#sorry it has the insta watermark

[dragestil]

“unknown / nth” by hozier, performed live at dublin’s marlay park during the unreal unearth tour, 5 july 2024

[thicccatz]

harhar

sorry this has the insta watermark btw 😢

[clarenecessities]

hey it's no longer <3

the situation is, in a nutshell:

scott steals images for all of his videos from whichever google result best suits his purposes

ethan wilson, a perfectly nice photography/review blogger, has a great many Very High Quality pictures of action figures, something scott talks about in most videos

despite the "[images] are not to be used without permission.  Usage without permission will be subject to usage fees." disclaimer clearly stamped on Ethan's blog, scott never actually gave a shit about giving people credit and so, slapped them in willy-nilly as he talked over a slideshow of other stolen art with no script or editing

ethan copyright-claimed like a dozen or so videos, which was enough to get scott insta-suspended, losing him access to his channel while youtube sorted shit out

another youtuber, a shithead that doesn't really matter for the rest of this story, made a video saying 'yeah the haters are flagging scott's videos even though they're not the owners of the images or whatever"

scott reached out to ethan, who heard him out and agreed to retract the claims, asking that scott simply make a few tweets explaining the situation (and waiving the usage fees!!) and they'd call it good

scott makes the tweets, which basically say 'these were valid claims, i'll review the flagged videos once i have my channel back, sorry if i stole from you', and ethan retracts the claims

scott gets his account back

scott immediately makes a video to the tune of 'YOUTUBERS BEWARE [long clickbaity title that gets cut off]' and basically goes 'lol psych this is fair use and people pull this shit all the time. i can do what i want and it was really fucked up for this guy to copyright strike me when youtube is how i get people directed to my business' (he's a """marketing""" consultant)

ethan realizes scott is a turd bag and does the only thing he can to protect his art (and his own business!), copyright claiming further videos which use his stolen content.

scott is locked out of his youtube account again, though it isn't suspended this time, and takes to twitter. he drops ethan's full name and website and accuses him of blackmail, claiming he is be extorted to "post false information"

scott's shithead twitter followers swarm

scott claims he'll be getting his account back the 25/26th

i emailed ethan to make sure he knew about the libel & he basically doesn't have any recourse. scott cropped out his watermark on the stolen images & is leaning very heavily into the Fair Use thing. it's very unlikely youtube will do anything about it at all.

like optimistically they'll have him demonetize those videos, but what does he care? he just said in the YOUTUBERS BEWARE video that he's not in it for the money, he's in it for the SEO. and youtube's getting pageviews so what do they care.

blughgh. is it doxxing if i post his address when he has it on every page of his website? i don't want anyone to burn it down or anything just like. do you wanna egg his car for me, please

Toyguru’s channel got suspended because he stole a bunch of images and got 91 consecutive copyright strikes <3

The follies of content farming eh Scott? Maybe you should focus on quality over quantity for a while. answer my riddles three perhaps

[squid-princess-teach-swallow]

Edit 2: I just came to realise that @/adiehardfan didn't actually accuse me of anything. The anon who said so might have understood her post regarding a different person to be me. I apologise for this misunderstanding, since she has blocked me I couldn't confirm it in any way. But that still doesn't excuse her stealing my edit, or blocking me, or not posting a public apology post regarding it. Once again, I apologise for the misunderstanding, but she still hasn't owned up to her mistake. I am in need of your help and support y'all!!!

Edit: I just came to know that @/adie_hardfan on ig is accusing me of harassing her, which is absolutely not true and I am appalled that she would do something like this! I'm literally shaking right now, that's how upset I am! Her allegations are utter lies!! I have no fuvking idea what to do!!

Hi y'all. As some of you might know, @/adie_hardfan on Instagram had posted my edit, added a watermark to it, and claimed it as hers. I came to know about it from an anon who had sent me an ask informing me about this. I messaged @/adie_hardfan privately, and while she apologized, she claimed it was a 'mistake' and didn't actually own that she unfairly took credit for my edit. She deleted the edit in question, and wanted to 'put this issue aside'. I was insistent that she should publicly own her mistake, so she confessed to a 'mistake' and apologized in her ig story. Only after sometime I realised that her story was visible only to 'close friends' so it literally had no effing use! When I tried to contact her again, I wasn't able to do it, and that's when I realised that she had blocked me! Why would she want to block me when I didn't do anything to offend her or make her uncomfortable? Unless she wants to hide something. For all I know, she could've just reposted my edit, or took credit for a different edit! And people will think she did it, while I'm the one who put in a lot of effort to create it!

