#don't steal art kids!

[weedle-testaburger]

between nfts and ai generated art, what is it with people and using technology and greed to make both art and art theft worse

[katboykirby]

Tiktok got me fucked up today 💀

[chalkscrub]

babygirl doodles from a little while ago

[oleander-nin]

Hello my lovelies! Just a quick little PSA in regards to something that happened to @yanteetle.

If you're going to steal work, at least give credit. Reposting work is already awful enough, but doing so w/out credit? I know this most likely wasn't y'all, but this is just a warning for everyone.

Yesterday, Yanteetle discovered some of her work had been posted on YouTube, Tiktok, and Wattpad. On YouTube(the main focus of this), two were edits, and one was voice acting. Both of these videos relied heavily on her work, and two of them got up to ten thousand views, with the other amassing one thousand two hundred views. That is twenty-one thousand views, or people, seeing her work and enjoying it, all without knowing who it's from in the first place.

One of the videos even had hundreds of comments asking who the artist was, and the only thing they(the poster) gave as a response was that it was "on Tumblr".

This person knows the art isn't theirs, knows where they got it from and how to find it, yet still never once credited Teets for her artwork. I don't know what goes through their brain when you do that, or how they can care so little for the original artist, but never do this.

The second instance I'm most mad about is the third video(the voice acting). This one was just someone going through and voice every artwork Teets made, and the title of the video makes it seem like their claiming it to be their own AU(When I first saw that, I assumed they were just going to base an AU off of her work, but NOPE! It's just them voice dubbing her comics.)

I checked the description, hoping they would add something there. NOPE. Even in the comments, only one person asked and they never responded. I DID however find a people who were:

Encouraging them to make more(which would mean more misuse and stealing of Teets or others work)

Telling them they were going to make videos based off this video, which means more spreading of it because they all promised to credit the thief

Praising 'their' work and their voice, which is directly showing them they can get away with what they're doing(not really to the fault of the commenters, but I digress)

Call me overbearing or crazy, but this does not sit will with me in the slightest. Yanteetle never had to post. She never had to take requests. She never had to put as much effort into her work as she does, yet everyone takes it for granted, and people take her work.

Some of you may be thinking "Oh, but didn't Teets say you could repost her work?"

And to that I hit you on the head because her full clause on usage of her work is "Disclaimer: reposting is fine as long as proper credit is given, but tracing and claiming it as your own will not be tolerated."

In my opinion, every single one of these are taking Teets work as their own. Until you give her name, there is no other belief people can have other than the assumption you made it yourself. Humans find patterns and assume things on default, this isn't on the shoulders of the consumers. I already have my own opinions about her reposting disclaimer(which I've kind of discussed with her, but it's her choice), but even if it were stricter, I can guarantee you this still would've happened.

Taking work without credit is not a cool thing to do, and will earn you a lot of hate and problems you probably don't want to deal with. I personally go through every account that follows and likes my stuff because I want to see who's interacting with me. Do I think any of y'all would do this? No, not really. But you are the only audience I have. Do not take work from others, and especially don't do it without permission and credit.

If anyone has a similar problem and needs someone to speak up for them, just hit me up and I'll try my best.

Thank you for listening and have a good day.

[malldreamprincess]

THE CHICKEN SIBLINGS!! <3 They are so cute!!

[kit-shipper]

[iknowicanbutwhy]

"A taste to die for!"

"Desire meets the tongue!"

"Satisfaction down to the last drop!"

"The success of the drink reflects in your smile!"

"The most harmless cold drink ever!"

"Refreshment that lingers for hours!"

"Nothing goes wrong with Doppler Pepper!"

Credit to @munchiebeetle for mispronouncing Docbr Pebbler

[mystycalypso]

I don't want to judge the Ravenbrooks police system and folks much...yet. but uh- Trinity going back to school isn't gonna be the morning after episode 6, right?

I think if I,

1. Got hit in the head with a shovel

2. Had to save my friends from a creepy basement

3. Get violently grabbed and dragged back across the street by the same man who trapped me in his basement

4. Woke up to my window open and a note on me with a threat against my life

5. Saw a BIRD MAN run out of my house

And then the next morning my parents were like "okay kiddo time for school!" I'd die. I'd die right on the spot.

[garnet-cow]

Pov : You were supposed to advance your project of Oc on Rise of the Guardian which you have been working on for a year but you find yourself with a new hyperfixation on another show and created yet another OC.

So meet Li Wěi.

