Anonymous asked: The picture you just posted isnt yours. The person who originally posted it had almost 4K notes on it, and you're a dick who's trying to steal it.
They may (or may not) have been the first person to post it on Tumblr, but simply posting an item does not imply its ownership (territorial or otherwise) by the person who posted it. Anyone who [re]posts something [almost always] has a legal obligation to correctly attribute (identify) the original creator. In my own case, when I find an item that is attributed I may simply ‘reblog’ in the way you accuse me of failing to do, however if it is not attributed I post it afresh having correctly attributed the item myself. See my earlier post on this very subject.
More notably you presume that there is only one valid way to post stuff (reblog). If a newspaper ran the same picture would you accuse them of the same, or someone (heaven forbid) on Facebook? I may have wished to publish that item for my audience in some manner of my own and thus not have the original poster’s description (and thousands of ‘notes’ attached to it)…
Maybe in the case you cite (but I don’t know to which item you refer), the poster was indeed the creator, in which case my fresh post would nonetheless have attributed the creator (as required) and very likely provided several more links to their works. There are regrettably of course some cases where I am unable to identify an original author, not least because nobody else has been bothered to do anything other than click ‘reblog’ without considering who created it.
I won’t call you a dick, because your punctuation is ~99% accurate, and your concept of moral obligations and digital ownership is worth considering.