of thing. (̶N̶o̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶a̶n̶y̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶d̶s̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶f̶i̶l̶e̶s̶ ̶o̶r̶ ̶a̶n̶y̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶.̶)̶ Anywho that's okay I guess but they'd often message me asking it as if they've never asked me before and I'm sure that's the kind of thing someone keeps track of. Not to mention pretty much every note they'd send would be " Sorry for this sudden intrusions but may I ask for either Request, Trade or a Collabs from you please ? " Word for word as they've copy pasted the message to various people not being all that legit about it. I mean if you really wanted a collab, art trade or request I'd doubt you'd go the souless robot route of pasting a message to show how little you care about really asking.

Anyways i'm ranting, but basically the same message word for word was sent to my friend, who again remind you doesn't draw. They just post art in their gallery they got from other artists and giving the respected artists credit. This Crimson person would do the same thing except if you're asking people for collabs and art trades usually you have your own art on your profile. Not Crimson. Their whole gallery or just anywhere they have a format that artists use they only upload art from other people and not themself.

Now to the meat of things. As I've mentioned they had their DA account ip banned. Why? Because they'd harass and get free art from people when asking for a collab or art trades and when one account was banned they'd make a new one, so their IP needed to be banned entirely. Not to mention they'd also get some friends in on it to help harass artists he wants to attack and uses notes as a private way to harass and stray away from public exposure from the scummy things they do.

I wouldn't have known about a lot of this if my friend didn't mention that they were told Crimson scams people for free art, so that got me trying to dig deep on info so I could learn about this person and how scummy they are.

Now I should clarify that no one should harass this person back but rather stay away from them and maybe even help spread the message. This person does not draw and will ask anyone to get drawings out of them for free either from a request or scam them out of a collab or trade. Even if they ask someone who doesn't draw it doesn' t matter. They see art in a gallery they see it as a way to get free art from other people going so far as asking for other people they could squeeze art out of.

Here's some links to sources I found when digging for info. If you're curious.

http://username-91.deviantart.com/j.....READ-607769187

http://alyssafoxah.deviantart.com/j.....TANT-606965028
Anyways I'm tired and should sleep but I really feel this message needs to be spread this warning for anyone artist or not.