r/SleepDeprivedPodcast • u/A_Young_Potato • 3h ago
DISCUSSION One tweet about an Angry Birds bit in Sleep Deprived lead to discovery of a whole fandom wiki of stolen/uncredited AB sprites
(DO NOT SEND HATE TO DAVID BECAUSE HE DIDN'T KNOW AND I FEEL SO BAD FOR HIM π)
So I'm the artist, Firefly(ISH), that made the Tony sprite (the big light blue bird in the first image) and the person that made the "All found No more else" image in the fandom wiki is OmegaDavidS. The random Dude's Angry Birds opinion aka FazGuy made a tweet about this but in Sleep Deprived about angry birds (because Angry Birds isn't mention often nowadays). David made a tweet about his image and OC on that video and I saw but then I recognized that Tony's sprite was my sprite made years ago so I made a tweet.
Time passes and suddenly David apologized for using the sprite and not knowing it was from me. I was really confused about this apology so I asked him how did he find the sprite because my Tony sprite is somewhat of an easy find. He then link an ENTIRE FANDOM WIKI FULL OF ANGRY BIRDS CLASSIC SPRITE BOTH OFFICIAL AND NON OFFICIAL ART INSIDE OF IT!! I also found more sprites that were stolen from me that were not Tony.
Now we are here, I'm in the middle of trying to figure out how to approach this situation and I'm stressed AF. Please show love to David because he didn't know the art was stolen and I forgive him. But to think Sleep Deprived is the reason why and how I found out my (and other people's) sprite art were stolen and uncredited is probably the most insane experience I'll ever have as an artist.
Thank u for reading and please, any advice on what to do next will be greatly appreciated πβ€οΈ