Because Ignorance is No Excuse Anymore

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diabolikloversdrankalltheteacups from the dl fandom is known to support art thieves by reblogging stolen art and redistributing

@diabolikloversdrankalltheteacups

Knowingly reblogging stolen art is just as bad a posting them.

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Art reposters have this dumb logic in which they think that by turning off their messaging and ask function, it will somehow stop original artists/creators from contacting them to delete their repost.

Wrong.

What it does instead is it makes the artist go directly to tumblr or a higher authority and report to them. It forces them to take a drastic measure as the first step, which could give the reposter a strike on their account for copyright violation.

Tumblr may slack off in other areas, but they DO take copyright complaints very seriously. Most reports will be taken down within 1-2 business days. That is how fast they act.

As the saying goes, three strikes and you’re out.

If the reposter had at least one way of communication open, they could have avoided getting a strike on their account, because the artist/creator could have easily asked them to remove their unauthorized work. You know, through having a talk.

It’s another example of how reposters are dumb.

[diabolik-bulletin]

Block this DL Scan Thief: Bre-lla

It has been found that Bre-lla is a blog that had a history of posting/watermarking fanart that they did not draw, as well as posting scans that they refuse to prove they own (by showing their name on a paper, placed over the entire magazine and photographed in a clear, close-up picture).

Another blog has contacted us that in the past, Bre-lla also took publications from a Weibo user by the name of JennyJule, and shared them on FB, even when she wrote on her blog that she did not want her scans to be reposted. Even still, another user (who will remain anonymous) contacted us with more information. Bre-lla evidently took Diabolik Lovers scans (as well as translations) from Tumblr users who bought them and reposted them with their watermark on their FB as well. Granted, we were told that Bre-lla’s FB was taken down, however, the fact remains that Bre-lla take things that others bought with their money without asking them for their permission first before they share them elsewhere. 

@Bre-lla Evidently, your history of taking scans (among other things) extended further than was previously thought. With this in mind, you insist that this blog is lying about what you do? Much of the reason why translators have stopped sharing their translations, is due to your harmful actions. You belittle, mock, and verbally assault anyone who has had their content taken by you and tried to do something about it. You gaslight them into thinking that they are the ones at fault for sharing something with the internet, and you act entitled to whatever you find. Much of what is said comes directly from the testimonials we’ve received from people who have been back-stabbed, betrayed, and fooled by you into thinking that your scans are originally yours.

The ‘Team Orange’ post could easily have been taken from another scanner on Weibo (as there are many who often upload the same pages of a magazine), and time can easily be manipulated on your computer and timezone changed on Tumblr itself. Weibo grants its users the option to put a watermark on their images, therefore, it’s not unusual to find scans without a watermark. But just because there is no watermark does not mean the scanner is okay with their bought scans to be posted outside of Weibo. 

As was stated in the first paragraph, if you truly did own those scans, you ought to have no trouble proving so by showing your name on paper, placed over the entire magazine and photographed in clear quality, just as many content sharers do, on sites where you typically take your — excuse us  — their content from.

As for the tumblr users who have posted scans, they either own the scans themselves, or they have shown us their permission through their conversation with the scanner. Those that own the scans of various Diabolik Lovers images have shared other scans for other fandoms as well. There is nothing for us to ‘take care’ of, because unlike you, those people either get permission, or buy the magazines themselves. 

A request was made for you to show that you do indeed own the Lost Eden Chibi poster by photographing it up close with your name on a paper. Instead of showing that you own the folder, you react indignantly, and make excuses, citing that it’s either the lighting’s fault or it’s the camera’s fault. If you truly wanted to prove that those scans belonged to you, with your name on it, why could you not take 2 close-up high quality pictures, one with the booklet/Kou, and the other with the Lost Eden Chibi poster if the main concern is whether or not your name will appear clearly? Next, you dismiss this altogether by saying that you don’t have to prove anything, something that is typically heard when culprits know they have been caught, or otherwise when they can’t prove their point. 

It’s interesting how you try to deflect and shift. You point to other blogs that have reason to share the scans. And, instead of attempting to preserve the anonymity of the Weibo scanner (as we have done), you reveal their identity, thus your accusation that the first ‘call-out’ post we created caused the LE Chibi Poster to be reposted on VK is rather hypocritical. You make no attempts to hide the scanner, but you make an attempt to hide the URL of the Vk page as if you don’t want others to visit the URL to verify the truthfulness of those pictures? Makes total sense. 

As stated before and on our blog, our purpose is to warn those in the DL fandom (as well as those who don’t actively involve themselves in the fandom), about blogs that share content without the authorization of the original creator, most often seen on this platform as fanart. 

While we strive not become a blog that points fingers at reposters without permission, we think it’s fair that any new translator (or anyone) in and outside of the Diabolik Lovers fandom ought to be kept well-informed of what Bre-lla has done, and still continues to do, apparently. 

Please do not hesitate to share this with others. 

