Shop deletion could be to stop issues of people ordering and possibly yeeting money into the void at a banned user, but... That could have easily been done with a lock and note
Spassow didn't get their shop deleted nor their account locked after they were caught tracing art for years. Somehow this feels even more suspicious. Did any other threads of his get removed?
I completely forgot about the Spassow shit, my bad.
As far as I can tell, none of Brightmyth's other threads are gone, but I don't follow him that closely.
My initial instinct was that this is related to that "skin artists go on strike" thread a while ago. I don't think they'd ban someone for doing that ONCE. I wonder if Brightmyth tried something similar again and staff decided they'd had enough?
Thinking about this more rationally, besides the fairly obvious horsemen of BMT/funneling, he could've just run out his warnings and earned a (possibly temprary) suspension.
the fact that the tarnisher account looks fairly dead makes me wonder if this was a shell account for BMTs or similar exchanges, so brightmyth's main account would be unknown to the other BMT-er.
pretty baffling they deleted the entire thread. makes me think it's probably a skin/art issue, right after he won another skin contest too. is there any other skin artist who's been banned and got their entire thread nuked?
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Re: brightmyth banned?
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(Anonymous) 2023-03-31 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)Other big-name skin artists that got banned haven't had their threads removed.
Deleting the skin thread screams art theft to me. Keep an eye on their skins, see if any of them disappear.
Re: brightmyth banned?
(Anonymous) 2023-03-31 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)Re: brightmyth banned?
(Anonymous) 2023-03-31 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)As far as I can tell, none of Brightmyth's other threads are gone, but I don't follow him that closely.
My initial instinct was that this is related to that "skin artists go on strike" thread a while ago. I don't think they'd ban someone for doing that ONCE. I wonder if Brightmyth tried something similar again and staff decided they'd had enough?
Thinking about this more rationally, besides the fairly obvious horsemen of BMT/funneling, he could've just run out his warnings and earned a (possibly temprary) suspension.
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