She's Gone Too Far this time...

I honestly didn't think I could get MORE upset at someone

So it looked like today would be a good day.  Maybe not a capping day, but a good day none the less.  I wake up and drink my morning coffee to some television, head onto the computer and read up some news sites and other 'non Caitlyn' material and generally just have a good morning.

I then put my mask on, log into here and start Caitlyn's day.  I check out the activity on the blog overnight (not great, but not bad for a weekend), read a few caps... and then come across Brittney's blog.  She talks about someone doing something underhanded and unethical and points to Victoria Hyde's blog.  I figure that this is the story of someone else 'stealing' another artists caps and claiming them as their own.  And honestly, that would have been enough to piss me off and probably write up a post.

If only it were that clean.

No, what we have here is someone going so far out of line.  Stepping so far past the line of decency.  Someone that makes stealing credit for art that they didn't create look like a virginal angel.

Before I identify this piece of filth I want to cover a couple ways that the TG cap blogging world works, as there are many varieties of TG/CD/TF blogs out there:

• There are blogs like this one.  I'm a cap artist that makes TG/CD/TF captioned images and shares them here.  I occasionally write on other topics (mainly from questions submitted to me), and rarely I'll post someone else's cap.  When I do post someone else's cap, I give them full credit and if possible a link back to their site.  
• There are cap aggregators.  These sites or blogs pull caps from all over the place.  The best ones like World Of TG list dozens if not hundreds of blogs that automatically update when new content is posted.  They don't host the caps themselves and instead just provide links to the individual blogs.  Others will actually host the caps, but give full credit and provide a link back to the original artist.  And then there are lazy ones that simply host the caps and give no credit whatsoever.  Last is the dirtier ones that not only host and don't provide a link back, but also act or outright claim that the caps are their own. 

Now so long as the artists get credit, I have no problem with cap aggregators.  A majority of my traffic comes from World Of TG so I can honestly say that my work wouldn't be nearly as viewed if it wasn't for them.  I've talked before about people 'stealing' caps, and even mentioned a blog that edited caps before posting them.  I consider both of these practices to be lower than low.  If you didn't make it.. then don't claim in as your own.  If you edit it... then don't post it at all!

But the examples that I've mentioned and other's that I've seen are doing this for various reasons.  They want to get more views, they want to look better than they are, they may even just want to share other's work to a boarder audience.  But the one thing that haven't done (at least to my knowledge) is profit from their activities.  

There are blogs that will profit from 'their' work.  They put up ads on their site and can get paid for a high viewership, by people clicking on the ads, or by people visiting and purchasing items through the ads.  I find the idea of profiting like that to be distasteful on it's own.  There are VERY few cap artists that can claim a true copyright to their work.  I can't do that, and most caps that I've seen can't do that.   You see, the source material is not mine and I'm actually breaking someone else's copyright by editing their work and posting it.  My only defense is that I don't (and never will) make money off my work and that I give any copyright holder the ability to contact me and ask for their work to be removed.  And copyright aside, I just want to share my work.  It doesn't cost me anything to make these caps beyond my time.  

Sure, I use MS Word and Photoshop (expensive programs), but I already had them long before I made a cap and use them for far more than capping.  So I don't feel the need to even ask for money, let alone put up advertisements in the hope to get some cash.  

I should have seen it coming, but I honestly didn't.  Someone has now taken these two sceezy activities and combined them.  

Andrissa runs several blogs (I'm not sending a single person to any of her blogs with a link).  She hosts some of her own work as well as caps from many artists (that she does give credit to and a link back to their blog or site).  I've never really enjoyed her site though as she plasters it with advertisements.  The ads are along the side, between the posts, and even inside the posts.  It's bad enough that she was hosting other artists work and advertisements at the same time, but she did give credit to the artist so I figured I would leave that to her and the artists that she adds (to my knowledge she has never posted one of my caps.  If she did, I would have politely asked her to take it down).  

As sceezy as this is, she just had to take it further.  She has now changed the link to the cap so that when the cap is clicked on, it goes to one of her advertisers.  Think about that for a second... when you click on the cap and expect to see it enlarged and ready to view you instead get sent to an amazon site.  If you buy anything from amazon for a while after clicking on that link, you just made Andrissa some cash.  Not because you chose to view her blog. Not because you chose to click on one of the many (MANY) advertisements on her blog... but only because you wanted to view a cap.  

She is actively and knowingly deceiving people into making money for herself.  It's one thing to illegally whore our her own work (and trust me on this.. it IS illegal), but to do so with someone else's art is just about as low as I think a person can get in our community.  

So with a heart full of hate I want tell Andrissa to FUCKING STOP IT!