#even if the algorithms hate that

[ionomycin]

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#artists on tumblr #so colorful this year #the first pieces i have planned for 2024 are more horror themed again #doing my best to relax until the new year #i love freelancing but i haven't had a single vacation this year #so trying to actually just... not draw for a few days :') #i always feel guilty when i don't #but no matter how much you love something you need to do other things too #be a person outside of it #even if the algorithms hate that #i hope everyone has a great rest of the year #especially sending strength and good vibes to anyone working customer service over the holidays #been there #i wish a very “step on a lego” for any customer being shitty to you

[crimson-rain-smoked-flower]

I’m not trying to attack you, but do you know that proshipper means someone who supports and romanticizes pedophilia, incest, and abuse? Your reblog on that post seems to read that you think antis just hate on people for having ships they don’t like. But it’s completely different than that. Just looking on the proshipper side of Tumblr and the internet and you can see people happily shipping children and adults and making nsfw content of such things.

i appreciate that you're not being outright hostile, but i have to say, that on its own put you above basically every anti i've interacted with.

i understand where antis are coming from, i really do. there are a lot of things on the internet that make me deeply uncomfortable, including the minor/adult ships that you mention. i don't want to anything to do with those kinds of ships and i would be happiest if i never saw them again. which is why i'm proship.

nine times out of ten, if i see that kind of ship brought up on my dash, it's because i was following an anti without realizing it, and they brought it up unprompted and untagged, to talk about how bad it is that they exist. they are the ones putting that kind of content in front of my face and making it harder to avoid.

the thing about people who ship those ships is that they're generally very aware that not everyone wants to see that kind of content, and so they tag it. they make sideblogs to talk about it. they don't go out of their way to shove it in people's faces. that means i, and everyone else who doesn't like it, can avoid it.

what antis want is for it to not exist at all. they want the tags to be purged and blocked, and for anyone who uses those tags to have their accounts deleted. and sure, that might get rid of some of it, but do you know what would happen to the rest? it would stop being tagged. people who don't want to see it wouldn't have the tools to avoid it. this isn't just a hypothetical, that's what's happened any time a fan space has tried to do that.

that's not even getting into the rabbit hole of what should be banned and what shouldn't. obviously any content that depicts real children or real life abuse shouldn't exist and shouldn't be allowed to be posted, but basically any platform that people use already enforces those policies, and there's not much of a slippery slope to go down there. if it involves real living breathing people being abused, it's bad. end of discussion.

but the same can't be said for fiction. ask ten antis for a specific list of all the content that should be banned, and you'll get ten different answers. what about kink? what about roleplay? what about horror and murder and anything that involves fictional characters being graphically tortured? what about people using art to process terrible things that have happened to them? what about art that uses dark themes as a horror element? if you just want to ban anything questionable to anyone, that's the line of thinking that gets any mention of lgbt existence banned. and again, this isn't just a hypothetical, this has happened before, and that's generally where it leads.

i know, from personal experience, that antis do, in fact, send harassment to people just for shipping things they don't like. i've gotten accused of absolutely vile shit for shipping two fictional characters who were both consenting adults. i've seen ship wars turn into moral battlegrounds, over ships that an average person wouldn't bat an eye at.

the thing about "romanticization" is a whole other can of worms. the anti logic goes like this: if someone sees something (even if it's very obviously fictional) in a positive light enough times, they will start thinking it's okay in real life, and go on to hurt real people. the problem with that is that it's just. blatantly untrue.

if it were true every horror movie fan would be a serial killer, every person that studies dark media would be an unhinged psychopath, and everyone who is into ddlg would be a pedophile. but they're not. they just aren't. people have directed movies just as fucked up as the darkest shit on ao3, and are still capable of being normal human beings who know right from wrong in real life.

even if someone is that impressionable, scrubbing away the existence of every piece of questionable content isn't going to solve their problem, because they're still going to be vulnerable to con men, scams, and cultists. the only thing that would actually materially help someone like that is developing their own morals and critical thinking.

