phantrashnerd:

literallyamazingphan:

We’re losing many artists in this community over time and the tumblr tag again just proves why.

For such a creatively inclined community, the phandom is DISGUSTING when it comes to respecting other people’s creations. Stealing artwork over here is almost the norm and we see it as something inevitable even though artists spend all their time kindly asking people to respect what belongs to them.

So the tumblr tag video comes around and many of us are not even shocked that people are reposting artworks. Some people think it’s a part of life, just how internet is. What are you going to do, anyway? Some people even think they are doing the artists a favor by showing their art to Dan and Phil and repost it on the tags.

Ha, yeah, right!

Let me make something clear: WHATEVER we create is OUR property. WE as artists (and I include writers in this category) are the ONLY ONES ENTITLED TO DISTRIBUTING OUR OWN ART. You are in NO WAY ALLOWED TO EVER POST SOMETHING WE HAVE CREATED for NO REASON AT ALL, unless we TELL YOU SO!

The fact that people deleted their blogs likely out of shame because of people who repost other’s art is fucking disgusting. I can’t imagine what they are going through and I really hope they are okay, because I wanna think about them as people before I think about their creations. 

I keep imagining people putting a smut fic of mine on display for Dan and Phil to see and having to watch them be uncomfortable/mock my work right in front of my face for MILLIONS of people to see and laugh along at. This may seem like a joke to YOU because you didn’t create it. It’s easy to say everything is fine when it doesn’t hurt YOU!

Yes, I know Dan and Phil didn’t mean any harm and I’m not blaming them for this, but the fact that it happened is just so fucking sad! I really do hope that after this shitstorm they think twice before including something like that in a video ever again. People could get seriously hurt and they are both adults and should know better by now. As tumblr users, it should be fairly obvious to them that people’s work was being reposted. It was just a matter of double-checking and I think it was worth the extra effort, don’t you?

Also if you repost people’s work in a tag they don’t want their art on, for me you’re not part of the phandom but just a shitty person that doesn’t care for others.