Is this person an art thief?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ItsJannnneee@lemmy.blahaj.zone⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩

Hello. So my friend just sent me a message about something they’ve seen. There was someone who was stealing people’s usernames while attempting to impersonate the people they stole those usernames from, and on one of the accounts, this person posted these drawings 5 months ago, seemingly all at once:

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This person made a post 26 days ago where they showed some new art. This is what that art looked like:

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When my friend confronted them for this, they responded with “I changed mediums” to explain why the more recent art looks so different from 5 months ago and asked my friend to “find the original if you think it’s stolen”, but before they said that, they had lied about not not deliberately taking people’s usernames.

I am not an artist, so it’d be preferable if any artists could chime in on this and whether a change of mediums would explain the differences.

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Naz@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
The bottom right “art” in green is pure schizoposting, the “DMs from the divine” and then walls of text are typical of degenerative schizophrenia.

I’m sorry OP, they might be an art thief, they might be insane, maybe both.

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Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Seems like a bit too much progress for a few months.

They went from middle school to art school overnight.

My first guess was that the “medium change” was using AI, but, the new stuff isn’t THAT good, and aside from some missing fingers, AI would probably have made that girl punching a tree better than it is.

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- ItsJannnneee@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  It’s the opposite, their newer art doesn’t look as good as the art that was posted 5 months ago. I found another account they post art on and their most recent art looks like this, nothing like the top three. Image
  
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  - Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I recognize those kids on the train. Did you post something about that on here before?
    
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hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Maybe Google reverse image search helps?

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- Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  There’s no point to reporting, DeviantArt enables its users to repost and even claim copyright on other people’s art. The only true option for reporting is finding the original artist and convincing them to make a DMCA claim.
  
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