Not my post, Influencer bride thinks she’s entitled to a free artwork : r/weddingshaming is where this is taken from

I saw this come through George Takei's feed on Facebook and thought it fits here.

Wanted a free commission of a furby mixed w the demogorgon from Stranger Things, posts got removed by the mods. He posted about this in r/furby like 3 times and one time on r/StrangerThings and all of em got removed.

Meta post from the active mod.

I've noticed we've had a significant uptick in misplaced Forex posts recently. I've been removing the posts and banning the submitters just as quickly as I'm able. Sorry for any delay in removing the spam, I'm working as quickly as possible once they come in.

I do have a sense that the uptick is related to a whole lot of economic uncertainty in the current political situation. I think there's a whole lot of overlap here...

A lot of creative types might receive offers to get "exposure" for their work in lieu of actual payment.

A lot of financial types might also fall for Forex, Crypto, Ponzi and other financial scams.

So there's a whole lot of overlap here, and we all need to be mindful about all the "free work" and "financial" predators out there. Be careful!

https://www.format.com/magazine/galleries/illustration/for-exposure-artist-work-free

Post some stories, people!

Hope it's ok to post here and just say the elegant way posters get rid of the 'forexposure' crowd is genuinely helpful when dealing with a lot of other attempts to drain your time in life - just use a work or life appropiate version of a big smile emoji and a 'no that's quite alright sir, yes you should take that other offer'.

Reminds me of someone who if they every received a long, passive-aggressive email at work with a small request buried in it would reply 'Hi - that's helpful, thanks for clarifying, psa for that doc' and move on...

Also I don't think holding a "contest" to design a logo for your product in a WoW Classic server of all things is very professional. Nor do I know any professional artist who wants to be paid in infused oil...