Seeing major news stations report that we should no longer isolate for five days from Coronavirus โ this is wholly irresponsible. Y'all are throwing disabled people under the bus again.
These people often will try to get a Discord or another mean to privately DM you so they can share more "examples", most of which are stolen. They don't post these publicly in order to not be found. You can see an example of that here (again, with @zephyrbug.bsky.social 's art)
If you can, please still do report them and warn others of it! If you see people asking for an artist, link them this thread or warn them of possible scammers! It seems currently they will RAPIDLY try to ask for your Discord, more on that on the next post! (6/7)
Nowadays, these people SOMETIMES have some "wips" and such, either AI-generated or by tracing other people's work. Still, they rarely post much other than "I did this for my client". They often share more art privately (or in Discord, since Bsky has no DMs) (5/6)
I don't think they use as many tags here, but they definitely still spam on any post they can find from people searching for commissions- So be really wary if you post something along these lines! (4/6)
Here's another part of this- About how they often don't have commission sheets, and how their art is very inconsistent! (3/6, featuring art from @zephyrbug.bsky.social amongst others)
Here's some ways to tell a real artist from one of these art thieves. There's more to it, so keep reading! (2/6)
It seems the art thieving scammers are also operating here on Bluesky, so let me post a guide I made on how to avoid them on Twitter- They work very similarly here! Please RT for visibility! (1/6)
