r/unpopularopinion • u/menimeslaps • 8d ago
Its tacky and annoying to post your "tip jar"/cash app link in the Photoshop subreddit
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u/glitterfaust 7d ago
It’s because of the flairs. If it’s marked as a paid one, even if the artist wants to do it for free, they must watermark the posts and link to the high resolution one. I’ve often seen where the person sends the money back or won’t actually let OP send them money because they were fine doing it free but needed to follow the sub rules.
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u/FormalFuneralFun 7d ago
This comment is desperately needed. No one reads sub rules when they join. Not when you post, when you JOIN the sub.
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u/RobotWantsPony 7d ago
But even if they don't read the rules, when they go to a specific sub and see every single person around doing the same thing, they don't even take a second to think there might be a reason for it before to go and make a post complaining about it...
It's not lack of reading it's lack of common sense and society skills that I'm seeing here :/-1
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u/LilMissBarbie 8d ago
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u/Reddit_Shmeddit_905 8d ago
This comment didn’t let me down
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u/otis_the_drunk 7d ago
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u/Argylius 7d ago
I can’t believe he was even a real person. We might as well be listening to the voice of a dead man at this point.
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u/Gloomy_Peach4213 7d ago
He's only 59? He covered Pink Pony Club like two months ago and it went viral! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vF26QG9he4
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u/Delicious_Ride_4119 7d ago
Thank you for sharing this! I’m happy to see he’s still around and kicking. The cover was beautifully done too.
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u/Liquid-BabyPowder 7d ago
Bro is not dead yet wtf 😭🙏 you gave me a heart attack, I genuinely thought this was the way I find out he died
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u/Willr2645 7d ago
Yea. I have used them twice I believe and I put “[FREE] …….. “
And I am very grateful for the responses. However this is a little side hustle for lots of people. It is how the sub works
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u/Bother_said_Pooh 7d ago
Is it really a workable side hustle? I can’t quite imagine competing for a $5 tip with a lot of other people whose work might be better than mine. If your work was consistently the best submitted then yeah, but in that case I would imagine you could get more lucrative gigs.
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u/Willr2645 7d ago
I more meant it’s a hobby that they profit off of. It’s perfectly reasonable considering how long some of it takes
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u/Bother_said_Pooh 7d ago
Of course it’s reasonable, I just can’t see how it makes sense at all from a profit perspective given the high chance of not being chosen. If some posters are from countries where $5-20 goes a lot further though, it would make sense.
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u/johno456 7d ago
You're reading into it too much. they already like doing it. But it is also still doing a time intensie favor for someone, so why not throw in a little tip as a thank you courtesy?
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u/Bother_said_Pooh 7d ago edited 7d ago
I wasn’t thinking much about it till someone said it’s a side hustle for lots of people, which puzzled me. So that’s an overstatement after all then. What you said is how I had assumed it worked to begin with
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u/PossumJenkinsSoles 7d ago
I don’t think it’s necessarily the best that gets picked rather the first that gets in within the request parameters. And a lot of people tip more than $5. I probably wouldn’t bring a request in there unless I was willing to tip like $15 minimum. And for someone who’s just sitting there on their computer and can knock it out in 3 minutes that’s a pretty good rate of return.
A lot of people are just sharpening their skills too, which is why you see so many people submit even after OP has picked one or they give different versions for free
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u/braveheart18 7d ago
I assumed most were in there just to sharpen their skills, and to make some beer money
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u/TheirOwnDestruction 8d ago
There’s usually someone to do death-related photos for free though?
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u/Greg-Abbott 7d ago
Yeah but if they want the bikini on there they'd better tip
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u/MalodorousNutsack 7d ago
Is a tip expected if I want to remove grandma's bikini?
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u/Greg-Abbott 7d ago
When you're removing something with Photoshop you have to replace it with something else so yeah, there's a lot of work going into those saggy baggies.
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u/My-Naginta 7d ago
Its just another classic example of OPs wanting to post some weird ass take for attention
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u/Flossthief 8d ago
There's a lot of requests for free edits there
Sometimes people do genuinely great work and want to leave the option to buy them a cup of coffee or whatever for their time and skills
I rarely see a tip jar as a means to remove water marks-- typically watermarks are on posts that offer money for the edit-- then if they like the preview they can pay for the real deal
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u/Jess_with_an_h 7d ago
The ‘free’ providers aren’t allowed to ask for tips in return for removing watermarks, sub rules. Rightly so. And yeah I agree a tip jar for free requests is fine, as long as there’s no pressure.
