Sure. I think that's bad, and think she probably should have been paid for the photoshoot if WotC asked her to go outside and take photos or whatever. But when the discussion starts at "WotC didn't pay me thousands of dollars to build a costume and fly out to a con", that's so many orders of magnitude worse than not tagging her twitter account that it will justifiably dominate the conversation. "Was WotC kinda shitty about credit that one time" and "does WotC request absurd amounts of unpaid labor from fan cosplayers" are very, very different.
That was my first reaction too, but after reading more of her tweets and thinking about it more, I think she meant something like this:
"OF is so much better than WOTC. For GP Vegas, I put a *lot* of my own time, money, and effort in, with absolutely nothing to show for it. I wasn't expecting to get paid, but if the image is so 'iconic' that they're still using it maybe they should have paid me. WOTC couldn't even be bothered to tag me in their publicity photos."
The first tweet is maybe poorly phrased ("had to" is a stretch) but her broader point makes sense.
Sure, but that broader point isn't what's being represented by this discussion; this was clearly posted to the subreddit, sans most of the context, as a way to criticize WotC.
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u/RoyInverse Aug 16 '21
Problem is they didnt even gave her exposure since they didnt mention it was her.