Art theft scam on Lasercraftum
Original: https://www.deviantart.com/whitekimya/art/El-recuerdo-de-Nala-287847798
It’s no surprise that the friend and stan of Leonzales copied off fanart for a commission.
Original https://www.deviantart.com/merlytlk/art/Kion-and-Mufasa-first-meeting-875723654
Looks like a scam, to me. 35 pounds for copied garbage, oof.
Another one of those lame ass accounts that claims originul the art donut steel after editing an image or straight up tracing/copying someone else’s artwork. Even has the balls to claim that they worked so HARD on their art donut steel.
Using AI to fetish mine. Normally I would say Kink Tomato and move on, but one of the images used Panther85’s art.
Another instagram account with very blatant art theft. Some of it looks like Redthelioness’ and Sickrogue’s(esp from their comic which is fairly recent) among KnightRizer and DJ88’s obviously stolen art.
Instagram art thief who’s stolen from prominent artists like Musicalmutt2, Marlynxtlk, and Mistrel-fox. They seem to think that because they found it on The Googles, it’s fair use and credits Google as the source.
They’ve been approached before by Jessirenee, but claimed they used a screenshot (they didn’t), and then proceeded to block them.
This is why I hate the TLK fandom on instagram. It’s 90% recolor culture and everyone throws temper tantrums when told “No, you can’t use this.” I would truly love to assume that it’s because they’re kids, but unfortunately, a lot of them are adults in their early 20s.
Last night, I was contacted and shown a character thief in the fandom community. At first, I was reluctant, because the person (who shall remain anonymous) wasn’t being clear, and after the scandal with those two brats using me for an attack dog awhile back, you can understand my hesitance about such things these days.
But the situation is a Hungarian account is using someone else’s fan character from the Lion Guard wikia.
This person doesn’t have permission to use this Gina character, created by NightShade2k18.
GinaSSO has a pinterest as well
where they’ve been posting edits of said character.
However, I’d also like to point to the original source of this cheetah character.
Wikia mods, if you’re reading this, remove those two scanned images posted by user Gingalover19, and the two by NightShade2k18, as well as https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/thelionkingfanon/images/f/f9/Lion_Guard_OC_2019_Redesign.png/revision/latest?cb=20230601230016 on that character page.
These are traced fanarts, esp from TC-96 who doesn’t allow it. The last one is actually a recolor of a recolor made by Naoki-TLK. You can see Bora through the recolor.
