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luntoer said:
Considering artists have also had works stolen and used for commercial purposes without their permission (like being sold as t-shirts and such)
Machine TL'ing some of the comments about Danbooru earlier, one artist seems to think we're doing exactly that. Selling merch with their stuff on it.
Many Japanese artists seem to believe we're still uploading paid rewards.
Maybe in the takedown request page in Japanese, include that paid rewards aren't allowed to be uploaded here in the first place? It may not seem like it belongs, but this is an ongoing misinformation being spread on Japanese Twitter.
One of them has even mentioned DLsite paid rewards, so maybe add that to the list of prohibited paid content sites.
luntoer said:
This is basically it. Not all artists want their works to be visible forever or to be spread everywhere. They may have their own private reasons for wanting to remove a work from the public eye and sites like this take away that power. Considering artists have also had works stolen and used for commercial purposes without their permission (like being sold as t-shirts and such), there is an understandable paranoia against reposting sites.
Right. This is only an educated guess on my part, but I suspect Twitter is mostly a "retweet machine" that gets JP artists exposure (and thus doing other things like blogging on it is not a big deal), while Pixiv fills the role of "curated portfolio/gallery" for them. And it's important to these artists that they get to be the ones to curate it, regardless of whether you think their curation process makes any sense or not. If they don't want their art on the internet anymore, they believe it's their right to take it off Pixiv/Twitter and leave just the art they like up there. Boorus in general throw a wrench in that, and this one is the biggest booru, so they'll direct their hate at this one.
yuudo said:
Right. This is only an educated guess on my part, but I suspect Twitter is mostly a "retweet machine" that gets JP artists exposure (and thus doing other things like blogging on it is not a big deal), while Pixiv fills the role of "curated portfolio/gallery" for them.
A good majority of artists seem to have abandoned pixiv for Twitter entirely these days...
