Design theft awareness

Posted 1 year, 1 month ago by typh

Hey yall, not sure why but as of late i've been finding out about a lot of stolen designs by me, specifically older ones from before i shifted my adopts completely to toyhouse (to avoid this problem). What's unfortunate is that I'm not even aware of these fake profiles until real buyers who *think* they have the real design come to me for credits on them. Overall, confirming credits on designs is just really stressful when no proof is provided for me that the profile is legit. I do take responsibility for not switching to toyhouse earlier than I did to prevent this issue and for not making my watermarks larger and more visible in the past, and I'd be happy to try to track down any original buyers of older designs to see if they were ever handed down, but that is all I can do. I am currently having trouble trying to log into my instagram from both my phone and PC, so I cannot track down any previous buyers from there as of now (some designs sold in 2020-2021). I will try other means to access it because i don't want to be locked out anyway like wtf instagram.

I'm very sorry to do this, but for the future, if you are requesting credits from me on an older design that does not already have a toyhouse profile, please DM me with screenshots/proof of the original purchase from me from whoever you've received the design from. Otherwise, there's not much I can do and I refuse to accept credits on designs mindlessly without proof that they came from the real buyers.

Thank you for reading.

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Oh gosh i thought im the only one who is having a problem interacting instagram

Heya, I have an older design I bought from you on Twitter a few years ago, I made a toyhouse profile for them. Should I dm you on here with the proof of purchase?

i actually only really have screenshots of my convo w the previous user who reuploaded the character i got from you, which honestly is rather annoying since they only reuploaded it to avoid being found. which in result it got rid of the ownership logs too so i cant really see who owned her before. but if those screenshots i mentioned come in handy i can definitely get those for you. idk what peoples deal is though, this sounds super stressful :/ i hope youre alright

yea ill take a look at them! cant hurt right? :,) you can go ahead and dm them to me whenever you get the chance, i appreciate it. i've dealt with worse honestly but i just feel bad for the people who just genuinely wanted one of my designs just to be scammed by greedy people who get away with it so easy. when i have the free time this summer id love to maybe give away small designs of mine to give back to those who were scammed since i feel somewhat responsible.