I don't know if I'm overreacting, but I can't even sleep peacefully and I'm literally typing this post at 12:30 am!

Plagiarism is completely not okay!!! It's low, cheap, disgusting and just wrong on so many levels!! It's like you yourself are admitting that you aren't good enough to do it yourself! Please don't take credit unfairly for something you didn't do!!

I need your help and support y'all! If any of you are on Insta, all I ask you is to back me up when I accuse @/adie_hardfan of plagiarism. The only proof I have is of our interaction, but she has deleted certain messages that incriminate her, but I'm still including them

And the story which she posted

All I want her to do is create a proper post, owning the fact that she unfairly took credit for my edit, apologize for it, and promise that it won't happen again. And she should unblock me so that I can see if she does something like this again.

And yes, the person in question is actually @adiehardfan aka Pep, who used to be a mod for @lawsofattractionfanfiction . She has deactivated her Tumblr blog.

Please help me in any way, if you can!

Sorry for the long post, and thank you for putting up with me.

[shhre]

im so sorry that person is stealing your photos, it's insanely rude and creepy to do something like that. theyre even using the same profile picture and edit out the watermarks from your photos.. thats not cool at all, and most people following them on insta (almost 2 thousand people!!! not cool at all) aren't aware theyre stealing at all :-( if you dont have an insta already you should make one and alert ppl in the community, because this is very rude n disrespectful to do to somebody

So sorry for the confusion!! I do have Instagram and my username there is bbymews! It's the user softingly here on Tumblr who has reuploaded my content twice now even after I asked them not to :( I really appreciate the concern tho!!!

[stuckytilltheendoftheline]

someone posted your edit abt stevebucky titanic au on Twitter, idk if you care about credits but... i saw a comment below the tweet saying that was an insta stan edit, it was pretty rude and i just want you let you know that your edits are amazing! can't wait for the next parte of rescuing bucky :D

Thank you so much for telling me <3 I actually saw a screenshot of that twitter post on facebook like 2 minutes before reading this ask.

I don’t really mind my work getting repost (almost impossible to avoid too), but I believe is not hard to give credit while reposting. I know my work has a “watermark” but sometimes I make it almost impossible to see, because I hate how it draws the eye.

What I don’t get, and I’m sorry for asking, is the meaning of a “insta stan edit”, not sure what does it mean.

Again, thank you for telling me and your kind words! Rescuing Bucky is coming back really soon!

[rrinku98illusts]

I noticed my watermark is typo (on the tumblr one) so I’m sorry to just realize this way too late. But it’s has been done so I’ll just continue with my current name. But at least I attach my Insta so it’s still okay tho.

[mirandashadowborn]

I think my problem in general is the insta community. I’m so used to tumblrs relative chill-ness. I joined IG late in the game, at my inlaws request, they had all discovered it and were having fun with it. Initially, it was fun- I posted pretty pics of things in little squares with funny hashtags and they liked them and erryone was happy.

Then I found my fan groups and made separate accounts for them. Found all my friends from tumblr, followed them and new artists, and started posting pics. In the first few months of having my page for a specific fandom (monster high) it was:

People straight up asking for dolls. You were a dick if you didn’t just fucking send them a free thing that you paid a lot of money for

STOLEN PICS EVERYWHERE. 

my pics were on Russian MH pages, Columbian MH pages, about ten little 12 years olds MH pages. 

All were marked “found on google” “Credit to artist” “not my pic” “Pic from weheartit” 

Also watermarked with THEIR pages name. 

Literally search was nothing but stolen pics and art from friends. 

People calling you an asshole for mentioning who to credit. 

People complaining to me about things like as if I was Mattel and could do anything about it? 

So, sorry, I should stop complaining about it its just exhausting. Really tumblr has been so much better in terms of finding like minded individuals who aren’t complete fucking assholes about things. Instagram is just so toxic like, why? 

Its fine to find fault in a thing that you like alot. There’s just no need to be an absolute horses ass about it in public on every post. Especially not when its people who seem really cool and just doing their best to keep us entertained. 

[stupid-art-thing]

Hey guys I know this is kinda strange but it’s really important

A few months ago I accepted a commission from a user on Instagram. They messaged me from this account

It was my first commission, so I didn’t demand any cash up front. Big mistake. They never gave me any specifics for the drawing, but the sample image they gave me was only a headshot, so that was what I drew.

