#cat team

Artists beware!

When a few likes become more important than what’s right.

We started this initiative Sunday due to finding out former active MM fan artist Myetie had taken down all her MM art from her Instagram, deactivated their Tumblr and abandoned the past completely. Myetie was and is probably one of the most famous artists within the fandom (together with @r-e-i-i​ , @eori-namo​ and a couple of others).

Credit Myetie: https://www.instagram.com/myetarts/ It was tragic to see such efforts Myetie had gone to to protect their original art from theft. They created a new protected twitter and IG account to separate herself from what happened. I don’t intend to drag her or any of the others into it, but this is a callout post for one particular Facebook Fan page we’d like to call out for their offensive behavior towards artists and entitlement.

And here they are

This particular group continuously posts images from artists with no more than a CTTO as a general rule at best. They flat out ignore people telling them the artists doesn’t want their art reposted, and they call Artists PMing their crew to take down their art harassment. They literally wrote that artists should be thankful for them reposting their art and they are doing their best job. MM CAT has shared a ton of their reposts with credit since Sunday, and they do not put credits on still. We literally pointed out to them that R e i i and Eori Namo doesn’t want to get reposted, but still they continue to do so afterward. We also informed them of Myetie’s departure. Here are 2 of their mods opinion pieces on why they are the good guys and people who have their art stolen are harassers as well as sharing their reposts with full credit.

I want you to know that all 3 images used in their posts by artists had already been shared by our page with full credit previously. So we’re considering that they deliberately chose those images to mock our efforts for artists. As they have blocked us too.

So far...

The day before yesterday was a crazy day for us here at MM CAT as well as one of the fan pages on Facebook. We've been communicating with the leader and helped with finding proper credit for Mystic Messenger fanart as well as their repost policy. What started out really bad has turned out really good and we hope that some kind of normalcy can come back for the pages and their admins, as well as the artists and people who messaged the page. Either way, we're working on fixing it. 2 new members have joined the CAT Team, we want you all to welcome our new Adnonymice. <3

If you want to join the team and help us in our efforts you are more than welcome to contact us here or on Facebook. We’ve been in contact with a couple of other fan pages and their response has been positive. If we keep a positive tone we’re sure that more will comply and help in our efforts to rid the fandom of uncredited and stolen art. After all...

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar!

EXTRA: We’re working on collecting data for a database that will help fan pages and artists alike with getting accredited for their efforts. We care so very much for all of you artists out there. Thank you and support the artists!

@rosetsuki you are welcome. Taemin seems to be the new main character of TYN so that is very fortunate.

This page is cooperating with us right now and so has another one donr it is already starting to work. We realise there is a long way to go and it will take a while to make proper/full credit, asking the artist as well as respecting artists who doesn't want their art reposted wishes the new normal in this fandom. We however are hopeful and stranger trends have happened on the internet before :)