I found an art thief, and I don't know what to do. Please help me!!!
This dude has been stealing art left and right from multiple users from multiple websites. He mainly operates in the Gooseworx/TADC fandom, but I also saw some artwork of William Afton that I can only assume is stolen as well.
He hasn't stolen my own art, but I've been working on doing whatever I can for at least 3 days, mainly talking to this guy and contacting literally every artist I possibly can that he stole from (I don't know how to do a reverse image search, so I could only contact the artists who had left watermarks that I could read and were on Tumblr and the ones I already recognized). However, my heart's been feeling like an erupting volcano every time I think about this guy, so I've realized it's time to turn this over to other people so that they can handle it or at least give me some advice.
And then there's this answer to an ask I sent:
Context: JXD3H is one of the artists he stole from. I contacted them, and while I don't know what conversation they had, this guy deleted the art he stole from them.
In the replies on the screenshotted post, we had this conversation:
Me: Uhhhh, no? No, you didn't? "Fixing it" means you stop stealing art and start deleting all the artwork you've already stolen, or at least add credit to them. But I checked your page, and lo and behold, a whole lot more stolen art!
What does "fixing it" mean to you?
Thief: It's not stolen art, I just take art and publish it and if they tell me to delete it, I deleted it.
Me: You "take art and publish it"? Without asking?
Me: You don't tell them you're doing it? You just rely on them to find it on their own?
He didn't respond after that. He did, however, post multiple more stolen art, same business as usual.
(Note: I doubt that it's a good idea to share the username. Also, while I have been referring to the thief as "he", that is only for simplicity, and I don't know the person's actual pronouns or gender.)
Like I said, my blood's been boiling in a way that can't be healthy over a prolonged period of time. Plus, there's only so much that an autistic girl with anger issues in place of experience can even do.
So, I am literally begging everyone: Please help me out here. What should I do? Can anyone else do something? I can't keep this up, but I can't just let this dickweed get away with it, either.
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