#I Learned this from the internet! (Shitpost)

[sundial-bee-scribbles]

"my education is my highest priority" everything returns to vocaloid

[artcorvid]

I fucking hate tiktok. I genuinely thought "unalive" was a real word ALL THIS TIME because english isn`t my first language. What the hell

[myuzucompendium]

"For ¥3000 yen a month you can now get access to Sophia+, and get all new features and better more personalized recommendations. Sophia+ will also buy one thing off the dark web with cryptocurrency for you per month, with insta™delivery."

[cathalbravecog]

based on 90% vibes and 10% facts about the characters. i do not take constructive criticism. buck ruffler never read warrior cats but he'd act like a cat and bite others and invade warrior cat larps as a rogue

[eyepatchdate]

sorry i was having lonnie thoughts recently because i have been considering in putting him in a Huge Fic I’ve Been Planning so something has been unlocked for me

[cyberspacebear]

i have this theory that the internet is starting to collapse because funny cat videos were meant to be the one thing that brought us all together and now there is a war being waged in the comments of every kitty video

[myuzucompendium]

"Then you would taste any oils and other assorted things on their skin." Sophia was concerned, to say the least

"I wasn't planning to, just thinking... But, what if, hypothetically, someone were to give explicit consent to let someone nibble on them? Just a bit..."

[lucifertheanalyzer]

Was typing 'vivziepop critical' in the search bar and was recommended this blog called @/fyeahvivzieclonez-blog. The blog has been inactive for eight years (2017 was eight years ago feel old yet?)

It reminded me of a video made by Izzzyzzz that was made five years ago, and it is crazy that no one copies Viv's art style anymore.

Not counting Hellaverse artists who copy the corporate Spindlehorse style. I am talking about people that were fandom before the Hellaverse pilot existed and were fans of her fan art and original characters.

It is crazy how beloved she was (yes, Viv got into drama during her ZooPhobia days, but no one was making YouTube videos about those events) and inspired so many artists back in her heyday. That Die Young music video inspired young and starting artists in the millions (It has over 50 million views before being removed) and is one of main reasons she became popular in the animation space.

Nowadays, she inspires artists how to not design characters, how not to write and develop a story, to make sure their female characters have depth and do not exist to serve a role in a male character story, and not to have public crash outs over mundane criticisms.

She, like her show are the viewed as laughing stocks and easy to make fun of. Viv is known for being the creator of the gay demon cartoons, is obsessed with the swear word 'fuck', she cannot take criticisms and blocks people over shitpost memes, and most important, screw over so many ex-friends and collaborators.

Like no one wants to be 'another vivziepop'. When tweets about Viv or the shows go viral, time to time I see users replying/quote tweeting 'I do not want to end up like Viv' or 'I do not want to be vivziepop 2.0' and similar wording.

I have no idea how to end this post. It is just wild how the internet's view on Viv switched since the release of the Hazbin pilot (I learned Viv from YouTube videos about her past drama it dropped).

[breastforce]

One more note on the bots, if (colossal if) I were to bring one of them back, it would probably be the jeopardy bot. Being an offshoot of shitpost generator he has all the benefits that shitbot has. He wouldn't be difficult to create, and I wouldn't have to worry about how to host him because I could just boot him up every once and a while to fill up the queue. Plus, I wouldn't have to update him to be 'funny' again, and there's still some novelty to it even in the era of Generative ai. The appeal isn't what he generates but in the ways people try to answer a randomly generated, gibberish question.

Becsuse that's thing with shitpost bot, it's not that he's difficult to make, but that I'm not really an internet comedian anymore. The posts he would put out would essentially be along the line of "what's up fuckers it's skibidi ohio time". There'd be this persistent feeling of 'how do you do fellow kids'.

Skylar, by contrast, has the opposite problem. I could very well make a Skylar that's as good or better than she used to, but that she is definitionally a language learning model. She's an amateur and primitive one sure, but the thing I was ultimately aspiring to make was ChatGPT. It's hard to feel motivated to improve on her in that context. I despise things like Grok and Gemini, and I can't push myself to succeed at something that would ultimately be following in their footsteps. The things I dreamed of are now reality, and they're making everything worse.

As for what I'm currently doing, I have made a personal discord bot custom made for private TTRPG servers I'm on. Gretchen and Zafir, I call them. They both run off the same program, but with a variable switched that changes it from one mode to the other.

