[ SECRET POST #248 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #248 ⌋

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Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 143 secrets from Secret Submission Post #036.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, [ 1 2 3 ] not!secrets, 0 not!fandom, [ 1 2 3 ] personal attacks, [ 1 ] attempt at parody, [ 1 ] repeat.
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Comments

Re: 29

[(Anonymous)]

OP here.

I'm not saying people shouldn't be polite. I'm not saying if a fanartist says that they don't want people posting their art without their permission, people should go out and make banners and icons of their work with no credit just to spite them. Whether fanartists or not, if we like someone's art, we should do them the favour of complying with what they ask when it comes to the use and distribution of their work. But that doesn't mean I can't think that what they ask is often kind of dumb.

What I'm saying is that I think it's totally fucktarded for people to get so worked up about the idea of their fanart being shared by another fan without saying whose it is to the extent that they feel the need to put huge-ass watermarks on stuff that they have no legal claim to own. I think watermarks often detract from a picture, even if they are transparent and relatively unobtrusive, and I personally would rather have a bunch of retards on some forum somewhere claiming they drew my stuff than be posting my drawings with the URL to my site right across them.

Yeah, I'm a fanartist. And when I draw fanart, I draw it because I like drawing the characters, and I post it because I like that other people like it. If they want to go share it with more people, that's fine by me. If they want to claim they drew it, then more fool them, but it's not like they're doing me any harm. Credit is nice, but I seriously do not care if people ask me or not, and if people don't credit me, I'm not going to scream blue murder at them until they say they're sorry. Yes, I think it's nice to the people you're sharing it with to give credit to the artist, because that way if they like it, they can find more, but I think that the majority of artists who get pissy about the fact that somebody used their art on a YouTube slideshow AMV without linking back to their deviantart are just butthurt that they missed out on some pageviews.

unf unf!

[(Anonymous)]

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Re: 29

[dorknessrising.livejournal.com]

...I think I love you.

I'm a fanartist (http://rachelthedemon.deviantart.com), too, and I'm the exact same way. If someone ever thought my work was good enough to steal, I'd be flattered as hell. I don't draw for credit or recognition; I draw because -- get this! -- I like drawing. And I like sharing it with other people.

I'm the same way about my icons. Credit is nice, but it's optional. I don't really care if people use my icons sans credit; the fact they liked them enough to use them makes me feel all fuzzy inside.