Just testing something real quick!
This was supposed to be a post testing a media cache issue on the server. Didn’t expect it to get this much traction 
@EricMalves If you post something about dragons, it's going to be popular. :p
@EricMalves We just love shinny things. 🪩 
@EricMalves Testing if it's accepted to post someone else's art without credit or attribution?
@cunobaros wait what? The artists tag is in the image?

@EricMalves On what platform? You posted it on Mastodon, but it's not a Mastodon user tag. Did you get it on Twitter or Instagram or some other site?

I apologise, I might be overly grumpy today, but I personally try to provide a direct link to the art or artist's profile, to make it easier for people to find them, rather than requiring people to do detective work.

@cunobaros I haven’t a clue what platform it was from. It was the first image on my camera roll and urgently needed to test media uploads on my server.

I don’t think it’s a stretch to think simply searching a name will find the result, especially when the artist is the first result.

@EricMalves
@cunobaros
searching for the name directly lead to her blog on tumblr, so it was easy.

Link to the source if anyone is interested: https://sarahcandersen.com/post/741316204737806336

Sarah's Scribbles

Tumblr

@EricMalves Yes, I appreciate that.

However, practically nobody will do that. The vast majority of people will not make that extra effort, or even know how.

As someone whose creative work has often been shared and liked in screenshot format hundreds of thousands of times, I know that if there is no link, hardly anybody will find me from it.

If there is a link, people will.

@cunobaros

I don’t think one can say “I appreciate that” after giving the initial response you did.

I’m sorry nobody knows how to google a handle.

I’m done responding on this matter.

@cunobaros She's quite well known, or at least her work is! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Andersen @EricMalves
Sarah Andersen - Wikipedia

@BackFromTheDud @cunobaros @EricMalves she should definitely have a masto account. I love her work.

@EricMalves @mstar okay! This one got me!

Crows really do like shiny things!

As do baracudas and humans

@EricMalves thanks for sharing. To me it represents the superrich bigtech billionaires, the ones who accumulate most riches nowadays - the dragons here - and the crows are like the extreme right allies.