I was going trough my gallery, because I wanted to see one old comic I made. Then I stumbled upon a post I made about being able to see your stuff through google images. I decided to see if it still worked. And it did, but I noticed something weird.
There are my comics and animation in websites I have never heard of!
I have deleted it.I first posted it on reddit, but then someone pointed out that it had flashing light, so I tried hiding it, but I didnāt know how hiding worked, so I just ended up deleting it, and after that I was too lazy to repost it again. And it was when this site was down, so I didnāt post it here If you go to my gallery here or reddit, you canāt find it. Because I deleted it!
BUT THERE IT IS!?
WHAT?
Luckily, honestly, I donāt care that my stuff is there. It isnāt like someone has stolen my identity or something. I have actually kinda prepared for this, because the internet is the internet, isnāt it?
I just want to know why they are there. Do you know?
Or is this something that automatically happens to everybody?
Or is this something that only happens with reddit and has nothing to do with this site? (Since almost all of them have a link to my reddit account)
Or has my stuff just been posted elsewhere without me knowing?
Iāve been online and posting my artwork since like roughly 2014. I think this has always been a thing but itās just more prevalent nowā¦? If I look up my Instagram handle I get that artwork, if I look up this account username I get my fluffy stuff.
Specifically for my non-fluffy stuff. It pops up on mirror sites, but Iāve also had stuff pop up in really weird places. A piece of fanart I made popped up on e621 (despite not being pornographic) which endlessly amuses me, and a screenshot of a blog of mine - not even an image, but a screenshot of the main page - appeared on a wallpaper site. Itās both bizarre and utterly silly.
Iāve had my fluffy stuff show up on a shadyā¦gossip site? and tagged as āfemale neckbeardā. Iāve also had a picture of me, like ME, MYSELF, show up on a Middle Eastern website when I was sixteen or so (Iām American and white, so not sure why it was there). I think that once something is posted online, it just gets scattered to the winds. Isnāt there a Russian community website of fluffy stuff, too? That may explain some of it.
I actually found this community again because someone reposted my fluffy works.
I have only been on Twibooru, myself, out of them all. I actually found it by googling a fluffy artist I liked to see if an imgur archive existed or something.
I noticed a lot of stuff on Twibooru that I havenāt seen anywhere else, including on here. Many posts on there contain āSourceā links they claim go to the OG image but if you click that link most (at least the fluffy art) go to a totally different image. That leads me to believe they are uploading images via some bot or something, but Iām not sure.
Also, many fluffy posts on the site are tagged with, ādeleted from derpibooru.ā I think they are re-hosting images on there that the artists (in at least some cases, likely not all) have deleted and donāt want re-uploaded to sites like that. But I donāt know all the facts or much solid info about Twibooru in reality. Itās just weird.
e621 has a lot of non-pornographic art; its primarily for porn, obvs, but there is a huge gray area between porn, erotic art, and regular art, and over time a bunch of non-porn has accumulated.
I found the comic āFoxes in Loveā via e621, and that is the most wholesome, least pornographic thing I can imagine.
(Speaking of which, the eponymous foxes are non-anthropomorphic, highly stylized, very funny, sweet, and ridiculously insightful. They are also gay and trans. One of the best comics Iāve ever read.]
Edit: oh, and while anybody can post to e621, they are responsive to take down requests. They also have a ādo not postā list. Itās not a perfect system, but Iām not sure how else a site where people can upload art could work.
This has happened a few times with my works on deviantart, I always found it relaly strange since idk who even visits those sites so Iām not quite sure what the point of using my work is, plus Iām a VERY unknown artist so its not like people are gonna be LOOKING for my work anyway?
Once itās posted, it is recorded somewhere ; and once recorded it is likely aggregated to other services via bots for content and with ToS content is likely used to advertise a particular site long after it is taken down by the user. Regardless of what it is, it is probably held forever by someone somewhere.
I know Twibooru is a pony art booru, so someone probably posted your art there because fluffy ponies are still ponies.
Iām always happy whenever I see how far my art has spread. I wish someone posted it in Reddit too, because Iām not about to make an account there myself!
You know I am no longer worried about my stuff being shared elsewhere, Nowadays I am kinda hoping for my stuff to be shared across the web, because then it makes me FAMOUS!!
but only if itās the newer stuff, because my earlier stuff is shit