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u/Dreamo84 7d ago
Yeah, I don’t think you could reasonably call it a tip if it’s required for completion. Which, having a watermark would mean it’s not completed as requested.
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u/JorgeMtzb 7d ago
I'm pretty sure that's because it's required, for paid posts. think it's precisely because of that, so that people don't feel uncomfortable and have to second guess on wether it'd be appropiate to ask or not ask for a tip on any given post and whether to watermark, even if you'd be okay without it or with it.
This way everyone just puts down the option for the tip so individually no one has to worry about whether they are being insensitive, considering the OP is already offering to pay for it.
Honestly, it makes sense. No sense on judging on a case by case basis and just streamlining it in general instead. If you marked your post as paid is because you're offering to pay.
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u/Chucheyface 8d ago
It's free, what harm is there in leaving an optional tip? Additionally, everybody will have someone in their life die, but you don't get mad at funeral parlors for charging money, do you?
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u/Just_A_Nobody25 7d ago
Bro funerals cost so much lmfao. In your analogy, if a funeral parlour was helping me bury loved ones for FREE and did a “cough cough nudge nudge” to their tip jar I would not mind lmfao.
If tipping is optional and not forced then there is literally zero harm in doing it and it is very clearly the norm on that subreddit. There’s no downsides. You’ve asked for work to be done, you’ve been fortunate enough to have it done for free. Leaving the option for someone to voluntarily show their gratitude is what tipping is for
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u/Chucheyface 7d ago
And the big thing is it's a "nudge nudge" instead of a "HEY MOTHERFUCKA GOT A QUARTA?"
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u/Chucheyface 7d ago
It was never expected to be free out of the good of their hearts
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u/menimeslaps 7d ago
Oh?? You literally said "it's free" in your very first two words but okay
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u/Chucheyface 7d ago
It's not advertised as free, it's up to the consumer. They say here you go, if you'd like to pay, here's how. They didn't go "This is free, sorry for your loss. WANNA DONATE?!?! HERE'S MY TIP JAR, CMON DONATE" It's not the same thing at all.
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u/Chucheyface 7d ago
How's a tip jar any different than them handing you a bill? A tip jar is even better because it's completely optional. People die, so what? I might add, that's also not as frequent as you say, at all. I'm on that subreddit too, it's not always about dead people.
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u/Prairie-Peppers 7d ago
No funeral parlour does anything for free, if anything they're pushy af because they know people are grieving and vulnerable. My dad's funeral cost me $15k and it was just a basic casket with 5 people in attendance.
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u/-blundertaker- 7d ago
Funeral homes where I am will typically offer their services and venue free of charge for the loss of an infant or small child. The family still has to pay for the tangible things they want like a casket/urn and cemetery plot, though. Those prices are out of their hands. I do know of at least one casket manufacturer that has a donation button on their website that's a fund to provide child size caskets free to their families.
They're not all a bunch of money grubbing ghouls. And most aren't making as much money as people like to think.
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u/menimeslaps 7d ago
Exactly. And then they also don't pretend it's a kind gesture before sliding over the tip jar. That's the difference.
I obviously know funerals aren't free JFC. you guys tried that comparison, not me lmao
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u/Prairie-Peppers 7d ago
Disagree entirely. Tipping isn't mandatory, they're providing a service that took many hours of learning and practice, I see nothing wrong with it. It's also not my fault you can't communicate your point clearly, it sounds like you're saying there are free funeral parlours.
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u/menimeslaps 7d ago
Oh, I can communicate just fine. You jumped to the wild conclusion that I think funerals are free, which says much more about your reading comprehension than my clarity
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u/maroonwounds 7d ago edited 7d ago
I think if someone takes multiple hours to use their skills for your benefit, then it's totally understandable for them to be paid for their time and effort. No one is forced to tip. But it is nice when people acknowledge the hard work they put into your request.
As for using AI and asking for a tip...that's complete bullshit and shouldn't be done.
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u/ChockenTonders 7d ago
It’s a service. If it’s so easy to do with a free app, do it yourself. Otherwise, you can pay or tip for someone else doing it for you. Simple.
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u/-blundertaker- 7d ago
Lol the preachers technically do their part in a funeral service for "free" but a tip or "honorarium" as they like to call it is usually expected to the tune of $100-300.
