Glad I missed it, but pissed it happened...
Wow, apparently I've gotten better at missing drama- I was in the middle of one and I didn't even notice it!
So at Otakon this year, both Kat and I noticed a proliferation of some very...very similar art styles being sold by little Asian girls (not that little Asian girls are bad- they just made us old white folk feel bad). Apparently what we didn't know was that most of them weren't selling their own art. They were just cronies for a nefarious duo that had 14 tables to shell their art.
Seem a bit much? Yeah, it should- seeing as there are only about 100 or so tables in the Artist Alley, and there's a limit of 4 tables per group...
Talk about ruining a fun thing.
Luckily, someone made an effort to document their asshattery:
http://neolucky.deviantart.com/journal/19938012/
http://riiz.deviantart.com/journal/19974119/
http://jurijuri.deviantart.com/journal/19931021/
http://banzchan.livejournal.com/31854.html
So at Otakon this year, both Kat and I noticed a proliferation of some very...very similar art styles being sold by little Asian girls (not that little Asian girls are bad- they just made us old white folk feel bad). Apparently what we didn't know was that most of them weren't selling their own art. They were just cronies for a nefarious duo that had 14 tables to shell their art.
Seem a bit much? Yeah, it should- seeing as there are only about 100 or so tables in the Artist Alley, and there's a limit of 4 tables per group...
Talk about ruining a fun thing.
Luckily, someone made an effort to document their asshattery:
http://neolucky.deviantart.com/journal/19938012/
http://riiz.deviantart.com/journal/19974119/
http://jurijuri.deviantart.com/journal/19931021/
http://banzchan.livejournal.com/31854.html