If you have some problems with me (fabfrnkie) contact me privately on my blog or block me.
DO NOT send bullying messages to this blog because the only thing you could manage to get is to make me turn anonymous asks off, making everybody lose the possibility of using that option freely and positively.
that’s it. i am so sorry to everyone who has been nice to this blog but i will not let this turn into a bad experience for me or anybody else. i will have to turn anon asks off.
I’ve been called a bully multiple times for creating a blog who calls out the reposts and reposters. i have been extremely nice to every single one of those blogs and everybody can see it as i have posted every conversation i had with them.
nonetheless some people got extremely mad and sent me terrible insults and random ugly messages without even realizing how hateful and severe the thing is (here you can see what i got just recently).
they claim to have proofs that i am a bully but literally everything is public. i posted private conversations myself.
I have always invited anybody who had problems with me to contact me on my personal blog and have just a simple chat. i got nothing. when anon is off all i get is nice messages from nice people. no one dares to show themselves to criticize me because apparently they are actually aware that what they are doing is literally bullying and their only intent is to damage me and my mental health, which is kinda of ironic as most of tumblr claims to care about these issues.
i will not let it happen ever again. i invite everybody who has been harassed by anons to either turn it off and/or block instead of replying. it will make your experience better.
i invite everybody who hates me to publish all the receipts they have and then leave me and this blog alone.
i will eventually turn anon asks on again but in a while. i’m so sorry you all had to get involved like this but i still want to run this blog and i want to be happy while i do it. i hope you will understand and respect my choice.
Bullying is unacceptable. If you don’t like being called out for reposting, be a decent human being and stop doing it. @postmcrnews works very hard to provide updates on all the former members of my chemical romance, and they deserve your respect. The artists and content producers deserve your respect too. STOP REPOSTING PHOTOS, ART, AND CONTENT. CREDIT THE ARTISTS.
report them!! it’s one of the few features that works on tumblr.
find the post they stole, click on the share button and find ‘report’. click on ‘report something else’ and then ‘misattribution’ and then so on. you will have to provide the original post url!
i am so sick of seeing people not only steal gifs, but reblogging them. people have stolen my gifs before, and every time i see them gain hundreds of notes, my heart sinks. reblogging stolen gifs is just as bad at the person stealing the gifs. you are contributing to stolen work and that is not okay. so, to make sure you don’t accidentally pull the douche move of reblogging a repost, let’s go over a few signs to tell if a gifset is stolen:
the size doesn’t match up (small and large gifs in the same set, one 250px gif taking up the whole row, etc)
the coloring doesn’t match up (color and black/white or a soft pastel and a harsh red being in the same gifset)
the caption of it being like “OMG look at these cute babies!” or “This scene is so good!” etc (something that’s more of a comment than a caption)
you’ve never seen the url before
you go down the person’s blog and they have multiple gifsets posted, all looking as if they were made by different people
you can’t find the user’s edit tag (something like *, or my edit)
it doesn’t use edit tags (ouatedit, the100edit, arrowedit, etc)
it’s bad enough that people will steal someone else’s work and provide it to the fandom as their own, but helping them out by spreading it to others is just as bad. if a gifset is going to be stolen, make it have 0 notes, not 500. if several of these tips applies to a gifset you’ve seen, there are a few things you can do:
reverse google search (right click one of the gifs, go to “search google for this image”)
if the style of the gif looks like it was made by someone you know, go down their edit tag or message them asking if they a) made the gifset or b) know who did (as someone who makes gifs, i also know the style of several other gifmakers, and would be able to help even if it wasn’t mine!)
message someone else (a friend, a popular blogger, etc) and ask them if the gif seems stolen
but most importantly, if these are applying to an edit you see and you can’t tell if a gifset is stolen or not, don’t reblog it. i don’t care how good or it is, or how much emotions you get from it. don’t take the chance of reblogging something that’s stolen. there are plenty of gifs in the sea, so to speak. you will find something similar to it.
y’all do realize if you keep reposting gifs without permission/credit/following the gifmakers rules, gifmakers will eventually get completely fed up with all of you and stop making content for you to enjoy.
