GRemy84

Okay, understood. Thank you.

An artist on a social media site I use expressed interest in someone designing them an icon and I offered my services, and he accepted and paid, and I designed him his icon, regularly showing him progress and communicating with him on Telegram. Given that he was astounded at my work, he told me he was seriously considering sending me more money (I had only charged him US$20 since I'm not a "professional"). When it was done, he approved it, and then I asked him if it was okay to post it publicly, only to get no response whatsoever, and he posted it publicly on said social media site. I repeatedly attempted communication with him there, noting that he was linking to the wrong username on the site, and even sent private messages every time he made a new post on the site (which was about once a week to every few days), only to get no response at all despite apparently having time to make other posts. I could easily make a drinking game of being ghosted like this (albeit on non-commission things in cyber communication), and it really distresses me. How should I deal with this? Is he bewareable?

Yes, I've learned (unfortunately, the hard way) not to deal with these people. Luckily I didn't send a lot of money to the artist in question I'm dealing with on Instagram right now.

Within this month and last, countless artists have been approaching me to beg me to commission them, and I mistakenly obliged to a few, including one that swindled me out of $1000+ of my money (which I am still fighting, and I have reported to everyone in that regard), and there's one on Instagram who showed no examples of their work on their page, evidently showed examples from another artist via DM, and is producing subpar work when showing progress on my art, explicitly plagiarizing the reference images I provided them. How should I approach them?