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Was out for a while and now resting on the floor apparently

Side note: D&B is nice once in a while even if i get sick of it the rest of the time

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Shout-out to all the stories that didn't make it out of the shower with us in time to be actually written down.

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It's Friday, time to get Taco Bell

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made a comic

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Everyone: Please please please don't write your books in Google Docs. Frankly don't use Google Drive for personal stuff.

Their terms of service say they take down stuff like content related to terrorism and trafficking, but this Google Sheet was literally a list of movies I'd watched this year and books I'd read.

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me, starting a new game: i’m gonna be evil this time

me, 5 minutes into said game: Being Mean Is Not Nice

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I don’t think I have an Attention Deficit. I think I have an Attention Surplus. Attention is pointing Everywhere and frankly whatever you wrote in your email is not as captivating as That Radom Noise I’m Hearing

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SPRITE THEFT HALL OF SHAME: AN ARTIST'S SALT POST ON THEFT AND LACK OF CREDIT.

Okay I just went on a Journey and I'm going to post about it now because I think this warrants me dragging everyone else into my insanity.

SO. My Hat and Cloak Sprites. I knew they were often reposted and stolen, but some of the places where I've found them is--it's baffling.

So, hall of shame time because I'm done! I'm done and tired and salty!

First batch of the Hall of Shame: Pintrest is Theft Hell.

These sprites--both the discontinued old ones and the remakes, are everywhere on pintrest. Not a single one of them I've found has been credited back to me in ANY way. This is probably where most people who get the sprite uncredited get them, and why people think these sprites are "canon" without actually doing much research on the sprites themselves. Pintrest is by far the worst offender here, with dozens of reposts of the same sprites I edited.

Let's take a look at a few examples for funsies.

This specific sprite has been floating around for a while now, and it ALWAYS baffled me because--because I sure as hell didn't make this one.

Because this sprite is a fanon sprite. I sadly cannot find the actual creator of this sprite, even with google images because there are SO many reposts of it, but I know for a fact this is a fan-made sprite. So, then I ask--who took two fanmade sprites and mashed them together?

If anyone knows the original artist for this fan sprite, PLEASE let me know. I would love to give them credit too because their sprite has ALSO been reposted and stolen a bunch online and they deserve the credit for the edit!

Anyway, this specific pintrest post has comments about people enjoying the design change on the hat, which is really disheartening to see as that was MY design choice, and I'm not getting any credit for it!

Anyway, next example on the Pintrest Hall of Shame:

This one is also an edit I did not make! I'm not sure if the base sprite is yet again another artist who got their work mashed up with mine, as I cannot personally find anything, but once again, this was made with no credit.

Eugh, an old sprite! But THIS one gets into the Hall of Shame because the comment saying the edit is cool. Why thank you! I wish this user knew who ACTUALLY MADE THESE SPRITES..

Kokichi Ouma Shames You For Your Art/Sprite Edit Theft.

Another old Sprite, Eugh! This one ALSO received a bit of praise. GEE, I WONDER WHAT THESE GUYS WOULD THINK OF THE FACT THAT THIS WAS REPOSTED/STOLEN.

Huh??? Huh???? You put him a school uniform, you did NOT make the hat and cloak! Don't imply you made the whole thing!

You grayed him out. All you did was gray him out.

I wonder if this one pintrest user knows that the Hat's symbols on the rerelease of these sprites has a different hat design...

I think that's enough Pintrest Hall of Shame, since it was the biggest offender and I could be here all day trying to find every single sprite reposted or edited without credit.

Second batch of the Hall of Shame: Redditors that Have No Shame

This Talent Swap Maki seems like she's wearing a very familiar hat and cloak.

And oh look! I asked for credit!

And none was Ever Given.

This one has a bunch of sprites with the stolen sprite being at the end of the set. One of the grayed-out sprites, I presume this person got it on Pintrest.

A personality swap that just, threw the hat on there, why not I guess?

Third batch of the Hall of Shame: Videos, Thumbnails, and Animations! All without Credit!

I found this video of animations a WHILE Ago and I'm pretty sure I asked for credit. The Comment of me asking for credit was promptly deleted.

No credit to be seen, at least not from where I'm standing!

This one only uses one sprite for a short moment but it still gets a spot in the Hall of Shame.

This one is just a tutorial on how to make your Roblox character look more like Kokichi with his hat and cloak. Like why is my sprite even here you HAVE the CG for it!

