Account @kimsnamjoons (now @girlssgeneration as of 11/15) has been re-editing other content creators’ gifs from multiple fandoms and claiming them as their own since at least November 2017. Dayna was contacted by at least 5 gif-makers, other individuals, and admin Tiffany (11/05/18) over 2 weeks (10/22 to 11/05); and has blocked all of them. In November 2017 gif-makers also contacted Dayna, made call-out posts, and were also blocked.
Instead they continue to claim they make their own gifs when replying to asks and in personal posts on @kimsnamjoons and their twitter account, @cutienamjoons. Further, they say that they feel “their” gifs are not appreciated, but they plan to continue reposting anyway. They repost as many as 7 compilation gif sets in a day.
You can see their reposts under their tag #dayna’s shit and #mine. If you see your work was reposted, you can report misattribution with this form in order to remove all reblogs of the post.
You can show your support for content makers by:
blocking @girlssgeneration to prevent accidentally spreading their reposts;
blacklisting ‘kimsnamjoons’ and ‘girlssgeneration’ using new xkit or tumblr savior web browser extension;
reblogging our report or sharing on Twitter;
contacting the users they follow and/or reblog from to block @girlssgeneration
sending an ask and/or DM @girlssgeneration to stop reposting and to delete their reposts;
contacting content makes whose work you recognize have been reposted.
Community pressure may stop this user and prevent others from reposting or sharing reposts. We encourage expressing your anger, but we do not condone violent or threatening messages.
Below the cut we have compiled:
admin contact with @kimsnamjoons and their responses;
direct evidence of reposting;
evidence they don’t have the technical skills to make the stolen gifs.
Contact with @kimsnamjoons
On 11/05 I contacted Dayna @kimsnamjoons after receiving a reposting report on their account from 3 different users on 10/12, 10/28, and 10/31. These reports included links to multiple call-out posts made in October 2018 by other gif-makers. In response they tweeted (source):
I received no response and was immediately blocked, but Dayna did make personal comments about my DMs on their blog and (copy-pasted to) their twitter. I reblogged and responded to their comments on @btsgfx. Dayna then blocked @btsgfx and tweeted, lying to an audience of 0, that I called them out cause they’re a multi-stan instead of cause they’re a reposter (source).
Dayna seems to think blocking stops gif-makers from seeing their stolen gifs on their blog too (source).
This is not the first time a community of gif-makers have accused Dayna of re-editing and reposting. In November 2017, gif-makers also contacted Dayna, made call-out posts, and were blocked. In response to being called out, Dayna started adding their own watermark to reposted gifs (source).
This was their response to a call-out post in 2017 (source):
#i dont wanna say im bitter #i have never & w i l l n e v e r steal gifs #i know how it feels to see something youve worked so hard on be reposted and i would never wish that on anybodyim just pissed someone would literally make a post about me saying a stole them im???im????? #i dont mean to be that bitch but uhhhhhh idk how else to say it #i make these gifs myself
To see the numerous call-out posts (including some with evidence of their own) search for text posts in #kimsnamjoons. They have consistently until now (11/14) claim that all re-edited and reposted gifs are their own and despite the “undeserved hate” they plan to continue “posting their own gifs” (source).
Evidence of Reposting
Dayna’s gif sets have all been compilations sets with gifs of different video source quality, sharpness, coloring, frame rate, and at times even gif sizes. These are obvious giveaways of reposting, however below we overlaid Dayna’s re-edited gifs on top of the original gif-makers’ as undeniable evidence. They match frame by frame with the same number of frames, pixel content, and are cropped smaller than the original gifs.
To prove the below overlaid gifs are Dayna’s gifs we have overlaid, we link OP’s gif set and Dayna’s gif set.
Dayna’s re-edited gif set
1st row, right in Dayna’s (link above) overlaid on top-left in OP’s gif set
3rd row, left in Dayna’s overlaid on 4th gif in OP’s
4th row, left in Dayna’s overlaid on bottom-left in OP’s
4th row, right in Dayna’s overlaid on bottom gif in OP’s
bottom row, left in Dayna’s re-edited gif set overlaid on OP’s gif
bottom row, left in Dayna’s re-edited gif set overlaid on top-left in OP’s
2nd row, right in Dayna’s re-edited gif set overlaid on OP’s gif set
top row, middle in Dayna’s re-edited gif set overlaid on OP’s gif set
There are a few gifs that were identified where Dayna did not even re-edit and/or crop so you can not tell the difference when just viewing the overlaid gif (not as a PSD).
4th row, right gif in Dayna’s repost vs. 2nd row gif in OP’s
bottom row, left gif in Dayna’s re-edited gif set vs. top-left in OP’s
Evidence of Inadequate GIF Skills
Even though it’s nearly impossible for two gifs created by different gif-makers of the same scene to look the same, Dayna’s answer to an anon ask shows they don’t even know how to make gifs at the quality level of the gifs they stole.
They claim they use .mp4 files for their gifs, but some of the above stolen gifs were created using .ts files that can only be downloaded using magnet links (very different from just converting online videos to .mp4 files).
To make gifs from videos, Dayna uses ezgif.com, which makes it impossible to delete duplicate frames or manually delete undesired frames. All gif-makers on PS delete frames to some degree.
Given they add text and crop using ezgif.com and gifgifs.com, they do not know how to sharpen using Photoshop or Topaz, a relatively complicated PS plug-in, which does not explain how their gifs differ in sharpness.
For coloring gifs, Dayna seems to only use coloring PSDs they download, which makes it impossible that their coloring matches with gif-makers who do not use coloring PSDs or post their own.
Edit (11/04): Dayna posted a video of them making a gif (view here) which provides further evidence that (1) they know how to make a gif but choose to repost anyway and (2) do not have the adequate knowledge of gif-making and Photoshop to make the gifs they reposted for all the above reasons we listed.
and i was like......alright!!!! i totally will!!!!! i didn’t end up using quicktime (bc i have a windows and it wasn’t working right or im just dumb or smth) so i used bandicam instead - also I didn’t do a full gifset because I didn’t want to have a 20 minute video, but if you want me to do a full gifset, just let me know!
I cut the loading time of downloading the video bc the original video was too long and my computers real slow so sorry abt that!
the psd I used isn’t mine, and you can find it here
and here’s the finished gif
hopefully this clears up any misunderstandings - I don’t steal/repost gifs, and I’m sorry if it looks that way. I make all my gifs myself, the only things I don’t make are the PSDs. Any more hate messages towards something like this will be linked back to this post.
