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moonstrider9904 · 2 years

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💖 Your gentle reminder not to repost gifs 💖

💖 And if you absolutely must, saying "not my gif" isn't proper credit 💖

💖 Asking for permission before using a gif for a fic or a post is a thing, you should totally do it more 💖

💖 Respect a giffer who doesn't want their stuff reposted. 💖

💖 Respect boundaries. 💖

💖 Or use the tumblr editor's gif function, because as much of a pain as it is, it links to the original poster 💖

💖 Frankly, I get happy when someone uses a gif of mine through the editor and I see the mention. But when it's reposted without credit, not so much. 💖

💖 If you're going to repost a gif, know who made it and link to their post so that those who see it go support them for their effort 💖

💖 But it's much easier to just not repost gifs 💖

💖 And please don't reblog posts with reposted uncredited gifs. Support the person who created, not the person who reposted. 💖

💜 And dear fellow gif makers, I encourage you to not be afraid of watermarking your creations 💜

💜 If the people who consume our content for free are going to keep viewing us like machines then they could at least know our handles 💜

#what peeves me most is that gifsets have the lowest interaction i've ever seen #at least in the star wars fandom #but someone reposts a gif #adds some generic one-liner as a captio #and that repost is getting far more interaction than the person who made the gif.#i'm sorry but no #salty af i know but it's so annoying #gif making is time consuming and a lot of us really don't like it when our stuff gets reposted #particularly when using software like photoshop #and try getting them under that pesky 10 mb limit #which happens to be a total joke because I've never uploaded a gif above 8.7 mb #*sigh*#just remember that your content creators are people too with lives who take time to create #the least you can do is respect and not repost their creations #it all boils down to the same problem of low interaction and even lower support towards creators #the dark side of the moon

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