Sorry that you have so many impersonators out there. And sorry that it makes you want to stop doing art. :(
Nothing worse than douche nozzles ruining a passion for someone else.

I see where you're coming from, people on f-list grabbing characters and all, to the point where I mistook yours for one of them!

I wouldn't recommend you to stop drawing if it's your livelyhood, but if you got something to fall back on, surely you could get a bit of a small hiatus, get some breathing space and all. That's the second artist that I like that seems to be losing interest in drawing, and in all honesty, when I see what's troubling you. It's definitely understandable and relatable in some ways. Had a couple peeps on f-list use my commissionned art, I usually let them if they ask me.

Anyway, it is a bummer your art's being yoinked by people who probably don't even think twice about it and take it for granted, i've been there too years ago. And at this point I think people yoinking art is only gonna go downhill, least you can do about it is (in my opinion) crank up the personality in characters to the max so that even when yoinked it makes less sense.

what the HECK is that for an idea, Eh I'm pandering at this point, anyway, if you happen to open a discord place, I'd TOTALLY jump in to hang out with Brittersun's audience and stuff.

tl;dr Golly, that sucks. But it shouldn't put you down if you manage to look away, buckle up and errything gon's be fine uwu

don't quit please :c

It was me Austin!

It's good to get this info out there so people won't be fooled by impersonators.
Should only need the real deal!

Hopefully this will help ease things as people will naturally deal with any impostors in the future and lessen your stress load.

It's never a good feeling and I've had a few friends who've suffered from it, especially with malicious individuals.
You can be sure there will be many of us who'll be vigilant against such.

I wouldn't let it get you so down that you give up on your passion, because those accounts are just run by untalented nobodies. Now, you did the right thing by giving links to your actual accounts because now the people that want to follow your posts and other work can also show their support there as well.

Dude. This is one of the main reasons I gave up on sites like F-list. PEOPLE LOVE TO STEAL SHIT. People don't like to respect people's work and steal shit to claim it's there's.

Hm, sadly it seems to be a common thing with being a popular artist...and you wonder why so many have gone AWOL.
Sorry to hear it's happening.

why should yopu give up drawing? Drawing is something everybody should do for themselves. Art is such a great thing and you shouldnt let you drag down by the bad things other people do with it.
Ars gratia artis

It's up to your watchers to help with the inevitable problems of art theft. If I see any of my favorite characters being used without permission, I notify the creator and report the account where applicable.

It's a disgusting habit that selfish people continue to perpetuate because it's low risk and high reward. Though I promise you by voicing your opinion on art theft that we will do our best to help where we can.

Thank you for the hours of time and terabytes of content you provide to the community without paywalls. It's not said enough, but thousands of people are grateful and many inspired by your work.

Nail on the FUCKING head.

Thats sad to hear. Impersonators are annoying and it does kinda suck the life out of drawing :/
You put so much work and life into your work and thats what makes it so great! Personally I want to thank you for taking your time to draw this stuff and put it out here for everyone to see and enjoy. If you do ever make a public discord server Ill have to keep my eye out for it.
I hope this helped lift your spirits some and I wish I knew of a better solution to deal with impersonators :/

I personally roast everyone I meet that use the art of your characters without permission.
One even described ZoQi as a bat.
Pff, he's definitely a zebra. People don't even know animals anymore :C

no one knows the non striped, winged sub species of zebra. common plebs

*Nods* Yeah, I can understand.

Impersonators have always existed. It's easier than ever yes, but it's still worth it. Besides, when folks find out they're impersonators they'll come and find you and probably watch you.

You have nothing to gain from just leaving, and everything to loose.

Yea I know what you mean. Shinjo showed me someone using one of my images in Flist so I had to swing my hammer at him.

Also, A public discort thing won't be a bad idea.

never the less, I understand.

This is all good to know...I know I'v seen quite a big ZoQi's and Fate's on facebook...fortunately FB tends to clear them out pretty quickly....
Wouldn't mind getting ahold of that Discord, though we havent really spoken in a long time, hope things are going well