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F!S Anon Meme (the Seventh, and now on DW!)

Secrets, rants, opinions, anything you want to say about your fandom or a fandom or fandom in general, do it here! Anonymously, of course. Get it all off your chest.

Some ground rules:
1. Going anon is encouraged but not absolutely required (for those who struggle with captchas and stuff).
2. No autoplaying/autolooping embeds, or embeds that cover/stretch the screen.
3. No dropping personal info or IRL contact info, etc.

That's about it, though!

I'll be linking some general/general-fandom threads I see so people don't repost new threads with the same stuff.

Unpopular Ships
Obligatory Masturbation Thread
Fandoms you wish existed
How old are you?
What series have you always meant to watch/read/play/etc. but have never?
Time and location
Female-centric works
How do you feel about Tumblr?
Pet thread
Guilty pleasure thread
Favorite old shows
First fandom?

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think this is a bullshitting thing to say, tbh. I DO repost a lot of stuff, but I always give credit when I have a source. Sure, if I find a photo I want to post on 4chan's /b/, I can't source that but if I'm on flickr and I want to blog a picture I see, I always put in a click through link. The majority of bloggers on tumblr do put source links on their posts. Tumblr even has a source citing function. So don't be a dickweed and blame theft on tumblr since tumblr is actually very good about citing shit.

[(Anonymous)]

da

Disclaimer: I'm honestly saying this in the spirit of spreading information, and not to want to make you feel bad or something.

This really, really depends on what circles you lurk in tumblr. My friends (irl, the ones who convinced me to get a tumblr) always credited properly, and the few people I followed did the same, so I thought like you did, but then I started hearing about all the stolen art in other places, and checked for myself, and, yup.

Tons and tons and tons of uncredited fanart and art. I've heard of authors - who only dared admit it anonymously for fear of even more rage sent their way - who had people willfully steal their art and even be credited to the wrong person, on purpose.

There are people who claim art that isn't theirs.

It happens, much, much more than you would think.

Failblog.org and others have a very handy source feature, but very few people use it, because the internet and the anonymity it provides opens the floodgates for the assholes.

Tumblr doesn't help at all by making impulsive posting so, so easy and so rewarding.

[(Anonymous)]

same anon as above

A very prevalent problem too, is that people credit to the people who uploaded the picture first, but it has happened very, very often that the person who uploaded had absolutely nothing to do with the creation of the picture, so you see thousands, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of reblogs/notes on a post that is credited to the wrong person and nobody changes unless somebody recognizes the art style.

And by then? It's too late, because even if they convinced the original poster to credit, that won't show up in all the thousands of reblogs. People will be reblogging from reblogs and never find out the truth unless the person spreading the correct source has a lot of dedication and patience to spread the word far enough.