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[–] StarManta 20 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Regardless of what it says on the image this is 100% a parody.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

I think maybe you're out of the loop here. This is part of a trend to screw over bots that automatically steal art and sell it on random sites. That's why others are commenting stuff like "I'd buy this on a t-shirt!".

The tactic has already been proven to work several times, when people post stuff like this, and then report the shops that steal it to Disney's legal team. It's a clever way to leverage Disney's lawyers to protect regular artists who couldn't afford to sue all these random websites.

[–] sfbing 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks. Other comments and replies have been alluding to this, but this is the only one that described the mechanism.

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