So earlier, I noticed my Reddit app has notifications in it and I thought it was just some normal trending messages from Reddit but to my surprise it was a message from a user saying that my drawing got stolen (and I really appreciate the message!)
This was my post on Reddit 8 months ago and I have posted this on Steem as well and some of you probably remember that.
Then user legoaddicted decided to upload a low-resolution photo of my drawing and claimed it as his own.
Here's the post.
Then looking at the comments, the users have already figured out what was happening (which I am really grateful for) and the comment by flamesgreen1 links to my Steempeak post. What's even funnier is he even tried to defend his actions and said I was a thief and a liar. xD
Since it says that it's for a challenge on r/goforgold, I checked his profile and saw that he was trying to enter this challenge:
I browsed the comments section looking for his comment and it seems like this was his comment but got removed by the moderator for plagiarism:
4 hours! You sure dude? lol
My response
It is pretty obvious that the users have already done the research and found that I was the original artist but since I love drama, I responded with a selfie of me with the drawing in my hand lmao.
And a little response on his other comment:
I honestly don't know how he ended up with a low-res image when there's a good quality uploaded on the blockchain. Noob. hahaha.
Since I found that the deadline of the challenge is later at 9pm, I initially thought of joining as it will be funny if ever I win lmao. But I didn't since I won't need the award.
So I just posted this photo for the lols:
What are they gonna get from pretending?
As an active social media user since I was a teenager, I have seen a lot of plagiarism and identity theft around even though they don't actually get actual money for it. What is it, satisfaction? A fake appraisal? I guess some people are okay with faking their identity/work in exchange for some little attention that they don't even deserve. They know it takes years to practice and get to a certain level of mastery, so they do the easiest way, which is just to steal. Imagine if they spend those time to actually practice their own craft, they would be awesome now.
It's so pathetic they have to do it. Imagine if they learned about Steem and Hive a little while ago and actually get rewarded for it. They will lose their minds lol. I mean, we already see it happening on the blockchain and we can see how people could be so desperate for money and attention.
People in Hive, what do we call ourselves?
So the plagiarist responded to my comment.
I'm not sure what to respond to his last question. Since we aren't a Steemian anymore, what are we? Hivers? Hivians? Pollinators? Beestingers? Guys with Hives? :P
I wanted to respond with "I'm worse, I'm a ____" but ya know we haven't figured out what to call ourselves yet! :D
Just this guy's audacity is in another dimension lmao.
MFers steal whatever comes handy!
so interesting
Their brains are interesting. Lol
I drew this with my new markers just now forgot to add my username to it, give me reddit gold
u shouldve used my cam
who are u like a youtuber or something
I am
H I V E R
Hivers!
Great that eagle eyed netizens correctly attributed the image to you.
Yeah, I'm thankful they exist. :D
Im a 🐝-------
Post perfectly executed @hiddenblade, definitely made me laugh. 😆
Hahah I'm glad it made you laugh xD
"Are you a YouTuber or something?"
What, these people never heard of a Blogchainer? :-D
Apparently not! And let's probably keep it that way for these types of people. I don't want more plagiarists here haha
Lol. Good point :)
Some people are just disgusting.
I don’t think it’s settled yet what we call ourselves.
Now we all want some cheesecake!
Sucks they exist and we have to deal with them! I hope we settle with some badass name soon lol.
I can only offer a drawing T_T I don't know how to bake... yet. Ha. Maybe ask @justineh for a cheesecake! :D
Wow, not only is he an idiot but he doubled down on being an idiot lying to your face!
Some people just won't admit that they're wrong haha
That's a new low lmao, plagiarising for reddit gold.
What do they even get with gold? lol
I got Reddit Gold last week for a stupid joke. This meant I could give one Reddit Silver medal, which doesn't come with any perks at all. I gave it to an artist, who was nice enough to thank me for the honor.
And I got access to /r/lounge, where I got to see what they're hiding at Area 51 and in Fort Knox, but I'm not allowed to talk about that.
Oohh. So it's just like a fancy thing on your profile/comment then. I got a cute award just now, brb gonna check r/lounge to know some secrets B-)
Literally nothing of value.
What do you mean I got 1300 upboats for a meme the other day. Isn't my pride valuable?
Glad to see you are here.
What a jerk! Can we get him on Hive please and give him a taste of how we deal with plagarists
Haha I don't want to give him an idea!! He might just make another account and mass plagiarize LOL feel free to comment there if you got a Reddit account hahaha
Pollinators!
