Part of the Animal Jam lore I forget about sometimes is I was the creator of a Deviantart group for AJ fanart so that's probably why I found out really quickly if someone was tracing my art because they'd submit it to my group...

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Oh and sniffing out scams and trade listings which was another whole ordeal but the art theft was targeted and not always at me so trying to gauge intent and "is this a 10 year old learning to draw" or "is this a grown person trying to profit off of tracing and selling art"

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And I mean even when it was a kid trying to sell my art as their own, it still sucked you know? I remember one person changed their username to be similar to mine and dressed themselves in a similar outfit when they started taking commissions. It felt like someone wearing my skin

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There are accounts under my username on websites I had never used. I think at some point I just stopped being a person and I just pretend to be an individual when er I'm online now because it can be taken away at any moment

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Spent the last decade of my life thinking "I was sent to the mental hospital because the Animal Jam fandom was mean to me" and beating myself up over that alone because I blamed myself before I blamed the way people treated me offline or on

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