Attributing the image for this post was a nice touch

This needs to be a pinned post in at least five of the communities I subscribe to.

I almost posted it to several meme comms but wasn't sure if it crossed their rules. I agree, it's a problem.

Is that the reason people crop out artists?

https://lemmus.org/post/21226925

I blocked that user the other day. They spam content, which is intentionally degraded, and they troll people who call them on it. I thought about saying something, but I looked at their history and this is just what they do, all the time. I didn't know they made a whole platform about it. Thanks for the context.

Like, I even get what they're saying. I would not appreciate art if it were watermarked across the middle. I wouldn't hate it, I'd either downvote it or not vote at all. I would consider that trashy, though there's probably a reason (people stealing art and making stickers of it, for example). I just would not upvote it. But what this user is doing is going to the trouble to crop artist names off of comic strips because they believe the artist should not be known. They want the credit for what they do but they don't think others should get credit, and that's the problem.

Yeah but if the artist's website sell merch and accepts donation then it'll be removed as spam if the mods don't particularly like it.

It pisses me off so much when I go to the art museum and see a cool piece that the artist RUINED by putting an advertisement in the bottom corner.

And then the museum has the audacity to put another plaque with an advertisement next to it, too! The nerve on these people.

That sounds like a mod problem, and plagiarism is not an acceptable recourse.
Regardless of mod behavior, this post is about supporting artists and not treating their signatures (for lack of a better term) as ads to be removed.

I'm sorry, the best I can do is write "credit to the artist" because I'm too lazy to look up who did it. Take it or leave it, bucko
/s

Seeing them get ratioed into oblivion is nice

they want you to buy stuff at the store. it's all an ad

I was being facetious
But I had a picture from election truth alliance removed because it had their website on the bottom...
They're a non-profit, not spam.
I don't remove attribution from stuff I share, unless it's really big and has the twitter/Instagram/etc logos all over it... Sometimes it really is an ad.
This is the picture that was removed, btw:.

Lmao what a trash take, thanks for sharing!

I have tagged them so I know to downvote when they remove signatures (sometimes they don't notice, which is amusing)

Ahh, that makes more sense. I must admit, sometimes I do eat the onion.
Yeah, I agree that looks more like data than spam, and social media sites aren't artists.

Yeah, it gave me such a head spin that I felt a meme was earned. Today's small scale WTF news.

well that's why the /s tag was invented... I just feel like it loses something if I label it...
SIKE!
NOT!
(only 90's kids will get that one)

Someone shook my hand and introduced themselves when I first met them. The gall they had to advertise themselves to me like that!