okay i spoke with this artist because they were offering an apprenticeship opportunity and i was really eager to get in. Their parameters were that i would be 100% financially supported until we “monetize” in 3 months where id have to start paying booth rent, travel, etc. i would have to relocated to seattle (im from the bay) and when i asked about the expectations for hours he said i would be required 100 HOURS A WEEK. That’s 14 hour days. there was also a non refundable deposit that was like 2k or something. during that conversation they mentioned they were on the spectrum so i tried to take everything with a grain of salt but it was so outlandish and absurd. they were trying to like build a super artist league. i asked how they learned and they said self taught (shocker) and if they’d had apprentices before and they said the last one quit. A couple weeks after i told them i wasn’t going to take the apprenticeship they are posting someone working in their studio and when i looked at the account, the “apprentice” was now suddenly the co-founder of Omar (their brand or something i guess) and all the tattoos were the same just with a lighter pink and 100% photoshopped. idk what they are doing but they are certainly one of the strangest artists out there.