Thinking bout that time my art went viral and non of the credit went to me.
Context. I drew this comic in my friends notebook that she shared with her friends. It was a really fun way to bond with people. So the person who stole this comic was definitely someone I knew (never figured out who thou). So in other words someone saw the comic drew it on a computer then posted it online. This isn’t even the whole comic, plus when I thought I found out who did it I went to the link and it brought me to a dental website. I dont remember the whole comic (cause it was about three years ago). Anyways I was and still am salty bout that. However it was nice to know people thought I was funny. Also my sence of humor has changed a lot sence then. I’m pretty sure this is what cause me to start posting my art online. If my art was to be stolen it would be a whole lot easier to figure out who did it. I also like to make it hell to cover my signature on my art. Actually I usually sign twice on the same drawing. Once with my online username or a small part of my username and also my initials on the bottom of the page with the date. Somehow this was a huge ego boost and pissed me off enough to start an instagram page.
It appears that they’ve also stolen other artist’s work, cropped out watermarks as well. (Also, there’s work not only from fnaf there, it’s possible they have stolen from content creators in other fandoms as well)
I found as many artists as I could, so here is a list of the people they stole from, I’ve left them all a message wherever I could, but if you know them personally please inform them as well!
Okay so, stick with me here while I make a formal post, and PLEASE give this message the attention it needs.
So. I have made the expected but NOT welcome discovery that people are stealing my work and reposting it on places like Pinterest and Instagram. I WILL not take this lightly- it was bound to happen with my little bit of newfound fame, but it doesn’t make it okay, especially as a growing artist. I will say I sure do love and appreciate my following, but not when some of you are stealing my work and getting clout from it. I am not naming names, because the first time it happened, it was dealt with swiftly and easily because they were open-minded enough to realize their mistake.
But from this moment forward, if you see my shit on someone else’s page, do not be afraid to shoot me a PM and let me know so I can reach out. I do not and will not stand idly by as myself and other artists similar to myself have this bs happen to us. I WILL not, no matter how little it is.
Thank you for listening, please let this reach my following and please share it if you care for the AU and want to see more of it. Because if people are just gonna steal off me, I don’t feel comfortable posting about it anymore.
Ughhh speaking of. Theres a dude doing that currently to our good ol pal @endominator
So… I just found out that my Tapper illustration has been stolen AND modified for a large scale mural at a popular gaming-themed restaurant called Burger Bits in Santo André, Brazil. I’ve tried contacting the place and its manager, but have yet to get a response. This is *probably* the most egregious case of art-theft I’ve personally encountered with my own work so far.
It’s that time of the year again were I write one of these to remind old and new shoppers to be careful where and on what they spend their money on this holiday season.
Regardless of what you celebrate or don’t celebrate it’s always nice to give a gift to either yourself or someone you care about, but it’d be a huge bummer to later find out what you got them was actual bootleg or stolen art.
To start I always tell those that are interested in buying from an artist to go check out their social media and see where exactly do they sell their work. That is always the best way to make sure you get your art from the actual artist. Try to find a direct link as well. Most are in bios, pinned posts, or other posts were they promote their store/website.
Russians Looted Priceless Artifacts From Museums in Mariupol and Melitopol
The heist started when a mysterious man in a white lab coat showed up at the museum.
A squad of Russian soldiers stood behind him, with guns, watching eagerly.
Using long tweezers and special gloves, the man in the white coat carefully extracted scores of special gold artifacts more than 2,300 years old from cardboard boxes in the cellar of a museum in Melitopol, a southern town in Russian-occupied territory, Ukrainian officials said. The gold items were from the Scythian empire and dated back to the fourth century B.C.
Then the mysterious expert, the Russian soldiers and the gold disappeared.
“The orcs have taken hold of our Scythian gold,” declared Melitopol’s mayor, Ivan Fyodorov, using a derogatory term many Ukrainians reserve for Russian soldiers. “This is one of the largest and most expensive collections in Ukraine, and today we don’t know where they took it.”
This was hardly the first attack on Ukrainian culture since the war began.
In Mariupol, the town that has been hammered for weeks by Russian forces, officials said that Russian agents broke into an art museum and stole masterpiece paintings, a famous sculpture and several highly valued Christian icons.
Across Ukraine, officials said, dozens of Orthodox churches, national monuments and cultural heritage sites have been destroyed. In one town near Kyiv, Borodianka, Russian soldiers shot the bust of a famous Ukrainian poet in the head.
