It doesn't sound like it if anyone here wants to hurt them. If people hate even independently owned OCs that happen to be living AI to the point of fantasizing about killing them because they think they or the artist were made through AI generation, then I'll probably just get rid of my character, maybe sell him. It would just be another headache avoided.

Please, don't. My characters are really important to me, and mine is an animal. I had to scrap so many characters because people drew gorey killing art of them or threatened to hurt them. and it discouraged me from wanting to use them ever again.

Yeah, it was horrible. I probably won't use Jinko anymore after all of this, but I had to show my layers to the Discord to prove it wasn't AI generated.

Nah, don't worry. No one here's going to do that. Your OCs are safe.

Seriously. Zaar's our resident madman but his bark is worse than his bite. Anyone starts griefing you for real, Staff's on it.

Yare yare daze...

I wish DeviantArt staff were this helpful. I did report the threatening art, and they said it wasn't about me, despite my username being in the description and tags telling me to die or burn in hell. I feel a lot safer here.

We strive to maintain that feeling, staff and members alike.

Darou? Shikkashi na, Wizard-san ga itsumo konna fuu nandakara, majime ni hannou suru hitsuyou wa nai sa. 😊

Kare no koto o son'nafūni iwanaide kudasai… :/

My expectations were already drilling down into the bedrock, but every dAy brings fresh disappointment. :/

Whuddiye mean?

The fact that they continue to decline, probably. Users who were there since the very beginning even say it was always pretty bad. I mentioned people drawing killing art of me and my characters, right? Well, I should have mentioned that not only did DA staff refuse to do anything when I reported it, but this gave the bullies the impression that it was okay to not only continue, but to escalate it, so they sent me death and rape threats in my notes. However, a lot of people hate me, so their friends posted journals about how it's solely my fault, or encouraging them to read my ED page back when it was still up, destroying my reputation further. I might write a journal in Google Docs about what went down, but I don't know if I could discuss it here without at least toning down the details. Just know I'm not the first person to go through this, and I'm definitely not the last either.

Why whuddidjyas do?

A lot of things. Looking back at my past behavior, I snapped, lost my cool, and even bit the culprits' heads off a few times during mental breakdowns, which I'll admit was completely on me, and I regret not taking a moment to calm down first before responding. I'll probably explain my faults along with what I went through in the journal, but sometimes, people who hate me used that against me and mocked me for it, insulted my intelligence, or used it as "evidence" that I'm a horrible person. If I explained my disorder as being a reason why I have communication issues, they'd accuse me of "using it as a crutch", when even medical professionals would tell you that it's actually a valid explanation why. No surprise why they'd accuse me of "stealing" my own art using this technology too, it's happened before. I did find out later on that my autism was, in fact, the primary motivator in why I got harassed so badly online over the years, as much as they like to deny it, because back in the 2010s, and even to this day, it was very common for autistic people to be bullied, because they wanted another Chris-chan to make fun of; even JAR pointed that out.

Yeh that's a whole fuckin chicken or the egg scenario there.

But respect that you bit back and didn't take it lying down.

People like that have to know that their bullshit can have consequences for them.

Nothing is free.

That may be, but it's been a stressful life so far. I get bullied online, only to delete my accounts and get bullied in real life, be it in school or at dayhab which is why I quit that dayhab in favor of a new one, one that actually helps. Some people don't realize that there's a person on the other side of the screen, or they do and they just don't care.

Somewhat tangential but I know a guy who's apparently a social worker IRL and you would never know it from the way he carries himself online. 0_o

I wouldn't doubt it, I've co-existed with cops and lawyers on the internet over the years since childhood, but they would behave like everyone else off-duty.