[akiire-chan]

https://twitter.com/orihay_platinum/status/825035384648192001

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This is Yuko Yahiro’s art. She doesn’t want her work to be posted on tumblr or anywhere else. These are her tweets about it:

[support-every-artists-deactivat]

I am talking about this sketch of Ayato Sakamaki from Yuuko’s twitter here.

She was asked before if it’s okay with her for people to share her Diabolik sketches on tumblr, and she has denied permission. I think she has deleted that tweet, so again, I contacted her with links to the reposts myself, just to be sure.

This is serious. She works for an official company. Remember what I talked about here?

Please do not assume it’s Ok to repost someone’s artwork, even if they are an ‘official’. Those sketches are her PERSONAL WORK, not for the series itself. She can be into legal issue over this matter.·

Always ask an artist for their permission first! If this was official character art for the series, it’s fine. But this is not a published official art by Rejet. It is still Yuuko’s personal drawing, which means that you need to ask her first if you may share it!

Taggng those who reposted that sketch:

 @snowfairy1998 

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@akiire-chan The artist does not allow her artwork to be posted to tumblr. Putting the source is not an excuse to post something that you didn’t ask permission for. :/ 

[peachbunni-deactivated20180110]

Read more about why reposting without permission is harmful!

Read more on proof on why these two users need to be blocked.

Please support artists by blocking the 2 users, signal boosting this post (or making your own!!), and telling miraculers who might accidentally like and reblog their posts!

edit: they deleted their blogs!! Thank you!

[stopartreposters]

It seems 3426547 and 04678936200 have come back as ‘ydotome’ and ‘ianime0’ with a joint blog called ‘animefandoms2′, which was used for further redistributing ML and other stolen art posts from 3426547 and 04678936200.

Early posts from animefandoms2 show that they reblogged fanart from only those two art thieves, and that each time either of those users upload an artwork with 'permission’, the blog ‘animefandoms2’ will almost immediately reblog and then later repeatedly re-blog the same posts from those two users just so they can garner more 'notes’ for the stolen art that they post with fake permissions. This blog seem to consistently reblog from blogs the art thieves make, time and time again.    

To prevent this sort of thing from happening again, it’s best to block the new blogs since they have really hurt a lot of artists from Pixiv and Twitter and from different fandoms. :/

[solvola]

“why do you complain about art theft on Facebook when there are so many unsourced images here on Tumblr anyway”

yes

yes there are, and you know what people do to those? they fucking report them for copyright infringement, that’s what.

stop acting like people just allow art theft on Tumblr to go unchecked. yes, there are a lot of unsourced reposts on here, and guess what: we fucking hate it. and we report them, we call out the reposters, we signal boost the proper links, we alert authors, etc.

it’s not hypocrisy because nobody likes it when it happens on Tumblr either.

[yarrayora-deactivated20230104]

facebook pages are bullshit

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That’s one of the shittiest excuse for stealing artwork that I’ve ever seen from a person. 

“We need to update frequently for we are a big page”

“We can’t spend hours finding the source and waiting for permission”

WELL HOW LONG DO YOU THINK IT TOOK FOR ARTISTS TO DRAW THAT PICTURE YOU TOOK, HUH?

Oh, you can’t wait? What, is this some dumb popularity contest or something, to see which fb pg can get the most likes? 

This is some gross entitlement shit. People who treat artists, no, anyone who makes something for others to enjoy, people who treat those kind of individuals like factory machines need to be put into a hard labor camp, so they can learn what it feels like to be on the receiving end of this bullshit.

[support-every-artists-deactivat]

There's a blog called XENOCRISI that reposts tons of unauthorized Osomatsu fanart from pixiv and they're obsessed with gaining followers and notes and it's gross how they use pixiv fanart without permission to gain it. Up til now I've reported to a total of ELEVEN different artists whom they taken art from without asking permission first and OVER HALF of them expressed dismay and frustration that this person is stealing their art. They don't care they're credited, they never allowed it at all!!!

This is exactly the kind of behavior that makes artists feel insecure and depressed over something that they normally enjoy doing, because people are using their personal works for selfish reasons like amassing notes like it’s a cheap popularity contest. 

You see, what that blog (@xenocrisi) is doing is exactly what I talked about in my post about how art theft aka reposting without permission hurts artists. Crediting is no longer enough, because crediting actually does little to nothing for the artist these days. 

1) They don’t know you posted their artwork2) They have no way of contacting you in case they need for you to delete your reprint of their work for any reason. 

Technically, when you post artwork from Pixiv on tumblr or any other site without getting permission from the artist, you’ve already violated the site policy of the website. Some blogs rationalize that if they don’t SEE something in the artist’s profile that says ‘reprint/repost prohibited’, then it’s ‘fair game’ to repost on tumblr, according to their book. 