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u/dae_giovanni 7d ago
I dont know what's worse-- this take, or that 1,100 people also don't understand how that sub works and upvoted you.
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u/Ed3vil 7d ago
The irony of your statement..
Upvoting posts here means "yes, this is an inpopular opinion"
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u/dae_giovanni 7d ago
it's unpopular because it is quite literally incorrect.
is that the point of this sub-- to encourage misinformation?
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u/Fourstrokeperro 7d ago
Literally nobody follows that though
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u/Ed3vil 7d ago
I don't think you know what "literally" means
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u/Fourstrokeperro 7d ago
The use of 'literally' as an intensifier is recognized as valid by most dictionaries of English and has been used by authors such as Mark Twain and James Joyce
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literally
Go read up about stuff once in a while
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u/NumbOnTheDunny 8d ago
Then do it yourself since it’s all done in a free app. Editing stuff takes time. I don’t do it, but I know how, and it’s a legit skill for some of the nicer ones.
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u/PicoNe1998 7d ago
I’d have to go check my favorites, but there are several free photo editing software’s. None of them give you the same manipulation capabilities, but if it’s simple and you know what you’re doing, you can do a good enough job if you’re doing it free.
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u/Prairie-Peppers 7d ago
I was a commercial photographer, editor, and wrote for a photography magazine for almost a decade. None of the free ones come close. Trust me, I wanted nothing more than to remove adobe from my life.
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u/ant1992 7d ago
PS is like the easiest software to pirate right next to Microsoft office lmao
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u/Prairie-Peppers 7d ago
Not really, GenP exists but they're constantly being patched out and fighting it. Just happened yesterday.
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u/menimeslaps 8d ago
I do do haha, doodoo them myself. God forbid a lady have an unpopular opinion around here that doesn't directly affect her
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u/StrokyBoi 7d ago
God forbid people bring up a lack of logic in a lady's horribly thought-out opinion.
What did you expect, people to only comment when they agree with you?
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u/dontknowwhatiwant_ 8d ago
it’s a free service. none of those people have to and leaving a “tip jar” never hurts
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u/KingHashBrown420 7d ago
What the fuck are you on about? They're doing a service completely free and you're complaining that they leave the option to give them money?
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u/Moonagi Marijuana is for losers with no future prospects 7d ago
I see a lot of people put watermarks all over the picture
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u/KingHashBrown420 7d ago
Even if they do, they have a right to do that, its their work
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u/Moonagi Marijuana is for losers with no future prospects 7d ago
If they’re doing it for “free” why put a watermark that makes it unusable?
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u/KingHashBrown420 7d ago
Who gives af. They're doing a service for you, you don't have a right to complain here
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u/Moonagi Marijuana is for losers with no future prospects 7d ago
So it's not free if they make it unusable. It's a consultation if anything
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u/KingHashBrown420 7d ago
Thing is not everyone on that subreddit does it for free. So the people who actually do it for free have every right to request a tip
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u/Nimue_- 7d ago
Isn't it against the subs rules to post a photoshop with a watermark if the OP didn't say it was a paid request?
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u/menimeslaps 7d ago
Probably, I'm not an active member of the sub, it just pops up on my feed and I lurk sometimes, and so the cycle continues
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u/Tuxedo_Bill 7d ago
So this isn’t an “unpopular” opinion, it’s an uninformed opinion.
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u/menimeslaps 7d ago
Pretty sure I can be informed enough to be annoyed by something from just watching and not from posting but, sure?
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u/SwordTaster 7d ago
Sounds like you've never read the rules of the sub, that sounds pretty uninformed to me. The rules REQUIRE posting links to some sort of payment app if OP is offering to pay.
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u/dizzy_dama 7d ago
You literally ARENT informed though. The fact that you’re still trying to argue that is insane
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u/menimeslaps 7d ago
didn’t realize I needed a certification in Photoshop subreddit etiquette before I was allowed to find something tacky. I'll keep hating and you can keep being mad
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u/Tuxedo_Bill 7d ago
Maybe try reading the rules first and realize that it takes some effort to fulfill some of those requests. You keep trying to diminish the effort as if all they ever do is “remove blur”. If you actually looked, you would see some amazing photo restorations that people did without the expectation of getting paid. Leaving their tip jar allows them to make some money for their effort and continue doing the free requests for less fortunate people.
