This fandom has a lot of people who don’t understand how inspiration and referencing works.

Inspiration is the act of being motivated. It’s not an excuse to copy or steal what another person did.

Referencing according to https://www.jobydorr.com/blog/2021/2/10/how-to-use-reference-for-art-when-its-good-and-when-its-bad#:~:text=In%20the%20visual%20arts%2C%20using,object%2C%20person%2C%20or%20location. is the practice of discovering information in your subject. There are many ways one can reference, but never reference others art or fanart without permission, or risk being accused. One must always credit the original source if you got permission. Crediting Google or any other big time social media site is not crediting.

Because of recent drama involving babymippers I now realize that a few follow this blog and I wish to have a few words about what you’re doing. 

The name babymip was coined by me three years back after I got tired of calling them edited screenshots. 

The definition of babymip is to take a screenshot from anime, cartoons (3D or otherwise) or video games(not including MMD, that’s a program unto itself) and manipulate them to make either crossovers, new scenes, or shippings. 

And I’ve seen all sorts of bad babymips over the years. Everything from poorly edited my little ponies to fat fetish and even sexual scenes edited from Disney film screenshots. 

The thing about babymips, is that no matter how many times you edit them or watermark them with your username, the images still belong to the company you stole them from. 

Babymipping is art theft folks. It doesn’t matter how you see it. You’re taking something that doesn’t belong to you and you’re manipulating it. Just because you edit it, put text on it, or anything else to it, it’s still not yours and you have no right to claim ownership of it. 

If you migrated from fanpop or an animation source website to another website say deviantART, expect your babymips to not be welcome by many people.