Dear TF2 fandom, regardless of what social media site you are using. Please do not repost art without an artists permission, artists should not be required to put giant watermarks on their work just because you failed to see if they were okay with you reposting their work.
I wanna add onto this by saying, there are many profiles especially on Instagram that post a lot if not only tf2 content WITHOUT CREDITING THE ARTIST.
I have seen many accounts and all of them write -art not mine / video not mine / fanfiction not mine- and thats just NOT GOOD ENOUGH? I have actually spoken up to these accounts in several occasions, sending them requests to credit the original creators EVEN EXPLAINING HOW TO TRACE BACK THE CREATORS and all they do is pull the “you’re attacking me” card and cuss me out????? I’m a fan content creator of tf2 myself and the fact that a lot of people like myself get disrespected and their stuff stolen for these “fan” accounts and hubs to enjoy is disgusting and we should all stand up to it..
Thank you for the OP of this post because I was starting to feel like the only person asides from the original content creators who cared about this…
Reblogging again, cause it’s still relevant!
People still upload other people’s work.
When interacting you get blocked and when they notice which upload got reported, they upload it again saying QUOTE: “because someone was immature and reported it for literally no reason 😒”If you see your artwork or any of your friends there! Let them know and report it a violation of my copyright!
Instagram will take it down in around a day or less!This is true. I post TF2 art on IG, and more then once my art was reposted and NOT credited or linked.
I’ve noticed this is very common with TF2 IG users who are younger, but either way, it’s not hard to link certain artists.
But this is also the reason why artists should put their signatures. Cause they can post “artist unknown”/“Art not mine” all they want…but at least my name will still be there.
AngelMihe 