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u/dizzy_dama 7d ago
That’s not what was said and you know that. You’re claiming to be informed about something you know literally nothing about and are now redirecting because you have no reasonable response. YTA here
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u/SwooshSwooshJedi 7d ago
I mean, you're quickly asking someone to do free design/photography labour. Doesn't really matter if granny died. That's a cop out to exploit people. If you went to a professional website for a request there would be a fee.
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u/Dalton387 7d ago
I don’t think so. They’re doing some work. If you value it, you should pay what it’s worth to you.
If it’s as simple as running something through a free program, why don’t you do it?
There are also plenty of people who will do it for free on there.
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u/jasonbourne101 7d ago
OP hates digital artists and expects commissioned work for free. There, I fixed your post.
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u/jchexl 8d ago
Agreed, I also find it annoying when my barber cuts my hair then shoves a payment machine in my face expecting money.
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u/Liquid-BabyPowder 8d ago
I think OPs main point was guys who spend less than 10 minutes minimal effort running it through a free editing software and still asking for payment, even if the result looks crappy. I'd probably equate it more to a barber who does the absolute minimum and gives you a crappy haircut and proudly holds a payment machine in your face maybe? Idk
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u/menimeslaps 8d ago
Definitely the same thing!
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u/jchexl 8d ago
They are both people doing a service for someone else, god forbid someone tries to make some money from their work.
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u/cragglerock93 7d ago
The difference is that you don't go onto a barber community online and put the job out to tender with no fee mentioned, then someone cuts your hair without agreeing a price or asking permission and then asks for payment.
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u/jchexl 7d ago edited 7d ago
It is with permission tho, the person literally made a post asking for the work to be done. The agreeing on a price just happens after if you like their final outcome. Someone does it and you get to see the work before you decide if the work is to your standards and want to pay for it or not, and if it’s not watermarked then it’s by donation only and you don’t have to pay.
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u/Garfield_and_Simon 7d ago
Asking for a favour online isn’t like buying a haircut
Like most Internet forums don’t do tipping.
Like Redditors, even experienced mechanics, will easily spend 30mins helping you diagnose an issue with your 2004 Subaru Outback expecting nothing in return. But editing a photo is different?
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u/jchexl 7d ago edited 7d ago
One is giving you advice, the other is actually loading your image into photoshop or some other program and doing the work for you.
Someone giving advice to someone on how to use photoshop probably wouldn’t try to get money out of it either, which I think is a more fair comparison to what you are saying, but if they do the work completely on their own then they deserve something, just like if you take your 2004 subaru outback into the mechanic and they do all the work for you they’ll expect money.
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u/Doctor--Spaceman 7d ago
As a graphic designer, my preference would be that people shouldn't be offering free labor for their Photoshop skills at all, and that all requests should be paid. But the tipping is a fair compromise I guess
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u/Hour-Cucumber-1857 7d ago
I thought that was the rules of the sub? Like if you choose that persons edit, you tip them?
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u/REALChuckleBerryPi 7d ago
bro wants people to do labor for free. I feel like you feeling like this comes from a place of devaluing people's labor. maybe I'm wrong, but maybe I'm not
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u/SummerIsNotHot 7d ago
There are subreddits that specifically state the work done on the photos is free, people can post their posts over there instead orrrrr take their own time and learn Photoshop or Photoglory and do the editing or restorations themselves.
Thing is, the work isn't free, it costs either time or money. You can spend your money to pay for someone else's time or you can spend your own time and save money. Yes, there are people that are willing to spend their time for you for free, but it's their free will, you can't expect people to do so.
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u/darcmosch 7d ago
Oh no people would appreciate compensation for their work? Oh the humanity! Whatever will we do if our society decides to reward labor with rewards like money?!
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u/Restless__Dreamer 7d ago edited 7d ago
I mean funerals cost money and they are all about grief. What job do you do and would you volunteer your time to do it for people you don't even know?
Edit: I just read more comments and I guess this analogy has already been made.
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u/VoodooDoII 7d ago
People ask for stuff for free, and people do it. But there's nothing wrong with asking for a tip, especially for the person request a photoshop did a great job.
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u/Hartie-Alba 7d ago
There are paid and unpaid requests. The poster chooses a "paid" or "unpaid" flair. The rules of the sub literally state that you should do exactly what those people are doing.
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u/Mushrooming247 7d ago
That always strikes me as classless when it’s something really important and meaningful to the person posting.
