I accidentally posted a picture online and claimed it was mine?

[Sarah-rose]

I'm an artist, and I unintentionally posted another artist's artwork online. Next thing I know, my messages are blowing up and I have people saying to me that I'm such a liar and cheat because that artwork is not mine. I realized that I posted a friends artwork, not my my own on accident. I promptly deleted that image and made a statement saying that I did not intentionally take the credit for it. But people are still making a fool out of me and giving me a bad name for something I didn't mean to do. What do I do?

[Troy]

it will be fine

[Sam]

Get your friend that created the artwork to back you up.

[u_bin_called]

let it blow over.... a good number of those people complaining will just move onto the next thing in a day or two...

...such is life in the age of social media...

...remember when Steve Jobs died and that poor kid posted a modified Apple logo with Job's spectacled profile where the "bite" usually was? He meant it as a memorial gesture, but when it was discovered that the image was very similar to one already published, he was getting death threats and being called a cheat & thief...