Welcome to the A2T Detective Agency
Established "Only Good Cop of Tumblr"
Hello! I'm the resident officer of this one man police department/detective agency.
I initially made this blog to investigate ai art theft bots and alert artists about them, but now I've expanded it to be about spreading the word about general forms of online evil.
Case Types:
Stolen Content (Catalogues content thieves of all kinds, bot or not.)
AI Scumbaggery (Using AI generated content to steal or create content, or manipulate others.)
Illegal Content (Self-Explanatory.)
Sockpuppeting (Where you create multiple accounts for the sole purpose to make your main account look better or ban evade.)
Harassment (Self-Explanatory)
Scams (Also Self-Explanatory. Dropshipping also counts as a scam.)
Astroturfing (Bleeds in with Sockpuppeting.)
Deception (Straight up lying to people. Not to be confused with unreality content. It becomes more of a problem if you are actively scrubbing evidence of what you did/any form of information that would contradict your case)
Cases:
Sevenart.ai (The one that started it all!) (THIS CASE IS NOW CLOSED)
Copycat Bots (Bots that repost images and even copy/paste posts and tags.)
Ivan the Terrible Mouthwasher (A swarm of various social media accounts that posts illegal and gore content involving children and animals under the tags for the game "Mouthwashing".) (CW: mentions of gore, child porn, child gore, rape, animal torture, extreme fetishes, executions)
Lavenderconstellation.store (Notorious dropshipping scam site that uses bots/takes over other blogs to promote themselves) - Side Mission: Jeremy James Hammers (One of Lavenderconstellation.store's bots reblogged a post from an antisemitic, far-right leaning man that thinks he's both Jesus Christ and Dream of the Endless from "The Sandman". I can't find the answer as to why this happened, but it did open the door to a rabbit hole that is far stranger than any case tackled here.) (CW: antisemitism and transphobia.)
Carina Ayland (Formerly Verridith v. m0t0k0. What starts off as a simple case of plagiarized works turns into a wild day at Judge A2T's courtroom. Eventually it ends in the two burring the hatchet and uniting against one enemy: a serial manipulator, harasser, and palette thief by the name of Carina Ayland.)
CANMKING, aka Arron Mckoy (A DJ/rapper/artist from London, England who is using two content farm accounts (Facts by Briggs and Riley Frankcap) to scam people out of their money via a kofi-like service.)
Crippled-Peeper (AKA, the plant profile pic saga. Another one of those "open and shut case turned clustertruck" kind of situations, only this time the whole situation evolved into what could only be described as "Now That's What I Call 2014-2017 Tumblr Drama". Not my brightest moment.) (THIS CASE IS NOW CLOSED.)
glitter-galaxy67 (A kid that was harassing and bullying a user by the name of idkwhoiam6 and stealing their art.) (THIS CASE IS NOW CLOSED.)
knot-ready (also known as knot-readyy and knot-readyyy. Notable zoophile that harasses their detractors. One of her followers screenshots anyone that tries to call her out.. Did I mention she is a zoophile? Because she is.) (she adds another "y" to every new account she makes to avoid bans.) (CW: zoophilia, mentions of rape fantasies and incest)
Belmin Heralic (Spams promotion for his youtube channel with multiple accounts. Hates people calling him out for this.)
Wolfharrow/Antoniabishop: An AI artist that is trying to fool people that her algorithm generated works are not, well, generated by an algorithm.
How to report....
Stolen Content: If it's a bot, you can report as spam. BUT, it has to be from the "report something else category". If this doesn't work, file a DMCA.
Illegal Content: Usually this content gets nuked right away by a simple report. You can give the report multiple links as well. The more, the merrier.
If the image of the child is innocent, but the reblogs and posts itself are in a suggestive context, do mention it when filing the report under child abuse.
If you spot content involving candid shots (people getting filmed and posted in a sexualized context without their permission), file it under a privacy violation under the victim's behalf.
Reposted porn gifs and videos can be nuked simply by filing it under a sexually explicit report. Again, it has to be from the "report something else category". Otherwise, it will do nothing.
Harassment: Only report for harassment if a block doesn't stop them.
AI Scumbaggery: Can overlap with any one of the above. Don't report something solely because it is AI generated.
Scam: Report as spam/bot. Not sure if you can report it as Unlawful Uses or Content, but it wouldn't hurt to try!
