thank you so much! yeah, i dont want my name shit on, by a misunderstanding, its a lil stressful for me, when all i was trying to do, is be nice, and give out codes haha.
user mySaltyKitten just sold this character to me yesterday for 18 USD. https://imgur.com/a/y5fPS6Q
UPDATE: the stolen art in the first screenshot belongs to @CHARIKO on da, and the second piece of art belongs to Teaoko on da
i decided to go and find where her art is from, because it looks like two different styles were used in the separate pieces on her profile. i assumed that their name was just the default on them and that they forgot to change it, so i didn’t make a big deal.
for her first piece (her icon,) i messaged @zerokero_art on instagram, because they have a pretty similar style. they very kindly did a search for me, and discovered that the character had even more pieces of art created by a completely different person, rinihimme.
after that, i messed rinihimme to ask them about the situation. they explained to me that the character in fact does belong to them, and that the person who sold her to me is in fact a scammer.
i’m very glad that i researched this, because otherwise i would’ve accidentally owned a character that wasn’t mine!
i’ve already filed a chargeback. if i don’t get my money, i’m escalating things to a claim. thanks for reading, and stay safe!
UPDATE: i’ve gotten all of my money back!! leaving this up so people are wary