#stealing . theft . sorry not sorry

[ikiprian]

Clark is taking Kon and Jon out for a classic, super-style bonding flight. Just a quick jaunt around the US and back!

They don’t get far. Somewhere in Illinois airpace, they run across another family.

The three (a hulking man, a snarky teenage boy, and a cackling youngest girl, each a grayscale blur in the blue, blue sky) throw neon-lit beams of energy at one another, quips and insults flying almost as fast as they do. It looks like training. It looks like fun!

The boy of them looks like a younger version of the man. Exactly like, even. Clark is familiar with clones.

The youngest, a girl, looks like both of them, but not quite. Perhaps she will, age sharpening her childish features, but it’s hard to say. More likely, she’s the man’s daughter.

Interested, Clark introduces himself to Dan. He seems to be a hero in his own right, even if Superman’s yet to see him in action. And it’s not often Clark sees a family so like his own!

[ghospoke]

not sure if this is a hot take but seeing people use/heavily rely on current ai generation makes me lose respect for them

[camelspit]

screaming and crying and sobbing HOW HARD is it to credit artists

[futurebird]

im scared

I saw a post on here where people were talking about how mad it made them when people "stole" their tags? And I've been putting posts in the cue and using the tags that pop up that seem related and useful, rather than typing each word out myself ... and I don't always add many extra ones and now I'm scared that I'm making everyone hate me for the tag theft. :( I didn't know tags were ... steal-able ? But I don't see how I can come up with all new tags, and I guess I get it I'm lazy too and typing all those words is a lot of work.

[irishvampireboy]

the fact that the words "time theft" even exist together the way they do and apply to some cooperate bullshit about ... stealing time from them (??????) and not like, time traveling bandits who literally steal things through time via time travel, makes me feel feral we deserve a better timeline we deserve to be time bandits

[raccoonspooky]

An asshole on etsy completely stole my images and description and is directly stealing customers from me. It’s been a over a month and still has not been resolved.

The person who stole my etsy listing has the stolen listing still up and available and it’s making sales. This user has stolen my images, description and is now making sales through fraudulent means. Please report them, all we can do is report. This is extremely frustrating and I just feel defeated man.

[euesworld]

"Excuse me.. are you stealing this car? I'm just wondering cause I'd let you steal my heart.."

I think I met a woman who was stealing a car, and I have to tell you.. that car might have been hot, but she was hotter, haha - eUë

[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

[jessiarts]

Wow...

So, you all know how tumblr will let you follow tags? Well you know now if you didn't. It's relevant to this story. Backstory is somewhat long but I hope you'll stay with me til the point.

Anyway, so yesterday I came across this really pretty fanart. I noticed it was linked to reddit, but otherwise uncredited, and tags said 'not my art'.

So I follow the reddit link to find the artist. The reddit post was also a repost, but the reddit reposter did credit the artist so I was able to find them. I had wanted to see if the artist had a tumblr so I could reblog the original from them, but alas, they didn't.

Then, because the art was really pretty and I wanted the artist to have the recognition she deserved, I reblogged the art from the reposter with a comment including who the artist was and the three links where you could find them. Note: I didn't call out the reposter for not crediting, nor was I rude about it or anything. I literally only included the artist name and her links in my reblog.

Then just now I was scrolling my dash and that same art popped up under the "Because you follow [tag]" thing. I thought it was the same post I just reblogged yesterday, and since it didn't have many notes I opened them to check for my url just to see if it was indeed the same post, or if coincidentally someone else had also reposted the same art.

My url wasn't there, but I had this feeling it wasn't actually a different post so I popped over to my blog and what do you know- it was the same post, and the reposter had hidden my reblog with the artist credit from the notes.

I swear reposters will really do the most to gaslight and claim they don't do it for clout, that they really do it to promote the artist, and then do shit like this. If it was for anything other than clout then ya'll wouldn't be deleting comments crediting the artists. I see it all the damn time. Hell, this person even declared in the tags that it wasn't their art, and STILL hid the credit for the artist from the notes.

Fucking unreal.

I don't want to ever hear anyone call an artist whiny for complaining about their art being stolen and reposted because "it's free promotion!" They don't do it because they want to support us, they do it because they want clout and attention from our work.

Anyways, here's your reminder that reposters and repost accounts suck, and that the only valid way to repost art is with permission and/or full credit and links back to the artist. Anything else is clout chasing and theft.

[h-doodles]

LDBDDKDLDJB IM SOWWY IM NOT A WRITER

[cigaretteparfum]

some people just never experienced living in a community and it shows. 😭😭

[smieska]

AI ART

[zannies-joestar-hut]

I’ve made this exact take before but people making those “Jonathan disappointed in his descendants crimes >:(“ posts are so god damn phantom blood illiterate it hurts. Jonathan’s best friend was a man who on first meeting him tried to cut his skull/chest open with a bladed hat. He managed to “redeem” said man and his buddies without even really stopping them from doing the whole crimes thing. Fucks sake even until the end he never gave up on loving DIO of all people. (i must clarify to the freaks: loving as a brother. sickos go away.)

I think he’d be a bit scared of the shit Giorno gets up to but seeing Gio’s reasoning I feel he’d have some trepidatious respect for it. And outside that like, Jolyne committing petty theft and beating the shit outta nasty people? Josuke committing petty theft, unpetty theft in the event of estranged dad, and beating the shit outta people? Jotaro calling his mom a bitch when he was literally neurodivergent and a minor??? Fucks sake the only one I’d really see him being ashamed of is Joseph, I’d hope for the whole “well some of those nazis turned out to be good people despite our differences!” shit but at the VERY least for cheating on Suzi.

[wet-leafs]

!!! to my fellow pinterest users !!!

this is everyone's friendly reminder that pinterest has a rampant theft problem! a lot of the art on pinterest is incorrectly attributed or not attributed at all, which means that a lot of artists that do not want their work redistributed/reposted (or even used at all) end up screwed and out of the loop!

if an artist is linked or credited in the comments but the pin itself was not posted by them, shoot the artist a message on an actual account of theirs! most artists have either twitter, tumblr, and/or instagram. a lot of pinterest commenters will provide credit, and failing that a reverse image search on google will probably do the trick.

the whole process of finding the artist and updating them on what was stolen takes - at the most, in my experience - 3-4 minutes. pinterest's reporting system is AWFUL for this kind of thing; you can only report something as stolen if YOU are the original creator.

i know this sounds like a lot of effort, but it's worth it! artists deserve credit for their amazing work, and they deserve to have their wishes respected if they don't want it up on pinterest at all. <3

[sevenhundred721]

I need to read Herbert West: Re-Animator bc I have a few assumptions I've made about the cast, especially Herbert, that I'd like to see either confirmed or denied, or ideally, still ambiguous enough that I can keep believing without impediment of or confirmation from the source material.

[autistic-katara]

tell my we i just got a strangely pro-ai blog on my dash-