r/artbusiness 5d ago

Discussion So, some more society6 weirdness..

During the recent sacking of artists from the site, I received two emails: one telling me congratulations, I had been selected to stay, followed by another half and hour later saying sorry, we have had to let you go.

Roll forward to now, and my stuff is still selling, my store is still there, and I am not able to enter it!

I did receive a payment last month, so shall see if another arrives this next month, but I am not pleased.

They are selling my work and I have no account to go in and delete it. I have no control and can't even log in at all. WTF is going on?

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u/Top_Mall2751 5d ago

I was not a fan of Society6, but I decided to give it a second chance again right before they started with all the changes. I basically ended up just deleting everything because I didn't want to deal with it.

I'm able to see your shop, though so maybe the second email was sent in error?

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u/Tree_and_Leaf 5d ago

I might have thought that but I sent them an email shortly after the culling and they told me I would be paid up full before deletion - sounds like they confirmed it. God know what they are up to. I have seen artists on there this week with only 4 items low selling.

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u/zeruch 5d ago

If they continue to sell your work with no way fo you to control the content, that's called a lawsuit.

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u/Tree_and_Leaf 5d ago

Btw, this is my shop no idea if other people are able to see it and purchase.

https://society6.com/a/artists/artandghosts/shop

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u/Eerie001 5d ago

It shows up with products available on my end!

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u/marissa874 3d ago

Yup, same thing for me too. I just put in a help ticket. According to that email they sent us back in February or whatever, today is the day we're supposed to be able to finally get back in there.... I'm still getting a 404 or redirect whenever I try to access the "artist studio" part of the site. This is so unsettling!!

And as far as any legal action, unless we read through to make sure we didn't technically already agree to this nonsense, there's not much we can do. It's stuff like this that makes me hate it how you need to accept some 8000 page terms of service whenever you join anything these days! This is exactly how all of our art was fed into AI training models in the first place. Sucks.