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I’ve been thinking about Nanami too much lately I fear

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🌹 Nobara Kugisaki 🌹

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what they don’t tell you about making art is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! AAAAAAAAAAHH!!!

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And you know how I know that it's 100% about Blackness, specifically colorism? They're making more of a fuss over Okarun, since his skin is dark. Momo was redrawn too, they're not complaining since she's still relatively light. It's so ridiculously transparent, and I was so disappointed to see how people were acting over this. It's like that was the moment for the JA fandom to air out their grievances about Black people.

ok so for those of you who don’t know, there’s a fandom shitstorm going down on twitter and tiktok right now about the anime dandadan. let me break it down for you:

16 y/o artist draws fanart of the two main characters with much darker skin, as though they were black. they receive a shit ton of backlash for it. this is what it looked like

the art itself is deemed respectful and accurate by the english voice actor for okarun — one of the two main characters — who is black himself. he uses said art as his profile picture in solidarity

shit hits the fan. a ton of racists, some fans, most not, scream their heads off about how black people are trying to “blackwash” characters that are already poc by virtue of being ethnically japanese, as though there are no japanese people out there with more melanin than your average peachy-complexioned anime character. this culminates in an increasing number of demands to have okarun’s english VA fired for disrespecting japanese culture, and the japanese race in general

want to know something wild? literally the anime’s ENTIRE opening, from music to video and dance choreography, was heavily inspired by and directly profits off of black culture. imagine having the audacity to demand a 16 year old fan who is not affiliated with the series in any professional capacity NOT draw two fictional characters with darker skin tones because it’s “disrespectful to a culture of people of color.”

that’s still not the wildest part, though: this has culminated in many fans referring to the antiblack side of the dandadan fandom as “the klankaklan”, which I would say is wholly justified if my opinion on the subject actually mattered.

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I FOUND IT

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Omfg😂

uhhhhm my favorite animes is dandadan and dororo and dorohedoro and dodohoho and bobobobobobo and lalalalala and teehee

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i love the never kill your self meme like yeah joy can be found in humble places peace and love on planet earth

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I was just standing in line at the bakery to get a loaf of bread to feed my family who hadn't eaten since morning. The place was very, very crowded, but the shock was when three girls were taken out who had suffocated to death from the crowding. Imagine three girls dying while trying to get bread. Please don't let us die while you watch. Save us.

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looking forward to new jjk covers 

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See, here's the thing about generative AI:

I will always, always prefer to read the beginner works of a young writer that could use some editing advice, over anything a predictive text generator can spit out no matter how high of a "quality" it spits out.

I will always be more interested in reading a fanfiction or original story written by a kid who doesn't know you're meant to separate different dialogues into their own paragraphs, over anything a generative ai creates.

I will happily read a story where dialogue isn't always capitalized and has some grammar mistakes that was written by a person over anything a computer compiles.

Why?

Because *why should I care about something someone didn't even care enough to write themselves?*

Humans have been storytellers since the dawn of humankind, and while it presents itself in different ways, almost everyone has stories they want to tell, and it takes effort and care and a desire to create to put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard or speech to text to actually start writing that story out, let alone share it for others to read!

If a kid writes a story where all the dialogue is crammed in the same paragraph and missing some punctuation, it's because they're still learning the ropes and are eager to share their imagination with the world even if its not perfect.

If someone gets generative AI to make an entire novel for them, copying and pasting chunks of text into a document as it generates them, then markets that "novel" as being written by a real human person and recruits a bunch of people to leave fake good reviews on the work praising the quality of the book to trick real humans into thinking they're getting a legitimate novel.... Tell me, why on earth would anyone actually want to read that "novel" outside of morbid curiosity?

There's a few people you'll see in the anti-ai tags complaining about "people being dangerously close to saying art is a unique characteristic of the divine human soul" and like...

... Super dramatic wording there to make people sound ridiculous, but yeah, actually, people enjoy art made by humans because humans who make art are sharing their passion with others.

People enjoy art made by animals because it is fascinating and fun to find patterns in the paint left by paw prints or the movements of an elephants trunk.

Before Generative AI became the officially sanctioned "Plagiarism Machine for Billionaires to Avoid Paying Artists while Literally Stealing all those artists works" people enjoyed random computer-generated art because, like animals, it is fascinating and fun to see something so different and alien create something that we can find meaning in.

But now, when Generative AI spits out a work that at first appears to be a veritable masterpiece of art depicting a winged Valkyrie plunging from the skies with a spear held aloft, you know that anything you find beautiful or agreeable in this visual media has been copied from an actual human artist who did not consent or doesn't even know that their art has been fed into the Plagiarism Machine.

Now, when Generative AI spits out a written work featuring fandom-made tropes and concepts like Alpha Beta Omega dyanamics, you know that you favorite fanfiction website(s) have probably all been scraped and that the unpaid labours of passion by millions of people, including minors, have been scraped by the Plagiarism Machine and can now be used to make money for anyone with the time and patience to sit and have the Plagarism Machine generate stories a chunk at a time and then go on to sell those stories to anyone unfortunate enough to fall for the scam,

all while you have no way to remove your works from the existing training data and no way to stop any future works you post be put in, either.

Generative AI wouldn't be a problem if it was exclusively trained on Public Domain works for each country and if it was freely available to anyone in that country (since different countries have different copyright laws)

But its not.

Because Generative AI is made by billionaires who are going around saying "if you posted it on the Internet at any point, it is fair game for us to take and profit off," and anyone looking to make a quick buck can start churning out stolen slop and marketing it online on trusted retailers, including generating extremely dangerous books like foraging guides or how to combine cleaning chemicals for a spotless home, etc.

Generative AI is nothing but the works of actual humans stolen by giant corporations looking for profit, even works that the original creators can't even make money off of themselves, like fanfiction or fanart.

And I will always, always prefer to read "fanfiction written by a 13 year old" over "stolen and mashed together works from Predictive Text with a scifi name slapped on it", because at least the fanfiction by a kid actually has *passion and drive* behind its creation.

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It's everywhere

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🎉Happy Birthday Shoko! 🎉