psa: th user _kittos_ for stolen design

Posted 4 years, 9 months ago by dirtriot

this is just a brief psa that i was alerted to the fact that @_kittos_ has stolen the design of one of my character's (Anais) for their own profit

this is the stolen design in question: https://toyhou.se/4711658.12- (i've also taken screenshots in the event they delete and try to resell elsewhere)

not asking for anyone to do anything at this time, as both myself and Faunicorn (the species creator and original designer) have sent in tickets to the admins alerting them to this. faunicorn has also pm'd them but hasn't received a response yet.

please do not harass the user in question, thank you.

update: i've been informed that the second design (https://toyhou.se/4711793.17-) was traced from one of frenkyhw's pieces of art (https://www.furaffinity.net/view/26534991/), and is currently owned by yamyam (https://toyhou.se/1929403.-)

the third design was straight up stolen (https://toyhou.se/4711731.20-) from frenkyhw (https://toyhou.se/2040981.skylar) and just given an alt palette.

both users have been informed via note of what's happened.

second update: skylarkkai has posted their own psa as they've found art on _kittos_'s profile thats clearly traced kai's character's art: https://toyhou.se/~bulletins/99605.-psa-stolen-traced-designs

third update: yamyam let me know that they own the second design, the one who had traced art by frenkyhw. i've updated this accordingly.

fourth update: frenkyhw has made a twitter post, indicating even more designs/art that has been traced or stolen from them. please see it here: https://twitter.com/moschino_bunny/status/1161021577191940096

fifth update: i received word from th admin that they've permanently closed the art thief's account. i'm going to keep this bulletin up in the event it helps others. unfortunately i did not get screenshots of other characters that were stolen before it went down, just my own. however i know some images were saved by others, including in frenkyhw's tweet (linked above).

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My apologies! I didn't note who owned the character (I thought Frenky did). I'll update my bulletin.

And no I haven't made this public yet on the PSA subforum yet, although people are more than welcome to do so!!

So far I think everyone in question has started reporting the person using the ticket system to TH, but afaik I think that's all we can do right now? :/ I've tracked down their account on DA, and its an empty account basically (https://www.deviantart.com/kittobags/) and all outbound links are dead (amino, IG).

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Same! And I was so baffled at how big it’s grown now too! I may make a more public psa tonight if I have time, if not tomorrow. or will just add onto this one and post it in the mega thread as well. Sorry you had to go through this too. :(

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im fine with you going for it!! im still occupied at the moment (just briefly checking notes atm)

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They've been online and ignored my messages but they'll get what's coming to them 💅 how fuckin rude tho such blatant disrespect 

Ok an update: This character of their's is copied off my own character designed by Fenky https://toyhou.se/4584943.-kitsu-
https://toyhou.se/1400283.nemu

They even traced my commissioned art of him: d91869422a.png

guess they thought the third one is okay because they removed the peepee 🤷‍♀️

I looked at their folder and this one: https://toyhou.se/4711793.17-#15910797
that's a trace of this: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/26534991/ by Frenky

Oh my god????? I wonder what is going through this person's head. :/ Thank you for letting me know! I'm going to note Frenky asap.

I knooow- I recognized it immediately cuz that's how Fenky draws faces etc, it was so obvious =___=
It's np ;n; sorry you have to deal with this omg, they straight up just copied Anais

It got even worse: :( I went digging because Elissinia noticed the third for sale adopt looked like nadopt's style, and it turns out they stole one of Frenky's characters (designed by nadopt). So shady. :/

I was just about to look into that cuz the third one looked SO familiar and I remembered it was nadopt's style dhgfjhgj god this is awful