children are also more impressionable, and there's a lot of content that's not suitable for them, but that doesn't mean that content shouldn't exist. it just means that they should stick to spaces designed for them (which most social media sites, tumblr included, are not) or, if they're old enough to be responsible for their experience online, they, or a trusted adult in their lives, should block and filter out things that they aren't comfortable with.

which is what everyone on the internet should be doing. it's what i do, and it's made the internet a much more pleasant place to be. and it's why i sometimes worry for antis mental health, especially teenagers, because they're being told it's right and moral to seek out content that makes them uncomfortable and to engage with the people making it. and that's just. really bad. it's not good for the creators that they're harassing obviously, but it's also really bad for them! it's not healthy to seek out things that make you feel bad, and it's a terrible internet safety lesson to teach minors that it's okay for them to seek out and engage with people making adult content.

individual harassment and crusading is never going to succeed at removing dark content from the internet. it just isn't. at best you might get a small percentage of people who create that content to stop sharing it, at worst you're just going to make people stop tagging it, and either way, you're exposing yourself to things that make you feel bad, when you don't have to.

if you want to materially change the type of content you see, you can. the block button is your friend, use it liberally. same with content filtering and tag blocking.

#oops this got really long #cd.ask #proship #disk horse #tw pedophila mention #uhhh what to tag #tw shipping discourse #this doesn't even get into the antis that i've seen proudly professing that they care more about fictional characters than real people #because i don't know how to explain to someone that real humans matter more than cartoon characters #or how to avoid content on platforms other than tumblr bc frankly thats a lot of the reason i don't use them #i don't trust an algorithm #also im turning anon off after posting this so if you want to send me hate you cant be a coward about it #also be prepared to get blocked and ignored #the only reason i answered this person is bc they weren't being hostile

[ineffectualdemon]

I don't want the cost of my entertainment to be broken people

#this should not even be a question #crunch #abuse in the system #content creators destroying their mental health in pursuit of the algorithm #the idea that creation has to be constant and fast #i hate it #give people the time they need to create and the money they need to survive while they do #entertainment #entertainment industry #games industry #content creation #youtube

[magebird]

Sometimes I feel like the discourse about AI art misses the actual point of why it’s not a good tool to use.

“AI art isn’t ‘real’ art.” —> opinion-based, echoes the same false commentary about digital art in general, just ends up in a ‘if you can’t make your own store-bought is fine’ conversation, implies that if art isn’t done a certain way it lacks some moral/ethical value, relies on the emotional component of what art is considered “real” or not which is wildly subjective

“AI art steals from existing artists without credit.” —> fact-based, highlights the actual damage of the tool, isn’t relying on an emotional plea, can actually lead to legally stopping overuse of AI tools and/or the development of AI tools that don’t have this problem, doesn’t get bogged down in the ‘but what if they caaaaan’t make art some other way’ argument

Like I get that people who don’t give a shit about plagiarism aren’t going to be swayed, but they weren’t going to be swayed by the first argument either. And the argument of “oh well AI art can’t do hands/isn’t as good/can’t do this thing I have decided indicates True Human Creativity” will eventually erode since… the AI tools are getting better and will be able to emulate that in time. It just gets me annoyed when the argument is trying to base itself on “oh this isn’t GOOD art” when AI does produce interesting and appealing images and the argument worth having is much more about the intrinsic value of artists than the perceived value of the works that are produced.

