『a little sparkly decoration』

gifmakers do this entirely for free.99 just because they genuinely love the media and want to share with the community. they are quite literally the main backbone keeping fandoms alive yet they get met with the most blatant disrespect. people will see something that took real labor to make, save the files, and shamelessly repost them to twitter or even to their own blog here on tumblr. then the second they get called out for stealing, they wanna get defensive and drop that tired "you don't own this media" line. like obviously nobody owns the source material but the actual time spent downloading/recording a video, sharpening, and meticulously coloring all those frames does belong to the gifmaker.