If You’ve Ever Wondered How Reposting Hurts Artists- Yesterday I Found A Post From 2012ish Featuring

If you’ve ever wondered how reposting hurts artists- yesterday I found a post from 2012ish featuring one of my Sherlock/Doctor Who pieces. That post had 17,604 notes. It wasn’t my post. My post of that art had 0 notes.

Apparently I saw the post once when it was at 6k because an artist I admired reblogged it, but at that stage I was very unwell & not experienced enough with Tumblr to realise what effect it might have.

Looking through the notes now I see that in the six years since then-

Several people got the design as a tattoo.

A number liked it enough to want custom designs but didn’t know how to contact me so that’s approximately £300 I didn’t get a chance to earn.

Someone used that art in the front cover of a comic by accident and while the company fixed it after I contacted them that’s exposure that it’s far too late to capitalise on now.

If you like an artwork that you find off tumblr, please, please I am begging you search for the artist’s name and see if they do actually have a Tumblr you could reblogged from instead. If you’re an artist search your username(s) every so often to see if your work has been taken.

A few hundred quid might not seem like a lot, but that’s a few months of income for me

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🥺🥺

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For anyone that uses FireFox and hates all the ai sludge showing up in google searches as much as I do, I recommend the extension below to manually block those ai stock shites. pic.twitter.com/OFUDUKrcfJ

— Orribec (@Orribec) January 27, 2024

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Block these sites in your uBlock Origin so you won't see that shit in your searches

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Also in hindsight Dana’s choice to not purposely trap Luz on the Isles from the get go and only do it later makes so much sense.

Not just because you eliminate the popular trope.

Because your giving Luz the freedom of choice. And your allowing her to have some heresay without as much other issues hanging over her from the beginning.

It lets her development the attachement more naturally. Because she made the choice. Not had the choice made for her

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