#anyway ignore this bitching #me putting on my clown suit since I know tumblr doesn’t have reading comprehension #there is no intrinsic moral value to the use of AI because the AI is not a conscious thing #it is an algorithm and like all algorithms it can be applied and developed in harmful ways #for example my disabled ass loves having my Amazon echo so I can turn on the lights even when my pain is bad #but I hate being advertised and listened to #neither of these things are the outcome of the fact that there is hardware and software to translate and implement my voice commands #it’s about the users and developers of the tool and their intent

[wulfhalls]

yo remember the fucking. feet washing jesus imagery forgiveness scene they added in the death note anime. 4.5 minutes before light finally kills L. remember that? sort of deeply insane thing to just. add to ur anime adaptation like that. 👍 just sitting around in the animation studio going. u know what the episode L dies in needs? more homoeroticism and religious symbolism. why did they do that

#and then. when light dies and Ls like essence is there. phew #i wasnt even really that into them back in the day #(more of a matt x mello girlie myself #if u have no screen time and basically no character i will be obsessed with u from ages 12-19 #hashtag justice for mihael keehl they hate so see a bad bitch win #anyways. i just got recommended an amv thats sixteen years old and was 40% of my personality when I was 16 and. #it brought some things up i guess #thx youtube algorithm #death note #txt.me

[tricksterlatte]

Anyone else think short form social media based on algorithms designed to promote topics that create more engagement instead of more joy, the idea of fast fashion but conveyed through social media, and the fact you can monetize suffering and outrage better than ever has largely resulted in the death spiral of media literacy and the mass emergence of bad faith readings?

#I may be venting a lil but god it blows my mind #fyp is a blessing and a curse because i don't think ppl were ever meant to be subjected to this many ppl at once #god i took a bird site hiatus for weeks and now BARELY check it and it already feels like a hit #oughhhhh #even fandom spaces have hugely incorporated marketing and networking into them bc of cmms and sponsorship and building portfolio #which would be fine tbh if it weren't for the way socmed is designed #now it's like you can't support too many ppl or else you're shadow banned or you have to make yourself palatable and marketable #and websites with threads in which people will only read the first post before qrting because ratios are seen as five minutes of fame #features that permit beating an algorithm are locked behind a paywall that promises you money if you go viral #and what goes viral is usually incendiary content meant for those ratios or trends. whether for or against OP #even in hobbyist spaces the climate has changed so much due to the monetization and marketing and just. ugh #not to mention side accounts dedicated to gossip in this new priv account culture like...idk #if you have to make another account so you can make fun of a friend on main with selected priv friends it just doesn't sit well with me #and not every priv account does this but enough do and it makes me tired #unsolicited hate comments are still as bad as they used to be on ff dot net except now people openly are proud of it more #why do most socmed feel like passive aggressive sticky notes on high school lockers #there is so much more I could say about everything that has left me weary about the internet but I don't know the time or place #and I don't want anyone to think this is about them because it's a general statement. though if you are doing the more inflammatory things. #maybe rethink that. it's not good for anyone else and it's not good for you either #I keep coming back online to check on ppl and see art and I *know* it's draining for my health every time #but I feel a lot better now that i use socmed less overall. and that I try to focus on what makes me happy #it just sucks seeing so many people i care about endure absolutely wild struggles bc people online do not care. #I like rambling in my tags because this is the only place I ramble except my personal journal and to my wife

[namekiansauce]

TP!Link is the strongest link, you can't convince me otherwise

#artists on tumblr #drawing #not ai generated #legend of zelda #tears of the kingdom #twilight princess #totk fanart #totk link #tp link #fanart #im self conscious of my art after my like 5 year hiatus #like my style is the same but is it even something ppl will like? #im also posting on my tiktok but i usually post videos of my cat so the algorithm is gonna hate me #i changed rendering styles halfway through lol #dont focus on the lack of background or tp not being finished #ive been working on this too long to care about legs okay lol

[faelapis]

man. i havent touched a steven universe video on youtube in uhhh Years, but youtube still gotta be like "hey heres someone passive-aggressively doing SU redesigns :)"

and you know its passive-aggressive, because adventure time (which is much more in vogue right now) has 95,689 mid designs and i've NEVER seen a redesign video lol

#even 'fun' content like redesigns isnt immune from people very obviously only doing it for things its popular to hate on :) #vent / i guess #i generally stay away from SU discourse these days (i have a life now. kinda) but the algorithm likes taunting me #so while i try to ignore it. it finds me. against my will

[tortellinigirl]