gifmakers spend HOURS sometimes days, weeks, etc on gifsets. from creating ideas to downloading/finding videos to colouring the gif to sharpening, etc, it takes so much time and gifmakers do this completely on their own free time, for free. just so y’all can enjoy content of your favs. not to mention the time gifmakers often spend doing requests from other people just to be nice and make someone else happy!
so with this i remind everyone to stop? reposting gifs?? i don’t care if you “saw it on google/twt/etc”, if you did not make it, It Is Not Yours To Post. that is a very simple concept im sure all of you know full well of. and when you come across gifs that are clearly reposted, don’t reblog them? like if you see a gifset with multiple different colourings, a gifset with someone else’s url in the watermark, a bunch of gifs in a textpost with no referral link, etc. it can be pretty easy to tell when something’s been reposted also saying “credit to original giffer” means nothing. ASK permission before using someone’s gifs always.
it’s okay if you genuinely weren’t aware until now, but please, stop disrespecting contentmakers and thinking you can completely take advantage of them and their works.
I’m just going to tack on sometimes the op is no longer posting to be available to ask anymore, just reblog them, come on.
Or at least CREDIT them with a link, tumblr makes that a bit easier now (example below), unless it only finds the repost.
reposters are running rampant in the scene so i thought i’d put together a nice lil guide for newcomers on posting to the site. dont forget that these tips works when reblogging stuff as well; keep an eye out for blogs that are known to reposting other people’s content ! no one likes their pics, edits, or gifs being reblogged from people who didn’t take/make them, so heads up!
“When is it 100% okay to post pics?”
the picture is taken by you
you’ve asked the original photographer for a permission to post the pic
if the photographer has not explicitly stated that it’s against their wishes to have the image reposted
if you always remember to credit the photographer. (doesnt count if the photographer isnt known. read the next section beneath the bats for more !)
“This pic i saved weeks ago looks edited, can I post it?”
if it’s an edit not made by you (and especially with someone’s watermark on it), don’t post it.
Is it a meme? Sure, go ahead. But if it’s got a watermark, don’t delete the watermark. Shouldn’t be anything questionable about posting with memes, i think.
“I edited the pics myself, can I post it?”
Yes, unless: 1.) the photographer has explicitly asked no one to edit their pictures upon posting anywhere, or 2.) it’s not okay to post it in the first place, you fucking gremlin.
if you always credit. _Always. _no matter if the ~~aesthetic~~ goes awry with an added “[x]” to the bottom of the post, please post credits.
“It’s a gif. Can I post it?”
Gifs are always made by someone, so in case it’s not made by you, it’s better not to post it.
If you made it, do post it ! Totally okay. ( Extra points if you link the video you made it from, makes people happy. )
Now for the more specific situations…
“The picture I found is grainy as fuck, zoomed weirdly, the source can’t be found even with witchcraft and it doesn’t seem to have a watermark on it. Can I post it?”
Welcome to the Grey Zone, everyone: here the regulations don’t apply. These pics are usually taken by various fans in early 00s and are usually okay to post; not because it’s legal to reshare them, but because usually no one gets hurt if the pics are reshared years after the pic was taken. So yes, usually it is okay to post it. Ask someone more familiar with old mcr pics for help if you want to credit the pics (usually impossible, though, so don’t sweat it).
It’d be cool if you still linked the site where you found the original pic, though.
“It’s a paper clipping of an interview. Can I post it?”
If you can make out the magazine the picture is taken from, please add that when you post it. (+ @mcrscans already does that with splendid credits, so check their blog out first!)
“It’s from (the member)’s Instagram. Can I post it?”
Yes, if you tell people it’s from the said member’s Instagram / Snapchat / Google+ / Website. There are blogs that are dedicated to posting the members’ social media pictures so I’m sure you can find someone else’s post on it (@postmcrnews, for example) but if you really need to repost it yourself, go ahead.
blake pointed out that posting stuff from private accounts can be an invasion of privacy, so heads up for that! don’t go for your idol’s second cousin’s granma’s wife’s facebook for scandalous pictures, that ain’t cool.
“It’s a pic of (a member) and a fan from twitter. Still cool?”
Can be, unless the said fan has asked people not to repost. However! If you post the pic, link the fan’s accounts under the pic!
FEEL FREE to make edits of these pictures, as long as all the other obligations are met (credits, where the pic is taken from, permissions to use the pics).
