It really sucks your art got reposted and ofc the tiktok people are too ignorant to actually care about you being the original artist, I hope maybe the reposter gets taken down or something but best of luck, Sparks
yeah, hopefully - but i doubt it. tiktok seems like the kind of place that doesn't care if you steal art from off-site even if you were to report it.
it's a lot like deviantart in that way. i've dealt with countless art thieves who've stolen my tumblr artwork and deviantart refused to do anything about it.
i'm usually able to just brush it off, but having it happen with my art of NaN specifically is what pisses me off.
i'm not even necessarily against the idea of my art being cross-posted to a platform it was never going to be on anyway - my issue comes solely from the fact that they did not ask permission or include my authors' notes.
so i end up seeing tiktok commenters treating NaN like she's just a representation of a generic missingno when she is so so much more than that to me. and they'll never know it because they don't care enough to come find me off-site.
it also sucks that so many other artists have had their shit taken from yellowviridian too, and they've been able to rake in thousands of follows off of artists who are most likely just like me and didn't give their consent to being reposted.
i guess this sort of thing is why artists put signatures on their work, but i personally don't like doing that because 1) it looks tacky and 2) art thieves will find a way to crop/edit signatures out anyway.
the people who have critical thinking skills will come to find me anyway, and that's a bit of a silver lining to all this.
the most i can really do about it now is try to ignore it and move on.