I feel like recently, ADHD has kind of become shorthand for “a person who is annoying online and has no real problems,” and I don’t really think that’s awesome news, given the context that ADHD has a long history of being disregarded as a made up disorder that’s just an excuse for poor/obnoxious behavior, no matter how much scientific research proves otherwise. ADHD is not by any means the only disorder that has people making a thousand misleading tiktoks about it, so perhaps do some critical thinking about why specifically ADHD has become the poster child for that behavior. There are certainly valid criticisms to be made of the way we discuss mental health online, but maybe use your brain and determine why this disorder in particular is the one that’s easiest to point at for being “annoying” and “not that big of a deal.”

#idk maybe if u actually watched a couple of the tiktoks u might learn that the lack of focus thing is reall not the main issue #its just what the people around us are most likely to notice and be bothered by #not saying it doesnt get obnoxious seeing people say the same thing over and over #and yes some people are like purposely vague and disingenuous about the symptoms to get views from people thinking they have it now #but i see that with everything. like autism PTSD depression OCD anxiety #im always getting tiktoks saying that im a lesbian or i have repressed memories or “x normal thing is a symptom of y disorder!!” #and yes its annoying but its probably somewhat helpful to people who actually are dealing w those things #and also like. if u simply stop treating ur for you page like a crystal ball that sees into your soul and reflects it back #and realize its just an algorithm designed to make u interact whether thats bc u like what u saw or fucking hated it #then u will not be as bothered ! #but yes our generation seems to have a habit of constantly trying to find the right box to out ourselves in so we can be like. “marketable” #like people seem to want to design their personality like an movie character or something #but its so shitty that we’re dog piling all that on ADHD as if our specific disorder has anything to do with it #also personally i think its kind of normal to be really focused on a particular aspect of your identity when u just discovered it #and it usually evens out and just becomes part of the background of your identity #but yes there’s often a problem with pathologizing normal things #but i think its important to recognize that lots of things that are normal occasionally are pathological in excess. like thats how it works #like we’ve all been through how being sad sometimes is not the same as depression #why cant we grasp that occasionally going into a room and forgetting why you’re there isnt the same as ADHD #my posts

[moregraceful]

Did anyone else opt into Patio on Tumblr and now the desktop version of Tumblr just straight up doesn't work. Anyway m just told me there are rumors that Chubba Purdy might rescind his transfer to SJSU and I'm inconsolable. the single thread my sanity was hanging on all week was me and m deciding Chubba Purdy is going to meetcute Ethan Cardwell by hitting him with his car in the SJSU parking structure shared by the SJSU football stadium and Sharks Ice. Preston I have known who you are for ummm I think five days but I need you to stay the course. You want to be a Spartan. You want to be a Spartan sooooo bad. You want to hit Ethan Cardwell with your car...

#I DON'T LIKE MY HAIRCUT I GOT TODAY AND I'M ABOUT TO ACT OUT!!! #AND I SWITCHED DATING APPS BC I WAS TIRED OF CHASERS ON TINDER BUT SOMEHOW THIS NEW ONE IS EVEN WORSE #like i can handle chasers tf do i do with cishet christian women being like i need a christ-like babydaddy to build a family #dating based on an algorithm is insane i hate it here #BUT THATS NOT IMPORTANT RN!!!! CHUBBA!!!! LISTEN TO ME!!!!!! #PLAYING TIME AT THE NCAA LEVEL IS NOT MORE IMPORTANT THAN MAKING A FOOL OF YOURSELF AT DENNYS IN FRONT OF ETHAN!!!!!! #CHUBBA YOU COULD BE IN THE GREATEST MINOR LEAGUES/NCAA LOVE STORY OF ALL TIMEEEEEEEEE #DON'T YOU WANT TO FALL IN LOVE PRESTON!! #(ethan cardwell is just standing there) #our narrative..... #fresno oilers.txt #i'm fine. i'm not afraid to keep on living

[covenofthearticulate]

day 395 of fighting for my life amongst amc!louis stans.

