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Since OP is a dumb bitch, here is the image with the artist attribution intact
And for those that don't know
OP believes that leaving in the comic name or artist's signature is "advertising".
https://lemmus.org/post/21226925
They have been caught repeatedly removing them through cropping and poor use of AI.
Thanks for the heads up. Iβm just going to block them.
Insane to think an in image attribution is advertising, but a direct link is fine.
Damn, I have seen some god-awful takes on this corner of the internet. So it says something that this is easily one of the worst. What the fuck, OP?
Wow. A lot going on with this guy huh?
It is advertising, but it's a good kind of advertising. I'm for advertising in this specific case.
I think "attribution" might be more apropos than "advertising" when it comes to an artist's signature. Of course the presence of an artist's signature will advertise their authorship, but the signature's purpose isn't inherently trying to drive you to a website/patreon/whatever; it's letting you know who put in the effort to make the art.
I think letting us know who made the art is important because it lets Adam afford groceries, and that's okay.
As the other comment says, attribution is not the same as advertisement.
"Caught"
Why don't you just leave the ads in, and then people won't be mad at you?
I don't like them.
Do you like people being mad at you?
I don't like ads.
This is an advertisement for Reddit, Inc. that most people won't even realize they're being served until they click the link. I'm not contending the link is a big deal in a vacuum; I'm contending you've actively substituted a completely benign β even quite helpful β advertisement with a slightly yet definitely worse advertisement and are claiming this is rooted in staunch anti-advertisement ethics.
So you suggest removing the Reddit link?
It still wouldn't make it consistent given you're still advertising Adam in the post body. Anti-advertisement ethics aren't the problem; your lens for evaluating them clearly is, and I'm not here to bodge together the garbage it's feeding you.
I'm pointing out that your reductionist, black-and-white attitude is so convoluted and so unhelpful that it's not even practicable for you to follow while complying with your belief that β to the author and the reader β it's wrong to erase credit. And I can tell that's your ethical stance because you re-added credit despite no rule and despite sponging up public ridicule like you practically enjoy it.
Edit: I will tell you just to drive this point even further that your post is an advertisement for Ellis' work for anyone (like me) who recognizes his distinctive art style. So be sure to take it down or run it through a slop filter to genericize it.
So you are saying their should be zero credit to be ad free?
I'm saying that the logical end point of your idea is to either take this post down or remove Adam's recognizable art style by running it through an AI. Because this post is an advertisement for anyone like me who recognizes his work.
But then I'm starting(TM) to think you don't actually care; you just enjoy being a petty, insufferable bitch and don't actually think Ellis' credit at the bottom was harmful in any meaningful way.
By your definition of "ad free" yes, you need to provide zero credit to the creator. Right now, you've included an ad on this post.
You're an absolute moron.
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Giving credit to the original author β which I understand you did in the post body β is advertising only in the most benign sense. It is not intrusive; it is not misleading; it is not manipulative; it is not malicious; it is not meaningfully harmful in any way.
I understand hating watermarks. But this isn't someone slapping an iFunny or whatever bullshit brand onto an image completely unearned like a barnacle; the artist created a work for you to have for free (as in beer, and given memes, mostly as in freedom too), and the only thing they're asking is that you preserve this small bit of credit. No, it's not charity, but β speaking as someone who does volunteer work nobody will ever materially compensate me for β whoooo cares?
In an Internet awash with faceless, generic slop that nobody and everybody created at the same time, an artist's watermark is one of the few ways people can attach an identity to their work. You definitely realize that removing credit from the image and transferring it to the post body isn't identical β else you wouldn't do it. Yet you're still advertising for them, just in an intentionally kneecapped way that profits a known-malignant, multibillion-dollar corporation. What you're doing as a substitute is somehow worse β transferring part of the advertisement to RDDT (136.18).
No rational way of looking at this makes sense.
And just because OP feels like being an extra obnoxious little bitch (maybe intentionally inviting the Streisand effect? maybe not clever enough for that and just a dipshit?):
Adam's Bluesky
Adam's Tumblr
Adam's Substack
Adam's Patreon
(I've intentionally refrained from linking his TikTok, subreddit, Instagram, and Twitter for ethical concerns, but these exist if you can stomach those platforms.)
Man, Adam Ellis' work isn't, like, mind-blowing to me, but I would've never believed how good he actually is if you told me before he escaped from BuzzFeed. This was my only glimmer of hope at the time:
Bruh, I memory holed that Adam Ellis started out at BuzzFeed.
You can do one better by posting this to the community itself. (Bonus is that it'll probably annoy Beep when people repost the things that he posts without attribution.)
OP also doesn't seem to read subs' rules...
Is there a way for someone to get mod control over this community so they can be banned?
I don't know the process so I couldn't say.
Post in !support@lemmy.world and request a new moderator, or for yourself to be instated as mod. I believe Mr.Kaplan said they are considering additional mods here. Silly that a community of this size only has one mod.
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