OP believes that leaving in the comic name or artist's signature is "advertising".
https://lemmus.org/post/21226925
They have been caught repeatedly removing them through cropping and poor use of AI.
this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2026
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Bro what are you doing. Give credit where credit is due. It's not a watermark, it's a signature. Signatures aren't ads. And what if people want to read more from a particular artist and you've just removed all trace of the original artist?
You're on the wrong hill here. Stop making life more difficult for yourself and everyone else. Just post the original comic.
OP is the most misdirected backwards shit I've ever heard of. They enjoy the comic but refuse to give credit to the creator. It's so stupid it must be an April Fools, right? Right?
Why did you choose to remove the original author's name from this?
Idk. Which is more media illiterate, thinking that Rorschach was a net good, or insisting that narrative elements need to fit into a good/evil dichotomy?
Who is insisting that narrative elements should fit into a good/evil dichotomy here?
Who is insisting that narrative elements should fit into a good/evil dichotomy here?
The interlocutor in the comic who is asking the other party in the comic to distill Rorschach role to "Good guy/ Bad guy", then penalizing when they hesitantly give what the interlocutor has presupposed as the "wrong" answer, as they write down the point "media illiterate".
I mean, the comics right there. Did you look at it before replying?
Well, the simple question of 'Is character x or y?' is very different from 'The character is either x or y, choose.'. You can easily answer 'neither' to the question of 'Is character good or bad?'.
That being said, Alan Moore himself stated Rorschach is meant to be a bad example. So if you want to make the argument that Alan Moore is media illiterate, I'm all ears — I don't really know much about the guy because Watchmen really wasn't that impressive to me. (I recognize that if I had read it when it was new and hadn't inspired so many other stories that this opinion might be different.)
'Nice argument, but I've already depicted you as the soyjak and myself as the chad.' energy.
At least I can confirm my tag, saves me from needing to interact with you.
Uh, okay, whatever this is..
Image doesn't load for me, but strangely the thumbnail loads.
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sometimes I have to go to the source link to see the image, the rainbow icon next to the upvote
I think it's a federation issue with your instance and the host of the community with some mixing of where the op is federating from. only happens to me once in awhile and usually newer posts