Eugh, old sprite alert! No credit regardless.

THIS one ESPECIALLY pisses me off because it sTOLE MY OLD TWINS AU SPRITES.

WHAT THE HELL.

THIS WHOLE ACCOUNT HAS VIDEOS OF MY TWINS AU SPRITES AND MY HAT AND CLOAK SPRITES.

WHAT THE HELL!!!!

While that pisses me off to no end, have some screenshots of thumbnails from BilliBilli because these sprites have gone INTERNATIONAL, BAYBEEE

Fourth batch of the Hall of Shame: Steam, Garry's Mod and--Huh???

This one is the one that made me laugh in despair--FNF??? Really??And while it's not quite a sprite edit theft, don't think I didn't notice that you just copy and pasted my Sprite's "Hat and Cloak" hat design onto Kokichi's hat and tweaked it! I know the design isn't easy to replicate, but at least draw it yourself, it's so obvious that you did not Draw That. It's not even in the Right Art Style. My God.

Ack, old sprite version jumpscare! This one is quite interesting as it appears to be a Garry's Mod thing?? Don't ask me. I don't understand it either.

Another Garry's mod thing, but THIS one is on STEAM!

Fifth batch of the Hall of Shame: The Misc Batch

This Batch of sprite thefts/reposts without credit are some ones I found that didn't match in any specific category. Let's go!

This sprite edit I found without credit a while back on my old blog, but I don't know where I found it. Pintrest? Reddit? Tiktok? Who the HELL knows.

This person is trying to pass off this edit of my "Hat and Cloak" sprites as THEIR OWN ART. They posted traced sketch lines to "show" they drew the art, but it's traced and faked.

They posted this on 07/15/19 as shown in the link and in this screenshot here:

I posted MY SPRITE EDIT REMASTER November 24th, 2018.

This one is especially egregious for ACTIVELY TRYING TO STEAL AND PASS OFF MY HAT AND CLOAK SPRITE ASSETS AS THEIR OWN ART. This isn't just ignorance, this is malicious theft.

Anyway. This has been a long... what, 7 years coming? Because it's been 7 years since I posted these sprites up for people to use WITH CREDIT, and they have been passed around without credit, mistaken as canon sprites (when a little bit of research would show that there are no sprites of him in his hat and cloak in canon) and maliciously stolen by people trying to pass off my work as their own!

And I am tired of it.

I'm tired of trying to laugh it off, I'm trying of trying to tell myself it's fine when it hurts me deep inside, when it discourages me from ever creating canon-like sprites again because I know they'll just get stolen and passed around without credit or consent. Thieves will try to pose it as their own edits or art, and ignorant people will just mistakenly believe it's canon or be too lazy to look up the original creator.

And I'm just. I'm tired. I don't want to resent these sprites as much as I do. I don't want to come across another pintrest post with an uncredited edit or repost. I don't want to come across tiktoks or youtube videos that use my sprites without credit.

When I made these sprites, I thought seeing people use them would bring me so much more joy. Now, I just feel extremely hollow and disappointed. Despair, even, if you will.

So yeah. Here's my Sprite Art Theft Hall of Shame for you all to enjoy and laugh at. because it's the only thing I can do at this point--to show off these thefts in a hall of shame so maybe on the off chance people will spread this around and maybe I'll get some credit. Who knows. Like this is just a mere fraction of the theft going around with these sprites. It's insane how far this has gone.

I'm frustrated. I'm angry.

But really, I'm just. Tired.

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Finished a certain route recently which prompted me to draw this. They're cute!

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fanfic writers will go "anyone gonna explore the kinda fucked up or emotionally impactful implications of this minor canon detail?" and then not wait for an answer.

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There are two wolves inside me One says "marginalized and generally unknown identities deserve to have fictional representation that fully names those identities, making them impossible to downplay and ignore" the other says, "yeah, but usually things that aren't spelled out or left as subtext are more compelling"

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...watching Scooby Doo and apparently there was 'confederate money' during the American civil war. Which was totally worthless (looking it up, even back then too? Lol, F)

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Via:IG@bigskyranchess

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Made a new poster! :)

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"back on my bullshit" in reference to recurring hyperinterests dating back to middle school and beyond

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Oddtaxi really is one of those shows you have to watch twice. Certain details stand out much more a second time