Hmmm.

[telophase]

Just been notified that over on DA, someone's using my DA icon for themselves.

Not sure what I'm going to do about it. I think I'd kind of like them to shift the color or slap a border or something on it, so it's not *mine*, but OTOH I think that's mostly a knee-jerk response because I feel like it's my Online Face she's taken. :)

http://alcoolic-mello.deviantart.com/

Comments

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

Possibility, just throwing it out there: be aggressively polite and offer them a color-shifted or different-border/text version of the icon? It might shame them into switching it out.

(I think weird sometimes.)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

That may be the best option at this point. It's not like it's important enough to go to the authorities - she's not uploading it and claiming it's hers, and I've seen the icon on Photobucket before, so she may not even be aware that I made both it, the original picture, and that I've used it for so long that I feel it represents *me*. Or, heck, of my existence. :)

[corvigryph.livejournal.com]

Yeah that's how I would feel if it were my icon. At the same time, I can understand just finding some icon online and wanting to use it without really thinking about it *sweatdrops*

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I know it's out there, and she probably just picked up from some Mello image dump. Aaargh! Oh well, it's not like she's actively impersonating me so I'm going to take time to think about it.

[ninjoo.livejournal.com]

Well, that's one way to write 'welcome' (on her page): 'welcum' Sounds gross :D

Maybe just write her to say 'hi, thanks for using my artwork as your icon, I'm honored, blah blah' and making clear in a subtle way you won't tolerate theft or her claiming it as hers, if she tends to do so.

but still, yeah, it's your face, not hers :D

[ninja-tech.livejournal.com]

Whoa. That is kind of weird. I don't visit DA much, but even I got confused looking at her comments and seeing the Mello icon. I see that icon and think that it is you posting...>__<