When people use your work for an rp without crediting you

No idea if anyone will stumble upon this rant, but hi. This is going to be a bit long, so make yourself comfortable? or run away, I don't know. There's a “tldr” at the end, if you want. And I didn't know what to use for the title. ;n;

 

So, basically, in late 2016, I was an admin in an rp with 3 other persons. It died because the head admin was too harsh with us. One of the admins decided to open a new place a few months later and needed help with the layout, so I gave her one on which I spent hours since I started from scratch. I was going to join her, but even after a few weeks of “harrassing” her with the same question “when is it opening?”, she would always give the same answer “soon ^^”, but it never did, so I gave up.

Later on, another rp in which I was died because... well, the community was tiny and the admin was fed up, but I made great friends in there, and we didn't want to stop roleplaying together, so we looked for a new rp for something around 8 months. Everytime, one of us would volunteer to go in different rps and see if they were any good for us. Turned out we never found any, so we founded our own in December.

Now now, you might think that paragraph has nothing to do with the rant, right? You'll understand why I wrote that.

Just a month after we opened it, since the platform is a blog where we can see who last visited us, I saw something I thought I would never see again: yeah, someone from that rp (which I never got to join since it wasn't going to open anytime soon) visited my own. So I checked their blog and saw that they kept everything I did, they opened the rp, but they don't mention who made the layout anywhere. I got really mad and betrayed when I saw that... They didn't even try to change anything. I even added some “fun” sentences here and there because I was supposed to join, and... what, they really kept everything. Anyone who knows me would get that I wrote these.

I know that might come off as rude, but I'm glad their rp isn't successful. I'd be even more pissed off if it was still running nowadays.

 

TLDR; I made a layout for an rp which never opened, then I opened my own almost a year later, just to see that they opened the rp and didn't credit me for the design.

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-bipolar
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honestly, i was just scrolling through blogs when i saw this- and wow. </3 i hate when people take credit for things that you made. that person probably thought that you'd never see it, which is probably why they did it.

i'm sorry that crappy people like that exist bub. : '(