Hey everyone, Mari here, I thought I’d tell y’all that less than A week ago, I got some bad news. At like, 1 am.
remember when I did fanart of Carol from the Friday Night Funkin back in late 2020? Back when the mod community was really young and so was the game itself? Well, fast forward bout a year or so, I’m more than used to said picture getting stolen, and used without my permission, it’s happened quite a lot. To the point where people who want to credit me can’t find me easily due to all of this making it impossible to find original posts of the art, after all I’m no big artist.
Anyway I’m used to it…but I wasn’t prepared for this shit.
basically I found out that people were putting it on red bubble and profiting off of it, one person (if it’s not some kind of money laundering scheme, some reviews seemed weird) has made more than 100 USD of my art, and they’ve fucking put it on over 83+ Products on redbubble.
and from what I saw of the account, I’m no where near the only creator this person has done this to. Tried calling redbubble and messaging their help places, and I never got a response. So, I looked on their site on how to file some kind of dmca. From what I have found it seems all but pointless to even attempt it due to probably needing sensitive info from multiple people due to it being fanart and the url system is weird…not to mention I need a url for every signal listing I want taken down. Basically it’s bullshit. I’m used to being practically stepped on with my art, so normally I’m pretty jaded with stuff getting stolen, but this is a whole new fucking ball park of fucked up, and it more than pisses me off.
So what’s the lesson in all this?
Watermark or Sign your art, it’s the only way people will be able to find you.
it’s serious fucking dogshit that people who have to deal with pathetic losers like this are the ones who need to adjust and change because these cunts go around unchecked, especially considering due to stuff I don’t wanna really disclose here writing can be very painful for me, and now I gotta learn how to make stamp files.
MalFromed
I'm very sorry to hear this happened to you. I remember commenting on that piece (Holy moly! That was over a year ago!?). Surprised they didn't steal the review section too. I don't get some people. Why steal when you can learn to create for yourself? They should have used your work as inspiration to fuel their own creations! Like I did!
Speaking of which, I made something for you! I'll take this opportunity to explain why.
You see, I noticed a while back you made a comment on a comic I made. At the time, I was more than certain that you were going to tear into it, so in an attempt to protect my alarmingly fragile ego, I put off reading it until I could mentally brace myself to withstand your ruthless thrashing of my work. About a month later, I was ready to receive my thrashing! A thrashing that...never came... In its place has to be one of the kindest and most sincere critiques of my work that I've ever seen! That's something I didn't expect to see until years from now! Needless to say, I felt pretty ridiculous. That's why I decided to make something for you, back in December. Too bad my anxiety got the better of me, and I didn't send it, as you can tell. As of the time of me writing this, I plan to send it your way later today. I just have to get the message written up. After all, if I'm going to send a message to somebody, I might as well make it entertaining. Put on a good show, ya know?
I meant to say this days ago, but I was working on a few of my projects and fuckin' around with 5 gallons of honey. I hope things have gotten better for you since this News Post, and my apologies for holding on to what was not mine longer than necessary.
You're a fantastic artist, and I look forward to the day my artistic abilities rival yours.
(Also, your analysis of my character... He's just an exaggerated version of myself... Am I really that easy to read? Wow... I'm a lot less complicated than I thought...)
Mustabulus
Hey sorry for taking forever to respond I put it off for a little, I may or may not be sick with something currently, so I’m pretty sore and my stomachs all fucked up. Anyway I appreciate the concern, and yeah man I really hope to see where you go in art. Sorry if this is really short and sweet of a message but I’m exhausted rn from the aforementioned sickness.