What is up my beautiful weebs?
And as you guys may know, I use Instagram.
I don't use it that often
I post a photo every now and then
I'm not really a big fan of it
and there is a main reason why.
As a content creator on YouTube
I make a lot of videos
and people would make those videos to make their own videos
They're very creative and I love seeing them and it's fantastic
but, creativity kind of dies on Instagram.
And there is nothing that single-handedly p*sses me off more
than people who take videos, and take art, and take fantastic content,
that isn't their's, put's a disgusting or obtrusive overlay on it or watermark
And in the bottom they put, "credit to artist."
You've gone through the effort to steal someone's work
and you're not even going to credit them?
It's bad enough that you're stealing their work already
but you're too lazy to even link the original creator
WHAT THE F*CK
While you were too busy downloading their YouTube video
or screenshotting their fantastic art that they spent hours on
You couldn't take the five seconds to f*cking link them.
It's only Instagram where I see that this is an OK thing to do
and everyone does it.
I see so many accounts that have thousands and thousands of followers
and all they've ever done is take other people's work
and re-uploaded it and put, "Credit to the f*cking artist"
Putting "Credit to the artist" is more insulting than not putting anything at all.
You went to the time to think of, "Oh, I should credit someone, oh, wait, no, I'll credit the f*cking artist."
You know where you stole this thing from, so why can't you take the time to link them?
Let's say you're going to see the Mona Lisa for fun,
you're going to see an iconic piece of history; a fantastic piece of artwork.
And you go there and you see the Mona Lisa, and you love it so much.
And you ask someone who's working their,
"Hello sir, I was wondering, who painted the Mona Lisa?"
"Oh, we don't actually know. We just put "credit to artist" underneath the painting. I hope this helps."
Even when you go to one of these movie pirating sites
they list the director, the producer, the f*cking cousin of the director,
and on Instagram?
No, no, you can't even link the person who made the thing.
So, let's say you're one of these Instagram accounts
that has thousands of followers from stealing other people's artwork and putting "credit to artist."
And you've gotten this far in the video, and you're a changed person now.
And you wanna, you wanna start crediting the artist
That makes it all okay, right?
I'm going to let you guys in on a little secret, okay?
It's still not okay.
Even if you link the original artist, or the person who made the video, or whatever
and you repost it and you credit them,
that's still not okay. You're taking their stuff without their permission.
Pretty much every artist I've ever spoken to, or met, has had this problem.
This has happened to me too.
People would download my videos,
put some horrible, horrible overlay on it
And then just re-upload it to Instagram, or whatever website
and get a bunch of followers, and a bunch of likes for their profile
ad it's all fun because they credited me.
No.
A video I made ages ago, it was a League of Legends impressions video.
Someone took that and uploaded it to a Chinese website
and it got 15. Million. Views. In a week
I have never had 15 million views, ever.
My channel hasn't ever reached 15 million views.
There is an argument that is given many a time
which makes me cringe everytime, in defense of these accounts.
"But these accounts are helping you get views you would never get.
"They're giving you the best exposure CDawg."
And this argument is complete bullsh*t
They didn't spend hours of their lives, creating something that meat so much to them.
They just re-posted it,
and reap the rewards.
But it's okay because everyone does it, right?
That's how it always is.
So how can we fix this?
How can we make this cesspool that we created, better?
If you ever go to Instagram or Facebook
and someone's re-posted art or videos with a horrible, horrible overlay
and they put "credit to the f*cking artist"
please call them out on it, and ask them to at least respect the original creator they're stealing from.
And if you want to make one of these Instagram art accounts
or Facebook or whatever, any Facebook page, just ask the original creator
when you want to use or repost their work.
It's really easy.
Could you imagine if Kinder egg started doing this sh*t?
Oh
Would you look at that?
Credit to artist.
You guys didn't think I'd leave you hanging, right?
Bye weebs.
(One of my favorite outros by far)
(Have a good day!)