Hey guys, Sunbeam here, I just wanted to tell you all a story. This is a true story that I thought I would share with you because it's a learning experience that I had here on Wattpad. I'll try to tell it as accurate as possible, it was about 2 weeks ago so it's a little hard to remember. Note that I'm not trying to put this out there for attention to the person in the story or the things that they did, this is just for you guys to know that giving someone a second chance is one of the best things you can do in one of these situations. It starts like this...

I'm crusing through my notifications when I see that Dragon-Drawing-Girl (The account isn't under this name anymore) has followed me. Not to out of the box, I click on it to follow them back. I always check people's stories, so I went ahead and looked and saw an art book. Might as well check it out, see if it's worth reading. So I clicked and looked through, the art was amazing. I did what I always do and voted, commented, etc.

A little later, I realized that I hadn't ever checked out Hoodkitty's art. So I started going through that and recognized some of the art from this other person's art book, soon after I got a reply on one of my comments on Dragon Drawing Girl's art book saying that it was stolen art from Hoodkitty. I immediately replied saying stuff like, "Oh! I didn't know!"

Other person(I forgot who it was... So...): "We should do something about it."

Me: "Yes. But what?"

Them: "Report them."

Me: "Yes..." Then I had the idea of asking the person to take it down and stuff before one of use reported them, so I said: "Hold on, don't report them yet." And then I went to pm Dragon Drawing Girl...

Me: Hi, I noticed that you have stolen art from a good friend of mine, Hoodkitty. I know that you probably know, art theft is bad. It's not your art that you are posting, it's someone else's, and your claiming that gift of their talents for your own. Hey, I get it, maybe you feel like you're a terrible artist, so you use someone else's art instead, but it's still theft. It's still a sin. Before I report you or your book, I want to give you a chance to apologize and fix the wrong you've done. I don't want to hate on you for your actions, but all I'm trying to say is that you have art talents too! Even if you haven't used them as much, or you don't have the same experience level as some of us, but if you start drawing more, looking at other's art and maybe using their style or copying it for a while, but always giving credit to them before posting it, you'll get the hang of it. You'll learn how to draw very similar to the other artists out there and learn some of their techniques. Who knows, maybe you'll be one of the best artists on here! But you have to start somewhere. Trust me, my old art was TERRIBLE! But I knew that if I practiced and believed that I could become great, believed in myself, I would make it is there to the top one day. And now look where I'm at! You can do that too, you just have to believe in yourself, so, I'm giving you a chance to take down the stolen art and apologize to Hoodkitty, and then maybe even post some of your own, original art! I'll support you and give you tips, but only if you fix the broken mistakes and apologize. Can I trust you to do that? For me?

Her: I-I'm sorry... I guess I didn't realize what effect it would have on her or others. I'm leaving wattpad. Goodbye. I may come back some day... But i think I need to wait till I'm more mature for this place. I'm sorry. I will go apologize. I'm sorry
You were mature about this and I appreciate that. I really do. Thank you for helping me see that I wasn't doing anything good.

I saw that the books were deleted, and soon after I got this from Hoodkitty:

Hey, Tsunami? Thank you so much for helping me out... Dragon-drawing-girl told me what you said and what happened.

So yeah, that's how this story went. So I guess the moral of the story is that before you report someone or block them, give them a second chance, who knows? Things could turn out without a fight or people even getting into drama. Thank you for reading this, I hope you learned something from it just as valuable as I did.

Sunbeam out.