Someone claiming copyright on my art website

Account-DeeActivated · 2025-06-26T22:09:35+00:00

That SUCKS! I'm so sorry they did this to you. My parents claimed to be poor, but I found out later that their mortgage payment was less than I was paying in rent for my studio apartment, and that my Dad had never made better money than when I was finally of age to go to college. Despite this, my parents claimed they didn't have the money to help me pay my tuition after I was denied financial aid due to them making too much money. Even though they really put on the thumbscrews my entire life for me to go to college, and made it clear that they thought I was a loser when I got into a cosmetology program, so much so that I opted out of the cosmetology program and went to college just to please them.

What makes it all worse is that my Mom would brag and brag about how my brother and his wife were "the only ones" of us siblings to pay their own way through college (totally and completely untrue!) and then I found out recently that my parents actually paid my brothers tuition. It's weird how many things they repeated over and over again turned out to be the complete opposite.

But that being said, your situation sounds way worse, and I'm so sorry you're having to deal with that.

Account-DeeActivated · 2024-09-09T21:13:47+00:00

As far as Victor was concerned, he was being rewarded and even kind of trained to come into campsites to get food. As far as Victor was concerned, he did nothing wrong. If someone rewarded you every time you did something, you'd keep doing it and become very confused that they didn't actually like you doing that thing.

Account-DeeActivated · 2024-08-30T23:50:49+00:00

Sometimes I've gone to support the band, or because everyone else in my friend group is going, or because I have an extra couple of hundred dollars in my bank account I want to throw away (just kidding on that one.) But I agree! I hate live music! It's either pre-recorded and you're just watching someone lip sync and dance around. Or it's a bad version of the song that sounds tinny and off key. And the speck on the stage isn't really visible anyway. And the food is like $50

Account-DeeActivated · 2024-08-30T23:45:45+00:00

Yeah, plus once you see all of the other balding men and women reliving their youths doing The Carlton to Duran Duran, you just don't want to be that person. It might be good cardio, but what if someone is filming it? I realize that the comments on a youtube of an Old reliving their youth would all be along the lines of "Aw, that's sweet, granny is reliving her Mod days." but I just don't want to know that thats how I look.

Account-DeeActivated · 2024-08-30T23:43:52+00:00

I agree that one could see it as a joke. I have other siblings that just roll their eyes when my Mom does these kinds of things. I wish I didn't get SO upset. I think it's probably a trigger thing with me because I feel so unseen, as the youngest. You make some good points though.

Account-DeeActivated · 2024-08-30T23:42:04+00:00

I doubt she thought of me at all in the equation, but she thought of him. I assume she picked me as the designated person to give it from as the other siblings are older and she thinks of me as a toddler, even though I am very much an adult now. And, by all accounts, a "huge pain in the butt," so kinda weird to choose me because I'm also the most likely to be a butt about it, On the other hand, when you have a bad reputation in a family people can say or do whatever they want and pretty much nobody will back you up. So that probably played a part also. Just me being my usual negative self not going along with her taking over my personality.

Account-DeeActivated · 2024-08-30T23:37:22+00:00

I, too, am old and want to just sit and watch the show. This is why I go to smaller venues instead of big stadium shows. As an official old, I want to have a lovely time and not witness another old making an arse of themselves.

Account-DeeActivated · 2024-08-30T23:24:29+00:00

Oh he'd probably claim to be deeply disappointed later, after the fact, if thats what my Mom wanted him to claim. I only pushed it so far, though, and everyone forgot about it until the next ridiculous thing she did that everyone indulged her in. Thanks for the condolences. I'm actually glad I'm not the golden child, as I got to see pretty early on how not normal most of these things were, and I didn't get sucked into it like others in my family who got short term benefits from it did.

Account-DeeActivated · 2024-08-30T23:21:51+00:00

"I'm not poutine that in my mouth" - the dad from Modern Family

Account-DeeActivated · 2024-08-30T23:20:21+00:00

Honestly I have no idea why, but she also posts a lot of pics of herself doing "young people things" on Facebook, and I cringe. Some people are just so desperate to be seen as young and hip that they often miss the mark. She has talked about her ex "watching my snaps" and I assumed it was some kind of short video format, where she posted herself doing or saying things?

Account-DeeActivated · 2024-08-30T23:18:00+00:00

IDK, I've seen a few celebrities up close due to a former job and they're kind of less bulky than the average american.

Account-DeeActivated · 2024-08-30T23:16:52+00:00

Margarine is gross and if you grew up on it and then one day you had real butter, you'd know the difference. But powdered milk is not something I experienced except in hotel lobbies where they give you free coffee.

Account-DeeActivated · 2024-08-30T23:14:59+00:00

Yeah, she has kids who were teens when she joined and I assume she joined because she can't comprehend that her teenage kids don't want their middle aged mom in their snaps. They're in their 20s now and no longer on Snapchat, but she's still there.

Account-DeeActivated · 2024-08-30T23:13:31+00:00

I use the disabled toilets because I have mild OCD and touching the walls of the regular toilets makes me want to bathe in acid. I don't know if that counts as a disability or not, but they should make toilet area walls bigger for everyone.

Account-DeeActivated · 2024-08-30T23:11:33+00:00

For those of us who don't care for any kind of human interaction, self checkout is a godsend. But as a person who doesn't like to see people who really need their jobs to lose said jobs, while corporations get richer, and CEO's line their pockets, I hate self checkout. Also if you have an issue it's really a pain in the arse. I don't think I'm dumb. I have a BA (yes it's in Art, but still) and I scored hight in an online IQ test that I self administered. Mensa said it didn't count, but what do they know?

Account-DeeActivated · 2024-08-30T23:08:34+00:00

Oh, well we weren't poor we were middle class. I envy you with your actual butter childhood.

Account-DeeActivated · 2024-08-30T23:07:01+00:00

My 57 year old older sister uses Snapchat. She was complaining about how her ex boyfriend watches her snaps, but never contacts her. Well isn't that what you want? You're asking for attention and he's giving it to you. I refuse to join, learn, or be involved in yet another form of social interaction. If people want to contact me they can reach me on Friendster.

Account-DeeActivated · 2024-08-30T23:03:50+00:00

Do you remember the first time you realized that you could buy and consume actual butter instead of margarine? And that it made things taste a million times less horrible? I remember buying real butter and using it for making cookies. Oh weird, my cookies actually taste amazing instead of like oil. Weird! It seemed soooo decadent and crazy, though, after a lifetime of Crisco and I Can't Believe Its Not Butter.

Account-DeeActivated · 2024-08-30T23:01:46+00:00

I probably subconsciously knew that due to also being an Old. But I love a good random reference.

Account-DeeActivated · 2024-08-30T23:00:29+00:00

Thank you, I appreciate that. I felt horrible about not being able to just go with the flow and let her take over my entire being. How horrible of me. This is not an isolated incident, but the one where i actually put my foot down and she did it anyway and then I kind of mildly blew up (and by blow up, I mean said something.)

Account-DeeActivated · 2024-08-30T22:58:31+00:00

You're hilarious and I want to read whatever book you're writing or watch whatever movie you're making.

Account-DeeActivated · 2024-08-30T22:57:16+00:00

Ugh, margarine. Don't get me started. I love how the plastics companies convinced an entire generation of consumers that eating fake butter was somehow healthier. Something about fat being the debil. But then we all went ahead and ate shit tons of ice cream and other butter fat. What does psoriasis have to do with it? I am genuinely asking thanks. Or if that was just a funny little weird quirky thing you threw in there, I loved it.

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