*takes a deep swing out of the beer bottle* we have a reposter, lads
Yesterday, I found out that @sansastrrk is a reposter. And not just a regular reposter, but one that takes other people’s gifs, and then edits them and passes them off as theirs. After all, they tag them as my edit. Yesterday, I got really upset by this. Yesterday, I contemplated DMing them to talk about it, but if they were willing to edit other people’s work and then tag it as theirs, they clearly knew what they were doing and would most likely adamantly deny everything. Yesterday, I’ve decided that it is not worth the drama and wanted to let it go. Today, however, is not yesterday. Today, I saw ‘their edit’ cross my dash and I got upset again and then I got mad, and now we’re here.
They have a ‘Sophie Turner does yoga’ edit HERE, the gifs from which originally came from my Sophie edit HERE. I saw it because a mutual reblogged it and thought I was going insane because wow that looks exactly like my edit, just in b&w. Observe:
B&W gifs are ‘theirs’ and vivid are mine.
I DMed @bettysnooper to confirm that I’m not seeing things, as well as @swainlake, both have agreed these are my gifs, but desaturated, and @swainlake also explained that the reason Sophie’s face looks blurry in b&w gifs is because that happens when somebody takes a vibrant colouring and desaturates it without fiddling with curves later to balance it out.
To further comifrm my suspicions, I popped both gifs into PS and put them one over the other — when I use LIGHTEN blending, they not only lined up perfectly, but they had the same number of frames.
They posted a Jon x Sansa edit HERE, where they took a gif from my edit HERE and broke the gif into two gifs, slowed them down, and desaturated them. Observe:
I then opened all gifs in PS, sped up the b&w gifs, and put them over my vivd gif. The frames and sizing, once again, aligned perfectly:
Naturally, this made me super suspicious of their entire edit tag. So I went to investigate it.
They have an Arya edit posted HERE, that is once again, a stolen edit, in this case, it was @ladystarks from her edit HERE. Observe:
These are clearly @ladystarks’s gifs, just slowed down and desaturated.
Am I about to bring out more receipts? Yes, I am. Because this person didn’t just cannibalise the content of GOT fandom creators, they also hit The 100 fandom.
They have a Memori edit HERE, that was stolen from @shialablunt HERE. The gifs were desaturated and cropped down from 540x255 to 540x250. (Thank you, @ladystarks for finding these!)
They posted a Clarke & Raven edit HERE, that was taken from @montygreen HERE, that went through the same machinations as other examples I listed.
Just in case, I popped The 100 gifs into photoshop to check, and all of them have the same number of frames and align when I put one over the other.
In conclusion, this is A LOT of evidence, so I will not be searching for more, despite how suspicious their myedit tag looks like. I ask people TO NOT SEND THEM HATE OR HARASS THEM, that is unacceptable behaviour and anyone who will do that is no friend of mine. I strongly encourage to not interact or engage with them at all, to not reblog their stolen content, and I, for one, will be blocking their main @sansastrrk and their sideblog @thefibrodiaries as soon as I finish this post.
Again, to reiterate: DO NOT HARASS THEM, DO NOT SEND THEM HATE, BUT PLEASE DO NOT REBLOG THEIR STOLEN CONTENT.