#and then people won't insp because they don't know where the idea actually came from

[nataliescatorccio]

I'm curious what you meant in your tags under that likes/reblogs ratio post - about creators insping their friends not the og idea? Is it bad to insp a post that was inspired by someone else? (Feel free to rant of course.)

for me, an insp should be to give credit to the person who came up with the idea you are using. for example if you are using a layout someone else came up with, you use an insp to give the credit back to them. what seems to be happening in giffing circles is that someone will use another creators layout and insp them, but then people credit that instead of the original. it creates this strange treasure trail of insps to actually find the gifmaker who came up with the idea. i personally just find it really frustrating cos i'm like 'wow! who came up with such a creative concept i wanna check out their stuff!' and then i have to go through like 20 blogs to find the usually smaller creator whose idea actually isn't directly credited to them. this isn't to say you can't insp the post you saw that made you think of using the idea in the first place - i totally understand that the og post may not be the one that crossed your blog! but if that post has an insp to another and you can see it's the same layout/concept, you should also credit them, it's super simple to include two links. it just feels like people trying to get out of giving credit where it's due? and again just adds to this feeling that creators don't always support other creators here.