Things were going along fine until I received some reports earlier in the year indicating she was tracing other artists. I looked into it and found three fan arts that lacked proper credit. This on its own didn’t really worry me too much. It’s easy to go in and edit something and credit the original.
What did concern me was the closer look into her account showed that for whatever reason she was making dummy accounts again. It had started back earlier in the year. I was disappointed since it had seemed like she was finally going to come clean and leave that behavior behind her.
So I blacklisted her from the top member list and resolved to approach her on the matter. However, she approached me first, expressing puzzlement over what had happened. Iruka had deleted these accounts before approaching me, but I had already kept a record of them:
TotallyPrincess
Iron Man
The Real Eyeshiel
AutoBot BumbleBee
Agon Kongo
TopDog
Meow Mix
YouNeedATicTack
I was sure she knew exactly why she had been blacklisted and I called her on it, giving her the information that I had been gathering, which included the list of the fake accounts. I also gave her the info on the three fan arts. At that point she came clean and explained why she had done it. Iruka then went through and removed these accounts as well:
ShootingCowboy
BlueLightSpecial
Shaman Len Tao
Wild Kitty Cat
I removed the following two accounts since they were from before and Iruka couldn’t remember if she made them or not. They had at one point shared the same IP, but since they were several years old, the explanation was acceptable. She had probably just forgotten the passwords.
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The Soul Society
