I think the title alone goes without saying...
Also - I tried making this an announcement, but apparently it's far too many characters for Gaia to even try to comprehend. So bear with me here...
Seruta here with a bit of troubling news to all Mew owners:
Today, the staff and I had to do a bit of scavenging as well as attempt a bit of clean up after a bit of Art Theft was discovered recently regarding the Mew lines of the 'of Wonderland' pets. Personally, after what we had found, I felt it necessary to reach out to those of you who have been owners of these adorable mischief makers so that you all may be in the know and be able to help us put a stop to this once and for all.
Recently, we've discovered that an individual, Legendary Inaris, had taken hold of the mew art and "repurposed" it for their own use. The rest of the staff and I have done some searching and found that she has opened up her own shops, called "Bannit Island", "Bannit Mystery Shop", and various other forms of "Bannit ___" not only in our very own backyard of Gaia B/C... but also in places like Lioden, Furvilla, FurAffinity, Deviant Art, Aywas, toyhouse, and several others including Discord Chat service and Servers. Several of these places have already been reported and other admins had been made aware or alerted of the situation. Things are being handled.
The reason I'm making this announcement is because some of the pets she has sold and distributed to other innocents were your very own pets. Ones that were already distributed to you as their owners. Most of them were cosplays. Some of them were breeding results and there were at least a handful of some of your personal OCs that were "sold" as well.
As a result of this discovery, we have banned Legendary Inaris from the of Wonderland shop for the following reason:
Stealing Art that does not belong to them and distributing them for currency of both in game and real to users both inside and out of the Gaian realm. This includes, but does not fully summarize, "selling" other user's pets to people outside of gaia without their knowledge or permission, claiming to have been the artist of several pets that were noted to have been created by other individuals, and also taking full claim of the creation of the species and lines they distributed. This is something all artists do not take lightly. And as any member of ANY B/C pet shop will tell you, any of the above acts is generally frowned upon in the worst way.
I have done my best to be civil about this. I have tried messaging the individual and tried snuffing out the situation before the flames could rise, but I did not see the burning village that lay beyond. For that, I'm sorry.
All I will ask of you is to keep your eyes open for any future "Shops" to open using the mew linework and report it to the shop mule "Of Wonderland" as soon as you are able with links and/or screenshots available. We do not intend on selling the lines to anyone other than ourselves, so we wish to be notified as soon as things are found.
Thank you. And my apologies once again on this dreadful news.
In a much more brighter spectrum, there are plans in the works to reopen the shop again soon. The plan was to open again at about the start of summer, but sadly the before mentioned situation has set us back a few steps. Bear with us.
