bleubudgie:

Hello lolirockers,

I absolutely love the fandom and one of the reasons I do is because it has been a very postive environment! My gifs always would get reblogged with only nice comments. That’s why I love making gifs for this fandom, but if everyone starts stealing other peoples gifs then that would really ruin the good mood in this fandom.

Please consider that when you are reposting a gif, edit or drawing without asking, you are practically stealing it by claiming it as your own.

People put a lot of effort into making these things just to share them with you, so please don’t repost. This is actually one of the few fandoms where I don’t have to put watermarks on my gifs so it would be a shame if I had to do that because people would start reposting them as their own without giving credit.

Please remember that there is the “insert gif” option that makes you post gifs made by others while still properly crediting them:

Also, if it’s already been posted to tumblr, reblog it. If you’re reposting from a different website properly credit the artist and if possible, ask permission to repost it. There is nothing worse than seeing your hard work get reposted and passed off as someone else’s.

(I started putting watermarks on some of my stuff for this reason. I hate doing it but until people learn to properly credit… >_>)

edit: While we’re at it, can we stop watermarking official/concept arts? I’ve seen things posted by the official lr team watermarked with personal names. >:(