[7 Oct] PSA: Digiphase/yomedome/more@DA

Traumlaterne

Glad to have you here as well! Your journals have been very helpful!

That's an interesting account they got there. The listed username is AudiomachineForLife and, while it is indeed disabled, you can still google their username and pull up individual deviations.

It's pretty much all image macro memes. Like good god that's a lot of image macros.

If that is actually them, it seems like the most genuine account they've owned. I dunno man, it'd be nice to find out who this guy is.

Quick edit: This also popped up and it's uh... a lot. I'll just leave it here. https://atrociousdeviants.miraheze.org/wiki/AudiomachineForLife Like jesus did they really just identify themselves? Who knows if it's actually them, but man they seem very into internet drama so I'm not at all surprised by the idea that they'd have the nerve to constantly scam like this.

Edit x2: I see it has since been taken down. Thankfully with this fella I've always archived anything relating to them, so here are a couple of corresponding archives. This isn't worth bumping the thread for, so I'm leaving it as an edit for later viewing.

- Their AtrociousDeviants article

- Their TalentedDeviants article (the live references of this article have also been archived)

My god that’s a trip. Disregarding how nonsensical that page is, the user just seems, frankly, delusional. This just means there’s no talking to or reasoning with them. Better to disengage once they’ve sent their standard bad screenshots/fake proof and go hunt down whichever poor artist they’ve stolen from this time. This one’s just going to keep this up until they find something else to be interested in.

It might be prudent to keep an eye on this account.

https://www.deviantart.com/traumaad

I don't want to assume every thief is this same guy, so for now it's worth a watch. I've preemptively done some archives for later.

I’ve suspected this for a while, but Digiphase has always been aware of TH and likely has a TH account by now that they aren’t publicizing since the last one (Flakia) got closed down. It’s possible that since people linked this PSA several times on several of their accounts that they’ve gotten around to reading it and are modifying their general presentation.

Because I get the same vibe from this account with the overall randomness of the descriptions and the vague disjoint feeling in the way they phrase things: ‘I want to give this girl in good hands’. If we assume senpu-adopts was another of the Digiphase fakes based on how much effort they went through to generate that fake sketch layer, it’s possible they no longer try the same tells.

If anyone’s purchased from him and knows the current PayPal accounts, that would be great for comparison and potential reporting to PayPal. Unless he’s cycling multiple bank accounts as well, it’s generally difficult to create new PayPals that link the same bank.

Anyone recognize the “taksinty” artist on DA or can confirm the artist has that DA account in particular? I see a FB page for a “Taksin Ty” when Googling the username, but the art posted there doesn’t look at all like what’s visible on DA and I’ve had friends tell me they’ve seen some of the adoptables on that account elsewhere. If it turns out to be nothing after a bit of collective brainstorming, I’ll redact the name in an edit.

I took a peek and sadly I can't exactly confirm much. At the very least I'm not sure our friend here speaks Thai.

I agree the account seems strange and my initial thought was the FB and dA are unrelated, but a search of taksinty adoptable brought up a facebook adoptable market group and they're definitely the same user.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/AdoptableTH/?ref=group_header&view=permalink&id=2180744585323904

I'm not sure how I feel about it because in some ways it feels consistent, just like there's some style experimenting. But who can tell these days. I'm not at a PC currently so maybe someone else can find some certainty through this group.

@Mercer Thanks for checking it, it seems consistent so far, so it’s probably nothing to worry about. Likely the people who saw the adoptables elsewhere might have seen it from the FB group in that case.