After sending the watermarked image I never heard from them again. Here’s all the conversations we had on insta.

After that I stopped texting because they ignored all the pervious messages. They were really vague in their initial texts, but I assumed they just didn’t have English as a first language as often is the case in the art community on Insta. It was clear I wasn’t going to get paid, but all I did was mention it in passing on one of my friends comments about my commissions.

I later found out this was their main account thanks to another Instagram user who made a post compiling all the people they had scammed.

Here’s a link to the post, it’s in French but the translation makes it pretty clear. They also got scammed and tagged others who had as well

https://www.instagram.com/p/B2bequYiD27/?igshid=1lcl9j13j5wbc

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A post shared by haru's drawing ヾ(✿ﾟ▽ﾟ)ノ (@kawaiiharuu) on Sep 15, 2019 at 3:59am PDT

If anyone does commissions on Instagram please don’t waste your talent and block these users. Try to report them for scamming people because this has happened to a lot of people (about 17 unpaid photos are shown in the call out post). Make sure to give the other people tagged in the post so love to cause they have a lot of skill and it’s a shame to see them go unpaid.

Sorry this is a different but this has never happened to me before and I hope it never does again. When I mentioned not getting paid to a friend she told me she demands half up front whenever she does commissions, which is what I will be doing from now on

If anyone is curious about my commissions I have a post about them here

https://www.instagram.com/p/B1by4QLgxjA/?igshid=15zxeb90vd26c

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Reblogs are really appreciated on this post btw. Thanks for reading this long

[paintbrushyy]

When you Find Art but not the artist

Hello, here are some tips, for when you find some good art, but not the artist.

and remember, if you can’t find the artist, and none of these tips help DO NOT REPOST (THIS MEANS DON’T POST ON YOUR OWN SITE/BLOG/INSTA/TWITTER). It’s not okay.  

1. Reverse image search

When you see an image if you right click it, or double finger click there will be a small button all the way at the bottom (at least for macs) that says “Search Google for Image” 

this is how you do a reverse image search, and even though this can be handy, it doesn’t always work, but it’s ALWAYS worth the try.

2. Look close for a watermark. 

Watermarks can be messy and sometimes not very visible but often times they are there. Look at the watermark and try to make out the letter, if they have a URL attached to it, then go straight to that site to search. If not type in the name/letter of the artist in “” quotation marks and with the word Artist after it. It’ll help find the artist on some sites. 

Most artists put their URL and then others put their name. 

IF you are an artist the best way to help your art be found is to put the watermark over the art, and make sure it has a name that is attached to your URL/site name. Not just a nickname.  

This is a very important tip cause I swear no one looks hard enough, I’ve seen stolen art on blogs and they say “don’t know the artist” when the watermark is clearly right there and I find them in 2 seconds. 

3. If all else fails, enjoy the art, but don’t repost it. 

I admit I find stolen art ALL OVER THE PLACE, and sometimes even after an hour of looking, I can’t find the artist. I find them on Pinterest a lot. And if I can’t find the artist to reblog or ask to share, I just look at the art and appreciate it for myself. But sharing it when you can’t ask to give credit, does nothing good for the artist and that’s ultimately who we want to support. 

And remember, just saying “Credit to the artist” does just as much as saying “I’m sorry” to a dead person. Absolutely nothing at all. 

Hope these help, and remember, that if you stole art in the past, it’s okay if you didn’t know it was wrong, what’s important is that you know now, and you don’t do it again. 

Protect the artist and the art. Help their careers, support them. Don’t steal from them. 

[reina-mintchip]

[CLOSED] FREE ADOPT MONSTER GIRLS!

