Thread:Sakaros/@comment-1998339-20200205202424/@comment-1998339-20200205235605

Interesting take. I actually thought the user was fairly civil in his word choice&mdash;judging from the awkwardness of his phraseology & the German suffix of his website's URL, I concluded English isn't his native language & figured "art theft" & other slightly strange word choices were just translation mistakes.

Also, regarding the whole "selling" thing, I have two theories. It's possible he might be operating under the impression that contributors receive ad revenue from Wikia for page clicks. Back in the day at least, some wiki farms would pay contributors a portion of ad sales based on the number of views generated per page&mdash;maybe he thinks Caon has been monetarily benefiting from the use of his images on an advertiser-friendly platform like Wikia. My second guess was that it was also a translation mistake. From the context of the remark, it seemed as though he was saying the image was being used to portray a subject (in this case, a ship) other than that for which the image was originally intended&mdash;"selling it as something totally different."

Just spitballing here, but I didn't get any inflammatory vibes from his comments myself.