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!).
@cristalroses no. because regardless of what you did to me (and that’s more than enough to get me to leave it up), a lot of my friends and followers are content creators. they have the right to know what you’re doing and make sure you didn’t take their gifs and edits as well.
if you posted mcr, waterparks, 5sos, and kurt cobain at ANY POINT, i advise you to check this blog.
I kindly invite every blog listed here to delete everything they stole. After you’ve done that I will gladly delete your name from here.
Every name here has been contacted privately and is listed here because every single one of their “original” posts is actually a picture taken from somebody else. I will not put here someone who posted once a picture from 2004 with a resolution of a potato.
Anyway, I invite everyone to share this and also contact reposters to ask them to take stolen posts down. If they refuse or insult you send me a screenshot and let me know.
Remember that reposting means taking pics/gifs/posts you did not make and post them on your blog without credits.
google images, weheartit and pinterest are archives that do not give credits and take every picture they find. Original posters NEVER posted on those websites. Pictures are usually posted on flickr or forums, while gifs usually come from tumblr itself. So be careful.
@frankierophotofolder their bio: “just a place to store photos. Not mine. Don’t send hate asks or ask me to take them down, because I’m ignoring them. Thanks.” You store pics in a private folder. On internet you either give credit or don’t do anything.
@freakpierrot they repost a lot of art that isn’t theirs and when confronted about it they didn’t understand what’s wrong with it. (they have also send anon hate to my personal blog when i asked people to respect frank and gerard’s marriages).
@jozgreen stole gifs and reposted pics that have been going around on tumblr for a while. some of the gifs are theirs but it’s hard to know which ones.
@a—o—s stole a whole gifset and blocked the op when they asked them to take it down.
@prettyboygee ships incest between gerard and mikey way. friends who remain anonymous tried to excuse incest as well.
@neverxever blocked me after i’ve told them to delete.
@kingandqueenme they blocked me because i’ve asked them to delete their reposts
@cristalroses reposts many other things besides mcr, they’ve already been contacted but they refused to take posts down or give credits. gonna reblog the conversations original creators had with them.
fabfrnkie 