#content creator who uses tags

[stimmy--cryptid]

got sent a tiktok where one of our gifs of ourselves was used in the thumbnail + beginning of the video. gentle reminder in case anyone sees this that we're all very uncomfortable with our homemade gifs, esp when it includes us in the video and isnt just of objects, being reuploaded off of tumblr at all :[ ty!!

-🥬

#esp without credit </3 pls dont put your @ over top of one of our homemade gifs #i dont feel too comfy with video/gifs of us being reuploaded off tumblr #we include that disclaimer in all of our homemade gif posts bc of this #ik a lot of people just like. take gifs off pinterest or off stimboards without bothering to check #this is just like a gentle plea to please check the sources on the gifs you use and to properly credit your gifs #theres more to say on this topic than a quick 1am tag rant on a post abt smth else #but theres a really big problem with not checking sources and not crediting within the stim community and especially off of tumblr #like people who just steal off of pinterset and google images and then say 'oh idk i saved this forever ago' or 'its from google' #not to be rude but also fully to be firm its so easy to credit your gifs and sources it takes us maybe 20 minutes at most to link a board #and its so easy when you go in with the intent to link it. just like the posts you download gifs from or open them in another tab #if youre using desktop firefox has such a quick extention to reverse image search and the results will pull up the original post+ #+or the tags on a post that used the same gif to make it so easy to find the original #if youre gonna make stimboards that include someone elses content #be it homemade gifs or gifs you made from someone elses video #or even gifs made of a third party video you downloaded off tumblr or pinterest or google images #you *need* to credit the creator #and respect the boundaries of the creator. #we make sure the stuff we upload on any blog isnt harmful at all. that animals in gifs are respected that creators arent awful that+ #+the video isnt made using generative ai. and like. not saying everyone has to go to those lengths. just that its doable and so easy #theres really no excuse to plagiarize and take a gif someone made of themselves and put your own url on it #even if you made the compilation its so easy to just *also* add the op's url + platform in somewhere else visible on the image #and its also so easy to like. go to the website google images is showing you for the image or reverse search the pinterest post #to make sure the creator is ok with their own video of themselves being posted on tiktok #:/ #not stim #mod talk

[idliketobeatree]

a gentle reminder to myself: slow down when you're met with someone else's creation. just because it's not in a museum, doesn't mean it's not worth your time. you can skim through your life all you want, you can jump over the annoying cracks and never look back, but when someone presents you (in the most literal meaning of this word – as a gift) with their art you should sit down and pay back with attention. people need creativity that is shared and appreciated, and it needs your focus and care to bloom properly. briefness kills both the idea and the community around it. so, slow down.

#idk how to tag this #art #writing #artists on tumblr #writers on tumblr #i refuse to use this website as another mindless scrolling machine when there are a hundred different ways to engage with people #and it's so sad we've allowed to separate the art from the artist. to the point where you put the creator on a pedestal #and their art on an unreachable wall #behind some kind of a glass covering. the word “content” makes me physically sick #when it should be: stories shared in warmth and laughter by a fireplace. arm in arm. sharing notes and comments like friends. #or. drawings seen by your friends in all stages of creation. bonus points if your sketching game is horrible and the initial colors suck #i can mourn the artists who's works i adore because i'll never get to tell them how much they mean to me #but i can tell the ones alive just how much they've impacted me and i think it counts. like. so much. #marcela talks

[babybeel]

if you support ai work (in any form, be it art or writing) pls unfollow me!

#seeing people use chatgpt to write fanfic is so....disheartening (?) #like idk i write bc i want to!! i share it w you guys bc i want to!! #and the idea that people are 'writing' fics through ai which just steals and harvests from others' is so discouraging #its really just reinforcing this idea that people dont care about content creators #like we're just here to mindlessly please and entertain the masses #(which is also why i dont take requests outside of events bc some people abuse that and expect constant production) #and the whole point of fandom was to interact w people who share the same interests #which ik people say it a lot but interacting w content creators is so so important for their motivation #i have an album of screenshots which are kind words and tags and asks and they make me so happy!! even just the keyboard smashes #idk ive gotten off track but please please please support content creators and recognise that ai is theft #notes app

[bones-of-a-rabbit]

falls from ceiling fan

Hello tumblorg I am, unfortunately, not actually dead! Surprising, I know. Sorry for complete lack of content lately, I’m in a real mental funk right now and it’s making it hard to work on things (and to like whatever I’ve worked on enough to actually save and post it shdgdjdb)

I want to promise new stuff soon, so, if anyone is willing, send me an expression and a character (or AU version of a character, if you wish) and I’ll try my hand at it!

