02 May 20:07
--this is an earlier thing
Shout Box archive
02 May 20:07
--apparently ricky just decided to randomly bash on the guy because his art was too hyperreal and looked doctored...?
02 May 20:07
--no he led a sustained harrasment campaign where he was constantly posting 4 chan threads trying to bully him all because ricky though it was him making threads about him on 4chan
02 May 20:06
--Haha! Did he turn him upside down and shook the guy until his talents dropped off his pockets?
02 May 20:05
--Well to do with the ricky thing. he has personally bullied an artist i know into dissapearing off the internet...
02 May 20:05
--im pretty sure that stuff would happen anyway since the people being ripped off would probably sue him anyway
02 May 20:04
--Sure. But, that's the context Hob's trying to explain. That's larceny. Ricky boy and artist victim is just.. silly I guess! Haha!
02 May 20:04
--people lost faith in conceptart.org and people migrated over to here and other forums
02 May 20:03
--yeah i moved to cd when that whole ca drama happened and the forum was on tis 13th bloodsport i think
02 May 20:03
--the point is this stuff came to light because people talked about it and communicated the issues of what was going on
02 May 20:03
--But, how did drama cause all that to happen? Isn't stealing just.. you know, stealing?
02 May 20:02
--jason manley ran conceptart.org into the ground, through all the crazy TAD stuff and stealing royalties from videos from the massive black video program
02 May 19:59
--feng zhu is doing better than ever, and wasnt there a court case agianst manley im pretty sure that goes beyond internet drama
02 May 19:58
--but i have heard plenty of stories boycotting artists because of forum behaviour.