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Thought time #3: Character/Art theft
9 years ago
Good *Fill in your own current time of day here*, people of FA! I want to hear more of your thoughts!
(Definitely not so i can figure out how you work and think and use it to my advantage as an evil king, once i step up from "Gay Raccoon Prince" to "Gay Raccoon King of EVERYTHING")
This time i don't really have much of a prologue, other than.. Well, i was thinking about how people utilize other people's artwork for personal things, obviously, like roleplay.
I personally don't mind when commissioned artwork i've gotten is spread around on other websites like e621 or.. Hell, 4chan or whatever (as long as the artist also doesn't mind). It's publicity for the artist, and maybe possibly me.
I get uncomfortable when i see other people roleplaying under a character built around my art however. I imagine the scenarios where someone comes to talk to me as if they know me because they had interracted with a personification of someone else, yunno.
And let's not forget the artists of course. I know there's generally less worry around just the artwork, as generally you seek publicity as an artist, but i know a small number who are very put off by the idea.
But this is a very big subject with a lot of varying opinions from a lot of different points of view, and i'm very, very interested in hearing yours! So throw all of that into a comment below!
As always, ♥~Ary
But I have to wonder if there's someone out there who believes that it isn't theft, or that the people who borrow our art are somehow justufied.
Now I'm wondering what this character looked like to cause such a religious experience for this person.