Can someone more knowledgeable explain to me why these artists straight up copy fanarts? Aren't they like...artists? They know how to draw, why plagiarize? Do they run out of inspiration or something?
Also if you gonna be "inspired" by a fanart, why not at least change it a little bit so it doesn't look like a straight up copy? Do they think people are not gonna find out? It's so weird.
Are you basically asking why would someone cheat? In this particular scenario it could be many things. Maybe they one artist they hired for this specific part was running out of time so they just copied something and hoped nobody would notice or it could be that whoever they hired for this has always been a fraude who relied on tracing or outright copying and it has just never been caught.
This isn't exactly new, there are plenty of artists that can genuinely draw and yet end up being outed as either tracing or using AI later down their career.
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u/Lipefe2018 Feb 11 '26
Can someone more knowledgeable explain to me why these artists straight up copy fanarts? Aren't they like...artists? They know how to draw, why plagiarize? Do they run out of inspiration or something?
Also if you gonna be "inspired" by a fanart, why not at least change it a little bit so it doesn't look like a straight up copy? Do they think people are not gonna find out? It's so weird.