Thread:Bellamyoveryou/@comment-24831261-20141104223352/@comment-25112275-20141104233244

Hello Omega,

I saw your question and I just wanted to comment. The reason we do not allow outside gif’s is because of copy right issues.

We have noticed that other wikia’s have problems with this. Many allow uploads from tumblr or outside sources. Users take them from tumblr and put them on our wikia. In some cases the person who made the gif did not want them uploaded somewhere else by someone else. It is essentially taking someone else’s work and copying it.

Although wikia’s are free reign and generally don’t have problems with copy right, the admins felt that it was still a big issues. Since we have an admin that is willing to make the gif’s we create our own and we do not need to worry about copy right, or offending the people who have made the gifs.

This is also why we do not allow fan art. We once had a user who went around uploading The 100 artwork without permission from the artists and made the artists very upset.

Shea (Theangelandthehunter) is the admin who makes the gifs that appear on the wiki. :)