i have this line of warning "DO NOT steal, copy, edit or repost my art!" on all my posts
while not naive and knowing it won't stop people from doing it, it serves a purpose. to let you know i'm not ok with it. as there are lots of people who do these things with the idea of "well they never said anything about it, so i just assumed it was ok"
i can't stop you from hurting me. online or in life. you can't stop someone from stealing your art the same way you can't stop someone from entering your home and stealing your furniture. you can't stop someone from insulting you online the same way you can't stop someone from punching you in the face
when an artist post their art online, they're doing it with faith. hope that you'll act like a decent human being, and won't do something awful with their art which they spent time and hard work on (and no, that doesn't make it ok if it's "just" a simple sketch)
i don't like to talk about this cause you're all strangers to me and that's too much information to give, but: i'm disabled. life is already hard enough for me. there's barely anything i can do. times i don't even have the energy to draw. so i'm putting. so much faith when i post my art. i'm almost begging you to be decent. i don't need any of that crap. art is the only thing that i have, the only way i can express myself. and it makes me (no joke, no exaggeration) physically sick when someone disrespect me through my art. the saddest thing is by saying this it'll make creeps want to do something awful. truly i'll never understand people who can't feel anything unless they hurt someone
here's your reminder artists are people i guess. if you forgot
i can't stop you from hurting me, editing my art not only despite but because i asked you not to do it, from insulting me
but i wish you'd go to therapy instead. or talk to a friend. if you have any. because by hurting people you're also hurting yourself. you're making yourself so awful to be around that, if you're not alone yet, you will be eventually. or you'll be surrounded by equally awful people, the only ones who can handle your being and habits, and that's even worse cause it'll make it harder for you to get help
i shouldn't have to block so many people a day. you're wasting so much of my energy (which i have so little of to begin with) and i know you don't care. you don't care... how sad for you. how pathetic