#I HATE IT HERE I WANNA GO HOME #i wanna go home but there are clowns in my house worshipping some stranger who does not even remotely resemble my blorbo #and tumblr is fucking forcing their content on my dash in some weird algorithm try-out #fellas is it gay to lie down with the devil

[lovesitcomsandgaystuffs]

Since every day yohaji's anime is getting closer and closer this is a reminder that harassing real people about something fictional is not right and that if you see something you don't like the option to block is your best friend.

#this post was born thanks to dunmeshi actually #since there are so many people who go around quoting arts of things they don't like saying how much they hate it and the same with edits #which in addition to being super rude seems foolish to me? #like you know that in social networks like twt and tt there is something called algorithm right? #and this algorithm is going to see that you are interacting with something it doesn't see if it is a negative or positive response #what matters to it is that you interacted with it #even went as far as commenting #then the algorithm is going to think that you like that something you interacted with and it will show you more #why would you do that to yourself #I'm only bringing this to the yohaji fandom because it's the one that's been on my mind the most lately and it's going to have an adaptatio #and we all know there's going to be fights probably #tanamai sensei is a multishipper anyway... #yohaji

[ehszter]

just what i needed thank you

#been very depressed about financial stuff #i hate money #and I hate algorithms #and i hate that studios don't write back when I apply for a job #or publishers when I send submissions #i even dreamed that i gave up on art and just went to work in an office or something #and I seriously thought it through and cried #and i woke up and was confused #but yeah i cant stop making stuff #im just tired of being useless i guess not making money or just very little #my biggest dream is to leave my country and buy a house #but you have to be rich to do that #oh well #wont give up just a bit sad now #sorry for being a party pooper #happy monday tho #anyways good things happen too #my comic coming soon im excited for it even if it wont sell #so yeah it's ok to feel like crap sometimes #gonna get better #dont give up you guys either!

[r0semultiverse]

I refuse to hop in a Zoox car in my entire life if I can avoid it. I refuse to hop into any self-driving robo taxi (or robotaxi) that uses AI to keep it’s passengers “safe.” If this is actually a service they are legally allowed to provide publicly, there’s about to be a whole bunch of new laws made in hopefully very little time! Now you know me, obviously fuck the law, many laws are unjust, but sometimes we need some regulations to keep up with the shit that rich Silicon Valley tech bros “put out” while claiming it’s allegedly their own work. These rich bastards are dangerous! Now I’ll pass along the questions that my partner & I jokingly pondered. If something happens that the AI & detection systems doesn’t know how to handle, will us as the passengers be held legally responsible say if a child gets punted into the air by the self driving car & we can’t do anything to stop it? What if we’re asleep assuming the car is safe & it runs over a legally endangered animal? What if we’re on our phones & these self-driving robot cars cleave someone in half? What if it crashes into someone’s private property? Are we held responsible in any of these cases or is the big rich guy’s company? If it’s anything like Tesla, you should get your kids or pets out of the road when you see a Zoox car coming, it could allegedly cause some mortalities. Two more things. What’s stopping someone from hijacking, hacking, or planting a virus on these self-driving taxi services? What if one of them gets hijacked to take someone to a human trafficker meetup spot? Will the company be held responsible at all? The gifs below pretty much summarizes my feelings.

#I would sooner trust an Uber driver even though I’m kind of paranoid; than trust a robot with no legal responsibilities #we’re trying this post again since apparently I hit a key word that the algorithm didn’t like in my post or tags #I’ll put my trust in a random stranger before I put my trust in an AI whose owner is probably a billionaire or millionaire #zoox & any other robotaxi or robo taxi services who do self driving cars; I don’t trust like that #regulations for stuff like this often only happens once it’s too late & I actually hate that so much #robots are stealing our jobs & the government is just letting them; they don’t care about us #these tag rambles are probably gonna get my post wiped from being seen by anyone #I’m anti-AI btw just to clarify; in case that wasn’t blatantly obvious #I’ll always be anti AI #I’ll trust a Lyft driver before I trust a robot with no sense of self awareness of its own #mine #op #self driving vehicles #2024

