Sabitsuki has been posting art and claiming it was their work.
<pooryoric> also, hey sabs what's your artist name thinger?
<pooryoric> are you on pixiv?
<Sabitsuki> i used to be on pixiv but I got off because some dude was being really creepy
<Sabitsuki> mostly I just throw my stuff up on danbooru or tinypic these days
<pooryoric> oh?
<pooryoric> well, then
<pooryoric> this artist is gonna be pissed at you for claiming credit for their picture of franken fran
<pooryoric> looks like it's been up for a while
<pooryoric> explain?
<Sabitsuki> ?
<pooryoric> someone called jirou
<Sabitsuki> huh, yeah
<Sabitsuki> that's a bad ID
<Sabitsuki> I uploaded that like a year ago, I have no idea who jirou (slept) is
<Sabitsuki> the just finished thing was a lie
<pooryoric> the image you just claimed to have just finished has been posted under that name on danbooru, gelbooru, and pixiv for quite some time now
<Sabitsuki> yeah
<pooryoric> see, this sort of thing is why I get red flags about you.
<pooryoric> stealing art, man.
<pooryoric> not okay.
<Dexanote> Huh
<Sabitsuki> i apologize
<pooryoric> that's not the sort of thing you can just apologize for
<pooryoric> art theives are the lowest of the low
<pooryoric> trust = gone
<Sabitsuki> ah
<Sabitsuki> hm, okay
<Dexanote> You're an artist of sorts, correct, yoric? this is why you have a powerful set of feelings here?
<pooryoric> that and I'm a decent human being, yes
<pooryoric> plagiarizing the hard work of others in order to establish a false identity for yourself is fucking pathetic
<Sabitsuki> yeah.
<pooryoric> I'm making a post about this on 05. even if it has nothing to do with the wiki, frankly I'm not comfortable with making staff of a plagiarist.
<Sabitsuki> okay.
Much of the stolen art was familiar to me stylistically, but until tonight I had not been able to pinpoint a specific username or discrepancy. Then this happened:
<Sabitsuki> ey, yoric. finished the drawing of franken fran
<pooryoric> show me! also, a picture of you, because you said you would weeks ago and curiosity makes me fizzle with restless irritability
<Sabitsuki> nsfw http://i55.tinypic.com/mrdzsi.png
A quick search on gelbooru turns up the same image, which in turn is source linked to the artist's pixiv account, where the image was posted some time ago. When asked, sabitsuki helpfully informed us that they have no pixiv account, and when pressed, confessed to art theft as seen in the log at the top of the post there.
As further proof, I submit
<Sabitsuki> i just wanted to apologize, even though it probably doesn't mean anything to you at this point. it was a dumb and stupid thing because I simply wanted to impress you.
=== Sabitsuki <moc.rr.ser.submuloc.20734F86-CRInys|tibbiM#moc.rr.ser.submuloc.20734F86-CRInys|tibbiM> “http://www.mibbit.com”
=== Sabitsuki is a registered nick
=== Sabitsuki: member of ~#TheMerchant and #########
=== Sabitsuki: attached to envy.il.us.synirc.net “synIRC Illinois”
—- End of WHOIS information for Sabitsuki.
<pooryoric> I've been waiting to prove you were full of shit since you showed up.
<Sabitsuki> okay.
<Sabitsuki> i. really don't know what to say.
<Sabitsuki> i'm sorry.
<Sabitsuki> it doesn't mean much, I guess.
<pooryoric> it doesn't mean anything at all. from here, what happens is up to the others- regardless, my part is done and my hands are clean.
<Sabitsuki> alright.
So, yeh.
Although I realize this did not occur on the wiki, plagiarism is plagiarism, and those who condone it should not be wiki staff. For my part, this is a vote of no confidence in sabitsuki as a member of senior staff.
