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Clearly our priorities differ a bit on the matter, Lappy.
Your take is one I recognize, because I see it all the time. I used to have it myself.
It usually goes something like this;
"They should just be happy that I chose to use their artwork, right? Even if I change it so that I like it better. Can't they just appreciate that?"
Me and my friends and colleagues have had to deal much too often with art thieves, and people who find work that's taken hours of fine adjusting to get right and just change the colours to purple and pull the contrast way up, because that looks so much better, right, and now they're an artist too. All the times I hear about commercial websites, Russian restaurants, and such things using hobbyists' artwork without them even knowing of it. Are the creators just glad they liked it enough to use it on their site banner or their menu? Are they glad someone recoloured their hard work and put it uncredited on tumblr, for thousands to reblog? No. No, they never are. Back when they didn't have to deal with this, with all the drama that follows being an artist on the internet, they might have been okay with it, but now the appreciation in someone choosing to use our work is gone.
This is never black and white. Themes on PC are in almost all cases fine, and they're usually good at giving credit, too. I just wish more people thought about how the artist, the human being who put a lot of effort into this picture, would feel. Because uploads on DeviantArt are not public domain.