If this image represents the template that you use every day on your respective Instagram account(s), congratulations for being the lowest common denominator. You have done nothing but continue to use the hard work of others for personal gain and attempt to peddle unoriginal goods to unsuspecting automotive enthusiasts. There are people who have a real passion to create content for the world and who pay for their own camera equipment, travel using their own expenses, and spend hours after to publish their work. You do not have that passion. You are thieves and leeches who think that taking advantage of people for personal gain is okay. And those of you who support these accounts are just as bad as the ones who created them. Print is dying at a rapid rate because you do not support the creators. Just as fast as print is dying is the inspiration of those who have the talent to create. Why put in the time when it takes a few seconds for people to screenshot what took hours to create? You are a detriment to this community because you do not understand. You not only lack passion, you have no understanding of what it takes to work hard…
“Me” culture is destroying automotive media. You think it is okay to use someone else’s content because someone will “tag” them later. You justify it by putting “tag owner” and/or “tag photographer” followed by “Follow Me”. Your account is a fallacy. No one ever said you couldn’t share, but share with credit to the creators. You will never understand how much work it takes to make something if you don’t put in the time to try it. Pick up a camera, use the camera that you have on your own smart phone. Create something. Stop taking. If you follow these pages, stop following these people because you are no better than them. If your excuse is “I just want to see cool cars”, then you are a fool. You are just like the thieves you try to protect your car from everyday. They too care little about your hard work, your passion, and your time…
The Internet and social media has provided us with a valuable resource to share photos, words, and other forms of media with the rest of the world. Contribute to it. Stop taking from others.
What if you worked 40+ hours a week and someone takes your paycheck every two weeks and cashes it?
…and they think it is okay as long as someone tells someone else that you put in the work?…
What if you put all your money into building your car and when you finish it, someone else is driving it and not necessarily telling everyone that it is their car, but doesn’t mind if people believe that it is their’s? (Lie by omission)
…and they think it is okay as long as someone tells someone else that you built it?…
What if you went to work to put food on the table for your kids to eat and someone comes and eats it without your consent?…
…and you tell your kids that they can go hungry because someone else tells them that you tried to feed them?…
Life doesn’t work that way. Stop thinking that it is right for you to take so you can indulge yourself.
Your number of followers doesn’t mean anything. Nobody wants your basic-ass decals to promote your shitty account. No one gives a shit about following your other accounts and your lame ass friends’ accounts.
If you own one of these accounts because you’re out for some sort of imaginary fame or to make a name for yourself by copying and pasting,
fuck you and what you’re about. And fuck your crew too. Follow that.
Automotive media is dead because you don’t understand how to use the camera function on your own phone. Educate yourself. Go out and earn something for once.