#<- if you said this PELASE tell me!!! i will credit you <3

[castielsprostate]

he's a ballerina <3

[brandoncarlo]

this is a genuine question, how can you tell if a gif has been reposted or not? Just so I can know not to reblog it!

There are a few giveaways you can look out for

1. Watermarks. If a gif is watermarked with a URL that is not the blog posting it, it’s probbly reposted. There’s always the chance the blog changed their name but that would probably be obvious for other reasons as well.

2. If you’ve seen the gif before posted by someone else. Either the first instance or the second instance are reposted but it’s usually the second one.

3. This may seem really obvious but if a caption gives a source that’s just another tumblr blog and not, for instance, a video, then it’s reposted. If they didn’t ask permission to post it, adding the source isn’t enough. at least for me. Especially with Tumblr’s feature to just add gifs with built in credit. 

4. Also “credit to original posters” is not credit. Neither is putting the URL in the tags. Also this one is just a pet peeve of mine, but there’s a post going around that uses the tumblr adding gif feature but it’s all gifs from the outofcontextstevedangle blog like, just reblog the gifs from the source wtf.

5. Ask the poster. I tend to believe most people will tell the truth in this situation but maybe not. You can just straight up ask them if they reposted it but you can also ask them what the source of the gif is, if they can’t tell you where the video is then it’s probably reposted. Tat’s not to say they have to give you the source, but for instance if i gif something from a live broadcast I can say “it’s from the sportsnet opening for the leafs vs bruins game on dd/mm” even if i don’t have a link to it.  

There are also some things to look out for if someone took a bunch of gifs from a bunch of people and made a gifset.

1. They’re all different quality. Quality will get worse if you repost a gif, and different gif-makers will have different standards for quality or just different abilities when it comes to increasing gif quality. But all gifs in one set tend to be the same quality.

2. The color scheme is all different. Color scheme being the balance, vibrance, saturation, etc. Some gif-makers use the same look for every single gif, some change from set to set, but generally every gif in one set will look the same as far as colors. 

3. Weird formatting. People who make their own gifs and put them in their own sets, will want them to look aesthetically pelasing every step of the way. Generally they’ll be stakced on top of each other one at a time, or some even square (2x2, 3x3 etc.) sometimes the format will change up and be 2, 1, 2 or something of the sort, but it will generally always have some sort of pattern. Stolen gif sets tend to be autoformatted by tumblr and there’s not a lot of care for making the gifs work together in a set.

4. different sizes. This goes with the formatting thing. But Tumblr cuts off gifs and photos to make them all the same size when you put them next to each other. So gif makers in general keep the dimensions the same. If you see a post with square gifs and rectangle gifs of all different dimensions in one set it’s probably reposted gifs. 

Obviously there are exceptions to everything and everyone does it differently but there’s no harm in just ignoring a post that may be stolen. No one needs needs a gif on their blog that much. And that post was made in response to a gif i saw that said “I don’t know who the original poster was, it’s 100% not mine but i need people to see this,” like no. you don’t. If you didn’t make a gif you don’t post it. 

But if you’re worried about reblogging it I wouldn’t stress too hard. If it’s not readily noticeable no one will hold it against you.