Glad to announce that until the fuckaroos who keep reposting and gaining an audience with my art lea

Glad to announce that until the fuckaroos who keep reposting and gaining an audience with my art learn some basic manners, I’ll add this professional watermark to every single stick figure I’ll post.

(Seriously though, don’t repost art. Even if there’s credit to the original artist and it might seem that reposting is giving them a bigger audience, don’t. Artists have no idea what is going on with the reposts, who sees them, re-shares them or who comments on them. I’ve had voice actors sharing my fanart with the signature cropped off while the reposter gets the credit, I’ve had a full blown “shipping is bad” thread with hundreds of messages and lord help me, voice actors again chiming in under reposts of my art. I wanted to hide under a rock, I was so embarrassed and pissed reading all that. I post my art with the intention of it reaching a specific audience, who in return are welcome to follow my stuff if they want to. Reposting takes all that control and traffic away from me. Contacting the reposter usually leads to rude replies and blocks, and a lot of sites are actively making it harder and harder to report reposts, especially if it’s cross-platform. It’s shitty, sucks a lot of energy out of artists, and tbh really discourages making new, free content or participating in fan or art communities at all. So please, just don’t.)