Week 2 - 6.24.2024

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Memes, Facebook and a Different Kind of Content Theft [Plagarism Today]

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2024/08/19/memes-facebook-and-a-different-kind-of-content-theft/

So glad I don't use Facebook anymore LOL. This story, despite coming from a site called "Plagiarism Today", is not so much about plagiarism, and is more about how limited user's rights have become on large social media networks. Essentially, there was a Facebook group for a popular TV show consisting of 100k people that was brought out by some random user and completely changed the focus to something irrelevant.

To quote the article: "The truth is that any time you post your work on someone else’s website, you’re trusting them with it. That trust can always be betrayed. Facebook itself could close someday. YouTube could change its content guidelines and take down previously acceptable work. Tumblr did something similar in 2018. If it is not your site (and you have backups), your work is only there for as long as someone else thinks it is expedient. You are subject to the whims of whatever site you are on. Whether it’s Photobucket, Tumblr or a What We Do in the Shadows meme group, building your castle in someone else’s kingdom is risky. All it takes is one person to pull the rug out from underneath you and your entire community."

This is common on pretty much any social media site that lets people congregate in niche groups.
Don't get me wrong though, social media is a valid marketing tool, but it's also important to store your work in more secure places on the web in order to take real ownership over your work. Given how big of a problem plagiarism is in this day and age, I would recommend checking https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/ regularly to know where to spot it, and what to look out for. Especially if you're a content creator.



Multiple Drawing/Storyboarding Tutorials

http://www.floobynooby.com/comp1.html#anchor

This one's for all the fellow animation nerds out there. Contains various examples and tutorials in regards to drawing, storyboarding, concept art, etc. The whole page is just one long, TimeCube style compilation of different concepts to help inspire, or just see what the process is like. I personally like to come back to this every now and then, because it's so dense with content that I keep finding something new.

Unfortunately there's a lot of problems with this page. As mentioned, it's one run-on page. This makes it hard to return to a particular section unless you have it memorized and able to run a ctrl+F search for it. However, the fact that it provides dozens of links to various articles, YouTube videos, and Pinterest pages, makes this website worth re-visiting time and time again.



Anime Behind-The-Scenes Content

https://setteidreams.net/settei/

Another animation related website, this one revolving more around anime. This website contains expression sheets, storyboards, character designs, and artbooks from pretty much every popular anime. Very simple set up here. Just search your favorite anime, and see all of the hard work that goes into these shows & movies. They also have a Patreon and a Ko-Fi, as well as a Discord community for people to support and take part in.