The vast standard is music ships with the artist’s name baked into the metadata. It’s watermarked that way, kept in the fringes of the data, away from the main piece, just like a signature on the fringes of the artpiece. This is not new, nearly every artist does it. That’s often why we can ID physical art centuries later, and it’s why you rarely ever stumble into a song file you can’t identify the artist of.

Counter proposal: ban OP from this community along with anyone else who removes artist trademarks from comics they post.

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.

Artist attribution ≠ Ads

For fucks sake, why you acting like every comic comes with a red “30% off” banner?

yeah I remember when they gave me a contract i put my watermark on with an ad of my brand (sometimes called full name).

idiot.

Easily one of the worst takes I’ve ever seen.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This is hands down the most brain dead take I’ve seen today. Congratulations, you’re wrong more than anyone else! 🎉

What a terrible idea.

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?

So, upon reading further, this is not about watermarks over the content, you are just mad artists sign their work… you haven’t realized yet, but you are a douchebag. My vote is to just ban whoever crops out artist names (or post an image without it and don’t attribute in the title or comments) because that’s a douchebag thing to do. If you hate authors just ask ChatGPT to make you comics, those won’t be signed.