(Beware the bee keepers)
Really though that is some delicious looking cheesecake...
Yeah I love the pollinators as well! Hahah I would love to call myself one 😂
It is definitely delicious! (not just delicious looking :D)
Yeah... it’s brutal. I had one of the Founders of WEkU stealing my photos of my walks along the Rideau River here in Canada. I think the Dude was in Asia some place and kept my titles as “autumn walk along the Rideau” .... like WTF dude. Zero creativity. At least make up a new fake title. I called him out and got banned from Weku .... guy made $1,000 off my photos. Sometimes the Blockchain sucks. Zero recourse.
Eew those losers... can't they just walk themselves and take photos? D: Sucks he made a lot of money off of that!! :(
Well.... Weku dropped to .0000000 so not sure he made a penny. Unless he scammed somebody to pay Steem for his Weku.
Was probably best thing that ever happened to me.... getting banned from Weku ... so I didn’t waste too Much time there on that scam blockchain.
I can tell why people would want to steal it. :-)
I guess we want to know why 👀
Can't blame them, that cheesecake was really yummy! Haha
@darthknight curious to know, why? ;)
Damn... next level stupidity, including an (egg)beating from the blade herself.
Btw, did you draw it on eatable paper? If not, can I insert such an idea in your head so you can try it out and make something foodie or like that again, but eatable?
No, I've never seen an eatable paper at least. :o but if that is so... then I may have to use edible paint? haha making cakes or anything is something that interests me so I'll probably do it one day
this is some delicious drama to go along with some delicious looking cheesecake :P
Hiver is what I go for...
I can continue the drama probably when I can find the perfect response to that last comment he sent. Hiver is cool as well
It's eerie how similar most art frauds are. I've crossed paths with quite a few on Steem over the years. It's like they all have the same brain or something. Weird.
Lol true. Some even have the audacity to tell you you're just jealous for reporting them... like, what the hell am I gonna be jealous for? hahaha.
Yes! That must be their favorite word. I've heard this before. Now I'm freakin' out.
inserts a PTSD flashback meme here
I can almost see it!
Love the art!
And a hilarious story with you winning! :)
Is what I would say! :D
Can't believe people do this! Hah!
Glad you answered the best possible way!
Hmm! Two people in this post have said Hivers already. Maybe that's what we're gonna settle for lol
Hehe! Yes.
I used Hivers in my recent post too! :D
All about choosing one - using it - and rest follows!
Cheers,
Sid Hiver
Lol! Some people like to deny the evidence... However, wonderful artwork, you have a new follower, so "all is well that ends well" ahah
Hahaha, thank you!
Lol. I do not know why some people have to go through all this cos they want to shine. Why steal another person's work. For what exactly?? Lol.
Maybe we should be called just Hive - buh really, hive sounds like one bad ass secret society of super trained commandos
They know they will never reach that stage? I don't know really haha. Yeah that's what I first thought of hearing "Hiver" as well, something badass. I guess we can't use Hive cos it may be confused with the blockchain? xD
haha loved this post! I went over to Reddit to read the thread. Well done in exposing impostors like this guy. Sheesh!
Thank you! These people deserve to be exposed!
The strawberry jelly looks great. Hard to believe its drawn and not painted.
This must be a stupid teenager. There are professional karma farmers on Reddit who sell their accounts to spammers, but they wouldn't bother to defend themselves.
Anyway, if you want more karma (and creepy messages), always include a selfie when posting your art.
Thank you! Yeah, someone in there mentioned he might be a teenager as well.
Lol, thanks for the tips. Will keep that in mind the next time I become interested in becoming a Reddit famous. Should I show cleavage as well? 😂
Reddit is the worst for this kind of stuff. Been thru this myself on Reddit. I'm glad you were able to publicly shame them. Nice drawing btw!
We are Hivelins
I don't believe these people ...
Lucky that it got noticed and you could intervene right away!
I don't think that we ever did loose the 'steemian', it is where most of us started :)
'hivers' for sure sounds cool, so I will be waiting to see if there will be an official name used -
Take care :)
Nice : )
It's hard to understand these people! You did a great job against a troll :)
It is always impressive how brazen some people are. They also try to steal drawings from my girlfriend, sometimes the watermark is simply cut off or her videos are uploaded as their own new videos on youtube...
But the best thing I liked most was someone who put her videos in an advertisement for his drawing course, his channel got closed very fast xD