>be Japanese visual novel artist in 2011 >lovingly draw a schoolgirl getting boned >spend two hours on the highlights in her hair, just because you want to >get the softness of her cheeks and the elasticity of her skin just right >the game sells well, 500 copies >you earn maybe 10,000 yen for your drawings >fifteen years later, see the image on a random porn ad >it's your drawing >it's your girl >click the ad >it leads to a random r34 gallery where the image is labeled >"ANIME GIRL ASS — image 7164 of 14135" >they didn't pay you a dime, but more than that >they erased your name >they erased the girl's name >scroll through comments >half are bots >the other half arguing about file size and compression artifacts >someone says "sauce?" >another replies with the wrong title >your title >misspelled >google your pen name >results are torrent indexes and scraped mirrors >no interviews >no credits >no artbook scans >just filenames and thumbnails
that’s the internetz for ya.
could releasing your art as an NFT help you get paid?
>>945482754Congratulations. You produced art in a medium designed to be reproduced and sold into private ownership with no means of regulating or limiting further reproduction, spread, or resale of said art.
Yeah. Not right but ownership of intangible things is a fundamentally flawed concept. If you want your doodles to be associated with your other doodles sign them.
>>945482754>I spent a mentally ill amount of time drawing a child getting raped
