Hi! I'm sorry for possibky offending you by using your Zeren gifs for icons and I'll promise to take them down asap and once I'm less stresses! Hope you have a nice day!
im assuming you’re the person running @rph98 and while i appreciate you sending me this ask and your promise to take down the zeren gifs (and yanchen ones), i’d like to make several points clear, not as a way to attack you in any way but as a general announcement to others for future reference.
i think this whole situation could have been avoided if I had been contacted and asked if it was okay to use my gifs. had I known that you were going to use them and i had given you permission, i wouldn’t have been as surprised and subsequently angered finding them (yes i do like to scroll through blogs that are in my notifs from time to time).
secondly, i would advise that in the future, after permission was granted by gifmakers, there should be proper credit on the post. now im not a person who’s giffing for notes and credit doesnt mean that much to me, but the disclaimer “I don’t claim any of those gifs as mine so all my appreciation and gratitude to the creators” rubs me the wrong way. it’s a disclaimer with half the answers. yes you did not claim credit, but saying ‘gratitude to creators’ does not mean much when people cannot trace it back to the original gifmakers. please link the original gifmakers and give credit where it is due.
finally, though this might not be my place to call the shots, but i hope you also remove the gifs that were made by other gifmakers who did not give their permission for you to recrop. to my knowledge, i could recognize several gifs of fellow gifmakers, who might not know that theirs were taken and recropped and i do not think they would appreciate this, just as I did not appreciate finding out about this whole situation.
in order to avoid situations like this in the future, i can only ask that you either ask the original gifmakers for permission to use their gifs or make your own. it’s really that simple.













