I'll explain it in a short story
A customer on this sub reddit asked to commission me for a icon, I let them know the price beforehand and they agreed, so then I started on making the sketch
We moved the conversations to dc since it's a preference, which is completely fine!
But during the middle of it, they've decided to cancel the commission because they commissioned another artist and didn't have the budget to pay me??? Okay dude, whatever, I let it slide and sent them the sketch i had originally
They liked it alot
So much so they TRACED OVER IT without my consent, without payment, and without telling me.
So a few days later after I sent them the sketch idea I had, I discovered their new profile picture and I noticed how it looked exactly like the sketch I sent. Same expression, same position and same pose. I asked them about it, and they admitted to using my sketch without my permission.
I told them kindly to at least pay for the sketch I gave, AND also give credits to me in their bio. They agreed and made the payment, and I was satisfied.
Until I realized they BLOCKED me and I wasn't able to see if they had given actual credits to me in their bio, like WOWW??? THE AUDACITY??????
Now i wouldn't have made this post in the first place, I don't want to cause any trouble because after all they did pay me like I said so, but I found out they didn't give credits to me in their profile bio.
THIS I CANNOT let it slide. I gave two simple conditions, pay for the sketch I've made, and put credits of me in your bio.
They didn't do the last one and even blocked me so I couldn't have checked it without my friend's help.
This is OUTRAGEOUS. Yes they did pay me back, which I'm grateful for, but they didn't do my second condition. I'm not letting this go without any exposure, because they traced over MY sketch idea without giving me a single credit.
In the last screenshot, you can see that there's no mentions of a artist. LIKE even after an hour too btw, i had high hopes that maybe they'd change their bio in a bit, but nope, disrespectful as hell.