graphiccontext

this page covers context relating to my accusation of style / graphic lifting re: a third party.

this covers my conversation with who i will call x, the individual i'd approached regarding believing they'd lifted my graphic style. it's important to show how this initial interaction wasn't aggressive, wasn't outright accusatory, wasn't rude nor was it unfriendly even.

as you'll clearly see, with names blacked out for privacy as this has been handled and resolved and we've both moved on, i reached out to x regarding their new graphic overhaul. i initially had a friend reach out and show me, stating how similar they were to mine.

now, i'll go over the similarities shortly for clarification. but i ended up messaging x to express how uncomfortable it felt seeing a mutual, who i'd been mutuals with for approx. 2 months at this point ( we'd become mutuals mid august '23 ) suddenly change their graphic style from this.

to this:

within the time frame of being my mutual, when mine looked like this:

i didn't know anyone else who used the single, stand alone character, the white outline in this manner, the small text, highlighted text like this:

when initially, prior to removing the text, x's graphic looked like this:

i'm sure you can see why it was concerning, and my genuine thought was "if this was intentional and they think they can get away with this, what else might they try and get away with?" i figured there was no use speculating and communicated. my messages are shown in grey, and x's are in the lighter grey. this took place on the 6th of october 2023.

now, x is immediately apologetic which is a red flag to me. largely because if someone suddenly started implying my graphics were intentionally designed to rip another's off, or that i'd lifted another style, i'd be pulling out all the evidence to show this isn't true or has been misunderstood somehow. i even go to great lengths to ensure my stuff doesn't look like other people's within the rpc. i would not be repeatedly saying sorry. still, x explains they got the inspo from a resource blog. including the white outline and the text. except i looked it up, and they don't look like what x had done.

the inspo doesn't have coloured text. i tell x in the chat that i do not own any of these. at no point do i try to claim them as my own ideas, only that the combination of them as an entire style was my own idea.

i mean at this point i don't even care to go on about it because if you can't at least see the exactness between these two pictures, there's no point trying to explain anything. i explained to them that the problem wasn't using those things, it was positioning them and formatting them in a way far too similar to mine for my comfort, given their graphic style wasn't like this prior to following me.

this is purely context for what started this entire thing. after this interaction, x went to zirka and anarchy who told x to block me, which they admitted to. afterwards, i switched up my graphic style again because i felt uncomfortable knowing someone could even come close to replicating it. although x removed their promo, their carrd graphics were still up and i had no way of asking if they intended to remove them. after i think two days, i got frustrated and posted on my dash solely for my mutuals to explain what was happening and that i didn't want my mutuals to follow or support someone who i believed had intentionally lifted my graphic style or used it for inspo. had i not been blocked, i could've asked what was going on and that never would've happened. zirka and anarchy proceeded to get involved, and caused this miscommunication.

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