okay that is freaking messed up that you have to change your sona cause poeple keep stealing it. you shouldnt have to. the admins should be more responsable

Yeah well I have gone through them and they see nothing wrong with it so it is what I have to do hun.

I'll want to go through your gallery and save things locally (for myself). Thanks for the heads up.

And...done. :)

That really sucks they won't help. Anyway I followed you on Weasyl.

I dont get on there much either lol. I use twitter alot though

Oh nice, what is it?

Note me and I will tell you

Ahhhh nooooo!! Your sona is so beautiful so I could see the temptation, but COME ON. It’s not that hard to understand people. Don’t steal. Where else can I follow you?

Note me I have a twitter

That's understandable I hate thieves and congrats on your baby and I love your artwork is there any other sites I can follow you on ?

Note me and I will give you my twitter

Okay done

Don't purge your stuff, in case a competent staff member is able to take the case and begin working on helping you. However from my past experience, I know they rarely do anything at all if they can avoid it.

One thing I've noticed, at least in clicking a random pic in your gallery just now, is that there are no watermarks, no subtle indications that the artwork was done by someone for you or that it was done by you. You should make sure every image is watermarked in some way, whether tiny inked in notation somewhere or a transparent logo on top of some hard to edit location. I did something clever in one thing I did by etching my name into the metal plate on it but in Dovahkiin so it won't appear to be a name but just random lines.

I predict the admins are gonna come along and bawleete this journal though if they see fit to cover it all up and hide it from the public. Luckily I got a nice screenshot tool.

Oh I won't be purging anything. Just gonna maybe make a new account with a updated sona and start fresh.

You shouldn't need to. If you keep pressuring the staff, they'll eventually have to do something about it. I mean it still seems odd, I know I see the staff here as crappy inattentive people but I've never seen them outright ignore character theft. Did you use the ticket system? If so, who'd you get that responded to the ticket? Try manually popping over to Dragoneer's page about it and maybe he can help kick some staff into gear and make them do something about it, I dunno.

I did all that and they still didn't give a shit.

Well, just in case this journal gets destroyed by staff who want to cover their tracks, I've taken screenshots of the entire page as of now, to ensure its survival. If ever destroyed, I'll upload to imgur. Just gimmie a poke, if you want me to give you the same image so you can have a copy too.

Awesome thanks hun

You do what you need to do, I don't go to other websites much but hope that you are well and bub and hubby are also well. drop us an update now and then to tel us that you are alive and well. Take care and look after you and your family. *many hugs*

Oh I will be back probably with a new account and some new changes to my sona. I will still be purple and a chubby dragoness that will never change.

Honestly just don't bother worrying about it in my opinion. There are imposters and fakers everywhere at every moment. Don't change who you are or identify as with your sona because some limp dick asshole can't be bothered to actually get art or money of or RP as you, in the end they are just little dickless jerks who have nothing going for them and will likely amount to anything (depending on how you view such things they'll probably also end up killing themselves for being such losers in life). All you need to do is make sure the sources that are public for you such as your FA page explicitly state what services you are on and said accounts there are listed, stating that if anyone else is trying to claim to be you anywhere that unless it's on your FA page as listed, it ISN'T you. Then people will know that person is a fake.

If they are somehow making money off you elsewhere then contact that other place and be like "hey this is me, i can prove this is me, and this person is pretending to be me and making money unauthorized at my expense". Any decent place will bend over backwards to ensure they have the correct person, if it's someone on FA with a fake account then a simple look at when your account was created vs theirs (join date), will show that you've been around FAR longer than this faker account and it's clearly not you, but I feel like unless you somehow get in contact with someone like Dragoneer directly that none of the FA staff will notice as from what I've seen and heard from others, the other so called "Admins" don't really notice anything unless it's one of those irl porn spammers who join and just dump loads of human irl picture porn all over their page which gets them banned real quick.

Honestly I don't see how FA staff could fail a simple thing if it's someone on this site pretending to be you or using your work illegally for monetization. Just don't worry about giving yourself up because of a jerk, they'll never be you or amount to what you have, they are just a poser. If you have to take a break from FA because of real life issues then obviously do that as real life and family come first, but don't feel the need to terminate everything because of one lousy cunt of a person (forgive my language but I loathe all forms of identity theft with a passion). Just try to get one of those fancy big wig FA heads to notice you instead of the small time staff and ask if they could do something. I mean those guys post on some obscure stuff every blue moon, no reason they couldn't take a moment to address an issue their staff is dropping the ball on.

I mean I am not going to change myself completely just enough that I don't look like the copy cat. I have wanted to make changes since I have had a baby. I went to the admins about it and they said it was different enough which was bullshit. I will note you the pic of the copy cat.

Don't leave. I love your taste in artwork and not to mention how pretty your character is. D:

However i do understand your reasons, but i don't think changing your online identity will stop thieves or fakers, dosen't help that the parent company of FA sells stolen artwork. :v

I still would like to follow your work tho, if at all possible? If not i do hope you stop by once in a while, and let us know how you and the family are doing. :3

Note me I have a twitter

Got it thank you. c:

Best of luck, take care of yourself and your family.

Best to you and your growing family sad to see you close up shop here, but based on your circumstances, you do what you need to. Maybe see you down the road again, here and elsewhere.

Real life is important and so is family life so it's understandable you have been busy though i hope one way or another you do keep in touch

Not sure what "Artwork protection" other sites offer, but if it can be seen, it can be copied. Now if you mean taking on copycats seriously, then yeah, probably better places than FA.