birdystark:

If there were no content created by any artist anywhere, the Kings and Queens of days past wouldn’t have a face to a name, your logos for your sports teams wouldn’t be real! You wouldn’t have your animes or cartoon shows to watch and cry over and be inspired by to try drawing yourself! You wouldn’t have ANYTHING.

You would be living in a world where there were no buildings built for proper weather conditions because architecture is just ‘Going to be stolen if its created!’ Well, guess what: we NEED art as a society to spread ANYTHING these days. Your video-games wouldn’t have any graphics, any design, any reason to be made if some Artist didn’t start it all by a PIXEL.

Textbooks wouldn’t have any kinds of illustrations, your math and science would be even MORE boring. Your MARVEL movies and Harry Potter films wouldn’t of had any special effects, Iron Man wouldn’t be flying, Remus wouldn’t of turned into an actually GOOD LOOKING werewolf. The movies wouldn’t have posters you’d want to hang on your all and gaze at from time to time or use as a memoir for attending that midnight premier.

The Music Albums you collect from Elvis Presley and Imagine Dragons? They’d be stale. It’d just have writing of their names. No creative logos, no good photography, which, yes; PHOTOGRAPHY IS ALSO CONSIDERED AN ART THAT CAN BE STOLEN, but the Music Videos and Concerts wouldn’t have any light system, costume designs, ticket stubs or aesthetically appealing reason to exist. Orchestras wouldn’t have costumes (Even if the typical Suit and Tie, there are exceptions and specialties.) and Theater Plays wouldn’t have Playbills.

Commercial ADs for your Sportsball and upcoming Events wouldn’t be made - let alone shared, for you to know of the next big game or who’s coming to the Bob Carr Performing Arts Theater. Newspapers wouldn’t have LAYOUTS, Websites wouldn’t have THEMES.

Art is so OVERLOOKED when its not big brands, big names, or big movies. If Vincent Van Gogh stopped drawing, we wouldn’t have ‘the Starry Night’. If Brittney Lee didn’t design Elsa and Anna for Disney’s ‘FROZEN’ we wouldn’t have little kids wishing to dress up like them for Halloween or Christmas, or newly inspired youth for singing, dancing, and the arts of ice.

Do you really think every Artist wants to use Patreon or some paywall website to feel SECURE to share their art?

Even DeviantART is a sketchy place to share art under ‘protections’, but to force an Artists hand from fears of future theft to make sure you PAY for it (And under a Signed Waver to further push NOT to repost or steal under FURTHER LAW.) Is not only a terrible thing to do to an Artists mental state; but makes easier sharing on social media difficult. If you have to pay for everything - although it is VERY helpful to an Artists’ checkbook - it makes free sharing, free advertisement and free content difficult. It does NOT give you the freedom to STEAL and RE-POST the works to ‘Ensure this happens!’ however.

When we get notified, and do something about Art Thieves, we have EVERY right to be as angry or uncomfortable we feel. We have EVERY right to take actions any further than just the websites code of conduct. YOU, THE THEIF, DO NOT HAVE ANY RIGHT TO FEEL BAD - BESIDES FOR BEING CAUGHT. You sending people OUR way to yell at US, the CREATORS, for having them remove the piece or even their ACCOUNT taken down for thievery, you’re supporting the wrong cause. You’re the one in the wrong. We aren’t. We have every right to ask, and demand that our works aren’t to be reposted.

There’s also the stupid feedback we get, like, “Calm down!”, “It’s the Internet it’s going to happen.” or, the best one, “If you don’t want it stolen then don’t post it!”

So then, riddle me this; if I didn’t post it, what would you be looking at?