#theft is not cool

[hucklebucket]

So I know from almost 14 years on tumblr that watermarking your gifs/edits does nothing to stop people from reposting them (or to stop people from reblogging reposted content) but apparently Tumblr will only do anything about it if you have a watermark. So from now on my gifs will look like this. Sorry.

[teethkid67]

PAYDAY

aka a valentine for the lovely @itsnotmystic / @corvids-calling - fanart for stars fic of the same name, which you can read here !!! i really enjoyed this concept and wanted to do some art for it :3 hope you like it because i REALLY loved your work & i hope this shows that !!! HAPPY VALENTINES DAY !!!!

this is also a loose love-letter to the wonderful @arginnit 's crazy background-drawing-ability and style/skill at portraying environments . wadds your stuff is insane and i love it

happy @mcyt-valentines exchange !!!!

[veveisveryuncool]

kirby phone background bc i couldn't find one i liked so i made my own

[wigglybug]

so! someone's been copying bathy's art

I'll repeat here: If you think it doesn't hurt artists to copy them to this extent, you're a fucking nitwit. we work so hard to get to where we are. our art isn't yours to take and make your own without consequences.

AND - and this really is the kicker - here's their "terms of service":

the irony.

[aoartmthebitxh]

apparently kia died and needs me to spread the message:

so hey guys, I'm the new kia now. u should all follow me bcz I'm cool, and I definitely post ever at all

[angstyastro]

So because this person doesn’t wanna respond and is ignoring me and others who have asked them to stop, I don’t care anymore. @/leogacor is stealing and reposting art that isn’t theirs and they are also adding their own watermark to the posts. Please be aware and I’m not the only artist being affected. There are lots of art stolen from other series such as Naruto as well.

[puppyeared]

Next time we invent life changing technology we cant let capitalists get their hands on it

[batcavescolony]

I didn't think if have to explain this, Human mediocrity is hundreds of times better then ANYTHING an AI could come up with.

[ld-fc]

switching to franklin and seeing him read a book called ‘100 tips for improving self esteem’

[kedreeva]

So, I've been playing phasmophobia with a friend of mine, and "playing" is a loose term really. My controls do not work well since I don't even OWN a computer mouse (and the live ones object to being plugged in), so I'm mostly good for dying if I go into the houses much.

But what I AM good at is standing outside of the house fetching items and throwing them over the threshold for her so she doesn't have to walk to the truck. I'm also good at monitoring things inside the truck, and watching the door to alert her when the ghost is hunting if she's where she can't tell, as well as when it's over so she can come out. I can also look up stuff online if we have questions, without her having to stop paying attention to the dangerous ghosts.

And, importantly, if we load the game under my name, it doesn't matter if she dies. She doesn't lose any items, because it's my load. We can still make a guess and go home safely.

She's taken, lately, to finding random objects to hand back to me. I take screen shots when she does this, and name them things that seem logical at 10pm in the dark, but by the light of day are less so when I don't remember putting them there. These are titled "Potato Face" and "Dogframe" respectively.

[jammatown919]

So according to the Have I Been Trained website, two of my older fanfictions have been used for AI training. To say I'm pissed is an understatement.

They may be fanfictions, but they're still MY work. My time, my energy, my emotions. They were not for someone else to take and use to contribute to this immense danger the livelihoods of creatives. And now I have to worry about literally everything that's on my Wattpad account potentially being scraped, because that's where those two were taken from. Fortunately it doesn't seem to have touched my Tumblr or AO3 at the moment. I think AO3 added something try to limit scraping a while back, but if this shit ever finds my Tumblr I'm throwing hands.

Before I go, quick PSA If you feed other people's work into AI, you're a thief and you are actively contributing to professional writers/artists losing their livelihoods. If you use or pay for generative AI that use work taken without consent, you're a thief and you are an active threat to the survival of creative workers.

If you're an artist, Glaze your work if you can. I heard someone made something similar for writing that I'm going to look into. If you use Glaze, consider Nightshade too, as it will damage the datasets your stolen work is put into to further discourage theft. I hope a Nightshade for writing comes out soon.

[moonuru]

This person has stolen and claimed that this art was drawn by them, which clearly, it wasn’t. It was all done by my friend @cosmicwhoreo

Also stealing mine! When confronting them they just blocked me instead of taking it down.

Please report them.

[bignoodlebellic]

wade n ron being silly !?! or like gta 5 beach day u choose

HIIIIIIII this was so fun to draw:)))

ive wanted to draw wade for ages but never had a reason to so thank u for this!!!

[emptymasks]

so this hasn't happened in like a year

[ID: a tweet from me saying that my art has been stolen with screenshots of the art they stole badly cropped out and put on a tshirt with text that says 'yes, darling? do you need something?' and another screenshot of the store page. next to it is a screenshot of my original Goostarion artwork I posted to Tumblr and Twitter 6 days ago.]

someone stole my art. again. please never buy from tshirt shops like this on etsy. they are 100% stolen fanart and stolen official art. my own goostarion artwork as a sticker is one of the first results on etsy when you search for baldur's gate (which, thank you guys so much for that) and so perhaps because i put him on etsy you might see the tshirt and also think it's mine without checking the shop name. but it's not. and multiple people have the shirt in their basket. if an artist is selling their own work as a shirt it will be in their own shop, or perhaps in a redbubble/teespring shop under the same name. and it won't be a badly cropped version of their art with their watermark painted over.

[ID: a screenshot of the shop selling stolen art, SweetieBestieStore on Etsy. They have had 85 sales, 12 reviews with an average of 5 stars, the listing for the shirt with the art they stole from me says '3 people have this in their basket'. There is also stolen art by artists I tracked down using Google's Reverse Image Seacher they are grimmsever on Twitter, BryeArt on RedBubble and twistedlonewolf on Twitter. please support the actual original artists. their art has all been cropped, backgrounds erased and/or text placed next to it.]

i've repoted the listing, we'll see if etsy does anything. no one else can report it for copyright other than the person who owns the copyright so. we'll see if anything comes of that. i've reported stuff on other websites before like wish and amazon and got them taken down, but never etsy before so i don't know how quickly they work on these things or what the response could be. i have no idea if this post will reach any of the people who have this shirt in their basket on etsy, anyone who's scrolled past items like these on etsy, but please don't support shops like these.

[ID: a screenshot of my own Etsy shop 'emptymasks' where I have search for 'baldurs gate' within my own shop to show only my baldur's gate items, you can see my original artwork for goostarion which i have been selling as a sticker this past week since i drew him.]

And if you want Goostarion, you can just buy him as a sticker off my own shop. Or you could reblog the original post I made of the artwork here.

Ugh this isn't what I wanted to wake up too. I really hope no one buys anything more from their page.

[suchscary]

I like a guy who will stab a friend!

[m0rbs]

i kept seeing your art on pinterest (with credits!) and eventually came here and OMG it is so cool my serotonin is through the roof every single time like the Lines. the Style. The Silly. it's perfect thank you so much for your existence i wish you a very pleasant evening and day and just everything good in general fr

Thank you but please report my stuff if you see it on pinterest; credited or not. I have not given anybody permission to post it there; my pinned post even tells you not to do it.