since there’s apparently some sort of confusion on the matter (read: people are idiots)
i am seeing a lot of reposting lately, so here i am reblogging my own post. also, reverse google tends to only work for stuff like deviantart or twitter, so if you want to find a pixiv artist, use saucenao.
i cannot stress this enough, y’all need to stop supporting blogs that steal art. i don’t care how pretty the art is or how badly you want it on your blog.
What if I have an art and I don’t know the artist, and I can’t find the artist anywhere, since sometimes artists just disappear, sadly.
Can I post the art and say in big big big letters that it’s not my art and if someone knows the artist, please tell me?no. if it’s not on reverse google image search or saucenao, idc. you still shouldn’t post it. people can remove your text when they reblog, and now no one knows it’s not yours. it’s just a bad idea. chances are if you can’t find the artist, they don’t want to be found.
For people who don’t know, reblogging is NOT the same as reposting. Reblogging is hitting the reblog button and the art is still linked to the artist’s original post. To repost means to save an image and then post that image onto a site as your own post. That is also the case for EDITS. Cropping and/or changing a piece of fanart does not give you the right to automatically consider it your art if you do not have permission from the original artist. So if an artist does not allow reposts then assume they do not allow edits.
Think Things 