Rudi it is. Go get a head from the mascot.
Yea happened with me a while ago. Somebody on th added a number of my characters to their "inspiration" folder. Click on profile and get greeted by the "don't get inspired by my characters" bs. A week later I checked on em just to see two of my characters as impim myos. Then got blocked for nsfw art I made.
It's only wrong by their standards, typically. You can't steal an idea that's been done hundreds of times before. To be truly original, you can take a basic aspect, and mesh together two or three other original medias to make something new, as it is your taste, a collective.
These artists demand you invent a new fucking color or get out of their imaginary world. I get it when kids do this, cause we were all dumb kids. It's embarrassing that the majority is adults who do this.
I understand in these situations and ridiculous number of warnings every toyhou.se user's page has, but people need to detach themselves from the love of their work or collection of colorful dogs... at least once in a while. Yes, what we create is personal, and it means a lot to us, but it can also have that same value and meaning to someone else.
Unless someone is just copying the character directly, giving no credit and trying to profit off of it, it shouldn't be a big deal, but it is, sometimes even moreso then someone profiting off of it. They're STeAling mY cLosEd speciEs.
Grem2 are chicken rabbits, Chimereons are colorful chameleons with paws. Hoodjinx, impims, and cccats are essentially the same design wise; all three bare the same hood aspect or eye/face in mouth design.
Whaddya do. Even in the Chimereon group, you choose to void a design, the mods will say yeaah you gotta remove the paws but we don't have control over what you actually do.
(Then WHY make it a closed species in the first place. You don't need to document every damn design. But this is a weird business with more stupid artists pressured by bigger artists to pay them currency to add a glittery ass on a sushidog drawing.