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Tumblr is weird
May. 17th, 2013 12:58 pmWhile I was thinking about a Tumblr account name (because I'm weird that way) I collected almost two pages of links to Tumblr posts in a Word document to eventually reblog. I'm slowly going through them one at a time, it's funny to see what kind of stuff ended up there. I still think Tumblr is weird, but I'll get used to it, and have I mentioned the pretty pictures?
On this list I found a gorgeous "Spirited Away" artwork today. I clicked reblog, almost posted, and then noticed that there was no artist credit. Huh, strange. This post has over 15,000 notes and nobody thought to add credit to the artist? I thought about just leaving it, but the art is really pretty, and after ten minutes I found the source via google. I also found another Tumblr post that included artist credit. This one had less than 200 notes.
I'm sure that in this case it's mostly coincidence. But as an artist I'd be disappointed at the very least.
From my limited view gif sets are even less often credited than "traditional" fanart, which is a shame because they are no less "artistic" or whatever and many of them are really well done. But I'm not even sure how I would search for a gif set creator. I might have already reblogged some without credit and didn't even think about it. And Tumblr makes it unnecessarily hard to find out who first posted something, unless I'm missing something.
(I looked it up on Fanlore just now, where the article on gifs is woefully stubby, but it mentions reposting, which is apparently downloading and re-uploading a gif, i.e. reposting, often without credit, i.e. a new form of plagiarism. Tumblr makes it so easy.)
I heard of complaints before, of course, but idk, I was just reminded of this just now (and also I'm procrastinating as usual.) (That might explain why so many artists seem so panicky about Fanlore? Hm. Different topic.) Tumblr seems so fundamentally flawed for so many aspects of fandom that I'm surprised over and over again that it's become as popular as it has. It probably has something to do with the cooler things one can do with graphics these days, but also imo the shorter attention span needed for images, and that it can be sort of an in-betwen of blog and news platform and twitter and youtube etc. The interaction is also very strange (I haven't even found a "reply to messages" function yet.)
On this list I found a gorgeous "Spirited Away" artwork today. I clicked reblog, almost posted, and then noticed that there was no artist credit. Huh, strange. This post has over 15,000 notes and nobody thought to add credit to the artist? I thought about just leaving it, but the art is really pretty, and after ten minutes I found the source via google. I also found another Tumblr post that included artist credit. This one had less than 200 notes.
I'm sure that in this case it's mostly coincidence. But as an artist I'd be disappointed at the very least.
From my limited view gif sets are even less often credited than "traditional" fanart, which is a shame because they are no less "artistic" or whatever and many of them are really well done. But I'm not even sure how I would search for a gif set creator. I might have already reblogged some without credit and didn't even think about it. And Tumblr makes it unnecessarily hard to find out who first posted something, unless I'm missing something.
(I looked it up on Fanlore just now, where the article on gifs is woefully stubby, but it mentions reposting, which is apparently downloading and re-uploading a gif, i.e. reposting, often without credit, i.e. a new form of plagiarism. Tumblr makes it so easy.)
I heard of complaints before, of course, but idk, I was just reminded of this just now (and also I'm procrastinating as usual.) (That might explain why so many artists seem so panicky about Fanlore? Hm. Different topic.) Tumblr seems so fundamentally flawed for so many aspects of fandom that I'm surprised over and over again that it's become as popular as it has. It probably has something to do with the cooler things one can do with graphics these days, but also imo the shorter attention span needed for images, and that it can be sort of an in-betwen of blog and news platform and twitter and youtube etc. The interaction is also very strange (I haven't even found a "reply to messages" function yet.)