I decided to dip my toe in the art adopt community. It seemed fun, and I always have random designs going through my head so I thought I could do something fun with it. Adopt 1: Lamia (Artistyre on dA) Description: It's a snake girl from Greek myth. Pretty basic. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ She likes simple clothes. Adopt 2: Fire-Fairy (hayven101 on dA) Description: Specifically from this Russian fairy tale of the same name where a fairy with red hair jumps out of a fire in front of a young boy and an old man, dancing with a blue handkerchief, and its said where ever she dances, gold will be. Always has a blue handkerchief. Adopt 3: Asrai (ceed_arts on Insta ) Description: A type of aquatic fairy close to a mermaid or nixie in English Folklore. Can be either really short or really tall and can't be in direct sunlight for too long or they turn into a puddle of water. So she always carries a sun umbrella with her. Adopt 4: Harpy (aika.megu on Insta ) Description: I'd like to think she's kinda like a flamingo harpy. Backless halter tops are her favorite because her feathers come together in the back. Adopt 5: Dullahan (_rebexi_ on Insta ) Description: Irish mythical monster with a detachable head. I feel she likes one-piece type clothings. Adopt 6: Manananggal ( ShirosoulUvU on dA) Description: Vampire-like monster from Philippine Myth who can detach their upper torso and grow bat-like wings and uses their long tongue to either suck blood from their victims or eat the hearts of fetuses. She likes sheer clothes.

UPDATE: Thank you all who were interested! And sorry to those who couldn’t get theirs in time!

________________________________________________________________ Rules:

*First-Come-First-Serve Basis

*Do NOT resell/use for commercial use

*Gifting and Trading is fine, but please tell me the new owner

*Do NOT claim as your own

*Please give credit

*Everything else EXCEPT for the visual design is up to you once taken

*Making other clothes is fine, but I did include a feature of clothing that must be included

*Please DM me which girl you like and whether you would like the un-watermarked version, watermarked (It'll be smaller), or both.

*Any other question, feel free to DM me Art & Design (c) (Reina-MintChip)

[jinwoowoohoo]

Sorry if this is a bother to ask, but I saw your post about photocard trades (and that's such a cute thing to do- color matching!!🌸💞) and I'd also like to do pc trades. I was wondering if you had some recommendations of how I'd go about doing that? I'm not super close to any other arohas yet so idk how to go about it 😭

It’s no bother at all!! I actually got started trading thanks to someone on tumblr helping me a few years ago 💖

To my knowledge, most kpop trading takes place on facebook, twitter, and instagram. I personally use fb, so I’ll talk about that one first!

(under a cut because I wrote a lot, heh)

On facebook there are a ton of kpop buy/sell/trade groups you can join! There are general ones, group specific ones, even area specific ones (usually by country), so you can join as many or as few as you would like~

These groups work just like the general fb marketplace, so you make a post with what you have/are looking for, and people can message you about it (or you message others)! You can scroll through the groups before posting to get an idea of what to write (and make sure to read over each groups posting rules!) I’ll list the groups I’m in at the end here ^^

For twitter (and probably insta? I’m not sure as I’ve never used it) people will post a tweet with their info, and then @ accounts that are made specifically for retweeting these kinds of posts! So for example, you could make your post and @/astrofortrade, and they would retweet it for all their followers. You can also scroll through these accts and contact anyone who’s looking for what you have. People probably use hashtags too (?) but as I only really use fb I’m not too sure :c

I’ve never traded on tumblr since it’s harder to check out if the person is legit beforehand, but I imagine you can find trade posts by searching keywords/tags!

As far as general trading advice:

Check out your trading partner! Check out their profile, ask if they’ve traded before and if so do they have proof, etc. Some groups have known scammer lists, if you’re worried you can always check for their name there (or ask me to check my resources if you need to). 

Give and receive proof of everything! Ask for pictures of the card with a note that has their (or your) name (the note should be physically next to the card, watermarks are a no-go), ask for pics of the packaging, pics of the envelope with your name on it, proof of them having sent it, anything you can. This helps weed out scammers if they refuse to give these things or if what they send is fishy~ (definitely ask for pics if you ever buy secondhand merch as well!)

Shipping: You can trade easily with regular stamped mail (even internationally - for the US there is an international stamp you can buy that costs $1.15, otherwise you can use 3 forever stamps). I’ve been trading only stamped mail for 2+ years with no issues ^^ Just make sure you and your partner agree on what type of mail you are deciding to use early in your discussions (protip, if your envelope gets a bit thick, you’ll want to throw an extra stamp or two on it just to be safe~). That said, you can also trade with tracking, you’ll just have to go to your post office for it (and it’ll cost a few dollars within the US, international can shoot up a lot depending)

Packaging: Make sure to protect the card you are sending, and that your partner is protecting yours! I use: a penny sleeve + a toploader (taped closed) inside of a greeting card. However if you don’t have access to these things cardboard works great too! Just make sure that 1) it is rigid/doesnt bend easily, and 2) don’t! put tape! on the card! tape can very easily ruin your card, so package mindfully (check that your card won’t slide around into your tape in-transit)