[razzek]

Haha my bad, I have $30 for the rest of the month. 8)

#for real you don't know how bad it is living on social security #and at this time I don't even have the skills to apply for part time work #which I will be immediately rejected for because algorithms hate disabled people #not that I can do the heavy lifting or man the cash register that is the bare bones requirement of entry level work #boy this BA in special education and most of an MA sure were worth the time huh? #anyway let me know how you're surviving on $950 a month if you're about to say I'm just bad at money #you have to have money to be bad at it first 8) #razz rambles #trying to pay down $2.5k credit debt when you have to keep using your credit card to live really sucks

[gvenevera]

May I share some opinions about Katsuki’s final line the chapter 405? I’ve been trying to understand why fans on both sides are nitpicking on this particular panel and I want to explore what happened.

(Please mind that I’m not a Japanese expert nor a native but I have been studying the language and following both MHA manga and fandom for years, so I do have some experience on the matter. Oh and I’ll declare my Conflict of Interest as a Bakudeku shipper, but I do know how to stand on neutral grounds.)

Jpn: OFA (あいつ) に拭うねーもんは、こっちで拭うってなあああ!!!

Caleb’s version: OFA couldn’t keep you on the ground, but we’ll finish the job and then some!

In this sentence, “OFA” was meant to represent Izuku, as Horikoshi had clearly written for us in superscript. However even if you ignore the double meaning, OFA = Izuku, AM and the vestiges. In this scenario, all of them were already fighting against AFO and Shigaraki on the battlefield. So when Katsuki said that “he” is stepping in, it means exactly that, even though こっち isn’t specifically a singular pronoun, because he was the only other person on that battlefield. There is no “we” in this scene!

(Or if we want to be technical, there’s Edgeshot who’s out of commission. Best Jeanist, Mirio and Gentle are on Troy somewhere and they COULD be part of the collective “we” but they weren’t shown jumping in to help in this chapter either, so very low chance it could allude to them.)

Unless of course, Caleb took it too literally and thought that OFA alludes to the quirk itself. In this case, his English translation might be something like: “The ultimate power of OFA quirk couldn’t stop you (AFO+Shiggy) but we (Katsuki, Izuku, AM and the other heroes) will finish the job (by power of teamwork?)” Which is an understandable sentence in itself, but not accurate to the literal Japanese text. At all.

That’s not to mention the other missed opportunities in this panel alone, such as the callback to Katsuki’s apology in the rain. The “and then some” line was actually correct English, but it was such a rarely used phrase that it was jarring spoken from a teenager.

Tl;dr - yes, I think Caleb’s English translation for this page in particular was not satisfactory.

Listen, I know translations are hard, especially in languages like Japanese where people tend to omit pronouns or phrases in their speech. That’s why I stick around on leak nights to pick up the raw scans, and I try not to nitpick on manga translations too much. Heck, even other fan translations added their own flairs! - TBC’s version outright had Katsuki call out “Deku” which could be a controversy in itself (a reference to Hori’s intention but not 100% confirmed, and one may wonder if Katsuki would choose to refer to him by Deku or Izuku in this scenario). But I could see why fans on this side of the fandom are mad about this chapter, and I think it is fair of them to put an appeal with the official translation website. After all, it is customer feedback, the least they can do is get more unbiased translators to weigh in their opinions.

#my hero academia #boku no hero academia #spoilers #MHA 405 #BNHA 405 #manga translation #comments welcomed! #I just wanna add my two cents but X algorithm sucks #like I said I give translators the benefit of doubt always #but I’ve a feeling this guy has an anti bkdk agenda #I’m even thinking the reason so many English fans hate bkdk is because their translation sucks #at least the eng dub team can think for themselves instead of following the manga #but the changed translations ALSO confused people so it’s a hassle #you’d think following a mainstream shounen manga is easy but it’s not lol