They're very basic, and their markov chain responses are pretty much there as an easter egg. Their main functionality is fetching character sheets, laying out the upcoming games in chronological order, and sending out reminders when games are upcoming. A plugin I'm using called 'Natty' makes them really good at correctly good at picking out times and dates from a post.

[thewebcomicsreview]

so what's your take on the recent "stonetoss is a much better comic than haus of decline because it has fewer words" over on twitter?

I really wanted to reply with a snarky dismissive one-liner. I had one written and everything, but then I wanted to make sure I understood the context and looked into this and ugh. Now I have to explain Twitter drama, this sucks.

Okay. Christ.

Haus of Decline makes this comic

The comic pops up again, and a person named Basil sees it and has a take that it has too many words.

As arguably the most prominent Webcomic Critic out there (which is the say, the only one still doing it), I kind of prefer the wordless version as well, but it's a matter of taste, more than an "objectively correct" take.

Basil then follows up on that take with a rather spicier one

It's worth noting here that Basil is saying Hans Kristian Graebener is "better" in the sense that they believe it's more effective propaganda, not in their own personal opinion of quality. And that's....arguable? For one, Haus of Decline isn't really trying to be left-wing propaganda, it's just shitposting, and for two I think Hans Kristian Graebener's effectiveness is way more complicated and sophisticated than just "brevity". And for three, saying Hans Kristian Graebener is "better comics" is really ill-advised, especially given some context I'll reveal shortly.

Haus sees this, calls Basil a moron, and it turns into a dumb stupid internet argument where both people look bad. And being, again, the top Webcomic Critic, I can confirm that sometimes when you call a webcomic bad the creator will get mad at you over it and that's just something you have to expect and live with and try not to beclown yourself in response to. I don't think Basil responded well here, and "just learn to take criticism" is a pretty common and loaded phrase in Webcomics Discourse. Still, whatever. A questionable take led to a short slap fight. That would be the end of it.

Except. The context.

Seven or eight months ago, Basil made this tweet.

Which is a far better tweet, and is now a meme used by liberals in intra-left twitter discord fights to dunk on the anti-voting Trump-curious twitter left. This tweet also came around the time Will Stancil was whipping a lot of normie liberals to push back against the anti-Biden narrative and obviously the election itself has led a notable shift in the vibes where you're seeing a lot more "Biden's not that bad" takes and even a bit of "Actually, Biden is good and I'm tired of pretending he's not" in leftist spaces. And if you follow my personal account you'll know that my vibes have also shifted in that direction a lot. Basil obviously didn't cause the shift, even Stancil didn't, it was the election, but it's their name on the top of the tweet that's used as an anti-anti-voting meme that the left still doesn't has a great response to, so a lot of leftists fucking hate Basil. The kind of passionate hatred you only feel when you're getting clowned on by Matthew fucking Yglesias. So there's a huge hate mob against Basil in the way that hate mobs tend to occur.

This all attracts the attention of Hans Kristian Graebener, who pops out a comic taking a shot at Haus over this. Which is, honestly, a much better example of why Hans Kristian Graebener is effective propaganda than the brevity thing, because god damn did that pour gasoline on the fire, and....well....tldr:

My take is that this whole fight is incredibly stupid, no one involved looks good, and the only one benefiting from it is the literal fucking Nazi.

[the-dragon-girl-27]

Have you done any other Fire Emblem Artwork outside of the Claude and Dimitri Commissions

I allways find these kinds of questions funny because im reminded "oh right not everyone who follows me on social media knows the deep lore" because i feel like i got my start as like an FE person and most my old art and videos are FE releated (i was also like 14 so that art is bad and mostly not on the internet) so a lot of me learning how to draw and edit comes from doin fe stuff haha

Not gunna post the really old stuff but I do have a few drawings from the past few years (which im realizing is mostly shitposts lmao) (and also mostly FE4) these are anywhere from 1-5 years old and not in any specific order

I also have this one which is also a comm but for a different user than the other fe comms I have posted (this one was for @lostblade ) i don't know if i put it here yet

there is a 3rd person who has also commed me fe art but I don't think I have posted any of his comms online (beause they were mostly from before i posted comms publicly) (idk why i didnt do that for the first like 2ish years I did comms) so I would want to ask him before posting any of the comms I've done for him (some people don't want their comms posted publicly and/or want to be anonymous etc.)

