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Japanese Art Theft. STOP IT. — Description
I know that you can't see the small text very well, but I'll go back and fix it later. I made this one many months ago and lost the GIF project file, so I'll need to start back up again.

Anyway, I made this back when I seriously began to notice Japanese fanart (mainly from Pixiv, but elsewhere as well) popping up on deviantART, usually by kids that just go "lol I found this XD Dunno who drew it" or worse: claim that they themselves drew it.

Mind you, Japanese fanartists tend to take art theft VERY seriously. You tend to see banners for the Online Fanartists Protection union on those sites:[link] and in the worst case scenario, Japanese fanartists will take their sites offline when they get tired of people hot-linking and/or posting their art on other sites.

Please, if you didn't make it, and haven't slaved over that piece of art, then you probably shouldn't upload it onto dA under your name in the first place. If you're going to show off your collection of Japanese fanart, keep it to Photobucket (which dA isn't).