You Have Been Booped By This Empty Wrapping Paper Tube.

It's not even real and I'm upset about what happens to Andrey.

I'm going to be cleaning out this side (primary) blog soon.

I think it's just gonna be an OC account/some fanart, but not entirely my main art account ya know?

Maybe posting some research things for OC stuff.

Idk we'll see.

...Have my baby Arana...

Just a lil elf, with a whole backstory I did not expect to make.

Mass exodus of twitter???

HERE WE GOOOOOOOOO!!!

Forgot to post some wholesome stuff.

:AFTER MAIN STORY EVENTS:

Floyd and Mailo just cuddling and being cute.

Want some more bad news? Your grandma may have written, draw or read fanart/fiction about Star Trak, Starsky and Hutch, and many more 60s - 00s media.

Fanart and Fanfiction isn't restricted by age BB!

I’m sorry but...ur telling me there’s actually people aged 30+ on here reading fanfic ... with whole families ..

I assume this is sarcasm lol

Fun discovers are work today.

We are considered a high risk store and the new SM just came from a store that closed because of that very reason.

So guess who should probably start looking into other places.

Me. It's me.

Also people already employeed at my work are being fucked over with their hours being cut and some being demoted without being told (it's more complicated and I'm eating so I'm not typing it all out.)

shits getting messy.

There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue! 

I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product. 

Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?

Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.

Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases. 

Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use. 

I'm still here.

Just been working and I have some insane artist block. I don't know if it's because I'm currently interested in 20+ things or EVERYTHING happening in the country I'm in but it's so bad dude.

Maybe I can do those lil build a critter prompts or color palette prompts and I can try to get something out?

Idk, anyway, I'm still here, just quiet.