#engeki haikyu

hello, engeki-haikyuu tag on tumblr

i just saw that someone reposted my entire “Tetsuko and Kenko” gifset with the gifs in non-chronological order. i did not, and will not ever, give permission to repost my gifs like that. for those of you that don’t know, reposting someone else’s work just like that, especially without proper permission, is a big no-no. 

i’ve properly and politely asked the person who did it to please take that post down and to reblog my post instead, and i hope they do at least take it down. some of you might not think it’s a big deal, but it kind of is to me, considering i can’t art and i havent been able to write fanfic in AGES, so i feel like GIFs are the only thing i can make and contribute anymore, and considering how my Haisute gifsets aren’t even getting anywhere near as many notes - let alone reblogs coz i guess the trend has changed and people dont like to reblog things anymore the way we used to back in the 2010s - as my Critical Role gifsets and some of my BNHA Ultra Stage gifsets, it really sucks to see someone else take away from those scant few notes even more. reposting feels like someone else taking credit and attention away from my work, even passing it off as their own in some cases, and in most circles that’s called plagiarism, which, you know, is not cool.

so i know i havent been putting the “PLEASE DO NOT REPOST” request on my gifsets like most people do, but that’s because a) i use a very visible watermark on my gifsets in the hopes it will discourage reposting without permission, and b) being reposted this much, where an entire gifset was stolen and re-uploaded just in a different order, has never really happened to me before. i do not want to have to start putting that request in my gifsets, and i’ve been making gifsets since all the way back in 2010 (i’ve been here since 2009). so im just asking people to please be respectful and not repost work that isn’t their own willy-nilly. if you get proper permission to post someone else’s art or fic or whatever, that’s great, but don’t just do it without permission. if you ask but are rejected or ignored, don’t defy that, don’t repost.

so this is a blanket post now to remind everyone that while i am VERY appreciative of reblogs of my gifsets, and i’m so glad you like them even if i’m way behind on my love for Haisute coz i just started watching them in january this year, i do not allow reposts of my gifsets. maybe if one or two gifs appear in a compilation with other ppl’s gifs, i can let that go. using my gifs as reactions in posts is also okay in general. BUT what i dont allow is the downloading/saving of my gifsets and then reuploading them as your own post. doesn’t that take way more time than just hitting REBLOG anyway? you can try to ask me for permission to repost my gifsets, but i can guarantee you that 99% of the time, my answer will be no, and i would really appreciate it if that answer was respected.

also, i would rather that people didnt post my gifs anywhere else outside of tumblr. in the case of Haisute, @engekihaikyuu has a post on why their scans and gifs getting reposted outside of tumblr could be troublesome in terms of how japanese fandom works, and the same honestly stands for my gifs. i’m happy to make them and post them here for people to enjoy, and for those who don’t know that these stage musicals are a thing to maybe discover them - i’ve seen a LOT of people discover that the BNHA Ultra Stage musical/s exist coz of the gifsets i made a couple of years ago of the first one. but long story short, japanese fandom is far more respectful and appreciative of copyright and proper fan support when it comes to merch, art, interviews and photos, that sort of thing, and it’s already kind of pushing the limit of what’s okay by making gifsets here on tumblr, where there is far fewer japanese fandom to run into than on twitter. (there’s nothing we can do about google, unfortunately, google’s algorithms and tumblr bots like tumblar and tumgir will find and aggregate them into the search results.)

this has gone on longer than i was expecting it to, so tl;dr, please dont repost other fan’s crafted work, especially without permission. rediscover the reblog button, please. if you’d like to have my gifsets on your blog, feel free to check out my “GIFCIANA” tag on my blog and reblog from there.