My last post on the situation. I wanted to close the topic but to see some people doubling down on the “@lilajaneart is the victim in all of this” - card is ridiculous. Also I wanted to make clear that I don’t imply that people like @lphaCentauriKid @art_pleb or others that made a bid have anything to do with the fraud. They just got deceived too and made a bid without doing their research. Maybe not even the closest friends knew about it and made the bid out of friendship to her. It doesn’t matter. She profited of deceiving, infiltrating and using bigger names, making a joke of hard working artists being here for years trying to get seen by the same people. And again: of course she doesn’t deserve to be bullied in any way. But other people’s wrong doings don’t justify her scam. She also doesn’t deserve that some people try to play the victim card on her and rug everything under the table like nothing happened because she blatantly lied and deceived and even had the chance to come clean multiple times when people asked her about it and decided to double down, block anyone and delete her fake wip posts etc. I wrote her a DM before publishing anything publicly. A very nice, respectful message. It told her to come clean. That the lie can’t hold up. She blocked me. That’s the way she chooses to handle the situation. This is not someone that is regretting their mistakes. Instead on top of it she was celebrating the new symbolism of the piece after the controversy. Shameful. We all can forgive to an honest excuse. Everyone can make a mistake. But there were no signs she even understood her wrong doings, no intent to make it right. Instead she doubles down on her lies, blocks everyone (even respectful opinions) and tries to go on like nothing happened supported by some people gaslighting others that respectfully criticized her behavior. All the intents to push this discussion to: if AI is art (of course it can be, it’s a medium to create, just don’t lie about it) or bullying (of course bullying is bad but the wrong doings of others doesn’t justify the primary wrong doing) are a form of gaslighting people that care for values in this space. This is a case of lying, scamming your way into the head and circle of influential people and it just shows how weak the base is we build here if people support easily-to-spot scams instead of hard working artists out of a personal relationship they built with that person or because they see other people they like share this scam. There is maybe no bad intention behind but just shows that all these fake “we will remember who was here in the tough times” posts are bullshit. We see what’s the reality. Just get the right connections and you will sell any mediocre imagery. That’s the hard truth. This case is much more than just a scam, it shows the weaknesses of our space and how “fair” it really is in the end. We have a long way to go. We have to do better.