I never thought I’d have to make a post like this.\u00a0 I just assumed that if someone liked my stuff enough that they wanted to display it, they would simply drop me a quick message and ask.\u00a0 Guess I was naive to think that.\u00a0 So, this is my post letting every person who visits my site know that it is NOT cool to take my content without my permission.\u00a0 It is NOT okay to upload my work to other sites without citing me as the creator or giving me any credit.\u00a0 I have been trying to get the content of mine that I can find removed by site admins but it has been a slow process.\u00a0<\/p>\n
To anyone who has done this, I hope you get what is coming to you.\u00a0 You seriously need to be a better person.\u00a0 Instead of using your time stealing the work of others, why don’t you put that energy into becoming an artist yourself?\u00a0 You should be ashamed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I don’t make money off my art for the most part.\u00a0 I have a very small merch store that I might see $5-$10 a month from.\u00a0 It isn’t about the money for me.\u00a0 It is about sharing my work with people.\u00a0 I can’t share my work as myself if there are people out there distributing and posting it without my name attached to it.\u00a0 Seriously, I’m a reasonably nice guy.\u00a0 If you love something on my site, reach out and let’s work something out.\u00a0 But seeing my stuff scattered around the internet has been hard.\u00a0 It is hard to look at a website and see that a piece I put hours into years and years ago has been uploaded by a stranger without my name and viewed and downloaded thousands of times.\u00a0 You aren’t helping me “get my name out there” when you take my work and don’t mention my name.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I appreciate that people like my stuff.\u00a0 Seriously, that shit is cool as hell to me.\u00a0 That’s what I want!\u00a0 But I don’t want people to like my stuff without realizing that an actual person is making it.\u00a0 Society is too quick to just consume without thinking about how that content happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So, long story short here: stop stealing my work.\u00a0 Stop uploading my art to free download sites.\u00a0 If you want a piece of my artwork so bad, contact me directly and let’s talk about some options.\u00a0<\/p>\n
To those of you who look through my site and would never even consider doing some of the things I’ve mentioned, you rock.\u00a0 Thank you for being awesome and following me on this journey.\u00a0 I’m sorry that some shitty people have ruined something that was supposed to be fun.\u00a0 I’ve had to take steps to make my work more secure now and unfortunately that will make viewing stuff a tad more difficult.\u00a0 This sucks and truly bums me out.\u00a0 I plan on continuing to upload content but I’m trying to be smarter about it so that these leeches at least have a harder time stealing from me.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sorry for the rant, and thank you for your support and love while I deal with this new reality.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Steven-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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