PIXIV ARTISTS ARE NOT OBLIGATED TO PUT A WARNING IN THEIR PAGE, when Pixiv already has this rule stated in their Help section on the upper right corner of the site:

As for that blog’s obsession with notes, you see, it has developed what I’ve commonly observed as ‘art theft addiction’, which is a behavior that involves gaining a sense of ‘high’ at the expense of an artist by taking their artwork without permission, and using it merely like a tool to gain notes. 

Also, I see that one of the artist above does allow reprints if only they were asked first, but here is something I’m discovering more and more often:

Artists who have previously given permission to post their works are now withdrawing that privilege they’ve granted because blogs who never ask permission (like @xenocrisi) are taking their artwork anyway. Those art theft blogs see blogs that have asked permission to post the artist’s work, so they develop this harmful assumption that it’s ‘OK’ to post that artist’s work just because they allow So-and-so to post it.

That is wrong, and here is why:

Permissions are given on a one-to-one basis. Permissions are the only way for an artist to keep track of how much their personal work is distributed. The further the artwork is passed around the corners of internet, the less personal the artwork becomes to the artist, and the higher the chances are that people are going to try to make a profit off of them by printing them on tshirts, mugs, merchandise and sell them for profit on sites like ebay (after seeing how many notes/likes they garner on social media sites). So when more and more people repost an artwork without contacting the artist, even when the artists gave permission to another blog, they are unknowingly causing this problem of unsupervised distribution to occur, and it gets worse each time an artist comes across an unauthorized post of their artwork.

This is happening daily, and this is one of the reasons why so many artists do not allow reprints anymore, or only permit you to enjoy their work on the original site they posted it. 

Osomatsu fandom, please realize that xenocrisi is violating the Pixiv site policy by not even asking permission from the artists they steal from. Please do NOT support this sort of harmful behavior, and flag/block any blog that follows this type of behavior of posting artwork without permission. 

If you truly care in your heart about the artist and the works they produce, instead of reblogging/liking those posts, simply go to the source site, create an account (it’s fast, easy, and free), and bookmark/comment/rate the artwork from there! 

Please boost this important PSA, especially for the Osomatsu fandom.

[matsunomono]

Please support true artists and NOT re-posters

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@fuck-yeah-osomatsu-san @matsucest @lewdmatsu 

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Beware: Art thieves 3426547 and 04678936200 still lurking around

Every miraculeur should know by now about the two art thieves who steal artwork thru faking permissions thanks to peachbunni’s PSA post here, but what a lot of people probably don’t know is that 04678936200 has a twitter at @risewhite5 which in addition to their other twitter @rune_0637 are both used to follow a lot of artists and copy their tweets to use to make photoshopped permissions, similar to how they created FAKE PERMISSIONS like so here.

In other words, if you happen to see any blog post so-called ‘screenshots’ from twitter with either @risewhite5 or @rune_0637, please be aware that those twitters belong to one of the art thieves and to avoid whichever blog that used those fake permissions by blacklisting their url and blocking them. 

Just because those two art thieves have deleted, doesn’t mean they’re gone forever. They both have a long history of trying to deceive people. The reason they deleted their blogs is because they realized that a lot of people have blocked those urls, so no one will see the art they stole and posted with [fake] ‘permissions’, therefore they can’t get any notes, so they likely made NEW blogs just so they can trick people again. 

Ringo23 --[change url]--> Krafthoney --[blog deleted by tumblr staff]-->3426547 [new blog; now deleted]

Nnanaseharu14 --[blog deleted]--> himaritakakura12 --[blog deleted]--> anime-blog123 --[change url]--> Lovelyaot --[blog deleted by tumblr staff]-->  04678936200 [new blog; now deleted]

Moral of the story, stay sharp!

There are plenty of blogs that do post with real permission, I guess just check with support pixiv artist blog cause they check a lot of blogs.

[support-every-artists-deactivat]

@fuck-yeah-itachi

Please SIGNAL BOOST THIS NARUTO FANDOM AND EVERYONE ELSE!

This is nothing against anyone, but I’m tagging the tumblrs that I see the most reblogs of this stolen art from. 

Guys, please go back and delete your reblog of this artwork. The artist is likely VERY unhappy about this, and if you haven’t read this, this is exactly the kind of thing that negatively impacts an artist.

@masamumu, @slimshadysasuke, @sasusaku2000, @jiraiyathehokage, @nejis, @inomatsu, @temedobe, @sasukeavenged, @narutotoes, @sasukedeservestobehappy, @cakebake

Again, if you are tagged, please know that this is just a more efficient method of getting rid of the most reblogs and a way for me to track where the most reblogs of this stolen art is reblogged from. 

Please delete your reblog, and shoot me a message or chat and I will remove your name.

If you’re having trouble finding the post, try typing “/search” after your URL and search for keywords like ‘yusui’, ‘54003064′ to locate and delete it.

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Daily Reminder - Do Not Reblog from Lovelyaot who Faked Permission

Please be aware that fanart blog lovelyaot fakes their permissions to post from artists.

You can read all about it here.

