Here I was working along, designing away emails for the startup that I work at. I see my phone light up with a snapchat notification. Since I was already in my groove of designing and align things perfectly, I didn’t pay much attention to it. Fast forward to lunchtime, I pulled out my phone and went straight to snapchat. Turns out, one of friends sent me a snapchat story from Mashable saying that I was featured in their story. At this moment, my whole world came to a stop because I could not believe what I was looking at.

Mashable, in their story called, “7 things you didn’t know you agreed to in the terms of service”, featured one of my artworks from my portfolio in their story without my consent in anyway, shape or form. Sadly, by the time most of you end up reading this, the story will be removed from snapchat. However, I have taken screenshots of the article and will post it at the end of this article.

Screenshot from the article.

At first I thought, maybe this is just on my phone, so I asked my co-worker, Rachel, if she can open up her snapchat and see if she’s getting the results. Lo’ and behold, yes she was. At the same time, few of my other friends messaged me asking why am I on Mashable? At this point, I was pissed but laughing at the same time. Pissed because they took one of my artworks without my permission and laughing because it has not only my name in the image but also face.