aluox:

I wanna talk about reposting and why it’s absolutely horrible. I know it’s been talked about before but the fact that we’re still talking about it just means that people still don’t get it 

 TL;DR: REPOSTING IS BAD AND IT HURTS THE ARTIST 

- it steals their hard work
- it steals their feedback
- it discourages them from drawing/posting
- in some cases it can even get them in trouble 

 Here’s some excuses reposters give and this is why they’re shit. 

 1) I’m sharing their art and giving them exposure. 

 You’re also stealing their feedback. They worked so hard on an art and you’re taking away people’s comment and words of encouragement. Sure they might get exposure but even if you link back and credit them, they might not know the repost exists and not see the feedback. If there’s no credit then it’s even fucking worse because the art gets exposure but the artist doesn’t. If they don’t allow reposting at all and you know this AND still do it, then you’re being an ass. 

 2) I don’t know who the artist is so I didn’t credit. It’s too much work to find out who drew it. 

 Thanks to technology there’s several ways to search who the artist is by using saucenao or even google image search. If you can’t spend 5 or 10 minutes of your life to do that then think of the artists who pour hours or DAYS into their work just to have it stolen from them. 

 3) The artist doesn’t speak English. I don’t know how to ask. 

 Language barrier isn’t a reason to be a dick and steal art. There’s multiple guides on how to ask for permission in other languages. Hell even google translate is good enough to get the point across most of the time. 

 4) The artist posts their art on a platform/website I don’t use. My friends I wanna show don’t use that website either. 

 Then start using it if you wanna see their art. It’s not that hard you don’t even need to use it regularly. Copy the url and share that instead of reposting it. Honestly it’s takes even less effort than reuploading art 

5) The artist said no reposting but I really want to share it.

NO means NO. Just share the link

Just stop reposting already