They faked their permits by taking pieces of the permissions that the artist gave to other fanart blogs that honestly asked the artist first. One artist allowed a certain blog to post their artwork, but they only allowed lovelyaot to share their art as links. Lovelyaot took the permission reserved for the other blog, copied it to make their ‘own’, and used it to illegally post the artist’s work.

Once the artist found out, they asked their posts to be taken down, because they obviously remembered that they never, ever gave permission for lovelyaot to post their art in the first place, and they probably recognized (cause they’re Japanese) that lovelyaot’s permits were FAKE anyway and edited from someone whom the artist did give real permission to before.

Don’t trust lovelyaot. Don’t reblog anything from them anymore.

This is how much they respect artists. To make a fake permission, because they’re so thirsty for notes and followers, that they had the gall to lie to the artist. People who already follow them, do you want to support a liar like that?

Who knows when they’ll do it again? They did it once, no twice already, for two different artists (that you can read about in the link above).

Spread this around!

They tricked everyone. They deceived their own followers, they tricked people in the Haikyuu!! fandom (the art was HQ related), and they misused - no - forged a fake permission and committed fraud to gain notes!!

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Do Not Reblog from Lovelyaot & Krafthoney - They Fake Permissions!!!

Please be aware that fanart blog lovelyaot fakes their permissions to post from artists.

You can read all about it here.

They faked their permits by taking pieces of the permissions that the artist gave to other fanart blogs that honestly asked the artist first. One artist allowed a certain blog to post their artwork, but they only allowed lovelyaot to share their art as links. Lovelyaot took the permission reserved for the other blog, copied it to make their ‘own’, and used it to illegally post the artist’s work.

Once the artist found out, they asked their posts to be taken down, because they obviously remembered that they never, ever gave permission for lovelyaot to post their art in the first place, and they probably recognized (cause they’re Japanese) that lovelyaot’s permits were FAKE anyway and edited from someone whom the artist did give real permission to before.

Don’t trust lovelyaot. Don’t reblog anything from them anymore.

This is how much they respect artists. To make a fake permission, because they’re so thirsty for notes and followers, that they had the gall to lie to the artist. People who already follow them, do you want to support a liar like that?

Who knows when they’ll do it again? They did it once, no twice already, for two different artists (that you can read about in the link above).

Spread this around!

They tricked everyone. They deceived their own followers, they tricked people in the Haikyuu!! fandom (the art was HQ related), and they misused - no - forged a fake permission and committed fraud to gain notes!!

[stopartreposters]

Please be aware that fanart blog lovelyaot fakes their permissions to post from artists.

You can read all about it here.

They faked their permits by taking pieces of the permissions that the artist gave to other fanart blogs that honestly asked the artist first. One artist allowed a certain blog to post their artwork, but they only allowed lovelyaot to share their art as links. Lovelyaot took the permission reserved for the other blog, copied it to make their ‘own’, and used it to illegally post the artist’s work. 

Once the artist found out, they asked their posts to be taken down, because they obviously remembered that they never, ever gave permission for lovelyaot to post their art in the first place, and they probably recognized (cause they’re Japanese) that lovelyaot’s permits were FAKE anyway and edited from someone whom the artist did give real permission to before.

Don’t trust lovelyaot. Don’t reblog anything from them anymore. 

This is how much they respect artists. To make a fake permission, because they’re so thirsty for notes and followers, that they had the gall to lie to the artist. People who already follow them, do you want to support a liar like that? 

Who knows when they’ll do it again? They did it once, no twice already, for two different artists (that you can read about in the link above). 

Spread this around! 

They tricked everyone. They deceived their own followers, they tricked people in the Haikyuu!! fandom (the art was HQ related), and they misused - no - forged a fake permission and committed fraud to gain notes!! 

[support-every-artists-deactivat]

I just saw lovelyaot harass another artist just a while ago on her twitter. she asked them like repeatedly in one hour. Ugh, why do people do this??? It's like they have no respect for the artist at all by acting like flies buzzing around them!

It is the sad truth that that is common with them and their other blog. I’ve seen them ask the same artists before they changed twitter name so it ‘masks’ the fact that they have asked them before, to which they got no response. 

Actually, just yesterday, I got a private message from an artist I reported to before, and they were asking me if it’s possible for me to ask them ( lovelyaot ) not to contact them anymore, because they are tired of getting asked.

I really wasn’t sure how to respond, but I told them that I would keep an eye on lovelyaot’s twitter, and I took a screenshot of their permission request. 

[miyakuli]

For my followers who are in the Free!dom, I beg you to stop encouraging lovelyaot blog. The way they are treating artists, by misusing their permissions or harassing artists like that,  is just disgusting. It has to stop!

[oh-suketora]

This is quoted directly from a post by @krafthoney ( @lovelyaot​‘s accomplice who also reposts art without permission in a different anime fandom)

Thank you for your support in this time.

