• Beep@lemmus.org
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      Because I hate the ugliness of advertisements that make the art it is attached to, look cheap and reduce the visual experience to promote a fucking name, website or a patreon.

      There is already artists who create their art ad free(like Xkcd, Cat and Girl, Between Failures, Oglaf,…etc), so why shouldn’t all the webcomic artists do the same?

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          16 hours ago

          That is what links are for.

          Just attach a link to the post and boom. More efficient way of indicating the source.

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            How is it more efficient to remove credit from a comic and add ads links to the post than to just post an already attributed comic, or to post it unmodified and put the links in?

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            Links get lost when someone saves the image, metadata gets lost when someone screenshots the image and often isn’t preserved by the host anyway.

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            Why don’t you consider links advertisements? And attributing only in this way leads to people downloading the images and sharing them carelessly, without crediting the artist.

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              Ad is something you are forced to see. Hyperlink to author website are just a refrance which is not forced on you.

              That is the difference which make one of them acceptable and the other not.