People who know me are aware that Iâve never done a callout post before, and that I definitely prefer blocking, reporting (if necessary) or talking directly in chat with people who repost content, instead of calling them out publicly. But enough is enough.
Thereâs an Instagram account thatâs reposting a lot of creations from the BSD fandom on Tumblr, and probably Twitter as well. Fanarts, wallpapers, screenshots of gifs, edits and even icons. Iâve never seen this level of reposting before. Their account has 3k+ followers - followers that probably donât even know, or care, that itâs all reposted content without credits. Iâm speechless, and really mad at the moment.
I rarely use IG, especially for fandom content, so Iâm not very knowledgeable about how reporting works there - and I probably wouldnât even have noticed without my friends on Discord informing me.
This is their IG account: 11.11.n.v.mb
(EDIT: now theyâre called _.yo.kozai._ )
This is not only very disrespectful to me (there are ENTIRE posts, gifs, edits and icons made by me on their account), but to content creators in general. Without content creators you wouldnât even have content to repost. Fandoms wouldnât be the same without them. Youâre not doing them a favor by reposting their creations like this. Youâre just spitting on their faces and stealing the things they worked hard on.
DONâT DO THIS, PLEASE. ASK FOR PERMISSION BEFORE REPOSTING, AND ALWAYS CREDIT AND SUPPORT THE ORIGINAL CREATORS. For fanarts, but also for gifs/gfx/wallpapers/edits etc. We make and share content for the fandom, but that doesnât mean that you own the content we make and that you can just repost it as your own. I have so much to say about this topic, but Iâll keep it at this, for now.
Iâd suggest yâall to check that IG account, especially gfx creators and fanartists, to see if they reposted your works too - and report them.
Below (âread moreâ) are some examples of blatant reposts on their IG account.