Art Theft Scam Final Update — classymedallion
The first and second posts I made on this matter
It seems that the classymedallion saga has finally come to an end.
I originally thought they finally blocked me as I was swiping through my tabs and realized they weren't in my dms anymore. But I did a quick search of delizaviinne, along with their sideblogs lo-xu and sapphire-mk, and I was greeted by blank pages stating that the blogs didn't exist.
Of course, not seeing a blog doesn't mean you aren't blocked, so I went the extra mile and logged out to search as a guest and was again greeted by the "this blog doesn't exist" message.
I even logged into my own private blog to access the links in my post about them, as well as searched through a handful of mirror sites, and reverse searched the stolen art to find their posts, but I was unable to find classymedallion or their related names/blogs.
Plus, I did a brief search of the other accts @ai-art-thieves listed in this reblog that followed this same pattern of commission scamming, and none of the blogs appeared.
The cherry on top though? The DeviantArt acct I previously mentioned that contained the same stolen artwork is apparently gone as the link I provided in my first post leads to a 404 page:
So I think it's safe to say classymedallion is gone👏🏽At least for the time being.
The only reason I made this update post is because that user stole art from multiple artists and uploaded that art to multiple platforms, and even went so far to make at least six different sideblogs containing the same stolen art, with @cherrysphinx being their most prominent target. This is an evident case, but a lot of art thieves aren't so brazen to be caught like this, so stay sharp.
If an artist, writer, whatever, approaches you specifically for help with paying bills or rent rather than making a public post about it, that's a red flag.
If they ask for your information instead of providing their own information up front, that's a red flag.
If their posts seem out of sorts, like their blog was full of reblogs of popular posts and nothing else before the posts of their work, that's a red flag.
If the posts of "their" works are back to back within too short of a time frame, that's a red flag.
If you find "their" works on other sites or blogs under a different name, or are unable to find their works under their name at all when doing a reverse search, that's a red flag.
Obviously there are exceptions to these rules, and there are more things to look out for than what I have listed above, but they're still things that should be kept in mind. Know the signs and remember them.