Listen.

We hate art theft. I get it.

But is it REALLY necessary to "make them cry"?

Why do you have to jump on bandwagons and shout "LOL U SUCK GO KILL URSELF" over something that was... not your business?

You don't know what the person is going through irl, art thief or not... everyone has their problems.

I was harassed mercilessly by a cult of idiots (aka bandwagon) when they decided I stole art. They didn't have any artist they claim I stole it from, wanna know why? Because it actually was my art.

Even after pointing this out, that it was themed-Oc-fanart, they refused to stop until I just logged out and never came back to the account.

I was on a different account before, and I loved that name. I stopped loving it after the stress from always signing in and being fucked with made my hobby, browsing the internet... depressing.

I found an artist who was constantly harassed. Apparently, he had stolen one picture, however it was in the form of a desktop. ((aka, he uploaded a picture of his desktop with something that made front page on it)). By the time I saw his page, it was full of spam, only deviations were two original poems, and a journal begging to be left alone. Please people... get off the bandwagons. There was nothing left to hate over, the stories were his, apparently the bandwagon wasn't happy he wasn't banned. They are still harassing him, for an honest mistake.

Well guess what? The art-theft not being banned gives you no right WHATSOEVER to harass them and tell them to kill themselves.

How would you like it, if some complete stranger came up to you in a public place while wearing a mask gave you a note, and it said "I hate you, you should go kill yourself to make the world a better place. Everyone hates you." then walked off.

I don't care who it is or what they stole. They are human beings, and should be treated as such. Leave it to the admins to yell at them, by simply clicking the "report art" button and filling in the proper information, then it will go away, and you don't have to condemn yourself in the process. If it doesn't go away, then OBVIOUSLY the admins think you are the overreacting dumbshit and you should get over it, but not by lashing out.



This public service announcement was brought to you from the bottom of my heart... to all those who bandwagon against "art thieves".. you need to check into your facts, and what you SHOULD REALLY do to take care of the theft. If you make people cry and grin while doing so, then you should be ashamed of yourselves.

Harassing other users won't help the art theft problem. If anything, it creates spite and hatred, enough to worsen the problem. If you find stolen art, just report it. Don't make a journal about it telling everyone to report it. Your ONE report will do, and having everyone else report it doesn't help, it just makes more files for the admins to go through. This makes the admins tired, and less likely to listen.

If you have jumped on a bandwagon, be honest. I don't want to hear everyone saying "OH I HAVE NEVER DONE THAT" because I know that almost everyone here has done it at least once. I did it last year twice, over art that was stolen from a sonic fan-artist I watch. I only posted "who do you think you are kidding?" with a link to the original piece in the art's comment box, and I did not post in their journal or on their front page at all.

Even so, I feel what I said was wrong. I didn't have to say anything, I should just hit the report button and walk away. You too.

Spread the word.