***Watermarks: do they work or not? Little story about fake-..
Added 2024-02-26 21:12:32 +0000 UTC***Watermarks: do they work or not? Little story about fake-accounts of me***
Since the moment I created my first social (it was Instagram) scammers started creating fake-accounts… At first it looked harmless, just accounts duplicating my photos without transferring followers anywhere, but as my popularity grew, everything got worse and worse. Of course the weakest points are those socials in which I’m not registered at all, it is easier to claim the original there. Even though I put my website with all the links everywhere, and I repeat that my links are only those that are on the website, people still come across my fakes. You can’t even imagine how absurd this has gotten! People have texted me “send me what I paid for”. I’m trying to figure it out, and it turns out that this fake-account promised something, got the money, and then blocked the user. The worst thing is that these fakes sell the impossible, for example a personal meeting with me! 🤯 This all makes me furious! The problem is not that people are making profit on my content, but that they are deceiving MY audience and making me look terrible, lying and scamming people on my behalf 🤬
I understand that this evil cannot be completely defeated, but I want to try at least something.
What do you think about watermarks? It’s clear that in the era of AI it’s very easy to remove them, but with video it’s much more difficult to do it. But many of these fakes are so lazy that they don’t even remove the watermark, which is done automatically by OF. I’ll also announce on all socials that now all my content will be with a watermark, so it will be more difficult for fake-accounts to use my content without them. I admit that this may not be super effective, but as they say “if you won’t try, you won’t know”
I’ll attach an example to this post of how I see the watermark and of course I’ll wait for your opinion 🫶🏼
Thanks for your attention ❤️
P.s. website with all my links is in the profile header 😅
