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Dec. 10th, 2025 11:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingI know I said I wouldn't respond to bait, but this is funny and I want to share:
I just got an anonymous ask on Tumblr with a passive-aggressive question about why I think it's okay to repost art without linking to the online gallery of the artist. Which is a fair question. However.
The art in question (this piece here) is from the eighteenth century.
More generally speaking, I've gotten into animation concept art recently.
Concept art is something that, because it belongs to the copyright holders (ie, Disney, Cartoon Network, Studio Ghibli, etc) is almost never going to be on the social media or website of the artist who created it - if the artist even has a "real-name" online presence (which many professional artists and animators do not). If concept art for older animation is ever published, it's almost always presented in book form. This means that, when digital images exist, they're often scanned from books and/or hosted on specialty databases that require institutional validation to access.
I've started posting one or two pieces of concept art from older animated movies and television shows every Sunday morning. These are raw images I get from databases, edit in Photoshop to be presentable, and then caption with attribution. The attribution to an individual artist is often difficult, especially in the case of Japanese animation, but I think I do okay work.
What I'm doing isn't "reposting" art, but rather sharing images that would otherwise be inaccessible. I don't have a following, so these posts don't do numbers. Rather, I'm creating a metadata-tagged archive of references for myself. I make these images publicly available as, I don't know. A gift to people who love art as much as I do.
I would have liked to explain this to the person who sent the ask on Tumblr, but they were clearly just dangling bait. So I blocked them.
I hope everyone else enjoys the old art I occasionally share from databases, though.
I just got an anonymous ask on Tumblr with a passive-aggressive question about why I think it's okay to repost art without linking to the online gallery of the artist. Which is a fair question. However.
The art in question (this piece here) is from the eighteenth century.
More generally speaking, I've gotten into animation concept art recently.
Concept art is something that, because it belongs to the copyright holders (ie, Disney, Cartoon Network, Studio Ghibli, etc) is almost never going to be on the social media or website of the artist who created it - if the artist even has a "real-name" online presence (which many professional artists and animators do not). If concept art for older animation is ever published, it's almost always presented in book form. This means that, when digital images exist, they're often scanned from books and/or hosted on specialty databases that require institutional validation to access.
I've started posting one or two pieces of concept art from older animated movies and television shows every Sunday morning. These are raw images I get from databases, edit in Photoshop to be presentable, and then caption with attribution. The attribution to an individual artist is often difficult, especially in the case of Japanese animation, but I think I do okay work.
What I'm doing isn't "reposting" art, but rather sharing images that would otherwise be inaccessible. I don't have a following, so these posts don't do numbers. Rather, I'm creating a metadata-tagged archive of references for myself. I make these images publicly available as, I don't know. A gift to people who love art as much as I do.
I would have liked to explain this to the person who sent the ask on Tumblr, but they were clearly just dangling bait. So I blocked them.
I hope everyone else enjoys the old art I occasionally share from databases, though.
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Date: 2025-12-12 03:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-12-15 01:28 pm (UTC)https://player.fm/series/panic-world/the-age-of-the-lolcow
...about the old DeviantArt drama that resulted in the creation of Kiwi Farms, and the host + guests were essentially talking about how people online are baited into "providing content" through their reactions.
So I wonder whether something like this was indeed a critical thinking fail, or whether someone was just bored and wanted to bait me into posting cringe. Either way, I have better things to do.🍹
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Date: 2025-12-22 04:56 am (UTC)(Good point about rage-bait as content farm.)