If someone is being really rude or is making you uncomfortable/uneasy, you can absolutely back out of a trade. Keep yourself safe 💖

As promised, here are the fb groups I’m in! You can easily find others with the fb search bar too

Kpop photocard world trade trading buy sell forum

Buying and Selling KPOP

ASTRO Official Buy, Sell, Trade

If you have any further questions feel free to ask!! I’ve learned a lot about the business haha 

[bebaexoexo]

Shit Oh Sehun did in 2017

-Mistook Jeonghan (svt) for Johnny (nct)

-Movie date with suho

-Slayed at the gaon chart award show with a solo dance

-Paris vacation/date with suho

-Got called best dressed man at a Louis Vuiton catwalk and then proceeded to spend the next day walking around Paris with a hood, baseball cap and a cowboy hat on his head all at one time

-Revealed his bed time snuggle routine with Suho, no shame attached

-Was supposed to debut as an Actor Oh in February, but didn’t…

-Was supposed to debut as an Actor Oh in March, but didn’t…

-Got an award for being himself (popularity award)

-Was supposed to debut as an Actor Oh in April, but didn’t…(NoT EvEn a FRackin TraIleR)

-Waved to a tablet instead of the camera, tried to play it cool by continuing to do so

-Posted about his big chilli… 0.0

-Got 15 points on a drawing game while everyone else got over 100 (he drew love hearts and wrote ‘I’m sorry’ for everything and still couldn’t accept being last)

-Howled because of sour pickles

-Members accuse him of being the prime suspect when food goes missing in the fridge, he agrees

-Used binoculars the wrong way round and couldn’t understand why he couldn’t see (Suho to the rescue and an embarrassed osh as a result)

-Gets driven around by big brother chanyeol

-CAN SING (might as well be in exo’s vocal line)

-Biyak Biyak 4 lyfe

-Rubbed his head on a random guy’s stomach (who looks like he’s his sugar daddy)

-Made suho sad because he didn’t go to a premier with him, but went to a festival with Chanyeol and guy whose stomach he rubbed his head on

-Danced (????) at said music festival. By dance I mean chicken fingers at the crowd wtf @ exo’s main dancer

-Can ya tell iv given up on the debut of Actor Oh

-Graced his instagram with such artistic pictures of rice, spoons and cereal

-Only one ft BoA returns

-KING OF SPOILERS sehun the cereal rice (kokobop) poster

-KING OF SPOILERS PT2 dancing the dance with kai can you all please stop this isn’t good for me

-Comments ‘is this exo’s official account?’ On exo’s official account

-“What did you do in preperation for this album?” “Loyalty”

-Passionately talked about eel reproduction

-“Favorite fruit?” “Water with ice”

-Gave flowers to the members because he’s their cute baby omfh (it was a punishment but same thing)

-*gives Kai a rose* “it fits you, you’re sexy and dark red suits you”

-Baekhyun confirms Sehuns big DIACK

-“Sehun has absolutely no interest I’m women. How do I know? Sehunnie said he has no interest in women”- Baekhyun

-Bragged about a really good noodle place, took 30+ people to eat and payed for them- but the food was disappointing

-“Say something to the EXO-L for their birthday” *sehun claps*

SUPER ELLE

-*brags about his dog at every chance he gets, literal protective father to vivi* “I am a cat person”

-EXOTOURAGRAM AKA SEHO AND FRIENDS

-“We’ve been roommates for 6 years I want to cross the line”

-Producer Oh

-“I’ve arrived!” \(-°o°-)/

-Date in NYC with suho (ft the third wheel JD)

-Pulls out chair for suho

-“Its enough just to film me, suho’ s voice in the background is fine”

-Couldn’t believe that a waitress in NYC can’t speak Korean

-Theatre date with suho (ft the late third wheel JD)

-Kicks suho out of their room

-SBS power fm- more like 2 hours of sehun whinning and crying from embarrassment while suho laughs

-“I really like chocolate milk. I think it’s love”

-“Sehunnie is upset~ upset~ really really upset… huhuu” AEGAO KING WHAY

-“I’ve been having a hard time too. At times like this, we should all embrace each other. There’s something I always tell the members and that is to to ‘hug/embrace (me)’. Let’s cheer each other on, got it everyone? Cheer up always and yea, that’s it” and this is why we love our baby

