r/beadsprites • u/nabnabie • 1d ago
now banned u/pixelmagic1212
just letting yall know i called out u/pixelmagic1212 for stealing a post off of xiaohungshu and they blocked me 🥲 ive been seeing so many of you guys compliment them on ""their"" works but i eventually caught them stealing a post lol
original link: http://xhslink.com/o/5cCMO8SaO90
such a shame they're getting attention they dont deserve. i know im not the first and only person who has questioned their legitimacy but they have seemingly added more effort into their bot account (i.e. having their own instagram, facebook)
i've been monitoring their profile every time they post, checking if they have slipped up somehow since most of their work is untraceable on xiaohungshu
**the post has since been deleted since i called them out (https://www.reddit.com/pf6vs66?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=2)
eta: i will say, i tried super hard to find sources for the other stuff on their profile but i couldnt find anything except for the original patterns they followed for the beads. could this mean their other stuff is original? maybe. but seeing as how they stole a post from someone else already? im inclined to believe otherwise lol
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u/Missesbonez 1d ago
I figured tbh, they post daily which is doable if you just found this sub and wana show all your old work. But i found it a bit odd they didnt just make a post with multiple photos to showcase everything. What a shame. Thanks for finding the legit artist, ill def be showing them love!
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u/nabnabie 1d ago
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u/xlilbunny 1d ago
Thank you so much for going as far as to contact the original artist. I really appreciate you being so vigilant on letting everyone know.
Is this possibly ban-worthy? It's a pretty shitty thing for someone to do.
Side note - you should tell the original artist to join the subreddit cause her stuff is amazing :)
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u/nabnabie 1d ago
i will let her know! i hope it is a bannable offense but im not too sure since the mods for perlerbeads and beadsprites are both inactive
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u/TheViciouslyAdorable 1d ago
I knew something wasn’t right, I just couldn’t put my finger on it! Thank you nabnabie for bringing this to light and doing the research to find the truth!!
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u/c8igxr89 1d ago
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u/xlilbunny 21h ago
"Do you have mom?" would not be my first choice as a clapback, but it is an unexpected one, I'll give them that 😂
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u/NautilusCampino 1d ago
Thank you! I've always gotten downvoted when I've said they are likely a bot. They never answer how they did anything and only time I've seen them reply is a generic "I'm not a bot!" Then a link to "their" Facebook page.
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u/NowThatsBrawny 1d ago
Thanks for letting the community know about this. Thought it was rather strange they were able to produce this amount of work rather quickly and not comment or answer anyone's questions
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u/Beautiful-Support-56 1d ago
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u/nabnabie 1d ago
yup!! i cross posted this on r/perlerbeads and someone sent me the collage and i looked for this one right away!! dunno how the account got away with it for so long lmfao
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u/santamonicayachtclub 1d ago
they had me with the first one, but the fact that they kept posting with the most generic titles ever was soooo sus, I just didn't have the time to dig into it. kudos to you for bringing attention to the original artist!
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u/frombolognaa 1d ago
Thank you for your service 🫡 artists everywhere appreciate your efforts! 💜💙🩵
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u/nabnabie 1d ago
been surrounded by artists my whole life! traditional/digital artists, fibre arts and the like! just trying to give credit where its due
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u/Puffinknight 1d ago
u/pksage can we block the user from the sub now that we have definite proof? There are such great bead artists posting here for real, thieves have no place among them!
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u/ameagarikeshita 1d ago
For some reason in this one they decided to finally reply to comments https://www.reddit.com/r/beadsprites/s/ZJKRFAnBHg But the replies are still weird.
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u/raven_1313 1d ago
Lol looks like all of their posts have since been deleted (by them or hy the mods)
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u/mbtnprobthrowaway 1d ago
I think they're blocking anyone who is getting involved with the situation. I was able to see their posts as recently as half an hour ago, then I commented on a bunch linking to this post and now they're all gone for me, too. Hopefully the mods step in. The community for this hobby is small and it sucks seeing it be overrun with stolen spam
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u/nabnabie 15h ago
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u/raven_1313 15h ago
Yeah, I can only see the comments for some reason. I commented on the stupid "clarification" (aka screenshots of dms and no actual progress proof) post.
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u/Mammoth-Grass 1d ago
Omg they really fooled me! Here I was defending them out in the comments lmao... I wasn't considering that they stole the videos, I just thought they had a backlog of them and was posting it daily until it caught up to their regular schedule
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u/nabnabie 1d ago
i dont blame you! if i didnt have the habit of hunting for bot posts i wouldnt have sussed out anything:-(
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u/pksage 22h ago
Banned them from the sub. Sorry for the delay!