Mollyonline is not an artist but rather the name of an online crane game that has done many collabs with Hololive talents for merch, and the sourced account is their official Twitter. Unfortunately since there's no mention of an artist in the tweet, there's not much hope for identification unless someone recognizes the style. It's also possible MollyOnline has some in-house artists that do work for them.
The latter seems likely as there have been previous examples of similar posts that employ the fanart tags for the depicted characters. In that case, I could see restoring the "mollyonline" artist tag as an acceptable solution, though I would be inclined to leave "artist_request" and have the sourced tweet remain the main indication of credit.
Thanks. I should prefer to utilize the Mollyonline label, regardless of the fact it represents a collective, and have the posts link to your lucid explanation where placed on the artist's Talk page.
Lead to far less confusion and far fewer googling to discover the creators.
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Also, lovely picture.
Also, also: how strange it is that so many foolish nuts attempt to maintain control over an image they have themselves once launched onto the wide Sargasso Sea of the internet [ NO REPRODUCTION ! etc. etc. ], whereas equal artists abrogate ownership by implicitly granting the 'rights' to an employer or Circle, without attribution.
Mollyonline is not an artist but rather the name of an online crane game that has done many collabs with Hololive talents for merch, and the sourced account is their official Twitter. Unfortunately since there's no mention of an artist in the tweet, there's not much hope for identification unless someone recognizes the style. It's also possible MollyOnline has some in-house artists that do work for them.
The latter seems likely as there have been previous examples of similar posts that employ the fanart tags for the depicted characters. In that case, I could see restoring the "mollyonline" artist tag as an acceptable solution, though I would be inclined to leave "artist_request" and have the sourced tweet remain the main indication of credit.
Yes, I am aware that mollyonline isn't an artist but since there are multiple pieces of art attributed to this same anonymous artist, I thought it would be good to umbrella them. Can mollyonline be considered an anonymous artist circle then? The circle is tracable to the mollyonline_of twitter account and the contributing artist(s) have chosen to relinquish rights to the circle name.
It just seems a bit scary to leave the artist untagged. Right now, this piece could be searched via source:https://twitter.com/MOLLYONLINE_of/* but if any of the other mollyonline illustrations were to be uploaded with https://twitter.com/i/web/ instead, that illustration's relation to the mollyonline circle would be lost.
