Times R Tough, Take Care Of Urselves Please

i am so sick of seeing people not only steal gifs, but reblogging them. people have stolen my gifs before, and every time i see them gain hundreds of notes, my heart sinks. reblogging stolen gifs is just as bad at the person stealing the gifs. you are contributing to stolen work and that is not okay. so, to make sure you don’t accidentally pull the douche move of reblogging a repost, let’s go over a few signs to tell if a gifset is stolen:

the size doesn’t match up (small and large gifs in the same set, one 250px gif taking up the whole row, etc)

the coloring doesn’t match up (color and black/white or a soft pastel and a harsh red being in the same gifset) 

the caption of it being like “OMG look at these cute babies!” or “This scene is so good!” etc (something that’s more of a comment than a caption)

you’ve never seen the url before

you go down the person’s blog and they have multiple gifsets posted, all looking as if they were made by different people

you can’t find the user’s edit tag (something like *, or my edit)

it doesn’t use edit tags (ouatedit, the100edit, arrowedit, etc)

it’s bad enough that people will steal someone else’s work and provide it to the fandom as their own, but helping them out by spreading it to others is just as bad. if a gifset is going to be stolen, make it have 0 notes, not 500. if several of these tips applies to a gifset you’ve seen, there are a few things you can do:

reverse google search (right click one of the gifs, go to “search google for this image”)

if the style of the gif looks like it was made by someone you know, go down their edit tag or message them asking if they a) made the gifset or b) know who did (as someone who makes gifs, i also know the style of several other gifmakers, and would be able to help even if it wasn’t mine!)

message someone else (a friend, a popular blogger, etc) and ask them if the gif seems stolen

but most importantly, if these are applying to an edit you see and you can’t tell if a gifset is stolen or not, don’t reblog it. i don’t care how good or it is, or how much emotions you get from it. don’t take the chance of reblogging something that’s stolen. there are plenty of gifs in the sea, so to speak. you will find something similar to it.

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Me: My love life

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It’s not a phase- Alex

and the snakes start to sing, bring me the horizon

she was my sun, she was my moon. she was my stars. but, she wasn't just my sun, my moon, and my stars. no. she was my whole damn universe.

*cries internally because the truth is too much*

That’s…that’s messed up.

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