#ramble #bones speaks #rabbits notes #tw blood #expression challenge #I used to loooove doing these things #expressions are one of my fave things to draw honestly #also. for those of you who read the tags #and are interested in the edgy cringe self insert stuff I make #send me an ask or dm me and I’ll tell you the name of my angst blog #but u gotta promise not to like. actually worry abt me shdgdjhd #bc rlly I’m good yknow? I just like the catharsis #anyway #sorry again for being bad at being a content creator sjdhddj

[funishment-time]

i think one of the weirdest things i see from Internet Commentary Folk is the assumption that anyone who consumes non-intellectual YouTube content or whatever has to be a child. (like, a Minor, not just a young adult.)

remembering a few years back when there was a slight Tiff Around The Internet about the Game Grumps selling fursona body pillows of themselves because their fanbase had to be children, of course, it had to be minors, how gross it is for two adult men to sell body pillows of themselves to kids.

...which is obviously very gross, except the GG demographic is not and has never been Minors, i'm p sure. young people who are adults, sure, and i'm certain many minors watch, but they never geared their content towards 13 year olds.

always strikes me as very High and Mighty from Internet Commentary Folk, like watching some idiots poorly play a Sonic game is lowbrow - but your borderline racist and somehow also transphobic "video essay" completely trashing Japanese culture because you saw an anime you didn't like, that's totally where it's at, dog

#i don't even know what to tag this #brief rant unrelated to anything i suppose #anyway every time i see a Content Creator assume everyone who watches Let's Plays is a lobotomized 10 year old #they inevitably have videos that are called like #“The Problem With Anime” #(racist thumbnail) #“Why It's Actually OK To Give Money To JK Rowling” #(fake surprised YT expression w Harry Potter scar) #“I Saw MHA And Now I Hate Japan” #(boob window thumbnail) #“Is AI Art Useful?” #(thumbnail they clearly paid an artist to do that is still labeled AI art) #“My Cringey Undertale Phase” #(video entirely making fun of autistic people) #etc etc

[thoughtsofthegirlwiththecurl]

Is anyone else suddenly getting the thing where you have tumblr set to show you mature content automatically but now they've slapped yet another warning block on top you have to click through to proceed?

#the tumblr experience #what is the purpose of setting my global settings to 'yes i want to see mature content' if i also have to manually click through each time? #the wording makes it sound like the post creator is the one who labeled it mature #but blocking the content when a creator does so hardly incentivizes anyone to choose to use the labels #plus there's all the christofascists running around here marking everything queer as 'mature' #the piece blocked in the screenshot? an upper-chest and up drawing of 2 men kissing #i also hate that hide post button. you know how easy it is to accidentally bump something on my phone screen?? it's horrible UI #NOT TO MENTION it doesn't show you any tags on the post!! #if i was picky about my content how the hell would i know if i wanted to proceed if i didn't know what it was???

[salmonwentmissing]

it’s starting to get very unrewarding to post stuff on tumblr when nobody leaves comments or even comments in the tags like we used to. 

like come on, the tag comments were the absolute best and I always looked forward to reading them and see them in my notes, but nowadays they have all just.. disappeared? i appreciate reblogs and likes, but the tags were honestly the reason i liked tumblr the most

#like this? using the tag system to comment stuff that you're too selfconcous to add on your page or add to the thing? #right here #this is the good shit #there seems to be a wave of new people who never comments and probably dont even know about the fast reblog button #hold E and choose your blog #that easy: but w slow reblog you get to really gush youir feelings about the thing #i miss the old times #content creators really had a lot more dopamine than now

[fivefeetfangirl]

oh no oh no the tiktokification of tumblr no i don't want to swipe down to see a new photo/gif/video with the same tags

#ig its good for creators to have their art randomly generated to users who will use that function but idk i just think it's a messy way to #scroll down my dash #also like i rather scroll through tags or follow content creators and just get their art on my dash #and it looks so crammed!!! #also sometimes art is meant to be enjoyed vertically not horizontally #tumblr tv #i think its called #ugh

[guiltyidealist]

been visiting therian spaces lately (kinda vibe) and man when I tell you they have a crediting problem

#moodboards. stimboards. just photo posts.-- so very many. such little citation #best they do a lot of the time is ''pic not mine!'' or ''credit to uploader!'' or whatever. if that. #plenty of the time there's just not a word of whether or not it's theirs. for all you know THEY made it. #except y'know tHEY DIDN'T. IT'S NOT THEIRS. #now it's not always the case. i see a fair share of proper crediting and it always delights me. especially when it's my own content #but on the other hand #seeing nothing or just the ''not mine'' disclaimer is so fucking infuriating. please stop representing the work of others as your own #it's disrespectful. your edit/post/whatever was made possible by another autonomous person's efforts and talents #AND by them being so gracious as to SHARE it. to grant consent to use by others. to put it out there fully knowing risk of theft #including theft by omission of credit #just for you to not even give them so much as a shoutout. #sure. let's back up. maybe i'm being unrealistic. i'm a scientist by trade. in academia this is plagiarism. full stop #even if you say ''this work wasn't mine'' but you fail to say WHOSE you have committed a crime. misrepresentation of due credit #it's still plagiarism even if misrepresentation was mild or accidental. precision matters as much as accuracy #which is why I grant consent for my content's use on the condition that you CREDIT ME VIA SPECIFIC POST LINK #and i get that not everyone even cares if you repost their stuff without credit. #however for your consideration: /I/ want to see where x thing came from. /I/ want to know who made that. #and by ''i'' i mean PEOPLE. not everyone but MANY PEOPLE #like. it's just a basic fucking courtesy to all involved parties -- your audience the creator and you -- for you to AT LEAST NAMEDROP #i'm. gonna stick this in their tags. to be clear i'm not vagueposting anyone in particular #it's just something i see often and it really really bothers me as a long-time content creator and user #therian #therianthropy #theriotype #kin #kin things #kin tag #alterhuman #kinnie #(also. i'm not positive about what all these tags mean but i AM sure i see them together a lot so)

[what-is-love-babey-dont-hurt-me]

Oof :(

#anyways anyone who knows I was into mcyt probably already knows what I’m talking about #vent #to get that out of the way #it’s kinda funny cus earlier today I took a surgery asking how often I cried and it was like once a year #survey* #anyways here’s the annual waterworks #accompanied with my rambling tags #snappy speaks #anyways I’ve been into Minecraft since elementary school and kept watching content creators for it even after people like Sky lost clout #and tapl was a favorite for a while and through him I found techno #the guy was damn funny and the only one of the dsmp I liked once I got out of the fandom #he played us like a fiddle the iconic mad man #all I can really say is I’m glad he’s not in pain anymore let the dude Rest In Peace #and also the vid made he hella emotional #time to watch something stupid now because #idk I guess because escapism

[petrichorvoices]

I don’t know why I still attempt to be presentable on here. This is Tumblr. I don’t need to restrain myself from reblogging an annoying amount of stationary images if I want to, this is exactly the site for doing that.

#Were I not in this system I would not be so open about the following. Ah right no commas in tags. Moving on. #I'm a touch too anxious about those who have not already been able to guess my source from my name and this system's interests using my #appreciation for and love of stationery and those academia sort of aesthetics to figure it out. #I don't know if I worded that well as I got distracted in the middle of the sentence and mobile won't allow me to see the full tags. #I have heard that this is something most if not all of our fictives go through when they are new to existing in spaces that are not either #inherently or overwhelmingly plural experience. Comma. Yet I am still working my way through it. #I suppose that I'm simply too concerned about the possibility of fans of my source declaring that I do not act enough like it #or that it is strange for me to interact with fan content of my source and fan creators for it and that we will be ostracized as a result of #my actions. #Jonathan's tag #Rambling

[woosansang]

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#jazzy talks #hmmm #i just dont think i get the same joy out of tumblr as i used to #and i know a lot of that has to do with the fact that the people im friends with slash enjoy talking to on here have also been busy lately #and it sort of just feels like im screaming at a wall #or a void #or a room full of people who are looking the other way #its like if youre a content creator but you dont put out new stuff every day or every few days #then suddenly people stop paying attention to you #and its nice to say i should gif things that i want to gif and not really care about them getting notes #but thats not the reality #maybe for some people it is but not for me #half of the reason i gif is bc i want to make something and half is bc i want to share it and show people #and yes its nice to get feedback too but mostly when i read peoples tags i just want to hear about the content more than my actual skills #like half the fun is seeing random strangers losing their minds over some guy #but people dont rb anymore #its hard #its demotivating #im so busy with work and i dont have that much time to gif during the week so when i do make something and no one looks twice #or maybe only a few mutuals look twice #it makes it even harder to find the energy that i dont have to keep making stuff #idk what im saying #i come here to scream about things i like and hear people scream back in solidarity in a way #and now im just screaming to nobody #which is just disheartening #idk #i think im gonna delete the app again for a bit #anyway check out my pinned post if you're reading this. and reblog please maybe? <3 #bye for now

[oksfranta]

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#the fact that some larries reblog directly #from antis that have larries dni in their bios is insane to me #like why??? #you have so many content creators in your corner of the fandom #who gif the same moments #and I’m not biased saying this but larries’ gifs are usually a lot better in quality lol #like I get you reblogging from a larrie but the op is an anti #bc you don’t have time to check #but following antis or just reblogging from the tag or whatever #that I can’t understand #the same way there are certain ppl I just refuse to reblog from #even if they don’t have that thing on their bio #thanks but no thanks #i’d rather support our own gif makers #or if a moment I want giffed hasn’t been done I can just go and gif it myself #rather than reblogging from someone who hates us

[clonehub]

SAG officially considers cosplays of current/past media as crossing the picket line as it can be seen as supporting the studios they're currently striking against.

(link is to a series of tweets, which include the original poster of the screenshot directly asking SAG-AFTRA what the rules are for paid/influencer cosplayers who want to support the strike)

EDIT 2 (first edit in tags): the tweet in the OP has been deleted, so I'll be shutting down reblogs on this post just so people don't take the link as a solid source when it no longer exists. For context, the original link was from a content creator who'd emailed SAG-AFTRA about guidance surrounding promos, contracts, and influencers. The response from SAG-Aftra likely wasn't 100% detailed because things were still being figured out. As for more detailed questions such as what counts as an influencer and other really specific questions I've seen in the tags, that's not something I know. Maybe emailing SAG-AFTRA themselves will help, although I can't be sure.

If the original email or the FAQ were confusing to you, it's likely that it's because both were phrased in a way that would be understandable to people who'd be likely to scab, ie influencers under specific circumstances. It's not really geared toward the lay person (which is what the FAQ will make clear by their frequent use of "influencer").

Again, the notes (and frankly the original link itself) have some that this is about influencers specifically. I missed that keyword in the OP (typo). I need people to stop acting like I'm willfully fearmongering and spreading misinformation. I read the full thread. I read the entire FAQ. It's on you if you do neither. At the time of my reading the thread, the FAQ either hadn't been released yet or had just come out. I also need people to stop bringing up Neil Gaiman's Tumblr post when SAG-AFTRA has their own Official FAQ on their strike site.

For the FAQ, it's here. It's about influencers, both union and non-union. Iirc the non-union FAQ has some ways to help that non-influencers can also engage in, like using a hashtag or generally raising awareness.

If you have any questions, please please please direct them to official members of SAG-AFTRA. Email Fran Drescher herself if you somehow can. Regardless, support the WGA SAG-AFTRA strike.

#ch posts #sag aftra #strike #star wars #hollywood strike #cosplay #edit: pls pls pls go into the notes and find rhe addition/correction #or reblog this version #or idk read through the link #i missed a word here but theres people acting like im fearmongering on purpose because THEY refuse to resd