If they're taking photos that they promised would not be posted, altering them to materially change what they appear to portray, but leaving people completely recognizable, and then sharing them around everywhere they can, that's asshole behavior even if the portrayal isn't wildly inaccurate.
If they're taking, idk, blurry arms and clothes that nobody who didn't know the context could ID, or altering them so heavily nothing can be ID'd, that they took with the expectation that maybe someday they would end up in the art resources pile, and using them as a small part of clearly manipulated, complex compositions, maybe. Ex is probably justified in being angry but that doesn't mean they were wrong to make and post the art, just that post-break up there is usually a lot of justified anger around.
The careful way they phrase it makes me suspect it's the first.
If the ex was a violent abuser and they are posting photos accurately depicting that abuse as a way to make his abuse public, assholishness questions no longer apply.
If they had a crappy breakup, or even if say the ex cheated but just in an averagely shitty way, and LW is dramatically altering photos in order to make them look bad, or use them as an stand-in for the concept of any abusive ex in their art or something, then they don't get to say it's okay because it's for a good cause.
There is a lot of range between those two but way they carefully hedge about what ex actually did while making it sound as bad as possible makes me suspect it's closer to the second.
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If they're taking photos that they promised would not be posted, altering them to materially change what they appear to portray, but leaving people completely recognizable, and then sharing them around everywhere they can, that's asshole behavior even if the portrayal isn't wildly inaccurate.
If they're taking, idk, blurry arms and clothes that nobody who didn't know the context could ID, or altering them so heavily nothing can be ID'd, that they took with the expectation that maybe someday they would end up in the art resources pile, and using them as a small part of clearly manipulated, complex compositions, maybe. Ex is probably justified in being angry but that doesn't mean they were wrong to make and post the art, just that post-break up there is usually a lot of justified anger around.
The careful way they phrase it makes me suspect it's the first.
If the ex was a violent abuser and they are posting photos accurately depicting that abuse as a way to make his abuse public, assholishness questions no longer apply.
If they had a crappy breakup, or even if say the ex cheated but just in an averagely shitty way, and LW is dramatically altering photos in order to make them look bad, or use them as an stand-in for the concept of any abusive ex in their art or something, then they don't get to say it's okay because it's for a good cause.
There is a lot of range between those two but way they carefully hedge about what ex actually did while making it sound as bad as possible makes me suspect it's closer to the second.