( second picture come from Picrew )

Alright, so before speaking about her, we need to speak about her dad (because every good Lego monkie kid Character need a good daddy issue). So her dad is the result of an illegal experimentation from a god (I didn't find a name for him so we're gonna call him God A) which was meant to be able to compete the 4 spiritual primates. But that experience was a failure and her father appears without any magical potential.

Her father was called Wei The tailed shepherd simian, he had an extremely strong and long Tail, able to break walls and lift up enormous thing. 

When the gods of the celestial realm find his existence and the experiment off god A, they decided to imprison God A and assign Wei as the shepherd of a Mystic antelopes herd owned by another God (God B (didn't find a name either)).

God B was a complicated character, he was extremely bipolar.

Time passes, and Wei begin to feel lonely and dreamt of having someone like him, someone that he could take Care off. So one day he asked to the God B who possessed the herd, a child like him. God B accept to speak about his request to Nuwa.

And so, because he takes really good care of the herd, Li Wěi was created.

The story continues under the cut

She grew up in the palace of God B, with her father and the god servants. She passed most of her days alone in the palace waiting for her dad to come back from the hills with the antelopes. She suffered from loneliness and mischievous action from God B who host them. When her father didn't see it the god harmed her and tell her not to relate anyone.

In her heart grown a feeling of injustice and anger directed to the god, her father and the palace. She didn't understand why she had to live this life if it was to be imprisoned in a palace with only fear and disgust.

One day that anger created a fight between her and her father, where both of them said bad things. She and her father run away from each other, she runs to hide herself in the forest while her father goes to the hill guarding the antelope. But all of this fight torments her father's mind and he let a group of antelope died during the day. Which leads the god who had these antelopes to enter in a gigantic rage. The god decides to punish him. The demonic god decided to punish Wei by directing him to choose someone to curse, as he couldn't choose himself. The god uses his power to read Wei's mind. Her father reflexively thought of Li Wěi first, wanting to protect her from that curse. The god smirk and decide to put the curse on Li-Wei, causing her to die when the god will like.

That spell cursed her to die by the hand of the god any moment he will. He could speak with her head and even control her when he's full of rage. He condemned her to a death she will never choose, and by the same occasion a life completely uncertain. He could ask for her death tomorrow or in 10 000 years if he will.

She couldn't die because of that.

She became the puppet of that god that day.

Her father died of sadness months later that event.

Today she's 4004 years old and she's the shepherd of the sacred herd off antelopes from this same god. He let her travel around the world with these antelopes.

She met a lot of people during her journey and became friends with a lot of them. She became wise and strong, by protecting her herd from dangerous demon all over the world.

Even if there's a bloody scar all over her right arms who reminds her what's her destiny.

She has accepted her destiny and knows that one day she will have to return to this palace which she hates to accomplish what she's meant to do.

She is practically deprived of magic. Instead, she has a really big strength, her fantastic long and strong tail, and her weapons. But ( because there's a but ), She has 2 glamours and a Kaiju form, that is completely smaller than Macaque, MK, or Wukong's one, but still a Kaiju form. That transformation takes a light and dark blue with a little bit of purple and green.

By the way, she has a good resistance to magic, most of the times spells can't affect her. Because of the curse she has.

Since She lived many Years and Travel a lot, she has seen, lived and done plenty of things. She experiments pride, anger, shame, injustice, love, physical love, madness, happiness, euphoria, sweetness, dépression, treason, pain, physical and mental pain. ....... Li Wěi is aware of her flaw and mistakes and her limits. But She also knows that sometimes you have to go beyond it.

Her appearance might change in time. ( New look )

sorry for the bad resolution.

Hope you like the telling of her story.

English isn't my first language so please don't hesitate to correct me if I write something wrong / something who don't make any sens.

[kiisaka]

Finally finished this piece! It looks kind of wrong, but after trial and error, I just decided to let it be.

[kakusu-shipping]

My mini contribution to @echoes-lighthouse's Evil Slasher Orphanage! My wife Anna and I are here to help, and brought a few more kids of our own.

I really thought I was a horror fan until I sat down to draw this and came up blank. I guess I'm not a slasher guy, because a LOT more Monsters and Beasts came to mind, so it took a while to form a list. Though I did include Sam who is certainly a Creeture but.. They're human enough.

[bumblingbabooshka]

That’s her father, thank you very much.

[theoreticalli]

I will not get into arguments with my irl friends about ai I will not get into arguments with my irl friends about ai I will not get into arguments with my irl friends about ai I will not get into arguments with my irl friends about ai

[vanriblogs]

Getting a little burnt out from drawing all of the starters (and their evolutions and Mega and Gigantamax forms).

