I agree with the other furs that say this is clearly NOT a fraud or scam where people enter into a contest of their own free will, knowing that they are not guaranteed to get anything out of it.
To say this is a fraud is akin to spending a bunch of money you don't have using your credit card to party and have a good time, then complaining that it's the credit card company's fault for letting you do this in the first place. What a load of crap!
The only way it's a fraud is if someone lies about the game or misrepresents the facts, such as stating that the winner will be the 20th submission when the winner is someone else.
This sense of entitlement that is in vogue these days, especially among young artists it seems, needs to end. Just because you consider yourself creative does not mean that you are entitled to make a living off your art.
Just because you think your art is worth money doesn't mean you deserve to earn money from it. You only deserve money for your art if people are willing to purchase it from you. It's completely up to the buyer, not the artist, to decide whether the art is valuable.
I agree with the other furs that say this is clearly NOT a fraud or scam where people enter into a contest of their own free will, knowing that they are not guaranteed to get anything out of it.
To say this is a fraud is akin to spending a bunch of money you don't have using your credit card to party and have a good time, then complaining that it's the credit card company's fault for letting you do this in the first place. What a load of crap!
The only way it's a fraud is if someone lies about the game or misrepresents the facts, such as stating that the winner will be the 20th submission when the winner is someone else.
This sense of entitlement that is in vogue these days, especially among young artists it seems, needs to end. Just because you consider yourself creative does not mean that you are entitled to make a living off your art.
Just because you think your art is worth money doesn't mean you deserve to earn money from it. You only deserve money for your art if people are willing to purchase it from you. It's completely up to the buyer, not the artist, to decide whether the art is valuable.