I apologise in advance for a bit of sidetracking from the main content of the post, but would like to highlight that the image used at the start of the original post is an edited version of the this art (https:/ /project-imas.wiki/File:Yui_SS_SSR2.png), which is art from a mobile game, ‘THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Starlight Stage’.
I’m not so sure how copyright works in this case (or if it is relavant), but I do have reason to suspect that this ‘Shista chakma’ on shutterstock is just taking images created by others, making small edits to it like adjusting saturation or flipping the image around, then passing it off as his own work. Further evidence to this can be seen by looking at his page on shutterstock, found here (https:/ /www.shutterstock.com/g/Shista+chakma)
I feel there’s too much inconsistency in the art style for it to have been created by one individual.
I don’t know how much, if at all, the person profits from this, but I do feel that it’s sad for the artists who have had their art stolen and put up like this without their permission.
Also I do apologise for this small wall of text, and in no way intend to fault the author of this post, for there would be no way for one to know about this, and I likely would not have noticed either, if not for me being a fan of the series (or to use the term we fans use, and what others sometimes refer to fans of THE iDOLM@STER as, a producer).
Also, I apologise in advance if I accidentally broke any rules doing this, but the site was preventing me from posting this reply saying I couldn’t use links in the post, so…I may have split the link up to allow me to post this reply, so once again, I do apologise if I have accidentally broken any rules.
