Bored This Fine Evening? Consider:

Bored this fine evening? Consider:

Searching through works titled or marked as "collections" of X fandom/pairing on AO3 and reporting re-uploaded, stolen fanfiction and fanart.

Searching titles such as 'looking for fanfiction' and 'help needed' on AO3 and reporting non-fannish uploads that violate the TOS.

Reverse-searching the fanart used on Wattpad book covers to find the origin of stolen fanart and alert the original artists to the misuse.

Leaving comments on works containing the above to explain what the author has done wrong and why its unethical/against the rules.

I can promise you; its worthwhile and cathartic. To date I've helped somewhere in the region of over 200 people get their stolen and misused content removed. I have never had a single creator ungrateful or disinterested in protecting their content.

sometimes I forget that the server with all my online friends is very antishipper-centric and I let my guard down and then get hit with a person I consider my friend casually saying “just a reminder that proshipping is genuinely disgusting :3” and all my other friends saying “true!” And “I agree totes” and I have to sit there and twiddle my thumbs like “haha yeah totally guys…”

someday they’ll get it

I mean. The only thing I have to say to that is why are you still friends with those people and why are you still in that server.

Not even from a 'being proship is the only way' point but these people are not going to be kind to you at all. You're just putting yourself at risk being with them and being in that space.

um, silly qiestion but is there any other way to reverse search images other than using google lens?

You can use websites like TinEye or DNSChecker, which will scour the internet for any instance of an image being uploaded and provide them in chronological order.

However, with these kinds of websites, please read the usage terms carefully. Some websites that offer services like this are very predatory and will hide in their usage terms that by 'uploading' an image to their site you are granting them permission to use it in varying ways.

Its also not as streamlined or time efficient, but often I've managed to find images by searching relevant key terms of descriptors into Google Images. E.g; "Henry Cavill Pink Fanart."

This post is about AO3.

WATTPAD REFUGEES - READ UP

STOP ADDING FANCY ILLEGIBLE TEXT TO ALL YOUR SUMMARIES, TAGS AND MAIN BODIES. WE CAN'T SEE SHIT.

STOP CENSORING WORDS - THIS IS NOT TIKTOK OR WATTPAD. YOUR WORK WILL NOT GET YOTE FOR SAYING WORDS. SUICIDE, RAPE, SHIT, FUCK, ECT. WRITE. THE. FUCKING. WORD. NOT SU*CIDE. R4P3. P3DO.

"COLLECTIONS" OF STOLEN FANART AND RE-UPLOADED FANFICTION ARE NOT WELCOME HERE. THEY'RE ACTUALLY NOT WELCOME ON WATTPAD EITHER BUT ESPECIALLY NOT AO3.

SIMILARLY, CREATING "BOOK COVERS" USING STOLEN FANART IS ALSO NOT WELCOME.

(EVER.)

PLEASE USE THE ACTUAL TAGS FEATURE NOT A SCATTERING OF RANDOM HASHTAGS IN THE SUMMARY OR START OF THE FIC. WE CAN'T ACTUALLY DO SHIT WITH THOSE.

I'm so upset by antis sometimes. once i made a few mistakes with a minor as an adult:

acted inappropriately with them, i thought they could handle more than said they could, things they consented to at the time they were facetious about how 'comfortable' they were-- probably to set me up

now everyone labels me as a predator just because of that and the fiction i like. so much for 'forgive and forget', huh? :/ i hate child brats in Fandom so much they ruin it for everyone. i don't get mad if i see some kid get shit bc at this point i know they're lying or exaggerating claims to get out of trouble.

This is one of those scenarios where I really can't comment on anything except future safeguarding because "acting inappropriately with a minor because they consented" could literally mean anything and I'm not about to validate actions I do not actually know.

However, in the future, its best to adopt the practice of setting firm boundaries with minors. Very firm boundaries. Unfortunately the internet never forgets, no matter who forgives, especially when it comes to things like this.

While minors are absolutely welcome in fandom spaces and I refuse to participate in trying to segregate minors off and treat them like fragile little glass babies who can't know about murder and sex until they're 21, I also understand for the safety of both sides there needs to be a certain level of separation and firm boundaries in place.

For example, I refuse to have any private conversations with minors online. Any discussion I have with one must happen publicly so there is evidence and witnesses to the original texts, and evidence that can't be so easily manipulated.

(E.g; if someone edits a screenshot of a post I made, its all too easy to link to the existing, original post proving its fake.)

I don't roleplay with them or collaborate on fanfiction (again, this involves too much closed-off and private communication, unless its something public like a SFW round robin). If I'm in Discord servers I use the note box on their server profiles to mark who is a minor so I know what is and isn't appropriate to say or involve them in.

It really is better to be safe than be sorry. I can't control what a minor chooses to involve themselves in or expose themselves to but I can control how much I involve them in and expose them to.

I'd also fully recommend blocking anyone who attempts to contact you or interact with you in bad faith. Some people will simply weaponise anything they can against someone they disagree with.

so THAT'S why i keep seeing stolen artwork/AI generated artwork in character tags when someone's pushing their wattpad fic. jesus christ that explains everything. you're so right.

I highly recommend leaving a comment on the work letting the author (and readers) know the artwork isn't free for creative use and also doing a reverse search to try to track down the original artist.

I've been thinking of creating some comment/message templates for easy copy-pasting to save people the effort of tying it out.

Wattpad is so sly though, to protect itself because it earns money by selling your content it has limited actual reports to copyright owner only, which means you actually have to track down the artist and help them file a report in order to get stolen fanart removed.