Have you ever been "threatend" by someone who likes your comic? :/

[shinepaw]

I know I can't, that's why I usually don't pay attention to these kind of people beside filling out a DMCA report. I don't want to give attention to art-thief, I never did, but when I get messages like these than it's an other thing :/

She reposted my comic all weekend, and I reported all, not giving a direct mention to her anywhere online, she doesn't deserve it. But she is so desperate, I just want her to stop finally, but she can make other accounts, like here and pretending to be her own friend and continue... I just want Instagram to finally delete all her accounts, maybe that'd solve some things...I've reported her several times, Insta blocked her actions, but it's not enough :/

[vonblinden22]

You should make a comic about this.
Seriously.

[eleoza]

damn, those messages are quite creepy too .-.
Sorry this is happening to you :< she probably likes your comic a little too much,you can partly see it as a 'compliment' that someone goes THIS far. But that doesn't take away the fact that this must be very frustrating. Like Niles said, your fans will always be able to tell the difference and support you I hope this gets resolved soon!

[thomassayle]

dont make the tutorial, and don't count on facebook saving you. You could start watermarking the heck out of your stuff for a while see how she reacts, but anyway don't give into her demands once she knows you'll cave once...then well you're screwed. Let me/us know how it goes

[shinepaw]

@thomassayle I won't do it, and it'd be pointless anyway, and all my work is already watermarked, or has a link to my sites, that's why I got a lot of message saying she impersonates me because she didn't remove my watermarks and links. She just went with it and claimed she is me :/

@Lucazu They sure are D: Yeah it looks like she likes my comics, but that much? Really? And I'm not worried she'll take away fans, but it's really annoying, specially when she thinks she'd do better with my comics than me...

[shinepaw]

I'm not sure about that o.o But first let's see how it ends.

[purrlpankras]

Well damn. I've never had this.
But if I did, I already have copy right to all my stuff. (creative commons does this) I highly suggest you do it if you haven't already.
Not really sure how instagram works, but you can report it to someone who works at instagram?
If nothing works, just let your followers know. They might become your own little army and help you with stuff like that. (I followed you btw)

Also if she's just a little brat, I'd just ignore all her messages.

[thomassayle]

ah good then, sounds like you know what you are doing goodluck

[KreativeConfusion]

Not gunna lie I had to read this, go drink of a cup of coffee and eat something then come back to re read to make sure this wasnt some half asleep hallucination. ...what? Thats a new one.

Just ignore them and silently report them. Its the best I can think of. Im sorry this is happening. Hopefully it stops soon!

[scythe]

I dunno. If this ever happened to me, I'd probably troll the living shit out of them. Seriously, as in, wrath of god, scorched earth shit. Biblical, ya hear.

[scythe]

No shame in punching down. Hard.

[PotooGryphon]

I agree with ignoring this person. I doubt, by how desperate her messages are, that she get a lot of attention online so whatever she might be able to re-post probably won't distract too much from your own post. Watermarks do help, you can even add your Instagram handle to further clear up only posts made by your handle is you.

I would send her one short response of I can see you like my comic but this isn't how you approach me, stop, before completely radio silencing her. Keep silently reporting her, and keep blocking/flagging all messages she sends.

[69Michi]

Throughout the entire messages I can only giggle to myself at how absolutely of a joke this person is. An art thief will always be an art thief, no matter how much you try to make it sound like you are the original artist, you are still just an art thief. And people are not that dumb to the point they can't tell who from who. All that hacking sounds really fake honestly. Hacking is not a matter of typing in username and then it will generate password. Honestly your best bet is to ignore them as much as you can, just pretend they don't even exist. Worst comes to worst, make a post or journal somewhere telling your follower about this problem, just throw it out there for people to be aware. You don't know how many miles followers can go for their favorite artist. If I am a follower of your comic, I will make sure that person has no place to go in the community and can no longer threatening you.

Jkjki'mnotthatscary

Best of luck to you : D

[nickricci]

I may have missed this advice if somebody has already stated it previously, but have you considered simply making your instagram account private?

[Michelle]

Oh my goodness. I'm hoping this person is like, 13 years old at most. It's a shame Instagram doesn't have a better way of dealing with people like this; heck, they don't even let you report spam posts anymore. :/ But I think any claims of her being you can be easily disproven just by the post dates alone.

I wouldn't worry too much, if she doesn't get the attention she's craving then chances are high she'll soon jump ship to the next thing.

[nathankschulz]

Make sure you have an official site that marks all your art as yours. And then remember a very simple truth:

YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN ACTUALLY MAKE ART.

Think about that. They are totally without ability or skill. You are the artist. You can actually draw. You can take requests and draw something from your mind because YOU are the TALENT. They can threaten and scream and cry all day but they are not you and THEY CAN NEVER BE YOU.

If you want to, go ahead and make a tutorial... ABOUT HOW STEALING ART IS PATHETIC. Maybe they'll learn something after all.

[donathinfrye]

This is definitely a good reason to avoid overly corporate platforms like Instagram. If this happened on your personal site, or a site like Tapastic, it'd be easy to deal with the situation. Tapastic doesn't allow you to copy/save the image files on comics, and you can set up your own site to do the same thing (I set mine up this way for that reason). Instagram probably deals with this often enough that they'll only take the bare minimum steps to try to satisfy you, and they are an image sharing platform that makes it easier for this sort of theft to occur.

I'm sorry that you have to deal with this. The internet is a truly crazy place. Remember that the choice on where you share your art and how is always yours. You have control -- this girl doesn't.

[Shanny8]

Kinda makes me glad I havent opened an Instagram account yet.

[kkitty]

Ignore her because the biggest punch in the face you can give her is not giving her what she wants. There doesn't have to be a threat on your part or anything and if you don't talk to her then maybe she'll learn her place.

[SirHellsir]

A little girl can hack any account with just the username
You can sleep with no worries tonight
people say hacking like you could just purchase a hacking software that can magically steal anything, might be annoying, but this kid can't really do anything