It was brought to my attention by a patron a month ago that bad actors have the ability to easily rip any kind of pictures posted on Patreon. They then take the content and post it to their own website. Websites that are probably spyware and virus coded to steal all of your private information.
I've known about this for years and I've tried to make it a little harder for them by posting all of my art on my Patreon discord server.
Sadly, despite that, they found a work around and the art on my discord server has been leaked and posted. Not only that, but they have records of all of our text channels and messages we posted suggesting there must be an automated way to ripping the data.
I've already thought of the possibility of someone paying 5-10$ to grab all the art on the server and sharing them with whoever. Sadly, it's something that's inevitable with any kind of art product. Can't do anything about it. It's just extra sickening that they've gone that far to even ripping our text posts.
Really sad that someone would want to punch down on a small-time artist like me but it is what it is. I'm not going to waste time and energy trying to find these people and bring them to justice. I'll leave it to Karma and keep focused on delivering good art for you all :3
I'll be posting some more info on the discord server. So please, join the discord and give it a read.
Thank you,
~Dawn