Proportional credit:
Attribution that is appropriate given the portion of your work that is pulling from someone else’s

Here is a small thread that talks about how to do this properly:

If you are screenshotting someone’s work on one platform and posting it on your platform with a related caption, you are required to:

1. Explicitly name that person in your caption
2. Tag them (or write their @ and specify platform)
3. Tell your audience how to support them

If you have a large platform, you are EXTRA obligated to do this, as well as give the original creator their coins as well as you can.

If you’ve “been inspired” by someone’s work, meaning you create a thing soon after seeing someone else’s thing and/or consider your thing to be even adjacently in conversation with their thing:

1. Name them explicitly (and thank them)
2. Tag them
3. Direct traffic their way

This is the bare minimum. You should ideally be telling people to also support them, but it depends on the context in which your work is in conversation with theirs. “In conversation with” doesnt = agree with, so use honest judgement

If you’re talking about something a whole lot on social media (like that Krispy Kreme thing, to use a past example) and you are new to that thing:

Tag the people whose commentaries directly impact yours even if your thoughts are kinda still a mish mash of what you’ve learned

You can list them in a tweet or post to give them joint props. To do this properly, you need to be honest with yourself about how much your words draw from theirs. This kind of credit is best when you’ve read lots of impactful stuff and are mostly reacting to what you’ve learned.

I hope this thread will help people get the credit they deserve. (end)

Also, if you use this idea, feel free to tag it #propcred and mention me, @marquisele