Uploading artwork from Tiktok to Danbooru (Specifically the photo feature. Not the default video feature they usually have on.)

Hello. This is probably the first post related to uploading images from Tiktok to this site. I haven't seen anyone asked about this and I want to know if it's allowed.

For context and to be more specific, there's a sliding photo feature that can upload up to 35 pictures per upload on Tiktok aside from their usual video format (the photo feature still has music, but the pictures can only be downloaded, basically). I've seen this used by countess artists across the app, and I would like to upload pictures from there to here, although there's two major cons behind this feature: there's a watermark of the user's Tiktok username when you look at it closely. It can be visible when the picture or artwork is dark enough for the watermark to be seen. Second, quality issues. Most pictures I saved from this app tend to vary from quality. It depends on what picture you save though.

And I was just wondering if I can still upload these pictures to here, or if I do need a third party to remove the watermark, or just not upload these pictures at all. I don't know, if anyone can help or explain, please do. Thank you.

Personally, I'd consider Tiktok watermarks to be on the same level as Weibo watermarks. As long as the username is of the artist's, it wouldn't be a third-party watermark.

I'd personally be more worried about photo quality. If you can find a better version on any other site, I'd probably use that version instead. But if TikTok is all you got, I don't see anything wrong with uploading them.

This all comes with the disclaimer that I've never used TikTok (and don't plan on starting to anytime soon). It would be much preferrred if someone who has could also weigh in on the photo quality so that I don't accidentally give false information, but going by as explained to me, I don't see any reason why you can't upload artwork from there.

Thanks for the reply, I'll probably consider that.

Echoeing what Knowledge Seeker said, a TikTok watermark is not a third-party watermark if the artist originally uploaded the image to TikTok themselves (note that, even if it were a 3rd-party watermark, removing it wouldn't be allowed either).

I'm not knowledgeable on this photos feature though, and it's quality implications, so someone else will have to weigh in.

I'll probably also consider this too when uploading an image from it, thank you as well.