/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>29538789
>They value the praise and attention more than the art itself.
Nobody works for free and don't get confused, drawing takes a lot of practice and work. From what I can tell, the vast majority of Japanese artists are amateurs with day jobs and they're not trying to make a living off it. They're not asking for money in exchange for their work, just for praise and attention. Literally the same reason most of us do anything. Can do create art for art's sake? Sure, but there's no expectation for an artist to publish their work or preserve it anywhere outside of their hard drive.

>Most of the time nobody is "stealing" anything from them, or claiming to be the author,
Twitter and Tumblr are full of repost bots that are doing it for the clout. Also don't get me wrong, I love *boorus and I respect the mission. I upload stuff from artists on danbooru all the time on this same fear. But *boorus take this content and surround it in ads and/or ask for money to access it. They're literally profiting from work that's not theirs.

Again, I'm with you on the mission of preserving great illustrations. But there's a lot of people acting in bad faith when it comes to taking artwork.