chaoticallyGeneric 2024-11-28 01:58:14

I'm sorry :(

Yatsufusa 2024-11-28 02:25:25

I can _guarantee_ you that all of your submissions, posts and comments would vanish when your account is deleted. I mourn the loss of thousands of helpful and constructive posts made by a user who recently left this community due to bullies.

As for the "ghost art": Log out and check if you can 'still' find it in the search. When something is un-published, the user, moderators and admins can "allegedly" still see the submission. (I did not test this myself.)

Yatsufusa 2024-11-28 02:45:16

@SouSTAR There is no "one fits all" answer when it comes to online search engines. Generally, I would not expect an image to still be cached 3 months later - regardless of how the said search engine operates.

Depending on how worried you are: You 'are' the copyright holder. You can contact the search engine operator via email, point them to the version of an image they cached and politely request that they remove the image the next time they schedule a data purge.

Yatsufusa 2024-11-28 03:21:16

@SouSTAR Technically, you could request a removal 'right now' - since the image is no longer available on the original page (newgrounds.com). From their perspective, this is also about providing an up-to-date reflection of the web.

There is a meta-tag that can/should be used in HTML that is called "revisit-after". It tells human visitors and robots how often the person who created the website thought they'd be updating that particular page. Responsible people will set that tag to something appropriate for their particular website/part of their website. Everyone else claims that every single page of their site updates once per day - "because SEO-juice". Newgrounds doesn't seem to use it, but I would say, whatever you un-published will likely be gone from online search engines on its own 8 days after the fact.
If you want o make absolutely sure, you could try to find the image right now, using the search engines you are most worried about and then set bookmarks to those results.

As for the proof: You haaave-- Oh. You use neither watermark nor signature on your works. Erm... I mean, they're 'probably' not that diligent. Pointing out that they cache an image that's no longer actually hosted on the site they link to is 'probably' enough.
As long as you can provide them with an URL of where the image in question shows up on their servers.

As somewhat related aside, I think artist should put signatures on their works of art. Right now, some idiot could download half your catalogue, wait until you're gone and afterwards re-upload + claim that 'they' created all of your art without even doing any editing. Or... You know: They could just upload it to Cara or dA or Instragram or Twitter/"X" 'right now'...

I'd plan on keeping your NG account if I was in your shoes. There upload dates here are currently your best proof that 'you' are the original artist for your works.

chaoticallyGeneric 2024-11-28 03:33:36

@SouSTAR i don't know what is making you feel the need to delete this account, but i feel bad that the possible inability to get the art off of newgrounds entirely may have an effect on you somehow.

MetalSlayer69 2024-11-28 04:29:23

you're acting like there's incriminating evidence in your drawings or something

Chdonga 2024-11-28 07:00:50

Are you just one of those people who likes to compulsively scrub all their artwork from the internet for no reason? I'm not trying to be mean here but if you think you're going to delete your account, you're better off just not uploading anything at all.

If you're just concerned with people stealing your art or scraping it for an AI, you should look into programs like Glaze or Nightshade which will hide metadata into your art so that if people try to use it, their resulting image will be an unreadable scrambly mess.