since that piece of shit website goatlings is gone, time to share some fun facts about it! - there WAS indeed a secret artist blacklist! despite staff denying its existence, whether because they didnt know or just didnt want to admit, multiple users on goatlings were blacklisted and purposefully ignored. in my case it was over an item design unintentionally resembling a character from a comic. at no point was i ever informed of this, so i couldnt correct this issue, and my designs were ignored FOR SEVERAL YEARS despite many other users wanting them!

why did i never say anything about this while the website was up? because i didnt want the design taken off the site. i love the final iteration of it, to be clear. but there is no denying that multiple additions i made to the original were taken and repurposed, and i was never once asked about this, nor was i given any sort of credit or recognition.