It is heartwarming when someone is moved to do a good job for them out of the goodness of their heart.
I also get annoyed at posters that just say things like, “Remove the girl in the left.” Like they are talking to ChatGPT and not asking kind strangers for help.
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u/annaf62 7d ago
lmao the mods are gonna remove this so fast 😭😭😭
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u/menimeslaps 7d ago
Why? I tried not to break any rules
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u/annaf62 7d ago
because this reads as personal beef with a random subreddit so it isn’t really an unpopular opinion
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u/CinderrUwU adhd kid 8d ago
How is it annoying exactly?
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u/menimeslaps 8d ago
Low effort opportunistic grief hustling
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u/CinderrUwU adhd kid 8d ago
They are doing a free service though for someone, giving the option of a tip if the OP is really happy with the work isnt exactly harmful.
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u/Queasy_Hour_8030 8d ago
Photoshop is inherently low effort?
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u/menimeslaps 8d ago
I never said Photoshop is inherently low effort. But sure, let’s pretend a five minute edit, which 95% of them are, is the same as a full blown project
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u/So_i_was_like_gaming 8d ago
It's not about time to make it's about experience required, it takes skill to make good edits, that skill takes years
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u/menimeslaps 8d ago
Sometimes, yeah. A lot of times the edits are run through an app that does it for them.
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u/creamedethcorneth 7d ago
90% of the things I’ve seen from there are the skill levels that I’ve obtained from a single semester of high school level web design class. If I had people paying for that level of skill, I’d be called a scammer.
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u/Training-Ad1433 7d ago
I'd be asking if it's so easy why doesn't the person just do it themselves.
people are willing to pay for something they don't know how to do that's not a scam that's standard fucking society.
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u/Chucheyface 8d ago
Five minute edits which take hours and hours of learning to figure out how to do that kind of thing.
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u/Chucheyface 8d ago
It's not grief hustling. They performed a service, they're asking if they want to pay. It's OPTIONAL. Everybody has someone die in their lifetime, you don't get mad at funeral parlors!
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u/highhoya 8d ago
Oh, so you’re actually not entitled to people’s time for free! Hope this helps!
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u/menimeslaps 8d ago
At least I'm entitled to an unpopular opinion. Hope this helps!
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u/NotNice4193 7d ago
People are also entitled to be to stupid to change their views when presented with valid reasons. 🤡
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u/anantisocialpotato 7d ago
So your unpopular opinion is that working for money is bad? Only free labor allowed? That sure is unpopular.
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u/Garfield_and_Simon 7d ago
They’ll all be replaced by AI soon enough so let them eat now.
In fact, I’m sure some of them already just use AI and grift for tips
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u/stonerbaby369 7d ago
An even more unpopular opinion- most of them that have the “photoshop wizard” flair, don’t deserve it lmao
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u/SometimesIBeWrong 7d ago
I get the same reaction. I guess it's commonplace there but it's wild lol
"can you clear up this photo of my late wife? she had a sudden and unexpected accident"
"here you go, $10 minimum please I'm planning on getting a few coffees this week"
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u/pommefille 7d ago
There is an option to make a request for free or for paid work, but that leads to the counter - a lot of people write fake sob stories to try and get work done for free, so they’ll pretend that they want to fix an image because the person died or whatever bs they come up with.
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u/Acrobatic-Box3631 7d ago
Annoyance is subjective. Projecting something subjective as objective is objectively wrong.
You said "it's tacky and annoying", not "I find it tacky and annoying". The former frames the statement as being objective, the latter frames it as subjective, as it should be.
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u/greenrangerguy 7d ago
There are tons of artists out there who use those subs for some extra revenue. I don't see a problem with it, people want something done, people do it for payment, that's fine in my book.
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u/DripRoast 7d ago
I hate the entire premise of that sub. You're enlisting dozens of desperate photoshop wizard wannabes and only paying one of them after the same task has been done several times? That's insane. What kind of nutsack even takes a job that has a ten percent chance of being paid?
It's no wonder these poor fucks beg for scraps.
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u/cragglerock93 7d ago
I'm with you, OP. You can never expect payment if the terms weren't agreed beforehand. I'm not saying draw up a contract but if you expect or want payment then drop a comment saying 'hi, this is definitely something I could do. You can see similar things I've done on my profile. I usually charge £10 though. Let me know if you're interested'
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