Before anyone wants to be contrarian about this: no one is going to stop you from using a stranger's weeb digital art as your profile pic. It is not illegal to use someone else's art for your profile pic without permission and no one is saying it's should be.
The point of this post is that this is an extreme overreaction to a conversation that concludes with 'pwease ask this other person for permission, the art is of their character design not mine 🥺' in a niche art community that operates on an honor system for the sake of being polite to one another.
this seems like the most insufferable person. imagine messaging an artist to gloat that your using their art without paying. and then get mad when they give you the most likely response. imagine calling an internet artist petite bourgeois . thank god these people never leave their houses to go to leftist spaces irl.