i just wanted to clarify some things
artists know the risk they are taking when they post their art online. people are inevitably going to take it apart, color edit it, flip it around or otherwise post it uncredited.
saying that an artist shouldn’t post their work if they don’t want it bastardized is probably the stupidest stance on this subject you could take. if all artists followed this line of reasoning, there would be no art on the internet.
when an artist posts their work, they are trusting you to enjoy it respectfully. and when you betray that trust either knowingly or unknowingly, it’s like saying the artist’s time, skills and thoughts aren’t worth anything.
you are NOT entitled to an artists work just because they decided to trust you enough to share it with you.
an artist is within their right to feel upset that someone has used their work in a way they never intended it to be used. they are within their right to ask for it to stop and not happen again.
just because it’s “bound to happen” doesn’t mean it’s any less deplorable.
This whole mentality of “you should expect the worst when you do this” needs to stop. What I should expect is for people to be respectful. Aren’t we taught, as children, to be respectful towards one another? Why does that suddenly change when we’re adults? We go from, “Don’t do anything that would hurt someone else/don’t take something that’s not yours/know the difference between right and wrong,” to, “Well you should expect backlash/theft/bashing/hate because you put yourself out there, it’s your fault that this is happening to you because you had the nerve to share your work/say something/exist.”
