Seems an instagramer migrated over to dA and thought they could use stolen lineart from a second party account.
Their insta: https://www.instagram.com/tlk_chaimaa/
Came across this on Reddit. Someone using an obscure piece of TLK merch as proof that Kopa existed.
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Proof? What proof? There’s no name drop. And it probably was pre Simba’s Pride too. A lot of books that were published pre Simba’s Pride label Simba’s cub as a boy. And without a name assigned by Disney, his name could be Pookums for all we know!
This sounds like the time some Kopa nut tried to claim that the TLK 2019 novelization had Kopa as his son when there was absolutely no name drop! Jesus wept, these Kopa stans are really thirsty for validation.
https://www.deviantart.com/adventuresofkujito/art/They-H-859865023
“They H”
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They didn’t even use Vitani this time. They used Nala, drawn by Officialstigma.
Dude thought I was dumb and blind. He traced and called it original the art donut steel then tried to lie about it. I fucking HATE that. It’s amusing that he quickly blocked me after I called him out on his lie.
I found a tracer! The sad part is they’re selling it as a YCH :c
I won’t name drop the person but I’ll link it to you Kash if you need it.
Original image is by DJ88. I don’t even need to link the original image because it’s so well known.
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I was just shown this. Yeah. YCHs made out of traced screenshots or fanart is an absolute HELL to the NO. And to make matters even worse, they traced/heavily copied on paper. Further making other Traditional artists look bad.
I finally got an “I won’t be able to pay you, but I can pay you with exposure!” request.
What I find ironic is that they apparently have this big budget for this huge fancy production they’re boasting, buuuut they magically don’t have a portion of that budget for art.
That raises red flags that it’s a scam, to me.
