Trending Topic: Digital Art Thief Gets Career Brutally Destroyed After He Infringes On an Artist's Work

Brad Dickson • Managing Editor

Mar 11, 2022 2:00 PM EST

This artist noticed that a print shop owner was using some shady practices to create pieces for sale, noting that some of his art was "eerily too familiar" to other artwork he had seen. He confronted the owner on the issue and became the target for attacks on social media. When the artist discovered a piece of his art had been stolen, he knew he needed to exact revenge.

This post was presented by u/WearyButterscotch775 to the r/ProRevenge subreddit this week, where it has garnered 6k upvotes and 150 odd comments.

u/WearyButterscotch775 notes that they are an online artist, and this event took place during their "early 20s." He was pretty put-off that his approach to the issue was so ill-received the print shop owner seemed determined to continue ripping off other artists for profit.

The theft of digital art is a significant issue for artists trying to make a living off of their creative skillset. It has historically been widespread for artists to find that someone else has "sold" their work to online print shops that use the artists' pieces without proper permission.

There has also been a significant recent spike in digital art theft as NFTs become more and more lucrative to grifters and thieves. These scummy NFT creators will take another artist's work, then mint and attach a blockchain to it to sell as an NFT for, sometimes, thousands of dollars. It has gotten so bad that scammers even stole a popular digital artist's work after she tragically passed away from cancer.

Finally, there has also the recent viral video from several weeks ago where a digital modeling artist put Disney on blast for stealing his modeling work and selling it in their parks.

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He infringes my art. I shut down his print shop and ruined his career.

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