Why did I change my name? Because @support-pixiv-artists and @miyakuli won’t leave us (me and my sister) alone. And hopefully they won’t call us out but as you can see the won’t. They can also contact the pixiv and twitter artist if they gave us permission to post their art. And I will tell you guys again that we do have permission that is if you want to believe us. And to you tumblr user’s that do reblog and like the art that we post with permission we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

P.S. as you can guess my sister’s blog is lovelyaot (also known as anime-blog123)

Look, we’re not the type to go around ‘calling out’ people who post fan art, okay? There are a million other fics/art/videos/basically a hella lot more fandom-related things we can enjoy and do than ‘bothering’ fan art blogs - if they actually got permission from the artist to reblog their art. And in case you can’t miss the very vital fact I’m putting the following sentence in headline capital letters:

YOU. DO. NOT. HAVE PERMISSION!!!

The screenshot you linked of the supposed ‘permission’ given by the artist is outdated. Many artists you supposedly ‘asked’ permission from have long since rejected any further reprint requests. Yet you continue harassing these good people repeatedly in the space of mere minutes and then even when they outright refuse you still go ahead and post their art with the same ‘permission’ screenshot from MONTHS ago. Heck, you might’ve even just photoshopped their ‘permission’ replies (like the English ones) - with the advanced technology nowadays, text replies are seriously cheap stuff. Even my 11-year-old sis could do it if she bothered using less than half an hour to learn how.

So some people just won’t ‘leave you alone’? @support-pixiv-artists exists solely to put an end to unauthorized reposts of art by Japanese artists, something they may not be able to do themselves do to not being fluent or not very good in English. @miyakuli-senpai has been in the Free!dom ever since almost the very beginning when it first came into being, and has been reposting art with permission for donkey’s years longer than either of you. (And if you start questioning “well why doesn’t anyone ‘call out’ on them then?”, well that’s a good question. Why isn’t this user’s permission ever doubted in the almost three years they’ve been around? Because there was never any doubt in the first place. Simply speaking, you two aren’t getting blackmarked out of nowhere. Someone - actually, a lot of someones - realized something about your reposts weren’t quite right, which is how they were put on alert. If there wasn’t any such thing at all, the trouble wouldn’t have arisen either. So maybe instead of hoping people would ‘leave you alone’, you should ask yourself why they’re keeping tabs on you in the first place.)

Both have much better things to do with their time than ‘bother’ fellow authorized reposters of art - who would want to stop the sharing of beautiful and amazing fan art anyway? But guess what? Whether you know it or not, that’s what you and your sister are doing.

When artists find their work posted on other sites without their knowledge, how do you think they will feel? They worked hard and dedicated a lot of effort to create wonderful pieces, and then they have to find out that their work is spread around on the Internet like random spam mail items. There is next to no credit given them and most of the time people don’t even know they’re the ones who made the art. Do you know what it feels like to have your hard work degraded to practically nothing? An adjective comes to my mind at this: soul-crushing.

But you link to artists’ profile pages now! That’s giving them credit! That should make it all better, right?

Wrong.

Now they have to live with the knowledge that they’d refused requests to repost their art, then very blatantly had their wishes and opinions outright ignored, and their art is spread around anyway. Only this time, it’s tagged with their profile page stating that they have given ‘permission’ - when they DID. NOT.

It’s worse than not asking at all - it’s basically telling them “oh yeah, I did ask you for permission, but I’m going to COMPLETELY ignore your reply and go ahead with doing whatever I want with your painstakingly-made work because guess what? I don’t really care what you say anyway!!!1!111!!! ;)”

I could go on and on about the negative effects your actions have on artists, but then I’d be practically writing a college thesis. So instead, this is a detailed list of the consequences of unauthorized reposting. If you could take the time to read it, it would be very much appreciated.

You’re telling us we can ask the Pixiv and Twitter artists about whether they’d given permission? We already did. Here’s an example of a reply they gave:

(original post here)

You may have gotten permission to repost a certain single artwork from the artist. That’s great! Just one thing: it does not mean you can repost unlimited works of theirs. They agreed to let you repost that one piece of art, not open up their entire gallery to you. If they decide to revoke permission or refuse to give it even when they have done so before, they are entirely within their rights to do so. They made that art, they should be free to do whatever they want with it, and decide what happens to it. 

(also this artist actually apologized twice in one message for a decision she was completely entitled to make. What is the world coming to.)

We want to believe that you have permission. We really do. Nobody enjoys having to tell people that what they’re doing is wrong. But if something that shouldn’t be happening is, we have a duty to put a stop to it. That’s what principles are for. That’s why we have rules, laws, constitutions. That’s the basis on how entire civilizations and even all of humanity functions. We strive our best to do what’s right, and we do all we can within our power to help others do the same.

To those of you that have reblogged and liked the art posted by these two blogs: don’t blame yourself. You probably didn’t know the truth - many of us didn’t either in the beginning. That’s what a fandom is for; not only do we share fanworks we like and new updates on our favorite series, we also spread the word on important issues that have an impact on the entire fan community. And the impact this particular matter has is immensely significant - not only does it reflect on the English-speaking or Tumblr-using part of the Free!dom, it can also contribute to the impression the Japanese fans have of the Western anime fanbase in general, and even English-speaking foreigners as a whole.

