So, the gif was technically on tumblr! A person had posted it there, and that's where I saw it.

(Sorry, it turns out the specifics make this a saga and I'm still kinda hurt about it.)

So, background on the way tumblrs gif embedder thing works is, that you can use it to natively include a specific gif from a specific tumblr post by url, ONLY if it is the exact first gif on the post. (It's much easier to find a random gif by keyword, which is what I have used it for in the past.)

IF you can do html coding there is a work around apparently for getting the tumblr tool to give you the exact gif you want from anywhere in a post. (I didn't know that, or how to use that feature, and I still don't actually think I can manage it since it requires some html work I can't do (yet).)

So, anyhoo, I saw a cool gifset from someone I don't know, talked about it with a friend, and I made a post! Which, I don't generally do - I mostly reblog. First original post a few years!

So I did what I *thought* was an okay compromise with the gif. I reposted the gif by downloading it and re-uploading it (not ideal) and I credited the original gif maker via an "'@' username". I thought that was okay - the creator gets credit, I get to use the exact gif that inspired my thought process.

Then someone I have never talked to showed up in the comments on my post. They were asking me to change it and included a whole tutorial about how to edit a post to give credit to the original gif creator using the native gif editor and html. And like, that's technically possible, if you know some html- the process was like 7+ steps. Which seems like asking a lot, when the "@"username option is right there?

Anyhoo, technical elements aside, while the post was up and I was at work, this commenter also got rude to an extremely nice friend of mine in the comments on this post. Since my friend is well known and famous for being incredibly welcoming and nice in this corner of fandom, and this stranger was being rude to them, I immediately blocked them for being an asshole.

(I eventually found out this commenter made a call out post about me??? Called me a thief! and posted screenshots of their comments where they edit out how they were rude to my friend! And directly messaged the gif maker (who was CREDITED on my original post), to tell them I'd stolen their gifs?? So I ended up deleting the whole post and re making it with a video clip from YouTube bc life is too short. Again, I never spoke to this person - they were on my post being an ass, so instant block.)

So, I am now in a state of confusion - this information about gif crediting via this multiple step process came to me from a real jerk!

But it might still be accurate information,just with jerk stank on it.

Fandom etiquette being a thing in flux, I figured I would ask here, where people are largely nice if you don't know how to do something.