We(Lemmy users) are adblock users and are tired of capitalism that ruined Reddit.
All of us didn’t come here to look at ads again or to entertain capitalist dreams of embedding ads everywhere.
My recommendation is clear, let’s ban watermarked comics and work towards ad free community.
At the end, music don’t have watermarks and neither do art. So why should comics have watermarks?
Linking to the source should be the primary way of attribution.
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Counter proposal: ban OP from this community along with anyone else who removes artist trademarks from comics they post.
I’m going to block beep, but they should 100% be banned for being a worthless piece of shit.
Can we genuinely bring this idea to the mods? Because I’m fucking sick of this guy. I don’t just want to block him because that’s the equivalent of sticking my head in the sand to not see his fuckery.
Counter counter proposal: ban anyone who use this community to post ads.
Sure. But posting the artist’s name/watermark isn’t an ad, it’s their artwork.
Ban posters who modify artist’s work maliciously to remove attribution.
hey have you considered changing your handle to ▇▇@▇▇▇▇.org, to stop watermarking your comments? cuz right now, seeing your name, i feel advertised to tbh
You can change the settings of your client to not show usernames and instead show only the name of the community the post is posted in.
😂
If I enjoy a creator, I want to see more of their work.
With people like you, I would have no idea who Neil Kohney even is.
Fuck you in particular.
OP, do you have some kind of humiliation fetish or why is your take this shit?
Do you think that a painter’s signature on a painting is an ad? If I listen to music and the artist states their name, is that an ad? All of these are just a way of saying “I made this”. They aren’t ads in any meaningful sense of the word.
Bro be like “ew, an ad”:
Literally unbearable to look at with that capitalist garbage in the bottom right corner:
What a terrible idea.
While we could enforce the rule of link being the attribution, as a general rule it’s not what will happen when someone shares anything on the Internet. It will be ripped out of context and posted on random places with zero attribution.
Exhibit A: yourself. Your post history does only occasionally contain links.
I avoid it because a lot of times the source is Reddit or Instagram.
But if the rule enforced, I would attribute back everything. Because it became agreed upon this compromise basically.
In short, I would link back even if to Reddit. But we need to have a standard here to kick ads out before I do that.
So… you fully admit that you could do the right thing, but just won’t?
Artist attribution ≠ Ads
For fucks sake, why you acting like every comic comes with a red “30% off” banner?
Maybe you should abide by the two posts per person per day rule before you start trying to create new ones.
But do go on and tell everyone how an artist having their name and/or their webcomic’s name included in the image is an advertisement.
Especially when it’s damn obvious that you’re using AI to remove the attribution when you can’t just crop it out. Not just a weasel, but a lazy one at that.
You recommend linking to the source instead of a signature, but you don’t include either in your posts. When someone makes something, they have a right to have people know they are the ones who made it. You should be banned from every community you refuse to credit artists in. You are actively harming this community.
This is hands down the most brain dead take I’ve seen today. Congratulations, you’re wrong more than anyone else! 🎉
What I’m hearing is that you don’t want to support the creators who’s work you repost here.
I don’t agree. These types of ads are the few that I’m actually okay with. because it’s an artist trying to support themselves, not a corporate schill using AI or trying to push a big corp.
The War and Peas comics artist has a patreon. I can’t afford to support them directly but I do want them to receive support.
Why don’t you want artists to get paid for their work?
Sigh
I want ad free art.
It’s not an ad. You aren’t paid. You aren’t being fed the information in an incorrect context.
Do you also rip the covers off your books and black out the author’s name?
Do you yank the labels off your soup cans because they have the vendor’s name?
Artist names/signatures are not ads.
Then go make it yourself, or use an AI to pretend you have the talent to make art, and then you can choose to not put a name on it.
Oh, can AI generate comics?
If you want ad free art, make your own.
You are against capitalism, and your approach is to remove author attribution, thus fucking small creators. That’s called punching down, and for being so against capitalism, you operate like a good dog.
Aren’t most of them just a handle or name in the margin? Seems ridiculous to think it ruins your experience somehow. You’re just being actively hostile to artists for some reason.
Nope. I just want an ad free world.
Artist names/signatures are not ads.
Easily one of the worst takes I’ve ever seen.
Do you have some examples of “ads” or watermarks in comics?
IMO artist signatures/names or comic titles are not ads.
I do have one. The artist who writes and draws the War and Peas comics has a patreon and (on Tumblr where I follow them) they advertise by placing a panel beneath the comic with their patreon information in it. But very often they only share that on their own social media, and I don’t think I’ve seen it on Lemmy.
But they aren’t hiding their work behind that patreon, instead they ask for donations if viewers should be so inclined.
I am fine with that type of advertisment because this is them asking people who enjoy their work to help support them.
I assumed (I may be wrong) that this is was what OP meant. But even if they mean just a signature, to me that’s even more egregious. Would OP go to a museum and remove the placards with the artists names?
Edit: Green and Blue Fox comics also does this with a link to their Instagram, and other social media where you can find their work, which again, I am fine with. I don’t understand what Op’s beef with artists getting appreciation and potential donations is.
Ah, I meant in the comics themselves. If they want to “advertise” on their page or whatever, more power to them.
This is what I see when I look at warandpeas.com — there’s the name of the comic but nothing that I would call a watermark or an advertisement.
artist signatures/names or comic titles are not ads.
They are actually.
What are they selling you? More of their comics?
More of their free comics. The horror.
Hey, I’d appreciate it if you made a new account for each post and comment you make, seeing the same username on each of them is advertising and deeply offends me
Artist names/signatures are not ads.
I don’t agree. I just want to know who made the art. Attribution is not the same as advertising.
A Patreon link or a watermark I could see as advertising, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen that directly on a comic image.
Do you have some actual examples?
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