#anyways your friend sounds like someone i'd kick to the fuckin curb

[agatharights]

A friend of mine with a huge hatred for the transformers fandom just told me that its only Transformers and Hellsing fans that steals pixiv fanart, and that its a topic of laughter known everywhere on the internet. But Ive never even seen anyone talk about it, and she says thats because im a "baby fan" of transformers. So Im asking anyone who has been a fan much longer than me if its true. Because to me it sounded like bullshit, since all fandoms steal from pixiv. :-/

I just have a pixiv account because I’m an adult, and don’t need to rely on tumblr for art. Seriously, @ everyone who’s like BUT I DON’T WANNA GET A PIXIV ACCOUNT just get a pixiv account, it’s not that hard, there’s step-by-step instructions online. Y’all can’t have everything on tumblr.

Anyways.

Sounds like your friend follows a bunch of fucknuggets who steal art, instead of taking initiative to try to watch for stolen art and not following blogs that post it/calling out blogs that post it/reporting stolen art frequently and regularly until it disappears. Literally every fandom I’ve ever been in steals from pixiv- including the fucking SCP Foundation, and they’re all shitty. Don’t steal art. The transformers fandom does have a pretty big art theft problem, but it’s not nearly as big as the art theft problem for some other fandoms (cough cough any currently popular anime) in large because a massive portion of the fandom isn’t American/English-Speaking and thus, doesn’t really use Tumblr that much, making Pixiv a better alternative for them.

Anyways, if your friend is an asshole about it why would you be their friend?

 They obviously don’t want you to enjoy something that you enjoy, and are deliberately being shitty about it in order to encourage you not to enjoy that thing. Like. Yikes? I mean, I only got a lil bit of information here btu you’re turning to me, a person who clearly doesn’t actually give a shit for an answer so you must be rattled or desperate and not actually want to engage on anyone more popular’s blog perhaps for fear of retribution. 

There’s only two reasons for this, and both are frankly fucked up.

1. They’re a huge fuckin asshole who can’t stand the thought of their friends enjoying something that they don’t enjoy or even outright hate, but instead of being a mature adult about it they’re gonna cry and shit on you and your new fandom for it, because they cant’ comprehend that there’s shittiness in every fandom but you’re (hopefully, otherwise maybe don’t be on my blog) a grown human being who an curate your own experience and find other members of the fandom who are non-shitty to interact with.

2. They’re honest to God too uninformed to give a shit about the fact that pixiv theft is a huge problem in a shitton of fandoms, and that blaming it on the fandoms themselves instead of on the shitty people in the fandoms, or just bitching about it without taking steps to help stop the problem (IE informing people of stolen art). Similarly, they might also ONLY interact with other shitbirds, which really, birds of a feather flock together. Never trust anyone who “only knows terrible people” in fandoms. It means that they either have such low expectations they don’t banish said shitbirds in order to actively seek better people, or that they prefer being surrounded by shitty people.

Either way, your friend sounds pretty sketchy tbh. Call them out on their shit, or don’t be friends with them. If you follow transformers blogs that post stolen pixiv art, call them out, too- a fandom has to police itself or it’s no good. If you see me posting art that’s posted without permission, let me know so I can go find it on pixiv and rate it there instead.

Anyways, you picked the wrong person to ask because I’m not actually very nice nor understanding. Lots of people who I used to be friends with I’m now, at best, acquaintances of because frankly I just didn’t care to deal with their hangups anymore- both in and out of my fandoms. I got my own shit to deal with, and if someone doesn’t understand that I’m not gonna deal with theirs too, I can show them the door and make sure it doesn’t hit them on the way out.

whoops i’m actually a bitch sorry my friend but this is straight up the advice i give every time someone complains about a friend bothering them about their fandoms