DO NOT BUY from this person, please. they steal art, put basic text on it, and then sell it for $60+. this particular work was stolen from a japanese artist,  tadashige nishida.

Art reposters will never stop reposting just because the artists point out how much it negatively affects them. They don’t care about that they care about the positive response they get from YOU guys. Stop liking and following instagrams dedicated to mass art posting, I promise you even if it’s credited they aren’t asking permission first. Stop reblogging repost art. Stop turning a blind eye to the people destroying artists’ reach and credit.

>>>> theartofanimation <<<< is a huge offender of this. it’s worse when it’s reposted on tumblr because it’s not like twitter where you can delete it and it gets deleted everywhere. on tumblr, it will still circulate even if the original has been deleted so it doesn’t matter if an artist tells them “hey don’t repost my shit” because it’s already too late. just reblog from the original artist and if their art isn’t listed, don’t just take it without asking and waiting for a response. be a decent person and leave it alone. your need for attention should not supersede your basic respect for another human being.

Who made this?

Reposting VS Reblogging

hm…

becausedragonage:

*takes a deep breath*

Please don’t fucking repost

*takes a deep breath*

Please don’t think it’s okay to repost when you say it’s not your art

Please don’t think it’s okay to repost if you give credit

Please don’t think it’s okay to repost if you don’t have a source

Please don’t fucking repost

Unless you have fucking permission from the artist

Also please don’t think it’s okay to remove artist comments

warning to the Mystic Messenger fandom

          Hey! I just want to warn the fandom about this person from the Diabolik Lovers fandom, since she’s starting to take a huge interest in it… She has done many bad things in the DL fandom and I fear it might spread the the MM fandom when she officially sets her foot in the MM fandom.

Here is some proof of what she did~

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I recommend all to read it so you’ll know what to watch out for. Please be careful MM Fandom! Mostly Artists and Writers!

~Admin Seven

Jaehee Kang would wreck her shit. Be careful please, she’s toxic.

Just careful with this person, dont accept art stealers and fanfiction stealers! So take care people!

Please be careful and boost please!!!!

Heads up PayPal is changing ToS again

And they are getting even more strict when it comes to not using invoices for charging for Digital Goods.

Whatever Invoices make you uncomfortable or not, you gotta start using them if you want to keep your PayPal and your money. Changes starting this October 19th.

Honestly I don’t get why so many artists are so overwhelmed by invoices, takes just a few clicks to set up. 

And is not only “oh you have to use invoices because PayPal says so” if you don’t use invoices you’re putting yourself at risk of being scammed by an user abusing the buyer’s protection. 

Since PayPal ain’t got no idea of what those $50 you received were for, but the buyer is saying they didn’t got anything for the money, PayPal will just side with the buyer.

I’m seriously begging ppl, start using invoices. I’m tired of seeing ppl complain their paypal was banned, or is under investigation, or worse, the $100 they got for a very complicated commission, 3 months later get a refund issue. 

start using invoices for your own sake. 

Here is how you use invoices because I can’t keep playing devil’d advocate, yes I would love to help you get your PayPal restored but just this last month I had to help three persons, and they were MORE than aware of this issues. 

Just protect yourself. 

Step 1. You login and click here

Step 2. You click create new Invoice. YOU NEVER CLICK REQUEST MONEY, unless you want to risk yourself to get scamer by buyer’s protection exploit and not only lose your money but your paypal account, and any future paypal linked to your irl name. 

Step 3 You follow this steps

1. Invoice for amount only

2. Ask your client for their PayPal email and put in that field

3. Add a vague description of what you’re doing, something like “Character Coloured with Background” is good enough, and if you need more than 1 character you can type in “2″ where it says amount, or just say “2 characters”.

Warning: don’t type in “Naruto rawing Sasuke”. That will get you banned. 

4. Click send. 

Optional steps. Create a template, doesn’t take more than 10 minutes and it will save you a lot of time for future invoices, you can even click on “items” right next to “create invoice” and add a list of services you offer such as “character sketch” “character flats” along with a price, so next time you invoice you just add to the invoice from your list of items and you saved yourself some more time. 

More importantly, you protect yourself from buyer’s protection exploit because if PayPal knows you’re doing digital goods, then you will be allowed that you did in fact created a digital good. 

Keep PayPal happy, as for right now there are no alternatives to this service, and this is the only source of income for many freelancers. 

Stay safe. 

Heads up, all commissioning artists

A guide on how to not steal art

What is not okay:

∞ Stealing art is not cool for anyone, it’s offensive to the artist and could potentially lead to less and less artists to post things because of reposters. You know what that means? Less content for the fandom, less fun, less fandom love, a much more aggressive community for the fandom, and so on.

Report stolen art here: x

PSA

Please don’t reblog art from mysticmessy. All of their art is reposted, most likely without permission. Thank you.

Yeah ^^^ They only started reblogging from the tumblr sources today, but otherwise all their other content are reposted without permission or source.

❗❗ Hey, please DO NOT buy from Milkybread’s online store. (twitter: @milkybreads_ , tumblr: milkybreads ) Their most recent product is a set of haikyuu acrylic stands, and the Bokuto one in particular was blatantly traced from another artist’s work. Most of their drawings were in fact traced from works of other artists, including oldxian, gusari, etc… They have been copying for over a year and the line was crossed when they started MAKING PROFIT from something that was TRACED.  When someone direct messages them to stop copying, they brush it off with excuses that their style is just “ mixes of other artists [they] adore too…” Clearly their drawings are traced and they don’t even remove them.  It is really upsetting to see someone with over 4k+ followers on twitter and tumblr get away with tracing art.

