OP believes that leaving in the comic name or artist’s signature is “advertising”.
https://lemmus.org/post/21226925
They have been caught repeatedly removing them through cropping and other means.
Its also… Different?
Here is the original: https://swordscomic.com/comic/I/
Yeah, because this doofus uses ai to denature these artwors… Just to add insult to injury.
Actually, looks like that’s by the original artist. MurkyWay on Reddit
As much as I dislike where OP pulls credit off posts, the comic is unchanged.
It seems like they’re using AI to edit them, I’m 99% sure it’s just some kind of troll account.
The artist actually does do advertising stuff (including merch and crowd-funding) on imgur (+reposting/rehashing too) and reddit so I sorta get it, but posting art by someone-who-conducts-themselves-in-a-manner-you-dislike is counterintuitive.
I wasn’t even entirely sure it was this until I saw the mention of Patreon on the image, as the talk of signatures in the comments is jumping the shark a bit.
OP does not deserve your benefit of the doubt, unfortunately. They intentionally strip credit out of nearly every comic they post, often using AI to do so, and clarified themselves in the comments of the post I linked that they do include artist signatures in their definition of “advertisement”. It was brought up because the user has a history, not because people jumped to wild assumptions.
OP also says that they won’t do the simple thing of attribution through link in the body text unless the community adopts their unhinged rule: https://lemmus.org/comment/17161116
OP clearly don’t give a fuck about rules as he has busted past the 2 posts a day rule.
Not only you are removing signatures but using AI to do it, changing content. Extremely gross.
You plonker! Leave the artist name on it. If I want to see more of the artist, how I’m supposed to do so?
