Heyo, I don't really know why I feel like I should make a journal here, since it doesn't really matter, but I just need to vent a bit.

Over the last few months, I've had terrible luck with getting comms from artists. Technically, it's been the whole year, but specifically the last 4ish months have been the worst. Mainly artists deleting their accounts before giving me the art or my money back, and some have just completely ignored any attempts I've made at contacting them to get it finished.

Just today, I found that an artist I paid $100USD ($160ish AUD) as part of a wg drive back in August, and was the top donor for it to get a donor reward, had deleted theirTwitter and KoFI accounts, meaning I have no way to getting my money back at all. They said they were going through some tough times, but they'd get to finishing it soon, but obviously that was a lie.

I'm just getting sick and tired of spending money and waiting, just to get rugpulled like this man. It hurts me a lot, and I can also feel myself getting used to it, which I shouldn't. Like I literally posted an unfinished comm I got a couple months ago, and I paid for last year! Literally the same thing happened, they deleted all their accounts and now I can't get it finished or get some money back.

Here's a link to my post about it if anyone's curious https://bsky.app/profile/deadeyexl....../3m7jjlo7rg224

But yeah, aside from the few comms i'm still waiting on, and a couple I haven't posted, I'm gonna stop getting new comms for a while, cause I'm just too upset with this happening so often