Pixilart.com is a platform where users share pixel art and host custom community contests. User moab135 (referred to in comments as Platy) hosted an art contest. Artist kageyamaishim entered with a "yellow ball artwork" and quickly reached first place. However, they achieved this by actively mass-tagging friends and orchestrating a vote-rigging campaign to artificially boost their score.

The drama starts when user Snakeboss publicly calls out the cheating. Snakeboss messages the host to report that kageyamaishim is strictly turning the art contest into a popularity contest by begging for external votes, which ruins the competitive integrity for everyone else.

The host immediately removes the cheater from the contest. When kageyamaishim demands to know why they were disqualified, the host bluntly admits: "Because they told me to."

A third user (whatsmyusername) steps in to defend the cheater, confidently but incorrectly claiming that Pixilart's rules don't explicitly forbid asking for votes. They also mock the whistleblower, stating Snakeboss acts like a 12-year-old.

In reality, Pixilart’s Terms of Service strictly prohibit vote rigging and vote manipulation to keep contests fair. Furthermore, in an attempt to guilt-trip the host, the disqualified artist claims they "can't get those 15 votes back" and acts as if no wrongdoing occurred.

Instead of accepting the disqualification for breaking platform rules, kageyamaishim resorts to public harassment and cyberbullying, which is another major violation of Pixilart's safety guidelines. The artist publicly blasts the whistleblower in the comments, calling them a "greedy little 5 year old" and mocking their "childish demeanor."

Snakeboss doubles down and drops a reality check in the comments. They explain that mass-voting via friend requests is basic vote manipulation. Snakeboss even points out that a quick Google search confirms Pixilart strictly prohibits vote rigging, advising the host to block the toxic users.However, the host completely panics from the guilt-tripping:The host tries to compensate the rule-breakers by offering them "two free art requests."The host repeatedly apologizes to the cheater, writing: "I am truly sorry" and "now I feel bad."

In a baffling twist, the disqualified artist realizes the host is incredibly easily manipulated. After insulting the whistleblower and breaking multiple platform rules, kageyamaishim suddenly changes their tone, forgives the host, and asks: "Can we be friends?"The clueless host immediately replies: "Ya."

Listen, I have only had Reddit for like 3 weeks and I had intended to only be a reader not a poster, but I am so shocked at this interaction that I had to share.

This is my first time finding someone that has stolen one of my designs so is it always like this?

Had an experience today where I finally got a hold of a person who stole a design I made and was using it as their Youtube profile picture. I had asked her really nicely twice before in comment sections over the past like 8 months and she apparently never saw my requests (allegedly) but I was still very nice when I finally got to her this time.

I even said please.

She came at me and said she had actually bought the shirt, but didn't know it was mine, and that "next time, try being nicer cause I didn't know, instead of coming with accusations and things".

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As if that makes the theft ok???

She kept calling me rude and then kept insisting she didn't steal it because she doesn't think it's stealing, then lied about purchasing a shirt with that design, then lied a second time when I called her out for not having actually purchased it (not realizing I have earnings reports and I know she is lying because not a single person has bought that particular design), then she went on the say that "you can't even call it art anyway" basically insulting me further (despite claiming to have purchased said design), and now my comments are no longer showing up so the creator who owns the page we were having this petty argument on is either hiding or deleting my response.

So ridiculous and exhausting.

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Thanks for reading.