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Funny enough, when Yo do license something, folks on the internet won’t believe you. A few years ago we licensed an amazing animation we found on dribble and fo

Funny enough, when Yo do license something, folks on the internet won’t believe you. A few years ago we licensed an amazing animation we found on dribble and folks on Twitter accused us of stealing and removing the artists name...

neltnerb 6y ago
Enough people accusing you of this that it actually got under your skin? If I created an amazing enough animation that random strangers on twitter recognized it... I mean, I'd say that if you're getting called out for using it and removing the artists name that's pretty amazing in general even if it sucks in this specific instance. I find it shocking that strangers would actually stand up for an artist on the internet that seems to be having their work used without permission. Shocking in a good way. Easy enough to address I hope with a note from the artist, though maybe I underestimate how fast Twitter dog piles happen...
- hawkoy 6y ago
  > Easy enough to address I hope with a note from the artist, though maybe I underestimate how fast Twitter dog piles happen... I think this is general behavior on twitter. Users try to come up with dirt or something to be angry about.
  - neltnerb 6y ago
    Is there a technical issue where an authoritative source responding to the issue gets obscured? That sounds kind of intentional. If people are only replying to the claim and never even see the authoritative proof it seems very bad. Maybe it's a Hard Problem. I've seen people send me twitter links as evidence and it's just embarrassingly wrong. Like the sources in the twitter posts didn't even say something related to the claim the twitter post did. It was weird that it was viewed so uncritically by people quite familiar with the internet in general.
- tpxl 6y ago
  >I find it shocking that strangers would actually stand up for an artist on the internet that seems to be having their work used without permission. Shocking in a good way. This happens a lot. Artists have followers who like them and want them to succeed, and those followers will get mad and notify the artist if their images are being sold/used illegally.
McDyver 6y ago
It seems like people have normalised "paying in exposure" (by keeping the artist's name), and the fact that someone actually pays for art is outrageous...

neltnerb 6y ago

Enough people accusing you of this that it actually got under your skin? If I created an amazing enough animation that random strangers on twitter recognized it... I mean, I'd say that if you're getting called out for using it and removing the artists name that's pretty amazing in general even if it sucks in this specific instance. I find it shocking that strangers would actually stand up for an artist on the internet that seems to be having their work used without permission. Shocking in a good way. Easy enough to address I hope with a note from the artist, though maybe I underestimate how fast Twitter dog piles happen...

hawkoy 6y ago
> Easy enough to address I hope with a note from the artist, though maybe I underestimate how fast Twitter dog piles happen... I think this is general behavior on twitter. Users try to come up with dirt or something to be angry about.
- neltnerb 6y ago
  Is there a technical issue where an authoritative source responding to the issue gets obscured? That sounds kind of intentional. If people are only replying to the claim and never even see the authoritative proof it seems very bad. Maybe it's a Hard Problem. I've seen people send me twitter links as evidence and it's just embarrassingly wrong. Like the sources in the twitter posts didn't even say something related to the claim the twitter post did. It was weird that it was viewed so uncritically by people quite familiar with the internet in general.
tpxl 6y ago
>I find it shocking that strangers would actually stand up for an artist on the internet that seems to be having their work used without permission. Shocking in a good way. This happens a lot. Artists have followers who like them and want them to succeed, and those followers will get mad and notify the artist if their images are being sold/used illegally.

McDyver 6y ago

It seems like people have normalised "paying in exposure" (by keeping the artist's name), and the fact that someone actually pays for art is outrageous...