Good blogs to ask for help upon crediting pictures;
I’m not going to list any known reposters but they know who they are.
if you have anything to add, please do so !
// edit 6/10/2018 : fixed typos, made the post actually readable, added a few starter lines, a line about privacy issues, the “fan pics” part and the “feel free” part, more useful people to ask help from (send me a m essage if you don’t want to be mentioned!).
i saw an ask on my dash about reposting pics from flickr, and instead of hijacking that post, i figured i’d make my own. that bein said…
a quick rundown to sharing pics from Flickr.com
the thing with flickr is that there’s a certain way of doing things, and while it’s hard and convoluted and almost no one on tumblr cares, it’s still nice to acknowledge the creator when sharing their content. sure, by linking the photographer’s site underneath the pic you’re already doing more than 90% of the other’s, but… ya know. things aren’t always as simple as that.
to start this off, i’ll need to point you to Creative Commons. don’t need to go through their website if ya just want a quick rundown of how things work around here, i’m about to handle that right here.
creative commons are a thing invented for creators to safely share their work and determine how they want others to treat their work. you ever seen an “all rights reserved!” mention beneath someone’s work? that’s basically what i’m talking about. they’re neat and easy to get a hang of, and other websites use them as well (wikipedia, for example), so it’ll come in handy in the future for you.
there’s a few examples of how they might look; (on flickr they’re situated beneath the picture, on right from the author’s profile and the name of the work)
by clicking the blue text, you’ll be redirected to creative commons’ website of the said license, on which you can read your rights. it’s usually legal crap, but depending on what reads on that site you know if it’s alright to a) repost the image, b) edit it, c) share it at all. a rundown of the icons can be found underneath “the licenses” part of this site.
these icons determine how the situation will be handled. if “all the rights are reserved”, you don’t touch the picture. if “some rights are reserved”, you go and check which rights you still have and then go forth with your plans. if there’re “no known copyright restrictions”, you’re looking at public domain property, and i can assure you that none of the band pics on flickr belong to that; those are usually historical pictures or belong to anon-profit organization. there are also works that are “the us government work”, but again, don’t concern yourself with those pics.
how can i find pics that can be legally shared ?
for an easy way out, you can use this part of the cc website to find pictures. just tick whatever search options you need and press enter, and you’re good to go. it’ll redirect you straight to flickr with the advanced search options already figured out for you.
if you want to do it the oldschool way, you can go to flickr, use your search words, and then locate this on the site:
and then click whichever option you need to !
if you’re about to edit a pic, click “modifications allowed”, if only sharing something, go with “all creative commons”. from there, find a pic you like, decipher the license (aka the icons and your rights to the pic), and go nuts!
T H I N G S T O R E M E M B E R …
– always credit when sharing something! link the original artist, or better yet, the original picture upon posting it to tumblr. please. im begging you. always credit.
– post the license when sharing the pic, too. i mean the “CC BY-NC-SA 2.0″ or the “CC BY-NC-ND 2.0″ looking weird stuff when clicking the blue link next to the symbols. by sharing the license with the link and the photographer’s name you show others you’ve acknowledged your rights to the picture and show other people their rights straight away. + sometimes the author wants you to mention if you’re sharing an edited pic, in which case it’ll read on the license site and you need to point it out; “edit of “this pic” by this author (cc whatever letters)” covers it alright.
– never, ever share something that has an “all rights reserved” beneath it. it’s there for show, not yours to share or edit.
– before anything else, check that the work you’re about to share isn’t already reposted. that’s why only some pics taken from tumblr or blogspot or livejournal are shareable.
– if you mess up, it’s okay ! these things are hard and, as i said in the beginning, convoluted, so don’t stress too much. ask help if you need to, or just sit back and only reblog pics. here’s a neat post about finding correctly credited posts on tumblr.
this got really rant-y really quick, so sorry about that. feel free to ask questions, point out inaccuracies and, best of all, share legally sound pictures.
i just looked for their blog and it doesn’t exists so i guess it was one of those anon who sent me insults non stop that i had to block. if we had blocked each other their blog would still appear but it seems like it doesn’t even exists, and that’s what happens when you block an anon!
also saying “credit to original giffer” means nothing. ASK permission before using someone’s gifs always.
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