Catherine Hu: I "took her idea"
Alrighty bear with me because this is a wild ride. Firstly I want to say that I’m the one she was stalking. I’ve since decided that I’m going to speak out about the things she’s done. But here’s the most recent, from today.
3 days ago, I posted this creature. I was watching Swamp monsters and had been wanting to design a creepy creature. I have many of these in my toyhouse.
I go about my business. This morning, I receive a discord message from a friend of mine.
I want to clarify that, yes, her group was made 2 weeks ago. However, shortly after seeing this screenshot, I went to her Swamp Cats group, only to find it nearly empty. No concepts, no art, nothing. Only a masterlist.
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You can see the date and time on both screenshots. There is absolutely nothing indicating that I took her idea. I called my creature The Swamp Cat because it was supposed to be a concept for a swamp dwelling monster. Like the Loch Ness Monster.
I was, understandably, frustrated and angry. Prior to this, Catherine had been stalking my deviantART, my Toyhouse and my ArtFight. She tried to outbid me on every single adoptable I offered on, regardless of species, design or creator. I have someone who can confirm this.
I confronted her about it.
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Her reasoning. was because I had the words “swamp” and “cat” in the description. That was what she’d based it entirely on.
She did not ever say “I thought”.
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She knew what she was doing. She was trying to claim my character as her species.
She then later admits to it.
I did not want my character to be used in her species, so I opted to make my critter an open species anyone could enjoy. And then, so did she.
She has not stopped. She never will stop.
