For quite some time now I've seen journals posted by many artists over my stint here in FA about people's art being stolen, and having them been taken credit of by said thieves.

To those people who deem it a joke or whatever you may desire to call it, you are cowards, crooks, thieves and any other words folks can come up with or think of. It sickens me each and every time I open up a journal and see that someone has had their work stolen, miscredited as their own, and same goes for OCs. To want to stoop to that level is disgraceful, saddening, disheartening and downright arrogant.

If someone wishes to either rp as someone's character/OC, the least you can do is the owner of that character if you may rp as them. If the answer is no, then that should be that. If one desires to show art to others, then have the decency to give the proper credit to the creator/creators of that work.

Artists don't choose or desire or need to work on these pieces just so someone else can claim them for their own. If you want to have art or have a character made for yourself, there are plenty of artists or others willing and will gladly help you with that! As long as it doesn't come up at a later time as being a forgery, or a copy of something else. If you want to have art, then practise practise, and practise some more and with time, effort and determination, you may just have people coming to you for works. And I know for a fact that most of you would wish and hope that your art would not be treated the same way that others have been in the past, present and the future.

So to any and all artists, watchers, whomever you may be, whoever reads this and/or sends this to others, you have my deepest sympathies, anger, outrage and so on for the injustices that have befallen you, and I hope that some day this nonsense will be put to an end and we can all as a collective respected community, can enjoy the hard, and dedicated pieces of art/music/animations/etc and just, be happy!

~Wolver9445