EDIT: Issue's been resolved for now. Keeping the journal up tho (without examples)
I'm probably gonna delete this later because the situation itself is petty as hell and not worth my time but I think the bigger issue is worth addressing
I think a big reason why deviantART isn't taken as seriously as an art platform anymore is because of the theft and tracing. People like to play off heavy referencing and tracing as just using the style when really it's pretty much the drawing equivalent of recoloring.
That brings up the question of what is the difference between style emulation, tracing, and heavy referencing?
Well, tracing is just tracin