There’s some ugly ass characters floating around on Instagram. And these kids don’t know how to RP either. Their RPing is so bad it’s hilarious.
You know what’s more scary than these characters? The fact that these people make tons of recolors like this and think it looks good.
That’s terrifying!
Cub on the left just looked in the mirror. Good thing that the pink cub is blind.
For christ’s sake these things should be put down
I know you’ve seen some of these recolored fan arts in the past but this time I feel I should emphasize to all artist just how bad stealing has gotten. On the left we Dukacia’s beautiful piece, on the left the edited version from aniroleplay.
These roleplayers don’t just do some crappy recolor. They literally will just color over your entire watermark like it’s no big deal. In the past when overlay was the fashion this could still identify the artist and prove it was stolen. Today though they block out the colors with a lasso tool and then on top of that, redo all the lines on the work. This is why when I have seen some artists posting watermarks on their images, I feel greatly disheartened. I see how they do not work for those who have taken graphics design or get taught how to edit so that it’s like they never happened.
I know the world cannot be perfect and I know this seems like tl;dr rant but this is the epitome of stealing and most would get away with it because the editor takes 8 hours to cover up anything they don’t like. This is why I feel the artists of the Lion King fandom need to take a stand as a whole to stop this. I know I am one person, though others do help with this at times but I just hate seeing people comment. “What a beautiful picture you did there.” While the copyright symbol is placed next to the editor’s name as if they own the piece and NO ONE acknowledges the real artist.
I was literally on the phone before TLG aired and we saw the Zuri and Tiifu sneak peek shot and an artist friend of mine and roleplayer in this fandom and on this site said “Awesome that means I can do more edits.”
Like I said I know Disney will never take notice but I just feel so upset by this and unfortunately every new rper is being brought up on the “just do edits” not even roleplaying, and most certainly not acknowledging the creator of the piece. Again I’m so sorry for this rant but I just feel that while many of these characters are ugly as hell, this type of theft is far more worrisome and I wish more artists would stand up to help stop this. Maybe just maybe, one day it can change and make a difference.
I’m frankly disgusted that artists who can fucking draw would waste their God given talents on recoloring something they didn’t make just to post on this eyesore website. That’s disheartening.. My heart weeps. Frankly this is worse than finding out artists you adore draws cub porn. Figuratively speaking of course.
