#granddragon

Let’s start off by saying that me, LadyAaron and another deviantART user are all involved. LadyAaron was kind enough to help me gather the evidence for a report on both FlightRising and DeviantART.

I first noticed this on a certain tumblr. This user, bloomvaltor, was uploading FR dragons, claiming that they owned the dragons. They gave no credit whatsoever, and lashed out when people told them to give credit. (link to deviantart account)

Many, myself included, jumped in to politely ask to give credit. The comments have since been hidden, but they are all polite; they ranged from “hey can you please give FR credit? thanks!” to in-depth explanations of FR’s ToS, as well as deviantart’s.

And Bloomvaltor lashed out at every one of them, claiming that the commenter was being rude, and that they were bullying Bloom.

Here is a screencap grabbed off tumblr of how they act towards others: https://i.imgur.com/Mfqf1NN.png

Following are some more screenshots that I thought would be worth showing.

https://imgur.com/QD9A3Wu (Stating that someone was blocked on; not related to this, but shows their callout tenancies.)

https://imgur.com/2fEmsLK (imo it sounds like they’re playing victim here. Explains why they don’t give out their FR username anymore.)

https://imgur.com/FgXOiwF (lashing out and claiming a “snitch” is up against bloom and their friends.)

https://imgur.com/iDS8psZ (an attempt to cover up the above)

https://imgur.com/SxXXu0x (You can see they hide comments a lot. They get mad at someone who appears confused. Admits to not making the art, links to FR.)

https://imgur.com/u37JXrB (Claiming FR staff personally gave them permission, and that they “will figure out a way to post the letter”)

Now that we’re passed that, onto the next part: multiaccounting.

It’s not really hard to track them: https://bloomvaltor.deviantart.com/art/Unnamed-Baby-Dragon-706304918 This dragon is Mist Vipera, Shamrock Butterfly, Mint Contour. Inputting that into dragon search brings up this dragon, which is in Thunderstruck1’s lair: http://flightrising.com/main.php?p=view&tab=dragon&id=322224&did=36166642

Now, taking another dragon from the same account: https://bloomvaltor.deviantart.com/art/Unnamed-Adult-705441030 This dragon is Black Cherub, Heather Spinner, Cantaloupe Opal. Searching for that dragon brings up this dragon, which is in fireheart999’s lair: http://flightrising.com/main.php?p=view&tab=dragon&id=327765&did=35331614

This dragon, from the same account: https://bloomvaltor.deviantart.com/art/Unnamed-Adult-705285469 This dragon is Antique Basic, Blackberry Freckle, Blackberry Opal. Searching for that dragon brings up this dragon, which is in Guardian101’s lair: http://flightrising.com/main.php?p=view&tab=dragon&id=339755&did=35888912

Once again, from the same account: https://bloomvaltor.deviantart.com/art/Stella-699756879 This dragon is Grapefruit Tiger, Platinum Basic, and a basic tert, and is also named Stella. Searching brings up this dragon, which is is Granddragon’s lair: http://flightrising.com/main.php?p=lair&id=322202&tab=dragon&did=35136535

Finally, from the same account: https://bloomvaltor.deviantart.com/art/Unnamed-Baby-Dragon-696040164 This dragon is Radioactive basic, Algae basic, and a basic tert, and has water eyes. This brings up this dragon, which is in skyrimmaster’s lair: http://flightrising.com/main.php?p=lair&id=327743&tab=dragon&did=34824686

Up to this point, all of these accounts have the same thing in common: exalted progens, Guardian-only lairs, all befriended each other. This is too convenient, and is pretty shady. While there’s no actual confession, I’m confident enough to believe that this is an extreme case of multiaccounting. 

Onto art theft: Of course, the dragons. They’ve recently started putting a link to FR in the description of the dragons, but according to ToS that’s still not enough, as they must put “© FlightRising” somewhere, which they fail to do. (That I’ve seen so far)

https://imgur.com/wXY6ft3

Here, you can see that an artist has been notified of Bloom uploading dragons with accents without credit. I can personally confirm:

https://bloomvaltor.deviantart.com/art/Alduin-s-New-Skin-683337145

https://bloomvaltor.deviantart.com/art/Eclipse-New-Skin-683231495

https://bloomvaltor.deviantart.com/art/Drakius-New-Skin-683231479

This is just some of the dragons they’ve posted with skins and accents.

Their attitude towards artists is also pretty bad as well:

https://imgur.com/XyIw5sP

As you can see, Thunderstruck1 offers a measly 60 gems for a 500 gem skin, and then gets upset when the artist refuses the offer, stating that “no one is going to buy that skin for that much gems.” Which, by itself, is a pretty big red flag. 

Blacklisting and harassment:

https://imgur.com/yscvoUi

Here, you can see where they call out LadyAaron, claiming to only have one account and not wanting to start drama. HOWEVER…

They have also begun to slander mine and Lady Aaron’s name by lying and making claims without proof. All of this is happening offsite on DeviantART:

https://bloomvaltor.deviantart.com/journal/dekidour-gothica-the-eevee-KuraiPokemon066-705484627

(Imgur in case it gets deleted: https://imgur.com/3OzLAFy)

In this journal, they call out me, KuraiPokemon066 and Gothica-The-eevee, claiming the three of us have been cyber bullying them. They make a ridiculous claim that I made a fake account to send them a childish message. Keep in mind that I haven’t interacted with them since June, and have since forgotten about the entire thing. 

This account is called BloomvaltorTheif, and I have proof that we are not the same person.

I currently live in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The IP of my computer is 184.166.202.114. 

https://imgur.com/U4UKbnk

You can see here that the owner of this account lives in Seattle, Washington. 

https://imgur.com/Akdkthu

They have no proof whatsoever; it is entirely possible that this is an account they made themselves to make me look bad. I am not this person. 

https://comments.deviantart.com/4/28894509/4477045831

Mod note: archive here http://web.archive.org/web/20170927030431/https://comments.deviantart.com/4/28894509/4477045831

KuraiPokemon066’s comment, alerting me to this new journal. 

https://dekidour.deviantart.com/journal/Report-and-block-706509506

Mod note: archive here http://web.archive.org/web/20170927030437/https://dekidour.deviantart.com/journal/Report-and-block-706509506

This is my defense against bloom’s accusations. In it is every screenshot you see above, as well as some that show that Bloom stalks the pages of those they’ve called out. 

Their accounts are: