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austim · 3 months

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This has been bothering me and you seem like the PERFECT person to rant to about it.

Stimblr has a fucking Problem with crediting lately. You know this. You've prolifically posted about it. Namely about people just not crediting or crediting uncredited Pinterest reposts. A fucking hero.

But you know what else people have been doing lately that really grinds my fucking gears?

Crediting SOMEONE'S STIMBOARD that uses and credits SOMEONE ELSE'S STIM. I HAVE TO CLICK THROUGH 5 DIFFERENT STIMBOARDS TO GET TO THE GIF'S ACTUAL FUCKING SOURCE.

Ohhh and you know what I REALLY. LOVE. When I go through 7 fucking boards just to hit a dead end because one of the users deactivated when I KNOW THAT PERSON WAS NOT THE SOURCE OF THAT GIF

re: I saw an old gif of mine used in a board recently and I suspiciously clicked the link. It linked to another board using it. So I clicked on that link. That linked to another board using it. So I clicked on that link. And. That linked to another board using it. ((((((: And then I clicked on that link and..... it was a dead end. It linked to another board using it, but that board's creator had deactivated. So now my gif was just wholly unsourced all because everyone and their mother had to fucking create a chain of tumblr users to go through which is broken the second any of them deactivates.

RRRRRRRRRRRHGHG sorry just. It's been REALLY FUCKING IRKING ME lately. I straight up block people who do this

(not when a longer-standing stim blog does it because I know they're generally reliable and just made a one-time error -- they know better -- but I'm trigger happy on stim blogs I don't recognize or already have a positive repertoire with)

I've seen the same thing happen with my own gifs many times; there's this one bottle cap gif I made that has never once been credited properly because everyone seems to find it from and source the one board that mis-sourced it. Sometimes I contact people about this but the last few times even when I do they don't bother to fix it, even when they say they will.

I'm tired. I don't know what to do about it. I was going to make a sourcing blog but only two people were interested in helping and I started a 9-5 yesterday and I can't afford to burnout again. People frequently get away with being lazy about sourcing and no one actually does anything about it because they're either also too tired or afraid of conflict. And new people see people being lazy and think that's the norm and it spreads and spreads and spreads.

I can feel myself getting more apathetic every time I see it happen. Because there isn't actually anything we can do about it unless we come together and work beyond our limits to put an end to it. People have tried to do similar things before just to maintain sources on deactivated stim blogs and that's been met with mixed results at best.

Idk. I'm tired. I don't even know when my next original post will be. I'm just trying to make it past the probationary period and survive until I get my first paycheck. Stimblr and its problems aren't even on my radar anymore.

#not stim #text

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lionfloss · 2 years

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i get stuff stolen and reposted from my art blog a lot, it's so annoying and honestly kinda hurtful (they could literally just reblog it???). i've had a LOT of success with tumblr's internal takedown/report system tho! i only mention it bc i'm sure people would be happy to report your art thieves, but the original artist needs to complete the takedown request for it to be removed from the blog that stole it. since i can't do that for other people's stolen art, i just flag the thief's blog for spam and terrorism until they stop lol

ugh sorry ppl are doing that to you!! and yeah its 90% of the time not my actual photo/art so I can't report them :// You're right tho i have successfully reported people in the past for stealing my personal photography. & LOL im about to flag that binch for terrorism... but yeah i know a lot of people are like "who gives a shit it's the internet art is free its not your photo etc etc etc" but like.....i take the time to find the photo and ALWAYS make sure to link the artist and the same blogs tend to steal & repost art from the real artists of tumblr...and those blogs still have so much traffic and people who claim to care still reblog so much art and shit with no credit in the source or caption or tags or anything. and no one HAS to care but either block me or stop fucking stealing shit from my blog. I also came across and IG account with like 200k followers and saw at least 5 photos that i posted/sourced that they posted a few days after i did without the fucking sources!!! and it was shit by like actual artists who have pages and sell prints. And like i said IM not trying to get the credit. I try to stay pretty anon on here as far as most social medias sites go.

#anywaysssssss #end rant #answered

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