On Saturday, Ukrainian officials said that more than 250 cultural institutions had been damaged or destroyed.
But perhaps no cultural heist has been as brazen as what unfolded in Melitopol just a few days ago.
According to Leila Ibrahimova, the director of the Melitopol Museum of Local History, the trouble started in late February, when Russian forces shelled the airport and took over the city. Soldiers went on a rampage, smashing into supermarkets, stores and homes.
Most of the city’s residents hid inside their houses. But a few museum workers, including Ms. Ibrahimova, made their way back to the museum.
It is an elegant, three-story, stone building in the old part of town, home to 50,000 exhibits, from Soviet-era medals to old battle axes. But its prized collection was a set of rare gold ornaments from the Scythians, a nomadic people that founded a rich, powerful empire, centered in the Crimean Peninsula, that endured from around the eighth century B.C. to the second century A.D.
It was the Scythian gold that Ms. Ibrahimova was most worried about.
She and other staff members secretly hid it and some other historic artifacts in cardboard boxes, stashing the boxes in a dank cellar where they didn’t think anyone would find it.
“We knew that any second someone could come into the museum with a weapon,” she said. So they worked fast, she said, because “the collection is priceless.”
In mid-March, Ms. Ibrahimova said Russian troops burst into her house with assault rifles, threw a black hood over her head and kidnapped her. After several hours of intense questioning, they let her go. Two weeks later she left Melitopol for an area not under Russian control.
But on Wednesday, she received a call from a caretaker at the museum. The caretaker said Russian soldiers, along with intelligence officers and a Russian-speaking man in a white lab coat, had come to her house in the morning and ordered her, at gunpoint, to go with them to the museum.
They commanded her to take them to the Scythian gold.
The caretaker refused, Ms. Ibrahimova said. But the man in the white coat found the boxes anyway with the help of a Ukrainian, Evgeny Gorlachev, who was appointed by the Russian military as the museum’s new director, she said. A Russian crew filmed part of the robbery.
“We hid everything but somehow they found it,” she said.
What was stolen: at least 198 gold items, including ornaments in the form of flowers; gold plates; rare old weapons; 300-year-old silver coins; and special medals. She said many of the gold artifacts had been given to the Scythians by the Greeks.
In an interview on Russian television, Mr. Gorlachev said the gold artifacts “are of great cultural value for the entire former Soviet Union” and that the previous administrators of the museum “spent a lot of effort and energy” to hide them.
“For what purpose, no one knows,” he said. “But thanks to these people and the operational work carried out, residents of the city of Melitopol — and not only Melitopol — will be able to observe again a large collection of Scythian gold.” He did not say when or where the artifacts would be displayed.
Ms. Ibrahimova, who spoke by phone, sounded despondent as she spoke about the Russian invaders.
“Maybe culture is the enemy for them,” she said. “They said that Ukraine has no state, no history. They just want to destroy our country. I hope they will not succeed.”
Scythian gold has enormous symbolic value in Ukraine. Other collections of the artifacts had been stored in vaults in the capital, Kyiv, before the war broke out. But Ms. Ibrahimova said events unfolded too fast for her museum to spirit out their collection.
For years now, Ukraine has been locked in a complicated dispute with Russia over collections of Scythian gold that several museums in Crimea had lent to a museum in Amsterdam. After Russia seized Crimea in 2014, Ukraine pleaded with the Amsterdam museum not to return the gold. Russia demanded the museum do just that. A court has ruled in Ukraine’s favor and the gold remains in Amsterdam.
But historians said the looting of the artifacts in Melitopol is an even more egregious attempt to appropriate, and perhaps destroy, Ukraine’s cultural heritage.
“The Russians are making a war without rules,” said Oleksandr Symonenko, a fellow of Ukraine’s Archaeology Institute and a Scythian specialist. “This is not a war. It is destroying our life, our nature, our culture, our industry, everything. This is a crime.”
The caretaker who refused to help the Russians was released on Wednesday after the gold was stolen. But on Friday she was taken away from her house at gunpoint again, Ms. Ibrahimova said, shortly after the mayor, who is also in exile, announced the theft.
This was art created for community and its scummy for someone ( in this case, likely a bot since it couldn’t even be bothered to change some of the image titles )
to take those works and distort the meaning behind them
The collection features images likely skimmed from groups -
Please reblog/ let people know to check for stolen works!
