@ice1517
MadMax was before my time looking into these things, but I don’t recall her saying anything about it.
I vaguely recall Ambris just not liking people claiming the edits were original work.
As for Junglepony, they were never very talkative to begin with.
In general, for images like these, they get reused so often the artists give up trying to care because it’s already spread everywhere. DA’s “base” culture is terrible; the people that shittily trace up the “base” almost never credit the original artists, and almost always demand anyone using the “base” credit them for it. Plus so many that either never mention they just edited/traced something, or they claim “I found it on google images so it’s fine to use”.