Please be wary of this former Tapas "artist".
Sigh. This has been a long time coming. Given how I've stepped away from art, but still see this person harm others besides what they did to me, its time to talk. Seeing she's still activly harming others, I will also remain vague but for the ones who will recognize this iykyk.
And the reason why I need to speak up is because it seems I've found one of their victims.
So. I saw that this person who did this to me has also targeted other artists. They're a fanfiction maker, and i've noticed when they follow you all is well until you hit a milestone they never got. I experienced this on tapas, i was making my sci-fi webcomic at the time, until it got a youtube promo.
And that...didn't sit well with them.
They proceeded to pull back on me, stopped commenting/liking my work and no longer seemed to show interest...and i should've seen the obvious signs of a impending ghosting. Now...I did not know what ghosting was because I'm a adult that can talk and speak on my feelings, but I guess sometimes you...got ghosting moments?
Years later (about 2), I saw this on the old forums.
This...is the exact behavior she did to me. Yes, its a she. Now, if this WERE REAL, I'd be horrified too for her. But its not. SHE. GHOSTS. FIRST. And then proceeds to label her victim as the stalker. I'm not the person here she refers too, but CLEARLY she beefed with somebody who wasn't willing to back down yet. Good for them given what this person has been capable off to harm the artists she targets.
Now this will always accompany this person deleting her accounts DRAMATICALLY. In my case that meant leaving a cryptic last post going "Sorry...sorry" before packing up and leaving. The fact I found this forum gem and it targeting somebody else means two things- she's using her yt people tears (look, im pasty too but to see privilege being used is incredibly important) to play the perfect victim, gather sorry responses, and turn everyone against A ACTUAL VICTIM WITHOUT SAYING THEIR NAME. But the person in question will know because this woman, a grown-ass woman of 33 years old, knows exactly how to play pathetic.
Bringing us to her exact confession, because her way of talking is truth on WHAT. SHE. HERSELF. DID.
"the peronsal choice to let go". No. You ghost people the moment they become better in their craft or get the praise you haven't received. AndI'll come back to your "significant other" because he should know you're using people intimately to fund your smear campaigns with. But that's for later. YOU LET THEM GO BECAUSE YOU'RE INSECURE AND ENVIOUS TO THE POINT OF BECOMING A DANGER TO OTHERS YOURSELF.
And of course, in NORMAL conditions, even though ghosting isn't a beautiful way to end a connection...im an adult and I respect boundraries no matter how harsh or what but...this person doesn't stop at the ghoting. This perfect-little-victim farce they present to a little forum (and their shite community) is the mask that hides the defaming.
Behind the scenes, this person attacks your name on her discord and instagram. Check to see what social media are her largest, she CRAVES clout to show how much of a popular artist she is so she can actively destroy the people she ghosts.
For me it meant being helpless against the interaction on my comic drying up. My twitter, facebook and instagram all saw the same interactions dry up. Paying members on my patreon slowly left. Nobody however asked me for my side of the story. No one approached me. My DMs stayed silent.
And I only know this because of a moot we shared. Looking back, I was wrong to trust them but I had no choice at the time. Of course it turns out they, and many moots were already roped in by her victim-playing.
I knew when I saw her on her new account mock my story title disguised as a psychology term (which it isn't, my gf is a therapist for fuck's sake) being nothing more than a hateful sneer that I am unhinged and must not be approached. She loves doing that, paint her victims off as if we're mentally unstable but the only one here with the body count is her. So MANY good artists, ransacked because her insecurity couldn't share the room with them.
Meanwhile this person is the one with schizophrenia in the room. Don't you dare say that's why, cause please. I got too many -tisms too, thats no excuse. But knowing them, that's exactly their excuse.
Watch her CONSTANTLY nuke accounts, coming back, and launch another around of defaming. Always talking about needing to move out of the state (and seeing that SAME excuse surface in another form years later????) and gathering money to move...like you did when you ghosted me? Okay. Money for what exactly?
She always has you blocked, and this would've been understandable but as you can see from that forum post people are rightfully questioning her SUDDEN ghosting because we thought of you as a friend. It's not safety if you nuke your shit every quarter or so.
But the constant being blocked on her new accounts she kept making over the years made me realized she keeps watching if her defaming campaigns actually are working. They (her bullshit community) keep track of if I already gave up and deleted me accounts, or if I indeed have less followers and likes than her. Remember, she lives for clout.
Back when webtoon still had its rating system, it got rate-bombed in such a way it wasn't considered normal. They didn't dare attack me up front, so...this is how, and so I was left with a piss-poor rating while that was not what my comic originally had.
Seeing this shit also happen where I was SELLING my art (one site, you know exactly which one), yea that's how I knew this situation is far more sinister.
And then there's always seeing bits and pieces of my art style surface in their work even though they do not draw that way. That was the true nature and reason of the ghosting- I was competition in their eyes, and their fanfiction self cannot handle original work being better. Or...any work being better cause...yea. Its that bad.
Post exact happy-go-lucky posts to show how good they have it...is that true, or did you need to f■ck the neckbeard predator (the moot in question...as a dude I really should've seen this coming tbh...) with the octagon-green glasses in order to fund your smear campaigns? Talentless behavior for a grown-ass woman, but again here we are.
My business has suffered because of her. That's what she wanted. And seeing her victims, something I didn't think was possible, made me realize this is now disturbing territory. But my story is theirs too. It the same thing.
Only difference? I left the art community.
Now...I am not sharing names. But I have the screenshots. This forum post is nothing but a insight in how this person works- she ghosts FIRST, not the other way around. And she will do so the moment you get your flowers on....well anything really. Whatever milestone you hit, its considered a threat to her entire existence.
I've been around a while. This behavior should've stayed on 4Chan or deviantart. But seeing this, and seeing her claim SHE is being "cyberstalked" (her words, please grow up?) and isn't identified as being the goddamn abuser HERSELF is menacing.
But...her links are changing. Her handle too. Her shitty, talentless art style is not. I see who's character you've ripped off this time, and I can tell their owner actually has a spine that won't fall out of their ass like yours like to do.
Anyways thanks for reading, its my rant but iykyk.
PS: right...her significant other. She talks odd about a man she claims to love like her were a character from a romance novel. He should know you've been screwing around with the octagon-glasses guy that loves to actually cyber-bully others because he can't draw shit for himself but fetishized POC women. Does he know or is Mike funding his music career because of who you screw and defame too?
PPS: Its fine if you don't believe me, but watch very closely as her crashouts BEFORE the account nuking thing. She pins the blame on general things like negativity in her direct circles (how are you this dramatic, is nobody wondering this?), or her latest random reasoning which is one all too easy to use: claiming her work was stolen by AI.
The thing is, AI targets HIGHLY skilled artists, which YOU are NOT. Non-artists that love AI want to be super good art art, and I can safely say that's not what you are. Read her website post (another thing that no longer exists):
IRONIC how you're using the Eye of Nazar there, the Evil Eye. Even more Ironic for you to draw a papercraft of the god Ra, you do realize the Curse of Ra comes for people like you? :) Anyways, its wasn't AI that had you freak out, it probably was a innocent question about your work that doesn't match the bullshit smudge style you ACTUALLY have.
