#repostersource

Okay, I recently commented on another post by @bauern how much restraint it takes not to put people on blast who blatantly copy and paste whole chunks of text off my blog (and not just mine) and then sell it as theirs on other platforms, but I just about had enough and won’t block out user names this time.

The latest one is on Reddit, but it’s happened on Twitter as well, and it’s just really, really not cool, people. The Sandman fandom is fairly small, and just because I mostly post on Tumblr doesn’t mean that I don’t see what’s going on elsewhere, even if I don’t have the same handle or don’t post there at all (although my Tumblr URL is on my Reddit profile, so it’s no secret over there).

Theirs today:

Mine in July:

I spotted this fics and what do you know. There is one of my gifs, (the bottom one) and no shoutout or tag for crediting me in sight.

and before I call people out, I do my due diligence and make sure I'm not tripping by comparing size, color and the content of the gif. Sometimes I even ask a friend to make sure I'm not seeing shit. I made a calling out comment and the reposter responded. This gif happens to be on my other blog stephendorff, which is where the conversation took place.

Downloading the gif from Their fic you get this:

Downloading from the set I made, this is Mine:

Now I'm gonna do a side by side: Theirs vs Mine

Exactly the-fucking-same. Same size, quality, same frame rate, same amount of frames, same coloring. Now I can believe that someone can have the same quality, same frame rate, the amount of frames in a gif by sheer coincidence, but the one thing I don't believe is getting the exact same fucking COLORING. Now here's a screen grab from the movie:

To any gif maker mutuals who have taken the time to read this rant, I'm sure that you've noticed how WARM that scene is. See, the way I see it, gifmakers have at least one thing that makes them stand out from others, and that is their Coloring. That is exactly how time and time again I'm able to tag gifmakers (even ones i'm not mutuals with!!) about posts that have stolen their gifs, because I recognize their work and most times it's because of their coloring.

And I know my fucking coloring. I don't like heavy warmth in my gifs and I suck it right out to the max, where sometimes my shit looks dull af, but that's how I like it. This user is not about to lie to me and say they made the gif they put in their fic on a website like ezgif and get the same exact result as I did in Photoshop. 🤬

I tried to recreate my gif, without coloring just to prove how the movie looks naturally without coloring, and it also brought up another point of contention for me:

There is no fucking way they also got the SAME close up that I did on Jake. Putting the Warm one up against the one I made

Make gifs? No

Reblog gifs? No

Embed gifs? No

Repost gifs? YES!!!

REPOSTER: @forlandofmagic

ORIGINAL CREATOR: me (@mistressvera) | original post

REPOSTER: @mcducking69

ORIGINAL CREATOR: me (@mistressvera) | original post

REPOSTERS: @eilenaluthor and @katieemcdimples

ORIGINAL CREATOR: @behbuh | original posts: 1, 2

REPOSTER: @eilenaluthor

ORIGINAL CREATOR: @goodgirlargo

Please, block these persons and reblog from the original gifmakers

I messaged this person @yoursicklilbaby cause they'd been reposting my Killing Eve gifs along with a lot of other popular Killing Eve gifmakers' gifs and Agatha All Along gifs making parallel gifsets all from stolen gifs, I asked them to please delete the posts, they replied telling me that they didn't know but they're a gifmaker too and didn't see anything wrong in reposting

Long story short they said they wouldn't delete the posts, I assume because they have hundreds and thousands of notes, but that they would replace my gifs if I wanted, I had no intention of making a public post about this but I didn't even have a chance to reply cause they blocked me, they didn't delete the posts either of course, this person seems to think reposting gifs isn't a big deal

All their top posts are reposted gifsets, unfortunately I'm unable to recognize the original gifmakers and tag them but it's so clear they're reposted given the difference in gif dimensions and coloring

Here's a few examples of gifsets that are made completely of stolen gifs: 1 2 3 4