I also just went through my comm folder and notice i have quite a few comms of peoples ocs or other characters in fe outfits and the such but I don't know if that counts for that question (a lot of those i only posted to twitter back when it was useable) (nowadays i dont post there at all)

oh one other thing speaking of original characters and fe outfits most of my own ocs are HEAVILY inspired by fe characters but thats a post for another day

anyway idk if you expected a text wall like this for your ask but here you go

[myuzucompendium]

Sophia proceeds to do an extremely low dab because she was dared by someone to do so.

[simulation-error]

Welcome to my little corner of the internet!

Hello there! 🌟 I usually share here things I like from shows, games and etc., but I do make my own content from time to time. Currently I'm trying to learn art, I mostly draw Destiny stuff with my OCs, but there are a few other fandoms as well. Anyway, I’m glad you’re here!

You can also find me on: ✨ Instagram - art and photos ✨ BlueSky - art and small pieces of my thoughts ✨ Twitter - shitposting (not in english), but yay, also sometimes art

I'm quite new at this whole 'posting your art on social media' so I would really appreciate your support <3

Feel free to explore, reblog, and reach out!

[seenbyeveryone]

Hey so - I know this is a strange ask but I am curious!!

If you're comfy with answering, why did you originally use 4Chan? Is Tumblr better than it? Is there any funny stories you remember about it?

4Chan is very, very interesting to me but I dare not step foot in the land of acid - I like learning about how/why people use/used it and the general mental toll it takes!

I first used 4chan in 2011. Like many internet set pieces, I was there for the memes. The lulz. The lols. The hahas. The whimsical chaos and insanity of 4chan in unmatched. Is Tumblr better than 4chan, though? Can I get back to that question in a second? There are so many funny stories about 4chan experiences I have had, that I could never fit them all in here. That said, I assign much more value to other things that haven't been neccesarily funny. There have been multiple births of internet memes that I was accidentally present for, which was nice. More importantly, I have chatted with people from completely different walks of life than I, and for me personally, that always will hold value. I like variety. There have been individual things that anons on 4chan have told me that became parts of my worldview. For example, one time I saw an anon say...

"Try not to write individuals off as being 'useless'. This is intellectual violence and this will plant the seeds of darkness in your soul. There are no useless humans. Please remember this." That changed my worldview permanently. And yes, it was a 4chan user who said it. Think about that. For how freaking bad the reputation of that site is, there are some beautiful minds that inhabit it. What made me stop using 4chan was going to EMT school last year. I was flipping through my textbook a few days before classes began and my book said something like "Medical professionals must be oceans of empathy. Do not cast judgements of any kind onto your patients." Something tells me I don't need to elaborate, but I am going to, anyway. After reading that I knew I had to axe 4chan. This was immediate. To be honest, quitting 4chan had been on the to-do list for 7 years. (The mood of the site changed a ton when Trump entered the political stage.) I know I just said NICE things about the site, but yeah, as you may have heard, for every beautiful mind there is on 4chan, there seems to be two troubled minds. I try my very best to resist succumbing to internet hive minds, but sometimes, things fall through the cracks. There were hateful thoughts I would think about other humans, and I knew the crack that these thoughts were leaking in from. It was 4chan. For one example, when you're constantly bombarded with anti-trans content, by sheer osmosis, these opinions can leak into your mind without you knowing about it. Who wants that? Who WANTS to be a hater? Sure, like anybody else, I still think my hater stuff sometimes. But hey, I'm trying out here. Also, it's been getting harder and harder to see funny/interesting stuff on 4chan. Look, I like laughing at stupid shit on the internet. That's originally why I started using the site. It's become increasingly common for threads to devolve into political rambling and conservative rhetoric. It gets boring after a while. If you tell me there will be shitposting at your party, it better be there.

