re: maris

if you just link To the picture or post then it’s fine because the person clicks (or in our case copy-pastes) the link and goes to the original website but if you Embed the image using the little button as I describe here that’s hotlinking. does that make sense? like if you use the tumblr version of the image link then it basically pokes tumblr and goes “hey I need that picture again” every time someone loads the post that picture is on. It’s probably not as bad for tumblr as it is for say discord (this is even the reason given for Why they started to clear out images) but it’s just Proper to use one of those dedicated websites that are made to be poked :P

So! General rule of thumb: just don’t embed from a website unless it’s one of those img sites that are built for that. Its good practice for when making webpages too! most website builders will just let you upload them directly but stuff like neopet petpages you gotta link from elsewhere

…sorry neopets was The only example I could think of lol