It's all I've been working on for the past month and I still have another month of work ahead of me, but I want them DONE and OUT OF THE WAY! (And also people crave the starters. I have to provide)

Currently sitting at 47/97 completed. If I get Snivy's line done today I will be over halfway there.

[gideon-of-navareth]

Quick soapbox about why AI scraping is bad even if you paint over/modify the final product under the cut! ☠️❤️

I haven't really seen it in comments or anything, but just in case the fact that Mariellavee added her own artistic touch or modified these to make them "her own" is changing anyone's mind about this being a problem, let me say this:

I am a firm believer in working smarter not harder when it comes to art, and that means using reference images, programs, tools, and open-source libraries that are designed for artists. However;

Incorporating images that have been scraped by AI from other creators without their consent is not working smarter, it's theft. Painting over it and adding small personal touches does not change the fact that huge chunks of it were stolen, and it doesn't change the fact that you're supporting a poorly regulated AI industry, which is hurting creators and the planet. (It should go without saying that this applies equally to writing stories and articles that use AI to scrape other creative works.)

I'm encouraged by the support this post is getting, and I deeply appreciate @acephodel for making it, because as a lover of Art Nouveau and TLT, I admit that I fell hook, line, and sinker for it. Being "that person" isn't easy, so I'm here to be one of "those people" with you, because I feel it's the right thing to do.

And if my words ever reach Mariellavee, all I want to say is that your art is so much better without the influence of AI. It's perfect, because it's yours.

And that goes for every artist out there.

Sorry to be this person, but I haven't seen many others talking about it and I'm concerned by the positive reception it's recieved.

The Muca/Art Nouveau Gideon and Harrow by Mariellavee that have been doing the rounds on the tlt fandom circuit are very much AI Generated.

Here are the pieces. You may zoom in at your own discretion, but I will post a few especially egregious segments.

Some zoomed in segments:

The smudging, the strange stray lines with no clear human intent behind them, the strange fingers of course, and that one buckle that almost looks to have been generated in the shape of letters.

The "artist" of course does not disclose anywhere in her original post or tags that the work is AI generated, and its clear from the comments and tags that many people are not realizing.

It's clear Mariellavee drew over some parts to modify whatever the original generated piece looked like, but the meat of this piece is heavily ai.

This is not okay. The Locked Tomb is a beautiful piece of art, and the fandom contains so many fantastic and talented fan artists. I don't want to see the community poisoned with this nonsense. Support real artists and real art.

[teaboot]

Wait you had autism and still got along with the other kids and knew what was going on with them?? I was never able to do that! I still chose to do my own thing but would have been unable to answer those questions.

I mean I didn't really WANNA make friends for a super long time so it didn't really matter? And if anyone was outright mean I don't think I noticed till like 6th grade.

After 6th a few other kids liked to throw or kick things at my face or steal my art supplies or give me mean nicknames- I remember almost all the boys in my class one year started a thing where if I got within 4 feet of them they'd yell "[tea] GERMS!" and make a dramatic mad-dash escape, and that was kinda hurtful, but IDK how long that was a thing??

Anyhow I started asking them if they had a crush on me or if they were just stupid, and when they asked what I meant I'd just be like "well there's two reasons boys act stupid around girls. Either you have a crush on me, or you're just always this stupid"

And that invariably led to them yelling "I'm stupid, I'm stupid!" or telling me, "I'd rather say I'm stupid than say I like you!"

Which might have been hurtful if I wasn't growing into a mild superiority complex that assured me I was smarter than them, and nicer than them, and there was really no need to desire the approval of stupid, mean people.

(This was, of course, backed up by the fact that my father was one of those mean, stupid sorts of people, and I fully beleived if I could handle him, I could handle anyone my size, and so what if you dont like me? My own dad doesnt like me, am i supposed to value your opinion?)

Then by highschool I got hot, and if one of them started chatting me up I'd just be like "You wrote in my yearbook in 2002 that I was a huge loser. Why would I want to hang out with you"

And by THEN I'd met enough genuinely fun, interesting people who actually liked me that I was never around anyone who openly disliked me anyways.

Not until I started to realize I wasn't 100% a girl and cut my hair off- Then I started hearing other girls whispering to each other that I looked like a lesbian- gasp- which, again, was actually pretty funny, 'cause then I'd just tell them not to get their hopes up 'cause I wasn't available.

Then I graduated, and moved, and it turns out I'm actually kind of hot funny smart and successful, and whenever I fall into the deep deep pit of dumb ugly stupid imposter-syndrome, I remember that as mean as other kids were sometimes, their parents thought I was the best.

So anyways get fucked Gabe from ninth grade, your mom used to give me candy and bail me out of detention. I had the biggest fucking crush on your mom dude