Got an art scam bot comment on my most recent fic. Double checked, and found comments on two other fics in the Boueibu tag on AO3.
Specifically, it's from AO3 registered user lizziedoesitall, not a guest user.
Biggest red flag aside from all three comments saying to contact them on Discord or Instagram to collaborate on turning the fic into a comic, was the time stamps were only a minute apart.
Mine opened with "I just read your latest chapter" but the comment was on the fic's first chapter and only discussed content from there.
Some of what was brought up also felt generic. Like Yumoto saying "Love is over!" apparently made them drop their phone, when it wasn't a really significant thing in the fic? That's just what Yumoto says in the show, and so he said it in the fic.
There was also the line:
It felt like watching a mashup of Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! and Revolutionary Girl Utena if they crash-landed in the middle of a department store.
Made a post earlier about it, but I feel the entire/vast majority of the fandom calls it Boueibu? No one uses the English title to refer to the series (or if they do include it as a tag, it's in addition to #boueibu).
(Admittedly, it is interesting to know that whatever AI model they fed my fic to for writing the "review" part of the comment associates my style with Utena...)
But yeah, make sure to block lizziedoesitall and report any comment from the account as spam!