So check twice before you hit the reblog or like button - you can shrug off not being able to have that fan art on your blog or in your list of bookmarked and liked posts, but every note these reposts get is another point in the reposter’s favor, encouraging them to continue with their actions. Artists have actually been forced to make their accounts private or even delete them and stop drawing altogether because of similar happenings. If you want to still be able to see their work, please go to their original post or find an authorized report and reblog that instead. If no such posts are available, then content yourself with enjoying their art on Pixiv or Twitter. This is a sign of respect to the people who put their time and effort into creating tributes to our beloved series - which not only applies to Free! or even just anime, but also anything that brings together people with shared interests.

And to @krafthoney and @lovelyaot - it’s not too late to turn back. The fandom always welcomes people who sincerely want to share what they like with others and respect the creators when doing so. It might take a while to delete every single repost you’ve made so far, but when you remember that you’re doing the right thing it’ll be worth it. Or just start anew with a fresh face - as long as you don’t repeat your mistakes, nobody is going to judge you for what you’ve done in the past. We’d never turn away one of our number without good reason.

It seems you’ve done the same in other anime fandoms before, but I’m not part of them so I can’t say anything on their behalf. I’m only speaking here as a member of the Free!dom. You’re in the gay swimming anime fan club now, and like any kind of social interaction between humans there are basic rules to follow. You’ll soon learn that when you start to respect others’ opinions and desires, people will be more willing to befriend and get along with you, and your life will be that much better.

So follow this simple kindergarten rule: play nice. And give others the respect they deserve and are entitled to.

[stopartreposters]

Regarding krafthoney (ringo23) and lovelyaot (anime-blog123), it’s also that they have deliberately tried to play people for fools, knowing that most people on tumblr don’t know better or won’t bother to check, or won’t understand exactly what the conditions are that the artist is telling them.  

I have recently seen a pixiv artist stop allowing reprints because of the fact that they have gotten a job being a part of a team of game designers, and they don’t want any complications with their artwork floating around now that things are at a higher stake for them. But then if they have given a previous permit to someone like either of those two blogs mentioned above, who go about taking whatever art they find and slapping on an old permit and calling it fine, that kind of carelessness can very well finish that artist’s career before it begins if the artist themself didn’t make it clear not to allow reprints anymore, or if nobody catches those blogs doing those terrible things.

But back to my previous point. The main reason why lovelyaot andkrafthoney aren’t trustworthy blogs is because of these kinds of incidents that show their nature as an individual: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.

They say you can’t judge a book by it’s cover. But actions always speaks louder and words, and those actions they done in the past and even continueto do up to this day, nullifies any claim they make, and they were only sorry once they got caught.

All those disrespectful ways they’ve treated artists until they were caught. Also how they treated tumblr users like they’re idiots by what happened in #7especially. They took advantage of both the artist and that particular fandom in order to gain all those notes.

They took advantage of the artist because they used an old permission that the artist no longer counts as valid to repost their works, even after the artist flat out rejected their sister blog’s request for permission (there’s no way they couldn’t have seen that; those two blogs heavily associate with each other). They thought they could ‘slip by’ easy and hopefully nobody would catch on…well, @support-pixiv-artists did, and thank god they did too.

They took advantage of the Naruto fandom because obviously, who could resist such well-drawn pretty artwork when they poster even claims that they got permission? Judging by the sheer number of notes alone, I can estimate that pretty much all of those people blindly put their trust and faith in krafthoney/lovelyaot being honest, when in fact, they were deceived, and they only realized it too late, as evidenced by this post here. By then, what good’s an apology to the artist even? Their artwork is now plastered on every corner of the web, thanks to those blogs.

This is why I’m tagged some fandoms I notice they post in. Because of what happened in the Naruto and Free! fandom, they have become cautionary tales, and these other fandoms deserve to know so hopefully they won’t fall for the same kind of mistake as countless Free! and Naruto blogs have.

Update: Apparently lovelyaot also forges fake permissions.

[stopartreposters]

About Those Art Reposters Lovelyaot  & Krafthoney

@carrot-s-cross-station, @miyakuli, @support-pixiv-artists

I couldn’t help noticing your input on an ask that s-p-a blog has made, and I just wanted to add in something of my own, but the post was too long, so I’m making a separate one.

Regarding krafthoney (ringo23) and lovelyaot (anime-blog123), it’s also that they have deliberately tried to play people for fools, knowing that most people on tumblr don’t know better or won’t bother to check, or won’t understand exactly what the conditions are that the artist is telling them.  

