Repost Culture account.
He fucked around and found out, now he’s crying about it.
Like, there’s no issue with making fanart of someone else’s fan characters, but boundaries need to be respected at the end of the day.
I make fanfic and fanart of someone else’s OCs, but at the end of the day, that OC belongs to someone else and what they say goes.
It’s called being respectful.
This one acted like an absolute dillhole not only to me, but had a scummy prideful attitude about a popular fan character to the point that they believed they should own or adopt the fan character because how very dare the creator not do anything with it. This person wrote an entire fanfic where they magic’d away Leah’s disability when TC already had an idea for the character. Even if TC no longer works on this because of this exact behavior and treatment, that doesn’t mean their characters no longer belong to them.
The takeaway here is, be respectful to content creators, don’t be dicks.
(I would also like to note that this asshole had the lord’s prayer in his About Me, something about christians and their entitlement to things that don’t belong to them goes hand in hand even in fandom spaces)
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.
Is it that hard to shit out boring OCs? Guess people would rather steal popular OCs than make their own neon barf OCs.
This RP account stole Eyesinthedark666′s Ma Di Tau and renamed it Leena. They also have been taking fan art of Ma Di Tau and reposting it, as well as reposting other fan characters then have the balls to claim, “I am not stealing, don’t report!”
Another account that goes, “please do not report!”
Well sir, if you didn’t want to lose your account, you shouldn’t have been reposting everyone’s art and claiming someone’s fan character is yours when traced bases exist. It’s not hard to come up with your own ideas.
It’s totally not TC’s cub! Look, different pelts! Just the names were borrowed!
If I had a quarter for every time someone did this, I’d be moderately wealthy by now.
No idea for a character? Just find one on the googles, and add a random letter to the front of it! No one gives a shit about the content creator that made it!
I think Naoki just wants to cling to her bootleg ripoff OC. Because she makes very subtle changes and ignores the pelt or other designs.
So, because of this, I took the liberty of redesigning amani for her. Keeping with her “Simba’s sibling” routine, I leaned more towards Sarabi with redesigning Amani and gave her rounded cheeks and thick eyelashes. I also gave her Concept Sarabi’s dorsal stripe. To blend in Mufasa’s traits, I borrowed the ear fwips from Kion and gave her dark ear gradient rims on the inside, borrowed from Adult Scar.
Notice how my design has a ton difference compared to her shitty design. Notice how she actually looks like an Amani and actually looks like she might have a personality that isn’t that of a cardboard standee. This design only took me 5 minutes to think up, excluding drawing the damn thing!