-Sehun irl- “I love all my hyungs to the moon and back #se-rang-hai-yo” Sehun in manwha- “who cares”

-LA date with suho

-DING DONG

-“Let’s goo” \(^o^!)__

-Just sehun trying to control his face while riding the drift car

-King of being HOT, calm and panicking at the same time when their car stalled

-Also Oh Sehun driving someone hold me

-Heart-shaped sweatpatch on his back

-“Excuse me… sir… ketchup ketchup yahh… thank you”

-“The hardest time isn’t when we have a lot of schedule but when the members have different opinions (argue). It saddens me a lot”

-Me me da

-Fan- “do sehun and i have something in common?” Sehun- “we’re human”

-Las Vegas date with suho

-Volunteers suho to go sky diving first like the little shit he is

-Wears a dress shirt and leather shoes to sky diving

-Acts like he isnt shitting himself on the zipwire

-Shamelessly wore nothing underneath an easily unzip-able hoodie

-MC Oh

-“Who is the scariest hyung?” “All of them”

-Tries to prank suho by putting a sticker on him, fails misrebly and then loses the sticker

-White suit blue shirt

-Chanyeol saying Sehuns voice is so good he wants to produce him PLEs

-Teary eyed sehun as eXO WIN RHE PRIME MINISFERS AWARD WWKBDUDBDJ

-Hello councellor MC’s @ seho “stop touching eachother are you guys coming out right now?”

-Sehun @ LVTN

-Gets customised bags from LVTN

-Sehun @ Moncler (also makes the CEO come out just to take pictures with him we love a powerful man)

-Peace signs in his pockets when hes told not to do it

-Doesnt follow seungri back on insta because aesthetics

-Omfg okay elyxion antics begins here

-SHIRTLESS SEHUN IMDG THAT BOY JUST THREW OFF THAT JACKETS WTF I JUST GOT OUT OF WORK AND THATS THE FIRST THING I SEE ON INSTA WTF OMG MY HEART I DONT EVEN KNOW WHATS GOING ON YET BUT I SAW FOKKIN RIPPED SEHUN AND SHIT THATS JISTVTJE LIFE OMG THIS IS GONNA BE LIT

-Wrote and co produced his solo In At thE CONCERT COZ WE LOVE A TALENTED KING

-Lovingly strokes suhos face during touch it

-Comforts kai, upset because he made a mistske in his solo, during cmb

-Danced to ka-ching with CBX

-Suho “after our concert ended at midnight yesterday, sehun and i went back to our door and boiled 20 eggs. 2 adult men peeled them seriously and ate 10 eggs”

-Kisses baekhyuns neck

-Eats pizza at the concert after holding back for months, members happy give us one last chance at seeing THE ABS

-Went crazy and got chanyeol too drunk on his birthday

-Fansites “please dont crop our watermark we work really hard for these pictures” Sehun ;)

-Cute instalive of him just trying on the filters and telling us not to be stressed and play

-SEHUN IN DEAR HAPPINES OMG GREY SEHUN IS DA BESTZ IN A THIN WHITE SHIRT OMG

-“OK!! goo” *pouts*

-“Hey dog, look at me~”

-“Cheese many manyyy”

-*is just standing there posing* Photographer “youre cute”

-Didnt know it was just him, kai and baekhyun in the lightsaber mv

-“Sehunnie makes the most delicious soju” byun baekhyun

-LEON KOREA

-Makes a personal training room in their dorm that can barely fit his own ass

-Supports suho at his musical despite both going through a tough time

-Struggles with the rudolph hat

-SINGING IN UNIVERSE YES DAS MA BETCH

-Subtly strokes suhos face on a national award show

-Make chanyeol kneel whenever he wants something from him. We love our king

-Curly haired solo on mbc gayo

-A beautiful family picture from Oh Sehun to end 2017

——–

Cr. Lerandomexotic

I had a lot of fun making this, just thought i needed to record sehuns never ending loveble antics etc

Feel free to add whatever else i missed

Hopefully he’ll just keep getting crazier next year too, and exo themselves will grow to be greatet and stronger

Like, reblog & excel

[kimcheolwoon]

Hi! Sorry if this is a dumb question but do you need to ask fansites permission to share their photos? Or is it fine to share them as long as you give proper credit?

not a dumb question! Altho I do find it interesting that you came to me, but nontheless I can still answer (as a mod and an admin for multiple update/archive blog)

So first is that most fansites have an explicit no reupload / no edit policy on all of their content unless otherwise stated. That means exactly what it says...do not reupload to any other sites and do not edit and reupload to any other sites. Now you can look around anywhere (even on twt which host the ORIGINAL content mostly) and see that...a majority of ppl tend to forego this rule. People make edits of fantaken photos, people make gifs of fancams, then you have your update/archive blogs who will post any picture/video that is uploaded to their liking...

