Addition to my Terms Of Use
Hi! Not a new code, and not a nice topic either, sorry about that, but I am incredibly frustrated rn and need to get this off my chest: If you see translated or eerily similar versions of OC-related codes of mine on other WoX-sites, please tell me. And to everybody that feels like this could be about them: Please, PLEASE stop using the stuff I wrote about my WoX OCs as if it comes with the code. It doesn’t. I thought adding a note about this to my terms of use and the codes would be enough, but it has happened again and again throughout my coding journey and it is currently genuinely really draining me and making me enjoy coding less and less. I don't want to sound rude, lash out or hurt anyone's feelings or anything along those lines, but I'm at a loss on what to do here, which is why I am making this post - I just want to add this to my terms of use since it is really important to me and clear up some possible miscommunication.
SO! Please don’t: a) take a code from my CodePen, translate the German content into another language but change nothing about the OC and upload it to another version of that WoX site b) copy and paste an edited version of a code of mine from another person’s CodePen and “borrow” traits or aesthetics from their character by keeping parts of their version, those are their creations, don’t do that c) use a backstory (or any type of text, really) I’ve written, keep most the wording/jokes/rough plotline, and just change names or small details to fit your character (d) do any of this again if I’ve already contacted you about it before and asked you nicely to please stop??? dude???) e) do anything else that you think could be part of this list
This being said: Being inspired by something is fine, everyone does that imo, we can’t NOT be inspired by something at this point due to naturally (!!!) being influenced by so much input from others around us, especially in creative spaces. I get a lot of inspiration from Pinterest, movies, and music (and sometimes even tiktok lol), for example and some of my WoX OCs are most definitely based on cool book or movie characters! But copying, especially on websites that promote creative writing, is like- not okay.
Maybe I am partly at fault here because I haven't communicated well enough, so I am trying to explain my thought process one last time: Yes, some of my codes include content about specific WoX characters of mine (or sometimes WoX OCs that were made by friends of mine which I made a code for, which is even worse imo because I love my friends and their OCs a lot and don't want them to feel bad), but that doesn’t mean that you can use that content - it serves as a placeholder, and I am really sorry if I didn't communicate that well enough. But I provide coding, not WoX characters (though if you want to hear about my 1000 ideas for WoX OCs just hit me up lmao i’d love to yap about it with u). The only reason why I sometimes share those codes without switching out the theme first is me being lazy af - changing the theme to something more neutral can be really time-consuming and if I’m really excited to share a code with you guys, I just upload it as is and expect everyone to only use the code, not the character. This is also why some of my codes are only uploaded to CodePen and not to tumblr: Because I am simply too lazy to change the theme or annotate at the moment. The code is still free to use, it is just not up to my standards that I have for tumblr. But that doesn’t mean that my rules don’t apply, those OCs are still my dudes and the written content is still written by and for me and only me.
If this happens again and now that I've explained myself once more, I’m prepared to block specific people or take my codes down, because this is really affecting me negatively atp and I’d really, really love to get back into coding, since I DO adore both being creative and this absolutely amazing community Ty and much love! I am currently working on some stuff whenever I have the time, so new and/or updated codes might be incoming sooner than later <3
(me fr btw)
