[MadmanDarkHeretic]

Agreed about the drama.

I recall CattyN more noticeably because there's still drama that goes on about it. Anytime any work of his gets mentioned, there's a long discussion following it, solely covering the backstory.

Compare it against the sharing of random person's work on the forum where there's usually less than eight responses, most of which are a simple 'thanks'.

Yeah, the community is very bad about its taking (self included), but frankly the best way to ensure your association with a community goes unforgotten is to fight that trend aggressively. This is speaking to a goal of leaving it. Leaving quietly is more effective in general than leaving loudly.

This specific one likely would've never been posted tied to CattyN's screenname had the original poster not believed "I'm doing a good thing by helping CattyN remove their stuff". The youtube link itself has no reference whatsoever to the creator, meaning the link effectively got created in the goodwill bit as now there's one more bit of searchable text on the net that says CattyN makes that stuff that can be parsed in a google cache directly.

It's alright to want to (and have the right) of controlling your work, but I think this is actually a pretty good example of what happens if you have folks trying to help you out with that because you put out a demand on it.