Awareness and Explanation post about a block

A month ago, I wrote a journal about being heavily inspired by someone else's work and how one shouldn't use/abuse that inspiration. Someone in particular sparked that journal and this someone has been taking up a lot of my and other people's time. It was time to stop.

Although I should mention their name, I won't. As most of you know, I don't appreciate or support witch hunts, even after all the stress and frustration a person may have caused. Most of you have figured out by now who exactly this person is, it wasn't that difficult, but I would still like for this person to not get all too much attention, negative or positive.

After almost two months of dealing with this person on almost a daily basis, be it discussing their actions with others, talking with them personally or keeping an eye on their progress, I've blocked them everywhere possible. I've offered my support and my advice to them, I kept giving them chances and frankly, I wasn't the only one doing so. But all effort was thrown out by this person and only excuses and hollow apologies followed. I am done with giving this any more attention.

Unlike them, I will not keep you in the dark about what happened, simply because you have the right to know and not knowing may cause misassumptions and confusion that nobody wants to deal with.

This person started to post Krosmoz-related art a little more than two months ago and it was fairly innocent at first until their character started to show too many similarities with my own main OC, mostly in appearance. I decided to keep an eye on them, also because I was being contacted by others about it. It wasn't just me who noticed and that was concerning. It was around that time the 'redraws' happened and eventually I had to intervene because it was starting to get out of hand. My used work wasn't even getting credited. Even after laying the evidence side by side (several times) and explaining in detail that redrawing someone's work and only adding a few tweaks and additions to make it look 'different' isn't the right way of using inspiration, all I (and others who tried to reason with this person) got in return were excuses and apologies, but never results.

All this lecturing and trying to be patient and open towards someone like this was tearing at my own motivation to draw or even socially interact. When they posted another redraw the day before this journal entry, I was done. When they showed themselves in a stream I initiated to calm down from the frustration caused by this person, I finally banned them from my stream. I did not want them to spoil the atmosphere, not a few hours after I/my art was (again) disrespected.
The ban resulted into some aggressive responses from several people standing up for this person, with a lot of mud slinging and name calling due to not being informed about the situation and only knowing someone was upset because they got banned. There were a lot of misassumptions going on and that was heartbreaking to see. After explaining the situation and also the reason behind the ban, everything got resolved and forgiven, but the trouble with this person stayed. They had yet again to step forward and take responsibility for what was going on and had been going on for the last two months.

When someone prodded this person to talk to me after I was 'attacked', there were again excuses and empty apologies. And while I was waiting for hours for another response, even after they read what I sent them, I realized that it was pointless. I was giving them attention and chances they didn't deserve anymore. I talked a long while with people I respect and care for about this situation and came to the decision to block this person everywhere and wash my hands off it. Let it be done, I have other things, more important things, to worry about. I tried the best I could, so have others. I can leave this behind with the knowledge that I did my best to try and resolve this as peacefully and pleasing as possible, even if that didn't happen.

I hope this journal entry explains what has been going on and that it is all that needs to be said. I won't be discussing it anymore because I want to leave it behind and I am certain others wish for that too. If you have any further questions about this, don't hesitate to contact me, but please know that I will not talk too much about it in detail to people who aren't/weren't involved. Let it rest.

I want to seriously thank everyone who tried to help me out, who defended my work and character, who was there for me when this whole situation became too much for me and showed support in their own little ways. I am sorry I allowed this to go on for so long. I should have acted sooner. I will the next time this happens.