I have recently seen a pixiv artist stop allowing reprints because of the fact that they have gotten a job being a part of a team of game designers, and they don’t want any complications with their artwork floating around now that things are at a higher stake for them. But then if they have given a previous permit to someone like either of those two blogs mentioned above, who go about taking whatever art they find and slapping on an old permit and calling it fine, that kind of carelessness can very well finish that artist’s career before it begins if the artist themself didn’t make it clear not to allow reprints anymore, or if nobody catches those blogs doing those terrible things.

But back to my previous point. The main reason why lovelyaot and krafthoney aren’t trustworthy blogs is because of these kinds of incidents that show their nature as an individual: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. 

They say you can’t judge a book by it’s cover. But actions always speaks louder and words, and those actions they done in the past and even continue to do up to this day, nullifies any claim they make, and they were only sorry once they got caught. 

All those disrespectful ways they’ve treated artists until they were caught. Also how they treated tumblr users like they’re idiots by what happened in #7 especially. They took advantage of both the artist and that particular fandom in order to gain all those notes. 

They took advantage of the artist because they used an old permission that the artist no longer counts as valid to repost their works, even after the artist flat out rejected their sister blog’s request for permission (there’s no way they couldn’t have seen that; those two blogs heavily associate with each other). They thought they could ‘slip by’ easy and hopefully nobody would catch on...well, @support-pixiv-artists did, and thank god they did too. 

They took advantage of the Naruto fandom because obviously, who could resist such well-drawn pretty artwork when they poster even claims that they got permission? Judging by the sheer number of notes alone, I can estimate that pretty much all of those people blindly put their trust and faith in krafthoney/lovelyaot being honest, when in fact, they were deceived, and they only realized it too late, as evidenced by this post here. By then, what good’s an apology to the artist even? Their artwork is now plastered on every corner of the web, thanks to those blogs. 

This is why I’m tagging some fandoms I notice they post in. Because of what happened in the Naruto and Free! fandom, they have become cautionary tales, and these other fandoms deserve to know so hopefully they won’t fall for the same kind of mistake as countless Free! and Naruto blogs have. 

[support-every-artists-deactivat]

I just saw lovelyaot harass another artist just a while ago on her twitter. she asked them like repeatedly in one hour. Ugh, why do people do this??? It's like they have no respect for the artist at all by acting like flies buzzing around them!

It is the sad truth that that is common with them and their other blog. I’ve seen them ask the same artists before they changed twitter name so it ‘masks’ the fact that they have asked them before, to which they got no response. 

Actually, just yesterday, I got a private message from an artist I reported to before, and they were asking me if it’s possible for me to ask them ( lovelyaot ) not to contact them anymore, because they are tired of getting asked.

I really wasn’t sure how to respond, but I told them that I would keep an eye on lovelyaot’s twitter, and I took a screenshot of their permission request. 

[miyakuli]

For my followers who are in the Free!dom, I beg you to stop encouraging lovelyaot blog. The way they are treating artists, by misusing their permissions or harassing artists like that,  is just disgusting. It has to stop!

[oh-suketora]

This is quoted directly from a post by @krafthoney ( @lovelyaot​‘s accomplice who also reposts art without permission in a different anime fandom)

Thank you for your support in this time.

Why did I change my name? Because @support-pixiv-artists and @miyakuli won’t leave us (me and my sister) alone. And hopefully they won’t call us out but as you can see the won’t. They can also contact the pixiv and twitter artist if they gave us permission to post their art. And I will tell you guys again that we do have permission that is if you want to believe us. And to you tumblr user’s that do reblog and like the art that we post with permission we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

P.S. as you can guess my sister’s blog is lovelyaot (also known as anime-blog123)

Look, we’re not the type to go around ‘calling out’ people who post fan art, okay? There are a million other fics/art/videos/basically a hella lot more fandom-related things we can enjoy and do than ‘bothering’ fan art blogs - if they actually got permission from the artist to reblog their art. And in case you can’t miss the very vital fact I’m putting the following sentence in headline capital letters:

YOU. DO. NOT. HAVE PERMISSION!!!

The screenshot you linked of the supposed ‘permission’ given by the artist is outdated. Many artists you supposedly ‘asked’ permission from have long since rejected any further reprint requests. Yet you continue harassing these good people repeatedly in the space of mere minutes and then even when they outright refuse you still go ahead and post their art with the same ‘permission’ screenshot from MONTHS ago. Heck, you might’ve even just photoshopped their ‘permission’ replies (like the English ones) - with the advanced technology nowadays, text replies are seriously cheap stuff. Even my 11-year-old sis could do it if she bothered using less than half an hour to learn how.

So some people just won’t ‘leave you alone’? @support-pixiv-artists exists solely to put an end to unauthorized reposts of art by Japanese artists, something they may not be able to do themselves do to not being fluent or not very good in English. @miyakuli-senpai has been in the Free!dom ever since almost the very beginning when it first came into being, and has been reposting art with permission for donkey’s years longer than either of you. (And if you start questioning “well why doesn’t anyone ‘call out’ on them then?”, well that’s a good question. Why isn’t this user’s permission ever doubted in the almost three years they’ve been around? Because there was never any doubt in the first place. Simply speaking, you two aren’t getting blackmarked out of nowhere. Someone - actually, a lot of someones - realized something about your reposts weren’t quite right, which is how they were put on alert. If there wasn’t any such thing at all, the trouble wouldn’t have arisen either. So maybe instead of hoping people would ‘leave you alone’, you should ask yourself why they’re keeping tabs on you in the first place.)

