PSA: ARTWISHER (STEALING AND SELLING YOUR ART)

Apologies, I just tend to get paranoid about things sometimes. A lot of artwork I’ve posted is sentimental to me so I would hate to see it get listed on some shitty knockoff site, even if it is a scam. 

I found out some of my work had been uploaded there anyway, as well as work of my sona and my oc Andrew that had been drawn by other people. Please don't tell me I shouldn't have searched it up, I'm a grown adult and I made a decision for my own wellbeing. I don't encourage people to do this, but I needed clarity. 

Could someone search up my username with toyhou.se at the end of it? I can’t search anything up anymore, please show me if you find anything. Just curious bc idk

Do not search your or anyone else's username, do not view the site, stop giving this website attraction as this will likely drive the site to get more attention in the algorithm.

Please read the other's posts in this forum, I see constantly that no one is reading them so please, I implore you to.

No one is likely buying your art on this site, it is discouraging but please, take a breath, and take a step back. Take care of yourselves. Do not let this discourage you from selling your art or otherwise. Your work is worth it. Do not let this scare you but if you truly need to, set watermarks on for your own comfort but bots and data scrapers do not care as you can clearly tell through screenshots people have posted already. Just taking one look at the site is sketch enough for any even non-artist to steer clear of this.

With sites like this, they can earn revenue from clicking on links and domains sell for more money if there is more traffic to a site.

There will always be another site like this though we are not fully powerless to stop it and I would highly highly discourage the idea of sending your information to the site itself for DMCa, Cloudflare only, I cannot stress that enough. Even something like an email carries a lot of weight in digital information. Link is in the OP.

Unfortunately, yes, it is very likely your art is on the site if you post your art in anyway online

Here is a pretty informative post I agree with, though of course take it with a grain of salt as there is not a lot of evidence and is just speculation- https://dogtoling.tumblr.com/post/733891227217543168/so-some-random-website-is-selling-your-art-and 

If Cloudflare gets enough information about the site they will likely take it down from their servers though this is likely a hydra situation as there are clones of the website already.

Important information I have gathered regarding the site, will likely update once more comes up:

DNS: Cloudflare ( https://abuse.cloudflare.com/dmca )

Website Host: Hetzner Online GBH ( [email protected] )

Registrar: TLD Registrar Solutions 

https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup

 8AJABLAST I already did before I posted that but thanks??? (and yes the updated version, I just wanted to see if there was more on there of mine bc I’m nosy and also it’s my art lol)

8AJABLAST Your attitude is unwarranted. People are worried about the art that most likely sustains them. Even if you do not wish for your comments/replies to come off as bitchy, they are. I can understand being frustrated if a lot of people didn’t read the thread, but you are not the thread owner and shouldn’t be approaching people with this kind of tone. Thanks, regards. 

For my own safety, I am not going to go to the site itself so I don't know if my art is on there (obviously don't search me up on that site since I don't want to know ty), but I think the OP needs to be updated to inform everyone not to search themselves or others up on that site, and instead report it to cloudflare.

edit- removed my original comment since i just found it was basically up there in the actual post :sob:

8AJABLAST Putting stuff bluntly does not mean it needs to be rude. :)