Umbra B.

First off, let me start with being bold and telling you that this site enables Gambling, YEP!

How so?

This site is a pay-to-play website, you can pay for six months or a full year and a full year is like 25 bucks so it may not seem so bad. Now on this website they'll host events at a ridiculous rate (and complain they don't have time for anything else like idk, actual quality customer service) but they have this thing called 'Extravaganza' events which is four times a year. They'll release a whole bunch of little events, last one had 18 different ones, and not only did you have only a week orso to participate in pretty much all of them, the prizes for these events are hidden.

You don't get to see the prizes, ergo you don't get to make a well thought out decision on what you'd like to join in on. The fact that you have to pay REAL MONEY to use the site the fullest, including using the forums where these events are hosted, makes it feel like indirect gambling. Because you don't know what you'll get for which event, which causes 'Fear Of Missing Out' super bad especially if you're already sensitive to it due to neurodivergence or if you're a recovering addict. I did contact the mod team to file a complaint, but they basically told me they 'didn't have the time to make the improvements' and shrugged their shoulders.

I'm a digital artist and decided 'hey, maybe this is a fun little niche for my art!' and I DID get to make a few commissions which, might I add for the mods if they're reading this were all HAND. PAINTED. And I'm not going to respond to any allegations anymore. These moderators have been scouring the internet, reverse searching my art for assets and brushes that resemble things in my art. I paint a lot of shiny stuff that's quite complex and I kid you not, an opalescent gem was believed to be 'clip art' because I guess me being actually good at my hobby and passion is unheard of:)

Not to mention they don't know what fair use is. As an artist we all grasp a few basic principles: Nothing is original, credit the OP unless stated otherwise and references are okay, tracing is not.

I NEVER trace, I reference, the closest thing they could've caught me in 4K with is that I transform PUBLIC, FREE TO USE assets of which I DOUBLE CHECK that I can use them without credit because homies, fellas, if I had to credit every single brush, texture, asset, font everything, it'd be impossible to post and anyone who draws and posts their art to like, Deviantart, Twitter, Tumblr hell anywhere, knows this. It's universal knowledge. It's very much a no brainer on when something is okay to use, when it's not, when you need to credit and that if the OP literally says 'this is just a brush I made no need to credit' then you don't need to harrass someone for not crediting as OP's words are the final say in these things.
There's also the matter of me doing commission work and me 'selling stolen art' when I see professional artists using the same PUBLIC, FREE TO USE textures and selling them for hundreds, artists who work for big companies, have legal advice etc. So I don't see the issue here.

THE MODS HOWEVER? OH BOY. I spent the better part of a week on a really good looking tarot card as part of an art contest. This image wasn't even done yet but I can now delete it because 'the sunflowers in the background look copy pasted, we doubt the opals are your own work.' Which tells me these mods have never touched an advanced program like Clip Studio Paint, or even GIMP in their lives, good god. A digital artist painting one, two or three flowers and then copy pasting them to save their own wrist from horrible pain and injury? And to save time in an age where content needs to be churned out FAST or we lose our client base to AI 'artists'? Wack.

These mods need to go outside and touch some grass, or better yet, seek counseling because the only reason I can see for this behavior is that someone hurt them or they're suffering from a burn out because being in that clique CAN'T be healthy for your brain:/

Included is a screenshot of the ridiculous allegation and threat.