I think what kept me from quitting for so long was the lack of viable alternatives 4chan (or so I thought). I had tried to quit 4chan numerous times and I would usually try to get my meme/shitpost fix on reddit. Just yuck. Have you ever tried to use reddit? I don't know how YOU feel about reddit, but I sure do know how I feel about it. That site is just the worst and it is SO. NOT. a viable alternative. I would use reddit for like a minute or two and think "Oh yeah, now I remember why I never come here.", and back to 4chan I would go. So after I read what I read in my textbook, I quit 4chan cold turkey. I experienced what felt like meme withdrawals, but I was resolute in not going back. I refuse to be a medical professional that uses 4chan. It just feels off to me. I also knew that I didn't want to use reddit, either. Then I recalled what I have been shown of Tumblr in the past. This was a lightbulb moment. Most of the content I have seen on tumblr I have thoroughly enjoyed, but I simply never used the website all that often. There have been some blogs I check out regularly, but as for daily use? No. I had tried in that past, but it never stuck. I'm not 100% sure why. Was it because 4chan users are told that Tumblr is an awful website? Maybe that was a big part of it. Anyways, I just sort of made a rule with myself that if I wanted to look at stupid shit on the internet, it must be through Tumblr. This decision also coincided with my desire to focus on mental health/become more mentalls stable. I feel happier after not using 4chan anymore, to boot.

And you know what? It did become my favorite site. Not only is the quality of content just as good than the quality of content on 4chan, the quality is more consistent. The content is also more innocent, good-natured, positive, polite, and...FUN. Every day, I see stuff on this site that KILLS ME. None of the whimsical weirdness of 4chan that I was attracted to is lost, either. People on this site are so goofy and the users here have an excellent grasp of comedy and shitposting. I love Tumblr, and I never imagined that I would love Tumblr. Wanna know the best part? Tumblr is curated! I used to think Tumblr is a hive mind website that molds its users into thinking a certain way. It really isn't. I was wrong.

Did you know that Tumblr and 4chan are two different sides of the same coin? I am serious. Both sites highly value original content, weirdness, authenticity, and not being a normie. For how much hate 4chan users feel toward Tumblr, it's amusing how right up their alley the content on Tumblr actually is. It's difficult to describe.

My time spent on 4chan was not useless. Writing people off as useless is intellectual violence. That site molded me into who I am today, for better and for worse, but it was simply time to stop. I don't want that kind of negativity knocking around in my head all day. Medical profesionals should avoid being haters at any and all costs.

I am so glad you asked, by the way. Thank you, and sorry if I rambled.

[highfiveheroes]

HELLLOOOOO one and all and welcome back to another fantasy high stan blog! i’m your humble shitposter ben/benji/jam/etc and here with me as always is my proper introduction list with fics included. say hi, facts and fics!

(hi, facts and fics!)

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he/they/xe (please refrain from using feminine terms towards me in any capacity, including sis or girlie)

FANTASY HIGH FICS <3

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> kristen and gorgug fics because they’re the most underrated duo i know

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[nsomniacsdream]

Tumblr, in my estimation, cannot be a place that is profitable, because the aims of the userbase can be described somewhere between fuck around and fuck off. No one comes here for anything other than shitposting. Companies don't try to find your tumblr, to my knowledge, so it's the last safe place on the internet to just say stupid shit and learn from it, instead of becoming unemployable.

Tumblr would be a really good buy for like, Archive.org. Someone who doesn't have to worry about 'profit', they just have to keep the lights on. Do moderation by roundtable, when someone submits a support request, like "I'm being harassed", the proof they provide is sent to ten random active bloggers(unrelated to any involved parties), and their decision is actionable. Provide the tools for self determination, instead of a black box that doesn't seem to be working for anyone. It's cheaper, and fairer to the community in general. I dunno, it's probably not perfect, but it's better than 'just doing nothing until the person who keep complaining gives us a reason to ban them, that makes the problem go away'. Honestly, Matt whatever should just donate tumblr to them, call it a charitable donation, claim it on his taxes. It's a sinking ship every minute you're trying to extract value from it. It's real current value is almost certainly hovering around "the change in people's couches of like 20 households".

Tumblr has a place on the internet, an important place, but it'll never be a need that is profitable. And Tumblr's history and reputation kind of prevent it from ever being changed into something different that would be as profitable as whoever currently owns it would want. I suppose you could burn it all to the ground, wipe the servers and start a twitter clone. But it'll just be one more on a field that's so oversaturated it's not worth trying. I'm not sure why people keep buying tumblr, it's a fantastic creative community, but it's products can't be sold, and the userbase is poor and has little to no interest in paying for 'upgrades'. So you could sell everything to AI scrapers, or data miners, but you'll lose the entire userbase and no one's gonna come in to fill the gaps left. It's a quick and messy death.