Truth be told, at this point I absolutely hate Amino and no one can change my mind.
There’s so much art theft on the app, and no one is trying to do something against it. There is no “report” button, there is no “DMCA” request. You can only ask the MODs or ADMs to remove the art, but sometimes they will refuse to remove it, or even start being aggressive, throwing tons of stupid excuses for their acts. And you’re forced to download the app and make an account to request them to take down your art.
That being said – even the ADMs and MODs are supporting art theft.
For example, my friend asked an ADM from SU BR Amino to take down a post because they CROPPED their watermark, the ADM refused to take it down and said that they would make a new post crediting the art. (And they blamed Pinterest users for cropping the watermark – which as a lie).
My friend explained that reposting art without permission is a crime (and in fact, it is) and they said that they weren’t stealing (because no one claimed the art as their own) so it wouldn’t be considered a crime.
My friend told the ADM that artists disliked Amino because art theft as something common, and then, the ADM told their friends about it – and the same people stalked my friend and started to victim-blaming and saying bad things about my friend, like “you are disgusting”.
After joining the artists community on Tumblr, I’ve meet some artists that share similar stories, and ALL of them have the same dislike for Amino that i have.
For short, if you are a creator, and ask them to take down your art or edit, or they’ll ignore you, or being completely arrogant and disrespectful.
Now stop a minute and think about it with me –
An Amino blog with more than 100,000 users (where most of the users are minors) learning to support art theft, while both ADMs and MODs are being immature and doing nothing about it.
Art theft is a big issue on the internet already, and the kids are not learning to respect the artists – they are learning the opposite.
Kids are idolizing the MODs and the ADMs, and not the content creators.
So what do you think will happen in the future?
Not to mention this damn watermark:
Re-watermarking an artwork?
This should be ilegal.
Now, seriously:
– Don’t roleplay as others characters.
– Don’t re-name, trace or steal others characters.
– Don’t repost art when the artist has clearly said they don’t want that.
I’m not saying that ALL Aminos are like that. But only few Aminos are absolutely against art theft and have guidelines about it.
Hey just so my followers know, I’ve had problems with this before and I know some of my artwork is still on Amino without my permission, not even credited, and it really frustrates me. :^)
If you’re reading this and you have my artwork on Amino, please remove it because I did not give you or anyone else permission, thank you :^)))
as someone who has an elder sis on amino (who is an admin/leader) she handles and forbids art theft, traces, and rps of character that dont belong to that user.
i use to agree that, children will be children, but no. children know what they are doing, stealing, reposting and such because when you call them out, they get defensive and have many of the common excuses of “i didnt know”
“its not hurting “
“oh but i just loved this art/oc/style so much i just wanted to share-”
no. dont allow people to do this not matter what. for you kids, if you dont like your stuff being taken, why are you taking our stuff.
For real though this is like such a big problem on amino and it’s so damn frustrating when the leaders and mods themselves defend it. I’ve had a leader tell me “They didn’t claim it as their own” and “Google is free”. It’s freaking insane something needs to be done about this.
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