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• Somehow managed to graduate high school and be accepted to college. Odd.
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Sunday, August 27, 2006
Rant, Rant, Rant
Because three is not enough. I've also been bumped to be Ichigo's favorite commentor. =)
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Rant time. Warning: The following was written in a time where Katana couldn't think to well. So yeah.
I've noticed an annoying and I suppose disturbing trend in greetings and wallpapers. A lot of the ones I've seen (in other words, the "featured" ones) have been full of fanart.
The sheer amount of pieces that use fanart is disturbing, because it is quite obvious that the fanart isn't the creator's work.
For example, one of the wallpapers featured last week (or so) had a whole slew of Naruto and Hinata fanart. The main focal point was a fanart seen everywhere across the internet. Now, either that person is everywhere, or people are just ignorant of palgerism.
I find it incredibly amusing that the sections Adam is aiming to make the point of theOtaku - the art and graphics sections - are the ones full of palgerism. Wallpapers and greetings are just full of them. Remember, there is a difference between "stock pictures" and "fanart".
Could you plagerize an article? It's nigh impossible.
Back in the day when fanart wasn't pouring in by the thousands, I would go through and look at some things...if I felt like it. I remember reporting quite a few pieces that had been ripped from somewhere else. At one point, one of the fanarts was over at InuyashaWorld.com, and it was either a winner or a runner-up in a contest.
Now, before going report-trigger-happy, I investigated this person's myOtaku and everything. Not a word was said about them ranking high in a contest at a popular website. So I reported the piece.
Greetings, although not a major offender, are still littered with plagerized fanarts. Wallpapers are by far the worst.
I've gone through pieces where a person has gone, "I've got permission from the original creator", but those are faaaaaar and feeeeew. You know what I found the most hilarious? When a person posted up another's fanart, saying they had permission to do so. >_>
What is one to do? I want to know what you guys think. =3
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