the etiquette is to find the original yourself, it’s usually not that hard, just reverse image search it, or not post it. why would you feel so obligated to share a comic with no author that someone else made?

it’s easy to be a shitty person without intending to. that’s why we need to police our own actions and be conscious of the effect we have on others. when sharing the already stolen art we are perpetuating a problematic cycle. just because you didn’t start it and many others are doing it, that doesn’t make it less wrong.

sharing someone else’s dumb joke is one of the lowest forms of interaction anyway. i have numerous friends that have devolved into that being the only way they communicate with others. i mostly just don’t talk to them anymore. i really don’t care about the reels they send me. no one should ever feel like they have some kind of right to post someone else’s art.

i also generally hate the anti self promotion rules so many subteddits have. the ones that don’t are objectively better that the ones that do. what would you rather see? one more shared content mill whith the same 50 posts over and over and exclusivity stolen art. or something like r/comics with like 10 artists that all use it as a common platform to share their work.

you may find the content that is currently popular there questionably horny, but that’s more of a reddit demographic problem than an issue with letting artists self promote. in just arguing that i prefer a platform like that where you interact with the artists and new authors pop up and disappear regularly. you also get unique interactions like the artists quickly throwing together a comment reply as a bonus panel.

my point is that this place could be a better community than so much of reddit if we use it as a history book and learn from its victories and mistakes. it starts with policing ourselves and each other towards these goals. not reposting unatributed slop is one of those things we should not be doing if we want a good community.