tips: save the image with the makers name in it like makernamefilename.gif, then at least you or somebody else knows where to begin looking for the source

ngl i think it's time we shame ppl for blatantly not even bothering to try. and "credit to the maker" isn't credit lol. it's bad netiquette fam

oh and i see this constantly: repositories also aren't credit. someone taking something and resharing it isn't credit to the original maker, it's a link in the chain of the source being lost. saying where you got something is different from actual credit

alternate resolution: be a boss and make your own graphics

This was such a part of the original old web ethos! So many of the old graphics sites I love to look through and collect have admonishments to not steal and give credit.

kipm4: i understand and appreciate the sentiment, but then someone else will take yours and do the same thing. i guess the problem i'm yapping about is the mentality that using anything is okay, and being too lazy to keep track of and source things is also okay

divergentrays: i won't lie, it's always been a problem, but i see it a Lot More nowadays. i think a big contributor is due to a lot of older sites being deleted, but i'm also seeing a Lot of contemporary, still-up sites' stuff being reposted. galleries with hundreds of images and not a single link

This is much of why I began scouring DeviantArt and the like for the same stamps, buttons, etc. that younger me saved but didn't attribute. The anime sprites are definitely trickier to find credit for (still a WIP) but not exactly impossible either.

smokoswebzone: i had a similar experience where as soon as i found a maker of something, that started a chain lol. sooo many blinkies by the same few people lmao. i agree, older stuff can be hard to track down, though not entirely impossible