I've kinda found my zen with art theft and reposting
This doesn't apply to when people steal my art for profit or claim it as their own because fuck them
But I've had so many reposts over the years of posting art online, it's way more than I can possibly ever go after, and it used to stress me out at first because it's usually without credit.
But I remember being a kid and finding Naruto fanart on google, printing it out myself and glueing my shitty pixelated prints on notebooks and around my room, never knowing who made these, and occasionally stumbling over one of the artists years later.
And I don't know, the idea of being part of that? Of being in a random scrap book, having one weird little piece of fanart that a complete stranger once saw as a kid somewhere and kinda vaguely remembers years later? Of maybe being a shitty print out somewhere because someone saw a pic they liked? I think that's kind of sweet, that's kind of fun!
So like, I'm just talking about myself here obv, I still prefer when people credit me properly etc, but I also find a lot of comfort in knowing that maybe I can also be the mysterious artist of a specific piece of fan art of someone else's past!
