MerHetalia

Hetalia mermen and mermaids

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The mermaid Meggy drawing that was submitted to this group by djdjdj221 is stolen art. I am the original artist for the drawing. Please remove it.

Art thief alert: djdjdj221I normally avoid doing these kinds of posts as I'm the kind who usually keeps my social channels free of drama, but this is a very special case because I am involved in some degree.The general gist of it is that my art was stolen by a user by the name of @djdjdj221. Normally I'd get this sorted out quietly, but these are extraordinary circumstances, and while I did make a status post about it, I've learned some more dirty things about the user that I felt should be addressed. Firstly...1) Art theft,This collage of drawings of Meggy Spletzer as a mermaid was something that I had originally posted on Twitter as far back as April 21, 2021 for an art submission event. I hadn't uploaded it to DeviantArt originally as I felt it wasn't fit for my DA gallery at the time. However djdjdj221 had went and uploaded it to their gallery without credit, permission or even my own awareness. They didn't even bother to edit it to remove my Twitter handle from the drawing. I was made aware about this thanks to @DeoxysDivinity informing me about it (cheers for that!).Following the awareness that my art was stolen, I have decided to upload the original, full-sized version of the art to my own gallery to assure others of who the real artist is, which you can find here. What is especially insulting is that djdjdj221's upload has been getting favourites and group submissions, so if you're a founder/contributor to a group that the stolen version was uploaded to, please remove it and add the real upload in its place.I've filed a DMCA takedown request against the stolen art since it has worked for me when another drawing of mine was stolen back in October last year, though it hasn't gone through yet.I wasn't the only person to have had their art ripped off by this user - a look through their gallery also has other art stolen from other artists without credit or permission, most of which even still have their original artist signatures in them:,This one was stolen from artist and YouTuber HoopsandHipHop. Their original art can be found in this video.,This one was stolen from Marilu Molina, whose Tumblr URL is still in the image. The Tumblr URL still works here, though this piece is not there.,,,These last two I haven't found the original artists for; SauceNAO didn't turn up anything. If anyone knows who the artists are, it would be appreciated for me to know.Of course, that's not the only dirty thing to come of this user, as I want to bring attention to...2) Racism and ableism (CONTENT WARNING)Turns out djdjdj221 is also racist and potentially ableist. Who would have thought? Specifically, the user has a few "hate" posts against Halle Bailey, who played Ariel in the recent live-action The Little Mermaid from Disney and calling her "evil":,To further add fuel to the flames, the user appears to have no qualms about using the ableist r-slur in their comments in response to another user. On top of that, they didn't even credit the artist of the second image in their "meme", further adding to their art theft count.ConclusionSoooo, yeah. I don't normally put someone on blast like this as it's not the kind of thing I'm generally comfortable doing, but because I was involved in their sliminess I felt like I had to make the exception this once, and that I would like people to be aware of this arrogant little thief and report them. If you have faved any of the stolen pictures of theirs, please remove them....

I can't put my drawing to Merman folder. Is it full?

Hi
Our group

is holding a "Summer Love Contest" check our page if someone is interested ;3
Sorry for the bother and have a nice day!

i didn't even know this club existed~ its an awesome club so i'm happy that u featured my work *v* Many thanks~

HOW COULD I NOT FIND THIS PLACE!?

Thanks for the request

xD Cute group~ Maybe I will join… Mhm… I will think about that. ^^