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Beware of Winstiky

@bewarewinstiky.bsky.social
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Winstiky is an AI using scammer doc version: docs.google.com/document/d/1fpatbNC…

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Beware of Winstiky @bewarewinstiky.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The multiple admissions of guilt from deleting their art and offering refunds are promising, however it can't be assumed that they have truly taken responsibility until there is an admission from Winstiky acknowledging their AI use, either privately or publicly.
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Beware of Winstiky @bewarewinstiky.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Winstiky has stated they are refunding past/current clients and opened communications with the individuals who have been victimized by their scam If anyone can confirm Winstiky has refunded them, apologized personally, or otherwise made amends, it would be appreciated.
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Beware of Winstiky @bewarewinstiky.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
If you want to advocate for doubt in the face of clear evidence exposing a scammer with guilty behavior, be my guest. Pay someone to give your reference sheet to ChatGPT if that suits you. But I'm not going to sit back and let my mutuals and followers be robbed in silence.
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Beware of Winstiky @bewarewinstiky.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
If this can all be explained away then tell me why Winstiky is completely silent on the manner? Why are they quietly deleting drawings and refusing to defend themselves properly? This wasn't a decision I made impulsively. I gave this person the benefit of the doubt for months.
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Beware of Winstiky @bewarewinstiky.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
What is fishy about a well known artist not wanting to use their main account to expose a scammer? I don't want devil advocating skeptics like you guys to tarnish my reputation in the community when I took hours out of my week to compile evidence for the sole purpose of saving people from a scam
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Beware of Winstiky @bewarewinstiky.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
-more evidence with additional explanations so that non-artists and those unfamiliar with genAI art can easily understand it, I would really appreciate it.
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Beware of Winstiky @bewarewinstiky.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Feel free to send me a DM request here or on Twitter if you are willing to help supply additional evidence. The only reason this thread/document doesn't include more instances is because it was very time consuming to compile everything, so if you have the time and want to contribute to supplying-
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Beware of Winstiky @bewarewinstiky.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
If their only crime was lying about making AI generated art, it would be a different story. But they have scammed our community out of at least several hundred dollars at this point and caused irreversible harm, so I don't really deem them worthy of that respect.
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Beware of Winstiky @bewarewinstiky.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I considered it but ultimately decided not to as whatever they would say in response if they did choose to engage with me personally would not be helpful to the dozens of people they have already scammed. Their unwillingness to properly acknowledge the situation so far is evidence of that.
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Beware of Winstiky @bewarewinstiky.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It’s never too late to grow from mistakes and work toward being a better person.
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Beware of Winstiky @bewarewinstiky.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
You even continued to make art on occasion without AI because you probably do actually like to draw and want your true talents to be recognized. The only way to improve your skills and be recognized for your real talent is to stop this scam. You’re cheating everyone and yourself.
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Beware of Winstiky @bewarewinstiky.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
If you are sorry and want to remain in the community, maybe you can try to make it right by giving people refunds, and actually drawing pictures without abusing AI. People liked your original art enough to pay for it., the Wawa YCH is proof of that.
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Beware of Winstiky @bewarewinstiky.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
A message for @winstiky.bsky.social STOP scamming a community that’s eagerly supported you. It is extremely harmful for you to give other people’s art and OCs to AI for your financial gain. If you are aware of this without remorse, you have no place in this community.
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Beware of Winstiky @bewarewinstiky.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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Beware of Winstiky @bewarewinstiky.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The evidence for the AI generated YCHs are easily shown in real time when comparing the images using different layers. These are not artistic errors that would be present in genuine, handmade drawings, let alone a YCH, where the background should more or less stay the same.
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Beware of Winstiky @bewarewinstiky.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The strongest evidence of all is probably Winstiky’s mass produced AI generated YCHs. Every YCH from Winstiky (minus the Wawa one) shows clear evidence of AI generation - the background quality in each image changes slightly every time because it’s being regenerated by the AI
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Beware of Winstiky @bewarewinstiky.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
A couple more AI generated/AI traced commissions
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Beware of Winstiky @bewarewinstiky.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It’s interesting that the sloppiest part of the commissions are always the customer’s OCs, but the background characters/props are clean with no broken lineart or coloring outside the lines - something consistent in Winstiky’s true style.
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Beware of Winstiky @bewarewinstiky.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Below are two more examples of commissions Winstiky took that follow a similar pattern to the above; traced characters with AI generated backgrounds
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Beware of Winstiky @bewarewinstiky.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Pictured below is the AI animated version Winstiky generated of the initial Inku inspired "drawing" – AI animates drawings in a smooth, tweening style, not like Inku's 2-3 frame animations, so the outcome is pretty jarring. Winstiky never animated with AI again after this attempt
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Beware of Winstiky @bewarewinstiky.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Before Winstiky leaned heavily into profiting from AI generated YCHs, Winstiky was mostly using AI to create commissions and fed art by @ouroborotter.bsky.social/Inku (artist well known for their unique scrapbook style) to their AI so that they could offer “commissions” in a similar style
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Beware of Winstiky @bewarewinstiky.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Their real art is cute, soft, and relatively fluid for their skill level. Despite that, Winstiky is squandering their artistic potential by abusing gen AI to scam people for financial gain. Here is a comparison between their actual work and a drawing they traced from AI:
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Beware of Winstiky @bewarewinstiky.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Let’s start with Winstiky’s actual art style. Winstiky can actually draw, but their style is unrefined - lacking knowledge of art fundamentals with an inability (or intentional unwillingness) to control lines in a way that creates a clean, proportional result.
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Beware of Winstiky @bewarewinstiky.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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Beware of Winstiky @bewarewinstiky.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This thread is being made to spread awareness about the AI artist/scammer on X and Bluesky known as Winstiky. Please share this if you can to help prevent more members in the community from being scammed by this fraudulent AI tracing artist.
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