Monday, December 16, 2019

Terrific bullying

The Gallery will always be a place of fun and creativity for others to share. But there's something undercover that happens every day. BULLYING. There has been a lot of speech about a gallery drama in July 2019.

How it began; My friend and follower LukasCreatesSims (known as luk4spuk4s, LukasCreates) uploaded a Sim called Linda. He wanted to raise awareness about gallery drama and bullying by giving her a back story. I stated my point and I was against bullying, referring to gallery and real life in which I've been bullied. I've warned people politely on the gallery to stop stealing my work and I did because someone stole my recent Sim. Do I care about it?

Never should I care about such things. Sharing my things is not as important as real life. The Sims 4 is just a game. I have common sense and don't care about thieves that steal my work. Not gonna brag about it; I'm just a creator in the gallery, but not as popular as long-time creators (since 2014). I'm popular and I like to share my work with others but most of all; be kind.

Later a gallery member FruUtter helped clean the gallery up from thieves. She included a Sim of mine on a video she uploaded on Youtube. I reported it for my own safety. But unfortunately, it's no use talking shit on her behalf regarding that ONE specific video. Another friend suggested I take the sim away because it had a word that provoked. That word was "stolen". It was not one of the typical cuss words we hear each day, like "b*tch" or "ho*". Not even the "N" word. Y'know, these words are disallowed on such a peaceful place like the gallery.

The worst part is that I revealed the creator's ID on my Sim I supposedly uploaded there. According to FruUtter, this is personal information. And I really care about such a thing. I don't want to get my personal information stolen in any way. I'm an adult woman (?) of 18 years and I don't want to find out about scams. I have common sense and responsibility, not jealousy. I took Wayne (this was my Sim's name) and re-uploaded him with 4 extra skills, no ID revelations, nothing, just a small backstory and that's it. This was after my vacation!

Since then anything has been so peaceful. No bullying, but I've lost followers. That doesn't have to do with bullying. I didn't steal my creations since then but updated some, it's just a part of me matching them with certain things I like. Since then the sharing had begun... In order for me not to lose followers I shared a lot. Yes, A LOT. Because I had no school only university preparations!

When I moved in to my new home I had no internet connection until November 2nd. That was the day I got my internet connection. I limited my shares for a short period of time. I came back to see my friends and followers. How they are. What comments they left on my work. All that good stuff. Now I have also "stopped" sharing my creations because University has kept me up. And that doesn't have to do with bullying.

Recently I found out the bullying on the gallery has begun AGAIN. It's on a forum discussion. I do NOT use forums. It's just pointless sitting infront of a screen and reading forum posts. Only thing I did is browse forums off different topics because I had an issue with my laptop, now it's fixed. I browsed the Microsoft forum only. That's a little off topic.

I hate it when people attack other users on the Sims 4 gallery. These "other users" appear to be kids/any kind of minor that probably don't understand or care and what THEY want to do is own the gallery by uploading other people's work and claiming it as theirs. Some creators' terms of use are to be kind and think before uploading. My terms of use are to be kind and respectful on my work, not get my stuff stolen or re-uploaded. I do not steal or re-upload others' work. I re-upload MY work only if necessary or in case I feel like giving them a change.

I also noticed this; some users do not give credit to the pose maker/painting artist. I've seen Sims posed but not given credit to the pose maker. This means they are not kind towards the pose maker or don't know how to give credit. Also saw players steal others' paintings. I give credit to both - also give credit to Maxis for the default poses, I don't because the description may be too long...
For example, if seeing a Sim with a pose you've seen you don't attack the uploader by saying "you don't know how to give credit to the pose maker little one".

Allrite. Let's forget the "little one". Ignore it. The most polite way to say to a player that forgot to give credit is "The original pose is by X, please give credit to them.". Same to paintings. No bullying/flaming/attacking and such. ALWAYS BE KIND!

By the way, there's more to come! I do not have ANY intention to expose absolutely anyone, thank you.

Joanne/mikrolactaki3

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