Nads6969 - Banned from Deviantart 12/12/19, Ban-Evaded 12/13/19
So for those who do not know, FireFlea-San over on DA has been leading this fight against Ms. Stepputat for YEARS now. They put together several journals, compiled evidence, worked with a Discord of people devoted to tracking down Ms. Stepputat’s traced works and reaching out to the original artists. Flea is also an amazing artist and has been victimized by Ms. Stepputat several times.
So, after the incompetence of Kietz was brought to light, Flea took things to Spyed, the CEO of Deviantart, and made it clear that this issue with Ms. Stepputat has gone on far too long and it was approaching litigation territory. So Flea left a polite but firm comment on Spyed’s profile:
https://sta.sh/01snmxzd6xis
Then, Lo and Behold, this glorious thing happened:
https://www.deviantart.com/nads6969
This wasn’t Ms. Stepputat deactivating her account on her own... This is a formal ban, issued by Deviantart itself.
There was much deserved celebrating at this, as this is one of the few times that hundreds of members of Deviantart came together against a tremendous issue (like with the HTTYD thief and the whole Chad Lieberman thing). Lots of people put in a lot of work to make this possible, and after 13 years, it finally happened.
But then, this showed up:
https://www.deviantart.com/newsenshigeneration
Wow, color me convinced.
https://www.deviantart.com/newsenshigeneration/status/19327972
How sad. I had written a nice, scathing obituary for the Nads6969 account, but it seems that even after receiving a formal ban from the CEO of Deviantart, Ms. Stepputat is too dumb to understand the concept of “no” and “stop.”
She’s also too dumb to realize that no one is falling for this:
https://www.deviantart.com/comments/4/52067394/4799075033
“She is still a human being”
So are the artists she stole from, disrespected, and ignored. But I guess in her mind, they don’t count because they’re not her.
https://www.deviantart.com/comments/4/52067394/4799090718
“I don’t intend on re-publishing her stolen work, just her story”
Her “story” which was made up of TRACED SCREENCAPS, grammatical errors, and nonsensical paneling.
“I don’t need “Big Sisters” telling what to think or do.”
If you can’t make viable, adult decisions, I’m pretty sure you DO need help.
https://www.deviantart.com/comments/4/52067394/4799072002
Haha. First of all, it’s “tragedy.” “Tradegy” is something Bugs Bunny says when he’s being facetious.
Again, the “we all make mistakes” defense doesn’t hold much water when she made the same “mistake” for a consecutive 12 years, even when being told/asked to stop. Can it really be called a mistake at that point if she was making a volitional decision to stay the course?
Also, there’s more going on than “just” tracing. Original artists came to her page and demanded to be credited, or demanded that she take their work down because she never asked permission to use it. She responded by either begrudgingly posting credit, or hiding comments and blocking the user.
It’s time to report her for ban evasion. She’s dumb if she thinks it isn’t obvious that it’s her.