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ATTENTION EVERYONE, this is a very important announcement regarding a scammer in the UTAU community. Please take the time to read through the ENTIRE announcement before taking any action.
Just today, a user by the name of @/kukuruyoartkishi entered our group's contest and attempted to join our group and Discord server. Shortly afterwards, I found a post listing various crimes this person has committed including art theft (tracing over a community member's artwork), stealing and selling characters that don't belong to them, engaging in art trades with other users and not doing their half; making off with free art in the process, even stealing UTAU voicebanks, not paying the people they commission and much more. This person, kukuruyoartkishi, does not speak English as their first language so talking to them will do no good. They have been making new accounts every time they get caught and continue attempting to scam people.
Here is the post that lists all of their known aliases, their ma

This is directed mostly towards digital/traditional artists, but also literature artists!
 At some point in your artistic life, you might want to start earning a bit of extra money from the work that you love to do; yet I see that many people struggle with commissions, especially in the beginning. Thus I decided to write this little "How to" journal, where I share my own experience.
1. When do I start to do commissions?

Whenever you want to, and especially, whenever you feel comfortable doing so! Especially that last part is important. I remember lots of people asking me if I were doing commissions years ago, and I had to say "no" to all of them, simply because I didn't feel ready for it. I was also completely nervous when I started doing commissions for the first time; what if no one would respond? What if the commissions were way too difficult to handle? What if I got negative responses?
I started doing commissi