#somethint they like but like!!! idk bro im just thinking a lot of things

[charlicpace]

i keep thinking about how when a family member asked what i was up to on my laptop and i said making gifs, she couldn't comprehend that i do it for free. like, she asked how many i made, and she knows i've made a couple of hundred in one go before and said the same thing then, but when i said "idk a thousand and something" she genuinely couldn't wrap her head around the fact i just do it for free and then post them for whoever. like, fair, i make them for myself, but when she asks why i make them i usually just say that someone asked and they can send in anonymous requests (bc otherwise it's "well who asked you to?") because it's easier than trying to explain why i need gifs of random actors for writing. but there are, ofc, gif makers out there who DO make packs on request. sometimes of people they've never heard of and have no intention of using themselves. and they spend hours doing something for someone just because they asked. and yes i know that charging for gifs is technically illegal bc the material doesn't belong to us but like,,,, can you blame the people that do?? ANYWAY what i'm saying is, i can't stop thinking about how we do this shit for hours and days and weeks and sometimes months and all we ask is literally just the click of a button?? just a like or a reblog?? but then people don't even do THAT half the time and like?? for all the work that's gone in for these gifs to be available and you can't even click a button to say thanks?? like it's so weird. i often think about how odd the rpc would seem to me if i wasn't in it (just like ,,,, the rules and the customs and just like how things work u know??) but rn the fact we just post hundreds of gifs that are then free to use is really making me think rn. especially bc i make my gifs for me?? i make them for me to use?? or for mates sometimes?? and i do take suggestions and maybe i'll take requests when i'm happier with how my gifs look but like?? i could just make them and post them privately and never make them public but i don't and that thought never even crossed my mind??? bc i've made them, may as well share them, if nobody gets any use of them then that's okay i made them for me but they're there if they're wanted?? and even if you made gifs for yourself like?? it wouldn't be totally out there to me, if i saw it, if someone posted their gifs but required like a small payment to get the link to view them?? bc hey they're their gifs and they take ages so why not?? like that makes sense but i feel like it someone actually did that then there'd be uproar (and i know the legal side of it is valid obviously but like people are gonna charge for comissions anyway whether it's illegal or not so this is like,,,, a step down from that i guess??) but as a member of the community it’s just like.... the norm that people are nice enough to share all these gifs for free and it’s kind of like Amazing if u think about it. like idk man the fact that we as a community post hundreds and thousands if gifs we made for people to use for free is kind of like?,,,, amazing??? and i just don't really think i appreciate it as much as i should u know?? but on the other hand,maybe other people dont either like in the way of not reblogging the gif packs before using them and shit and ignoring people's rules?? like idk do we take it for granted?? idk man much to think about