Thanks for your feelings on the matter whatsup.

The evidence is pointing to they did get permission to use people's likeness. I've revised my initial post to bring fourth the evidence that they'd given to me. In no way do I want to look for reasons to start chaos nor conflict.

Simply put I was expressing my concern on a matter that bothered me. I'm glad I was wrong for part of it actually.

Regardless though of permissions granted I still think the whole thing is a pile of shit moneygrab with little thought given to those involved in the competitions.

Does Steemit need this sort of shit to thrive? Absofuckinglutely not.

Might be something a teenage crowd would be interested.. But I think for the most part we're all adults on STEEM.. and if we choose to revert back to acting like children and judging people based solely on physical appearance may as well just go fuck around on FB / Twitter.

The society being shaped here won't accept this sort of shit if I've any part of it.. Which I believe I do.