BOOST! Yes, this is the same account I was notified of the same way and have been telling everyone about today. Please report them, inform the actual artists, and FUCK NFTS!!!!
If you needed even more reason to hate NFTs please feel free to take a look at this account: https://opensea.io/0x1a24f397b4679b2a5ae300bb451d602d1d4c49dc If you see your art or someone you knows art here please let them know! This account is completely FULL of stolen Markiplier fanart!!!
I have already sent in two emails for the my work that was stolen btw. If you have a Twitter you can follow this link to a great thread letting artists now how to file a report email to the website: https://twitter.com/Lazerlord10/status/1468049764273041412
Please boost this and share anyway you can cause this is NOT okay!
It’s that time of the year again were I write one of these to remind old and new shoppers to be careful where and on what they spend their money on this holiday season.
Regardless of what you celebrate or don’t celebrate it’s always nice to give a gift to either yourself or someone you care about, but it’d be a huge bummer to later find out what you got them was actual bootleg or stolen art.
To start I always tell those that are interested in buying from an artist to go check out their social media and see where exactly do they sell their work. That is always the best way to make sure you get your art from the actual artist. Try to find a direct link as well. Most are in bios, pinned posts, or other posts were they promote their store/website.
If you can’t find a direct link see if their DMs are open or send them an Ask/Tweet at them (delete once you get your answer though). Now if this artist’s store is closed or if they don’t sell to people that is not an invitation to look elsewhere for their work or to print it out yourself! Please respect the artist wishes/schedule and look for another gift option.
Try to avoid shopping for art on sites like Amazon, Wish, Ebay, and Aliexpress UNLESS the artist has specifically said that is where they sell. Most of the time these sites are riddled with stolen work and at a very cheap price so it can be hard to not to take that deal, but don’t. Artist’s, for the most part, are the little guy in this situation. We are having our work taken by bigger companies and given almost no power to fight back. Our art is not free to use or part of the public domain!
Be careful when shopping on Etsy and Redbubble as well. Stolen works can also be found there too. Once again try to find a direct link to the artist store and if you can’t Google their name or search for one of the items they do sell. Just make sure to triple check that the person whose store you are looking at if the artist and not someone just selling their art.
I know it can be hard because sometimes you just see something online you want and don’t put too much thought into whether the listing for it on Amazon is stolen or not, but all I can ask if that people try. Tell friends and families about where they can find artists you like and their stores. Report any stolen listings you find and possibly contact the artist if possible about them. We artist want to keep making fun and creative works for you all to enjoy whether you buy them or not, but we can’t keep giving while our art is stolen and sold for so little by a complete stranger. We need your help too!
If you have bought or received bootleg/stolen art in the past you don’t need to feel guilty. It’s okay that you didn’t know at the time or whoever got you the gift didn’t know. That’s in the past, but right now you can change for the better. Show the artist you love the upmost respect by becoming a safer shopper this holiday season or informing others about the does and don’ts of shopping for art.
For those possibly reading this and thinking that this isn’t a huge issue and that losing out on just a little bit of money couldn’t hurt…it does and it is.
Over the course of just this year I have had to report over 100 stolen listings on just Amazon alone. I have also had to continually look out for stolen works on Etsy, Redbubble, Wish, and Mercari. I have had counter claims sent to me I’ve had to fight, all the while being in student debt. I’m unable to even report the stolen works I’ve found on Ebay and Aliexpress because those sites have made it nearly impossible for a single artist like myself to file a report. This is and has always been a problem and it’s not one artists should just get used to.
I hope this PSA helps some people learn how to shop better this holiday season and reflects the struggle artists sometimes have to go through.
DMCA Takedown Forms for Amazon and Wish (for any artists):
It has been brought to my attention, that this fic exists. and the picture used of Hvitserk and Ubbe is my edit. This scene does not exist like that and normally they are hidden behind someone who walks by, as you can see in this gifby@underragingwaves, I have NOT consented to letting him use my edit, obviously, after that whole smear campaign against me, but STEALING my edit, that I worked on for fucking hours? That is just so low and tells you what a piece of shit bragisrunesakaleithdragonakaforetoldchaos is. This is not someone who belongs in our fandom. He lies and steals.
YOU DO NOT STEAL PEOPLES WORK AND REPOST IT PRETENDING IT IS YOURS, BECAUSE IT ISN’T!!! And you ruined it with your shitty editing too, wtf is wrong with you?? Little attention whore. Delete it! It does NOT belong on your blog!
