I will never understand why people will repost something to tumblr

For reasons I cannot fathom, some peoples' desperate need for imaginary internet points will drive them to any lengths; not only reposting other peoples' art, but doing it without credit and even in some cases claiming they were the artist themselves, as I've had happen to me in the past. It's never fun to have to deal with, but I commend your efforts to keep your work from being shared unwillingly or stolen outright.

I understand the people who just want to share the artwork with their followers, like - hey here's this nifty art, take a look at it. I'm fine with that if they ask beforehand, but most of the time they don't. The worst case I'd had was when I drew something as a birthday present to someone, someone reposted it which not only got far more notes/reblogs than my original post (which I gained very little publicity from), the person who it was gifted to saw that version before mine and didn't know it was for them because the info had been removed!
I have had a couple of times where people have tried to sell my stuff on shirts and prints and whatnot, but they're largely art theft accounts and I wasn't the only victim, so getting them taken down wasn't much of a problem there.

Yeah, it's that most of the time they don't that makes it a mess for artists and their work, especially the times where the repost gets more attention than the original. I'm sorry for what happened with the art for your friend, it's the lowest kind of low for someone to edit out the credits in a picture they had nothing to do with just for internet attention.

I've had a weird case of being on the receiving end of an angry mob yelling and screaming at me about stealing art from someone, where in fact it turned out that it was someone that had reposted work of mine, removed the watermarks, and claimed it as their own; it wasn't until someone took the time to notice that the original in my gallery predated theirs by a good three years that the abuse stopped.

wooooow dang I haven't had anything that extreme. I'm sorry that happened to you! It's incredible that people go that far sometimes. I wonder what their motive for it is.. maybe it's just for the imaginary internet points.
I love that post hanging around that's like 'how to remove watermarks from artwork' and it's step 1: open the artwork in photoshop. step 2: locate the watermark. step 3: punch yourself in the face

I'm not a violent person, but wow, that would make me want to punch someone Dx

They repost on tumblr. E621 and so on, because they like your art and want to share it with the world.
e621 and other furry sites have a artist tag. Which means if someone likes it they can find you.
I have found several artists through E621.

Seriously. Why are people complaining about free advertisement.
Its like you sell a product and tell everyone not to show it to anyone.

I think the issue is that the artist can't control whether or not credit is given, and they just want to cover their bases.

I personally don't have an issue as long as there is credit, but I can see why some people do.

There's also been cases of peoples' art being sold as prints, shirts, etc, without a penny going back to the original artist.

That's a bit different though... Kinda like sharing a movie with a friend vs. selling tickets to people to see it in your garage.

The thing is this:
If I want the advertisement, I'll advertise myself. It's my artwork - it's something I make as enjoyment and for work, and if I don't want it going somewhere, then I should have the right to control whether it goes there or not. If I want it posted to a specific site, I'll post it there myself. It's more than just a simple product to advertise; it's my heart and soul and passion, it's the only thing I consider myself to be good at and it's something I take pride in. Not being in control of where my art ends up, loses my autonomy as an artist.
What's more, the 'free advertisement' often doesn't result in anything; more often than sometimes, people will follow the account that is making the reposts, rather than the original artist, especially if that person reposts several artists with a similar aesthetic or theme.

On top of that, the problem of one repost being credited, if someone makes a repost of THAT repost it will usually not include the credit, or it will credit back to the repost, and people on the internet are lazy. they're not going to trawl through a massive chain of links to find the original artist (unless they're Nice People and actually do want the original source).

*edit: ALSO. the least they could do is give me the courtesy of ASKING. I've had people ask before they post places, and often times I'm fine with it unless it's a commission, in which case they'd need both my permission and the commissioner's.
But I'm just talking about people who repost without asking at all.

This... this all over the place.

Ugh... I keep finding my work posted on tumblr too. People want the attention for posting art, though credited, and if you call them on it, they claim its free advertising. But that... Id like to know where my work is being posted, its all messed up.

There's not really much you can do about it undortunately. You're just one person vs the entire internet. :<

Having the full url as a watermark in your images helps against people not crediting, because it's literally embedded into the artwork.

Good luck on clamping down. Unfortunately, the more an artist restricts others from reposting their art, the more people are going to do it just to spite that artist. People try to push the "Internet sharing culture"--the idea of "if you post it online, it's free game"--on Twitter and Tumblr.

The best you can do is watermark your work. Just be careful if you DMCA a work on Tumblr. They're a very spiteful community in regards to DMCA and DRM, from my experience.

I only repost commissions that I've gotten over on my Weasyl account (I just favorite them on FA because I feel REALLY weird about reposting art) but I ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS give credit because I only commission awesome people and I want to direct more traffic their way. I reposted the two commissions you did for me, I hope that's okay? They're over here -> https://www.weasyl.com/~haubitze I can take them down if you want!

I've taken to letting commissioners know recently that they're allowed to repost with credit, and that extends to commissioners from before I started saying that, so you're good :3

Ahhhh... Sorry I didn't check your profile before hand. But you mentioned there's exception for commission works. However, do you want me to take it down? I posted the commission work in 2 places actually. FA and DA. If you do, don't hesitate to ask, and I will take em down pronto.

http://purpleground02.deviantart.co.....cout-531378146

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/16477740/

Ahh no you're good for that, you can keep 'em up since they were commissioned/for you etc! Don't panic :3

Sweet!

I commissioned a chibi darkrai once. I've somehow managed to not repost it without claiming it as my own and get thousands of notes. :U Tumblr community is.. a real piece of work, huh?

tumblr's a weird place
it wouldn't be so terrible if only Staff didnt make it so that you can make an image post by copypasting it/its url which completely destroys any source info and rewrites the url as a tumblr one. that made me so mad. why