• Omega@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        12·
        21 days ago

        Damn, I have seen some god-awful takes on this corner of the internet. So it says something that this is easily one of the worst. What the fuck, OP?

        • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldMEnglish
          19·
          21 days ago

          Giving credit to the original author – which I understand you did in the post body – is advertising only in the most benign sense. It is not intrusive; it is not misleading; it is not manipulative; it is not malicious; it is not meaningfully harmful in any way.

          I understand hating watermarks. But this isn’t someone slapping an iFunny or whatever bullshit brand onto an image completely unearned like a barnacle; the artist created a work for you to have for free (as in beer, and given memes, mostly as in freedom too), and the only thing they’re asking is that you preserve this small bit of credit. No, it’s not charity, but – speaking as someone who does volunteer work nobody will ever materially compensate me for – whoooo cares?

          In an Internet awash with faceless, generic slop that nobody and everybody created at the same time, an artist’s watermark is one of the few ways people can attach an identity to their work. You definitely realize that removing credit from the image and transferring it to the post body isn’t identical – else you wouldn’t do it. Yet you’re still advertising for them, just in an intentionally kneecapped way that profits a known-malignant, multibillion-dollar corporation. What you’re doing as a substitute is somehow worse – transferring part of the advertisement to RDDT (136.18).

          No rational way of looking at this makes sense.

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      30·
      21 days ago

      Man, Adam Ellis’ work isn’t, like, mind-blowing to me, but I would’ve never believed how good he actually is if you told me before he escaped from BuzzFeed. This was my only glimmer of hope at the time:

      Loss parody where Adam enters his office building, shouts "Nobody told me it was donut day!" (1st panel), runs to the donut box while seeing coworkers eat donuts (2nd and 3rd panels), and discovers all the donuts are gone (4th panel).

    • mrmaplebar@fedia.io
      12·
      21 days ago

      You can do one better by posting this to the community itself. (Bonus is that it’ll probably annoy Beep when people repost the things that he posts without attribution.)