Uh I don’t know if someone already posted it but here is another obvious evidence…

I wanted to put a link to milkybreads’ post but apparently she already deleted all her old drawings lol but I took a screenshot just in time (I was on mobile when I found it). I’m pretty familiar with Kizu Natsuki’s art so it gave me a big shock when I saw the drawing on the right, it was posted like two years ago so it’s now a fact that milkybreads has been tracing art for more than two years.

Anyways, thank you OP for sharing this… I honestly had no idea, I really liked milkybreads’ “art”… Oh wait, I guess what I liked was the original art she traced lmao

lol @ the people calling this a "witch hunt": this person has been making big money off of stealing art especially from non-english speakers, they have an enormous following, and people have tried contacting them privately before this post only to get blocked. consumers have a right to know who they're supporting and artists are people deserving of respect instead of commodities who "should just get over it."

@buzzfeedvideo needs to answer for this. we wouldn’t accept it from any other media company.  SIGN THE PETITION TO STOP FUNDING TO STOLEN BUZZFEED VIDEOS

Okay, this mentality is hugely fucking problematic. I put my stuff on the internet to share with people who like the stuff I like, in a space that I’m in control of. People taking it and putting it elsewhere against my wishes is not “just how the internet works”, it’s a disrespectful practice perpetuated by assholes who just want to take stuff that’s not theirs and use it to get notes or earn money or what the fuck ever. If people really liked my work and had respect for me as an artist and A PERSON they would allow me to control where my own work is displayed, and stop assuming just because you CAN download it and put it somewhere else, means you SHOULD. I don’t even understand how people could NOT understand the artists’ desire to maintain control of their work?? I’M the one who spent hours making it, just because I let people see it and have access to a digital copy doesn’t mean I suddenly wave all rights to it or should not give a shit what people do with it. If there were a way to share without allowing people to save it, believe me, I would do that.

Also, it doesn’t matter how respectfully the work is taken. Consider a scenario here: the image is taken once, and put on instagram with credit. Then three other people see it from instagram. One puts it on pinterest with the tumblr source. The second puts it on weheartit with credit to the instagram, because hey, that links back to the source, that’s good enough, right? The third person forgets to link back at all, oh well. More people take it from all of those places, crediting any of those places in between. All of the different sources of this image mess with search engine algorithms and override the actual image source, making it harder to find. Someone from etsy looking for copyright free images to use on products finds one of these unsourced images and takes it and makes a bunch of money off it, hurting the artist financially and wasting their time as they struggle to get the products removed. Some idiot who wants to print out a bunch of johnlock porn to shock the actors on a talk show finds some reposted nsfw easily on google and suddenly an artist who just wanted to share their art with a few like-minded people is being mocked in front of millions of viewers. Eventually, the image comes full circle and is reposted on Tumblr with no credit, when it could have easily just been reblogged from the artist.

This is ignoring all of the people who lie about the source and claim they made it, which DOES HAPPEN despite your claim that it does not. People claim ownership, people trace, people copy the style, people do all kinds of things when they think they’ll get away with it.

This fucking happens. To almost all of the images I post. Multiple times. A day.

How hard is it for people to just decide NOT TO BE AN ASSHOLE AND STEAL IT? Why do people always come back to the artist with this bullshit “well if you didn’t want it stolen why did you put it up??” victim blaming garbage? How does that make any sense except to people who want an excuse to steal??

I’m going to publish this in case other people had this question burning on their mind and because I’m honestly so incensed that people even still ask this question after pretty much every internet artist has had to explain it a dozen times. However I hid their name because even though I’m really pissed off by messages worded this way I have nothing against them personally and don’t want to get them flooded with hate mail or whatever. I’d like to think you are honestly asking, but considering your message is worded like the millions of other messages artists get constantly questioning their rights to control how people share their work, with the standard assumption of my ignorance when it comes to “how things work” and undertone of judgement for thinking I would ever dare try to change “how things work”, forgive me if I’m skeptical.

People who ask questions like this, YOU just don’t want to accept that you have done something the artist dislikes, so you throw the blame back on the artist. YOU don’t want to change the comfortable little way you’re spending your time online taking others’ works, so you try to convince the artist it’s their fault and it won’t change. This is YOUR problem. Ask yourself if you really want artists to stop sharing their work with you and then decide whether that’s a viable solution to this issue.

if i may, i’d also like to extend on this and say:

just because an artist or content creator doesn’t speak english, does not give you ANY right to steal and repost, edit, and/or use their work without their expressed permission. it is not only disrespectful to the artist, but your assumption that the creator will never know and that it won’t hurt them because—hey, they’re ignorant and they don’t speak english!—is xenophobic and racist. i can name overwatch, dragon age, league of legends, and other bloggers that steal art from pixiv and repost it without permission.

we pour hours, days, weeks into a piece and even more years into perfecting our style. but you’d rather shit on us and risk discouraging us into hiding with your “you shouldn’t share it” logic; and for what, a few follows/reblogs? it’s not worth it to the fandom, it’s not worth it to the creator, and it’s not worth being a narcissistic jerk over. when you stop seeing artists as people and you literally objectify them into art-pumping machines, you’re the one in the wrong. stop treating artists like this.

Not that hard to do, really. 

This is it. This is the moment deviantART fucked it up forever.

WHAT.  THE.  FUCK.

hoooooly shit it gets worse

way to make artists NOT FUCKING TRUST YOU, DA. reason #1 why i will never post my stuff there. they’re self-invested, self-interested shitstains that don’t care about artists.