1. people are lazy people are not going to look for the source
2. motivates artists to continue creating
3. help to prevents plagiarism
4. increases an artist visibility

# do not:

1. editing the art like removing artist name

# if you are posting paywall content:

artist might file a dmca takedown if a subreddit gets too many reddit might takedown the sub

# if you did not get it from the artist

use saucenao/google,rule34 search for the tags,finding sub/community to find the artist

if you are going to save image/videos use gallery-dl or media-downloader with naming setup

if you see someone posting art without posting sources call them out and post the source

# source:

1. [non pay](https://x.com/PLawyerNSFW/status/1834250669961666628)