Here’s how they get away with it:

I’m gonna use Jongin as an example here since I am very familiar with his fansites. Now, the admin(s) of a Jongin update/archive blog could go to every single fansite they hope to post content from and ask for permission personally.Jongin has over 120 active fansites and counting. So, this would mean that the admin of said archive blog would have to go to each fansite individually and ask permission to post content onto this platform. That’s one person in one group. Imagine being the admin of a blog dedicated to the entire group. Or just one member of B*S? That’s a lot of permissions. 

So what they do is they credit. They make it big and obvious that you know exactly where the shit is coming from. There’s links to the twitter/weibo/insta accounts. There’s links to the actual source code for the picture. Even your (good) update twitters don’t leave it out. 

Now for giffers its a little harder. Which is why some all gif makers hate to see their content from a fancam taken and reposted to twt. Because while it’s much easier to give credit on this site either in the caption or the tags or through a link, it’s hard to maintain that same credit when your shit is stolen and just reposted as a simple gif out of context. 

Now there’s a reason that fansite masters don’t go around blocking everyone who takes their photos and reuploads them on twt and other places and that’s mostly because they’re watermarked and it allows for more exposure. When there’s gifs and edits going around with your name tacked onto it, ppl are gonna see and ppl are gonna get curious. 

this is getting long for no reason. But moral of the story is yea it’s like you said, a large part of the kpop community has settled that as long as you give credit wherever you can (whether that’s keeping the logo of the video in your gif, linking it in the caption, or outright naming the fansite and not claiming it as your own) then you’re good! 

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Oh dear. Okay. @officialkagome Hopefully you actually read what I’m about to say and don’t insta-block me for letting you know: @keichanz is a treasured mutual of mine. I am well aware of the issue to which you are referring. I admit, I am not on the discord so I can’t speak to what may or may not have been said there.

What I can speak to, however, is Heather’s character and the attempted assassination of it which has occurred. She is not now, nor has she ever been, a transphobe or anti-LGBT in any way. Maybe she has said things which could be interpreted as offensive, if she has I’m confident it was never done maliciously and if she was informed of it without being attacked for it, I’m sure she’s learned from it.

I’ve seen the few screen shots you shared. I can not personally in any way interpret them as transphobic. As a cis person, I understand very well that it is not my place to say what is or isn’t transphobic. I understand that commenting on a trans person’s chosen name comes with more sensitivity than if a cis man had legally changed his name to InuYasha. But these inherent facts do not automatically make Heather’s comments transphobic. Could they be interpreted as such, sure, I guess. But she has been confronted with the accusation and has stated that it was not the case, and I don’t see why she can’t be taken at her word for it.

Sometimes people just rub other people the wrong way. It just happens. Not everyone will always get along. Surely you don’t expect every trans person in existence to be universally liked. I can’t fucking stand Caitlyn Jenner, because she’s a racist piece of shit and a shill for trump. Has nothing to do with her transness and I would never misgender her or wish violence on her, just like Heather has never misgendered either you or @officialinuyasha and as far as I know her only opinions voiced was that she questioned his justification for putting his own watermarks on official IY art after making minor edits. Personally he rather pissed me off when I saw he refused to remove an artist’s work he re-posted after they specifically asked him to.

Oh, and yes, she thought it was an odd choice of name to choose to change legally. And I’m sorry, but it IS outside the norm to legally change one’s name to an anime characters name. It would be odd if he’d changed his name to Naruto. It would be odd if a cis man changed his name to InuYasha too! And if we’re discussing that, let me just say that you could both be accused of cultural appropriation since neither of you appear to be Japanese.

Anyway. I bear neither of you any ill will, other than on Heather’s behalf. Maybe it’s just me being in my mid thirties, but everyone needs to grow tf up.

hmmmmmm so idk maybe no one cares but because I’ve been seeing their art on my dash recently I just wanted to put a reminder out there that inukagkids aka nattikay is a notorious Homophobe