#dropshiper

[casside-sionnach]

[alphamecha-mkii]

USCM Condor Dropship by Kyle Brown

[spockvarietyhour]

Hovercraft, The Creator (2023)

[kyra45]

It’s really simple. Don’t repost art that you didn’t make and pass it off as your own because you didn’t want to credit the artist. No matter where you found it:

Reddit

Pinterest

X/Twitter

Reposting tumblr blog

Instagram

Facebook

Etc

If it’s not AI ‘art’, the art you’re reposting uncredited for likes/shares isn’t supporting the real artist who spent their time and effort into drawing it.

Also if you get called out for content theft, meme sharing isn’t “Sharing a meme post with friends” if the meme art is a product ripping off someone else’s work for profit that also leads to a drop shipping scam site. There’s a difference between actually sharing a funny meme and sharing an obvious scam ad disguised as a funny meme.

[alexriesart]

Less than ten hours left in my 'Other Worlds' art book Kickstarter!

A little teaser from the entire chapter of art never released online, or anywhere and exclusive to the book.

The Kickstarter Link :) https://bit.ly/403C70b

Thank you everyone!

[canon-gabriel-quotes]

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That stream fucking sucked. Here's a T-shirt.

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[shirecorn]

Mmm shiny shark sticker....

[jewish-sideblog]

I do still make memes about holidays

[fucklavenderconstellation]

i used to have more posts on this blog. i know i used to have more.

i dont know why they disappeared, i presume that maybe lavenderconstellation deleted the blogs they were using to advertise and my posts went with it. i archived a couple of them on the wayback machine, but due to unforseen circumstances(namely the internet archive currently being down) i cannot grab those links right now.

let it be known that lavenderconstellation is a dropshipping scam. they take products from aliexpress and such and sell them at a huge markup. they steal designs from actual artists. they get their products from factories overseas that frequently have horrific working conditions. do not buy from these scumbags.

they try to trick people by making "normal" meme posts, spamming them with trending tags, and then CHANGING the post to one of their shitty ads once it gets notes to trick people into continuing to reblog because they believe the post is credible.

do not be tricked by these people.

EDIT 12/6/24: i found the wayback machine link to a previous post of mine that explains the pattern of these scammy posts better, here it is, you can also find a post i made before that one in the notes of this post from meme-finder! stay safe, keep your money, don't support dropshippers!

[unstoppable-fish]

A promise to you is an easy one to keep <3

[alphamecha-mkii]

Aliens: Fireteam Elite - UD–9 'Condor' Dropship

[oldschoolfrp]

Dropships and Jumpships: you can't leave home without 'em; Steve Venters' cover art from this 1988 Battletech supplement by FASA, cropped and rotated 90 degrees for this ad in Dragon 130, February 1988

[kyra45]

Dropshipping scams

(Dropshipping scams)

(aka the scammy dropshipping websites you see promoted by funny meme accounts)

Did we learn nothing about the user pizza incident? Remember that?

Anyway, what is a dropshipping scam?

While not necessarily a scam outright on its own, dropshipping websites tend to rip off real artists or even use AI to have whatever is seen as trendy, funny, cute, etc. You may know of these from the popular meme blogs that post a seemingly regular post then suddenly days later it’s turned into an advertisement for some cool product they found that you totally need right now this instant. They’re lying to you. They didn’t find it. That’s just part of a script.

What they’re really doing is being paid to promote a website that’s been on tumblr for decades now, only ever advertised by popular meme accounts and often not even a product related to the meme blogs theme. You’ve likely seen them on a daily basis, or even follow them and not realize you’re just being used for their ad revenue.

The issue is, most of these blogs don’t outright disclose their ads in an easily visible place to see. They don’t tell you “ hey I’m being paid for this promotion by (x) so check out the link below to check it out” which would make it extremely easy to avoid the site. Instead, they just disguise the ad as a funny meme and that’s it. Because they’d get backlash for advertising a dropshipping place. Where the item is marked up and often found cheaper elsewhere if it’s not ripped off from an artist.

Genuinely, as an artist myself, if your on tumblr you could be using your audience to promote artists own personal crafting website. Ask them to draw you a funny meme post, and offer to link to their commissions or art shop where others could get something for themselves. Don’t promote a scammy drop shipper who rips off the artists themselves.

At that rate meme blogs don’t even exist here anymore for memes, they’re just here to make bank and hiding what they do. Sure some may say what they’re doing, but that doesn’t make it any less bad that they’re willingly risking their followers getting scammed if something never arrives. Some blogs even use stolen art uncredited for memes!

[fidgetspringer]

Etsy has really gone to shit huh

[sbblake]

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