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Omg... some people can be just so... URGH! lol there really isn't any word for it. Especially 13 year olds. I don't know why I'm even bothering to give it the time of day but I know if I don't I'm going to stew over it for hours. And I hate doing that so I rather rant about it and it be out of my system.
There's this girl Krissy- who runs Shooting Star MSN group (a design/graphic group) *background info* and a couple months ago when it first opened she asked me to be a designer and I said "sure, why not." So anyway, I'm designing there for about a week and all of a sudden, I notice people copying my style. First starting with my design page, then with my brushes. And I'm like... ok... the brushes I was using wasn't uncommon or not easy to get- but at the time they were out to say "Out of Fashion" and I was using em because they weren't popular. So it irks me when I start seein Krissy herself using them on her MSN pages but... i don't say anything. Because up to this point I think Krissy is a great girl, still learning and finding her own identiy with PSP, plus I think she's pretty nice. Then I notice more people using them and they're getting back into fashion... "Whatever..." I think. But then I notice the next fashon is too put thick (and in my opinon ugly) lines around a celeb's picture when they are used in a graphic. And THESE are all over... again I think "whatever", it's just going along with fashion. But at the same time it's starting to really bug me, because I LOVE originality and can't stand doing something just because it's popular. But that's just me, and me personally. It all blew off though when I requested some buttons from another designer because I was feeling too lazy to do them myself... and the backgrounds I requested to be done with them get stolen! Mind you I didn't make those backgrounds, but they were really good backgrounds that I didn't share with everyone. Well they didn't really get stolen but, then took those backgrounds to ME and asked her if I would make something her with them. I was like HELL NO, but in nicer words, I simply said no that I had issues making someone else something I was requesting from somebody else in the first place. Then with all the nerve and not getting it that I don't want people to use those backgrounds, she goes to the designer I had requested from for banners with those backgrounds!!!!! So I had finally had enough. I was tired of being copied off constantly and being around people who couldn't have an original thought.
I had no problem with Krissy- I even told her personally that I hope it didn't hold anything against us, that I still wanted to be friends, and that I thought she had ENORMOUS potential as a designer. So it's about a month later and I've been watching all the great improvements and really branching out on her own as a real designer and I'm thinking, "I like where this group is going, I should reapply and see what happens." I apply yadda yadda and then she messages me on MSN saying I bad mouthed her group and all that bullshit. I'm trying to be nice, because it's obvious that she got the wrong idea last time because I never called her group bad, just unoriginal at the time. So I'm trying to explain and be polite because I didn't want it to hurt things between us. That's how I am- I want people to get the right idea in what I'm talking about so I explain myself- but she rudely cuts me off in the middle of it saying "Look, just drop it already." and I'm like, "ok..." without even letting me explain. And this pisses me off to be so rudely treated that I said, "Fine, be a bitch about it. I was just trying to explain, geeze." and block and delete her.
There now that i've ranted all that out, I feel a lot better and can go on instead of stewing over it.
There's this girl Krissy- who runs Shooting Star MSN group (a design/graphic group) *background info* and a couple months ago when it first opened she asked me to be a designer and I said "sure, why not." So anyway, I'm designing there for about a week and all of a sudden, I notice people copying my style. First starting with my design page, then with my brushes. And I'm like... ok... the brushes I was using wasn't uncommon or not easy to get- but at the time they were out to say "Out of Fashion" and I was using em because they weren't popular. So it irks me when I start seein Krissy herself using them on her MSN pages but... i don't say anything. Because up to this point I think Krissy is a great girl, still learning and finding her own identiy with PSP, plus I think she's pretty nice. Then I notice more people using them and they're getting back into fashion... "Whatever..." I think. But then I notice the next fashon is too put thick (and in my opinon ugly) lines around a celeb's picture when they are used in a graphic. And THESE are all over... again I think "whatever", it's just going along with fashion. But at the same time it's starting to really bug me, because I LOVE originality and can't stand doing something just because it's popular. But that's just me, and me personally. It all blew off though when I requested some buttons from another designer because I was feeling too lazy to do them myself... and the backgrounds I requested to be done with them get stolen! Mind you I didn't make those backgrounds, but they were really good backgrounds that I didn't share with everyone. Well they didn't really get stolen but, then took those backgrounds to ME and asked her if I would make something her with them. I was like HELL NO, but in nicer words, I simply said no that I had issues making someone else something I was requesting from somebody else in the first place. Then with all the nerve and not getting it that I don't want people to use those backgrounds, she goes to the designer I had requested from for banners with those backgrounds!!!!! So I had finally had enough. I was tired of being copied off constantly and being around people who couldn't have an original thought.
I had no problem with Krissy- I even told her personally that I hope it didn't hold anything against us, that I still wanted to be friends, and that I thought she had ENORMOUS potential as a designer. So it's about a month later and I've been watching all the great improvements and really branching out on her own as a real designer and I'm thinking, "I like where this group is going, I should reapply and see what happens." I apply yadda yadda and then she messages me on MSN saying I bad mouthed her group and all that bullshit. I'm trying to be nice, because it's obvious that she got the wrong idea last time because I never called her group bad, just unoriginal at the time. So I'm trying to explain and be polite because I didn't want it to hurt things between us. That's how I am- I want people to get the right idea in what I'm talking about so I explain myself- but she rudely cuts me off in the middle of it saying "Look, just drop it already." and I'm like, "ok..." without even letting me explain. And this pisses me off to be so rudely treated that I said, "Fine, be a bitch about it. I was just trying to explain, geeze." and block and delete her.
There now that i've ranted all that out, I feel a lot better and can go on instead of stewing over it.