The Tshirt art scam, the revenge...
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I Want That on a T-Shirt
Artists on Twitter say that their work is regularly stolen by armies of bots that generate t-shirts from popular designs—and they’ve got the receipts to
Gizmodo (gizmodo.com)
to sum up... certain companies use Bots to trawl artsites for trigger phrases like I~~'d love that on a shirt~~ (attempt to mask so this don't end up on a shirt LOL) then Bingo. it's offered on a shirt.. and the artist gets bupka's...
so.. someone decided to weaponise the Bots against the owners
read the article to see LOL
on a serious note, please read the article and avoid the triggers if you can. this is a wholesale theft operation that it seems stores like Amazon are unable/unwilling to stop.
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