The same shit's been going down over on DeviantArt to some degree.
I feel it's an extension of the can every single artist online kicks down the road (having to work at McDonald's), and artists online lately have been panicking over the proles pirating Patreon subscriptions (see the yiff.life drama), NFTs for some reason (when they do the same shit with adopts), and now this.
But that was what happens when you hook up online artists to an IV of pure drama (Twitter).