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OK, rant time. Not only because of this specific post, but this is like third one of these this week alone from third artist.

The whole point of having watermarks like "Patreon exclusive" or "Not for public" and similar, is for users who have no idea how to source or no idea who you even are, to immidiately aknowledge that they are watching leaked material and possibly act on it and help.

Now making the exact same posts public all of a sudden starts to undermine this whole deal, because instead of being "hey staff, there's paid material being leaked" they instead go "oh it's yet another public release of some old patreon stuff". I'm also not talking about e621 specifically, because these kind of watermarks have also helped on places like Twitter and Discord servers.

So it goes from useful thing for people to check, into mild annoyance in the image that should be ignored and it effects those who do it correctly as well.

mairo said:
OK, rant time. Not only because of this specific post, but this is like third one of these this week alone from third artist.

The whole point of having watermarks like "Patreon exclusive" or "Not for public" and similar, is for users who have no idea how to source or no idea who you even are, to immidiately aknowledge that they are watching leaked material and possibly act on it and help.

Now making the exact same posts public all of a sudden starts to undermine this whole deal, because instead of being "hey staff, there's paid material being leaked" they instead go "oh it's yet another public release of some old patreon stuff". I'm also not talking about e621 specifically, because these kind of watermarks have also helped on places like Twitter and Discord servers.

So it goes from useful thing for people to check, into mild annoyance in the image that should be ignored and it effects those who do it correctly as well.

Ahhh sorry, these are my drawings, i post them everywhere after 3 months in my patreon, but yeah you're right, i'll remove the watermarks next time to avoid any confusion

Thanks for the feedback, i'll be fixing this issue!