hey angel! 1. i love you so much (but you know this) 2. i always for so awful for editors when you guys make things and they get stolen (there's never an excuse for it tbh) but i also think a lot of people would love to have clarification on how we can tell when a gif/gifs/edit is stolen so we can help do something about it in regards to reporting it, telling the OP and not reblogging it. how do we know?
HOW TO RECOGNIZE STOLEN GIFS
If the person doesn’t usually post their own edits- a lot of times people will use gifs from music videos and such as reaction gifs. If the blog who posted it doesn’t usually post their own edits, it’s most likely stolen.
If the sizes don’t match- if you see a gifset and the sizes of the gifs in it are not the same (e.g. one is 268 pixels wide and another one is 540 pixels wide). It means that the gifs were probably stolen from multiple gifsets.
If the style of the gifs doesn’t match- for example, if some of the gifs are in black and white and some aren’t or if the text is in different fonts. Again, it means that the gifs were probably stolen from multiple gifsets.
If the OP looks sketchy- there are some blogs that all they post are stolen gifs and gifsets. So if you see that all the posts on the blog are gifs and gifsets and most of them have about 20 notes, they’re all stolen.
If the caption is more of a comment that a caption- for example, “OMG look how beautiful she looks!!!” or “I loved that performance so much!!!”
If the OP doesn’t have a creations tag- if they didn’t tag the post * or “my gif” or something like that it could be stolen. Maybe they just forgot but if that’s like a theme that’s going on and it has happened more than once, it’s possible that the gif is stolen.
If the post isn’t tagged at all- if the OP didn’t tag the gifset #tswiftedit #taylor swift (for example).
If you saw the gifset before- that’s a given, but if you recognize the gifset as someone else’s it’s obviously stolen. Also if you happen to remember who originally made the gif or the gifset please let them know.
for editors– you can report stolen gifs at tumblr.com/abuse, under the copyright violation category. sometimes it takes them a while but 99% of the time they remove the stolen gif
