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.
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.
Watermarks protect the actual creator’s stuff from people claiming it as their own work. This is a dumb idea.
As I said, why it doesn’t exist in music and art then?
They do…?
Signatures and watermarks are in almost all works of art.
A watermark on a piece of recorded music is something that is part of the digital composition. It can be in the metadata, it could be in the waveform itself. You’d only see it through analysis of the file.
Same can, and often is, done with video. Even code for software.
A good watermark is one that isn’t obvious, so it can’t be removed or tampered with.
You made a good point… For my argument!
Music don’t contain watermarks that ruin the experience in the work itself.
It’s available in text attribution/ metadata base.
Leave the experience alone out of the attribution.
Music don’t contain watermarks that ruin the experience in the work itself.
They do, and I find it a lot more obnoxious than a label in the borders on an image
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Producer_tag
It’s available in text attribution/ metadata base.
When I download a song, the file comes with the metadata. When I download an image, the creator information is not there. When images are shared, it’s very often the image alone and not a link to the page with the image.
Also artists have been leaving a signature on their art for as long as we’ve had art. All people are asking is that you share the art as it was created instead of modifying each piece before you share it. By doing that, you’re deciding for other people what is best.
This honestly feels like a good opportunity for you to make a separate community and post your edits there so that the people who prefer that format can subscribe to it.
This person never heard a DJ Khaled track
Fabolous out here for years spelling out his name in every song, and here you are just lying.
It absolutely does exist in music.
As another example, the artist Giga has his name spoken out within the first few seconds (usually right before the lyrics start) in many of his works: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvq3kUGY5Dbsdkr3DZx25Sw
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.
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:
Do you think seeing the author’s name on the front of a book is also an ad?
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.
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.
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?
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.
Example of watermarked comic? I don’t think I’ve seen one before
They mean like artist’s signatures or handles… Like the ones they crop out a lot.
In fact this user in their recent posts has cropped out or even brushed over the artist’s name/handle. It’s gross.
Artist attribution ≠ Ads
For fucks sake, why you acting like every comic comes with a red “30% off” banner?
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.
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.
Are you puppeting your bot account right now so that you can evade a ban?
Genuinely asking because this is just like. The worst take ever, but the time frame between the number of posts you post per day and the fact that there was a post recently about bots not being allowed all make me suspect everything you’ve said.
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