I am both overwhelmed and so appreciative for how many people care! Normally I have to go at these issues alone and this time I have a whole team of folks I know and don’t know🥹

They have removed comment after comment on their Instagram from me, my friends, and kind followers. But know it is working! They are feeling the heat on this one and I think together with me advocating for myself and the support of so many others this will get taken down

Yes I am still trying to get this company to take my work off their site and while they have taken down a lot of designs they have kept up the one that is selling well AND tried to take the work they removed and put it through AI to make "their own" People who use AI really love to play dumb

Sometimes you just gotta do nothing

I truly can’t afford a lawyer, but thank you for the offer!

Yeah I’ve mostly been unable to do anything and because my time is my income so to speak I normally let it go. I think folks want action on this one and I wish I could give that for them, it frustrates me—but I am mostly numb to the theft at this point

I don’t know if people assume I’m a “big” artist and it doesn’t matter (a real reason given to me when I confronted someone in the past) But it does matter! It matters as a human trying to create in a world that doesn’t value art. It matters as a human trying to make enough to survive and thrive

I’ll be honest: my art is stolen a lot! Like a lot, a lot! To the point where I don’t normally do much about it because it feels like the second I do handle something, a new person or company takes the place of the previous It is wildly disheartening

Aw it is so good!

I am so blown away with your piece Vanessa!