Both have much better things to do with their time than ‘bother’ fellow authorized reposters of art - who would want to stop the sharing of beautiful and amazing fan art anyway? But guess what? Whether you know it or not, that’s what you and your sister are doing.

When artists find their work posted on other sites without their knowledge, how do you think they will feel? They worked hard and dedicated a lot of effort to create wonderful pieces, and then they have to find out that their work is spread around on the Internet like random spam mail items. There is next to no credit given them and most of the time people don’t even know they’re the ones who made the art. Do you know what it feels like to have your hard work degraded to practically nothing? An adjective comes to my mind at this: soul-crushing.

But you link to artists’ profile pages now! That’s giving them credit! That should make it all better, right?

Wrong.

Now they have to live with the knowledge that they’d refused requests to repost their art, then very blatantly had their wishes and opinions outright ignored, and their art is spread around anyway. Only this time, it’s tagged with their profile page stating that they have given ‘permission’ - when they DID. NOT.

It’s worse than not asking at all - it’s basically telling them “oh yeah, I did ask you for permission, but I’m going to COMPLETELY ignore your reply and go ahead with doing whatever I want with your painstakingly-made work because guess what? I don’t really care what you say anyway!!!1!111!!! ;)”

I could go on and on about the negative effects your actions have on artists, but then I’d be practically writing a college thesis. So instead, this is a detailed list of the consequences of unauthorized reposting. If you could take the time to read it, it would be very much appreciated.

You’re telling us we can ask the Pixiv and Twitter artists about whether they’d given permission? We already did. Here’s an example of a reply they gave:

(original post here)

You may have gotten permission to repost a certain single artwork from the artist. That’s great! Just one thing: it does not mean you can repost unlimited works of theirs. They agreed to let you repost that one piece of art, not open up their entire gallery to you. If they decide to revoke permission or refuse to give it even when they have done so before, they are entirely within their rights to do so. They made that art, they should be free to do whatever they want with it, and decide what happens to it. 

(also this artist actually apologized twice in one message for a decision she was completely entitled to make. What is the world coming to.)

We want to believe that you have permission. We really do. Nobody enjoys having to tell people that what they’re doing is wrong. But if something that shouldn’t be happening is, we have a duty to put a stop to it. That’s what principles are for. That’s why we have rules, laws, constitutions. That’s the basis on how entire civilizations and even all of humanity functions. We strive our best to do what’s right, and we do all we can within our power to help others do the same.

To those of you that have reblogged and liked the art posted by these two blogs: don’t blame yourself. You probably didn’t know the truth - many of us didn’t either in the beginning. That’s what a fandom is for; not only do we share fanworks we like and new updates on our favorite series, we also spread the word on important issues that have an impact on the entire fan community. And the impact this particular matter has is immensely significant - not only does it reflect on the English-speaking or Tumblr-using part of the Free!dom, it can also contribute to the impression the Japanese fans have of the Western anime fanbase in general, and even English-speaking foreigners as a whole.

So check twice before you hit the reblog or like button - you can shrug off not being able to have that fan art on your blog or in your list of bookmarked and liked posts, but every note these reposts get is another point in the reposter’s favor, encouraging them to continue with their actions. Artists have actually been forced to make their accounts private or even delete them and stop drawing altogether because of similar happenings. If you want to still be able to see their work, please go to their original post or find an authorized report and reblog that instead. If no such posts are available, then content yourself with enjoying their art on Pixiv or Twitter. This is a sign of respect to the people who put their time and effort into creating tributes to our beloved series - which not only applies to Free! or even just anime, but also anything that brings together people with shared interests.

And to @krafthoney and @lovelyaot - it’s not too late to turn back. The fandom always welcomes people who sincerely want to share what they like with others and respect the creators when doing so. It might take a while to delete every single repost you’ve made so far, but when you remember that you’re doing the right thing it’ll be worth it. Or just start anew with a fresh face - as long as you don’t repeat your mistakes, nobody is going to judge you for what you’ve done in the past. We’d never turn away one of our number without good reason.

It seems you’ve done the same in other anime fandoms before, but I’m not part of them so I can’t say anything on their behalf. I’m only speaking here as a member of the Free!dom. You’re in the gay swimming anime fan club now, and like any kind of social interaction between humans there are basic rules to follow. You’ll soon learn that when you start to respect others’ opinions and desires, people will be more willing to befriend and get along with you, and your life will be that much better.

So follow this simple kindergarten rule: play nice. And give others the respect they deserve and are entitled to.