It is easy to find a photo and not know the source, which is why I'm certainly more open minded to people who repost a single picture on tumblr that doesn't have a watermark because it's possible they found it on unsourced facebook and just wanted to share.
The unfortunate thing about what this guy is doing is he's not just resharing something he found. He rarely ever says "this was inspired by ___" in his posts with a link to the original. It's always posted with a title like "Originally by kristianabel22" when he crossposts to comms. As a casual browser of fanart I would have no way of knowing he's ripping off other fanartists without people like you and amph pointing it out to me, and I'm so grateful you have.
Stuff like his trace of the NSFW manip of Bradley, how he can even attempt to claim it was original/freehand is beyond me. Any doodler would at the very least have finished drawing the part of his knee where the manip cuts off. What he does is just plain pathetic because even when he's confronted with it by someone saying what he's doing is not appropriate, he continues. There's no excuse, he can't claim he didn't know it wasn't acceptable or that he couldn't find a source to credit, he's been told.
People can bring up the controversy about fanart and manips all they want - oh but it's already fanart of someone else's creation - someone who spends significant time and effort on something that they want to share should not be told it's not as important because it's just fanart. It might not be their original creation and every fanart they produce is directly sourced simply by it being fanart, but the execution was their original concept and to have someone else come along and trace that or repost it is taking something someone else made.
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The unfortunate thing about what this guy is doing is he's not just resharing something he found. He rarely ever says "this was inspired by ___" in his posts with a link to the original. It's always posted with a title like "Originally by kristianabel22" when he crossposts to comms. As a casual browser of fanart I would have no way of knowing he's ripping off other fanartists without people like you and amph pointing it out to me, and I'm so grateful you have.
Stuff like his trace of the NSFW manip of Bradley, how he can even attempt to claim it was original/freehand is beyond me. Any doodler would at the very least have finished drawing the part of his knee where the manip cuts off. What he does is just plain pathetic because even when he's confronted with it by someone saying what he's doing is not appropriate, he continues. There's no excuse, he can't claim he didn't know it wasn't acceptable or that he couldn't find a source to credit, he's been told.
People can bring up the controversy about fanart and manips all they want - oh but it's already fanart of someone else's creation - someone who spends significant time and effort on something that they want to share should not be told it's not as important because it's just fanart. It might not be their original creation and every fanart they produce is directly sourced simply by it being fanart, but the execution was their original concept and to have someone else come along and trace that or repost it is taking something someone else made.