#anti subscription

[gor3sigil]

As much as I beg writers to not put their books ONLY on Amazon, I beg musicians to not release their music ONLY on streaming platforms.

I know it's convenient lots of ways and they worked hard to make both artists and consumers dependent on their platforms but if we're going to try and take it down, I need people to make their own websites where we can buy independantly. I want nothing MORE than buy shit FROM artists.

And I'm not even speaking about physical releases that cost a lot of money. Put your music on Bandcamp or online linked to Paypal. Offer your books digitally on itch.io, where you can put your games too.

Diversify your platforms and format of your art, share it on more independent online and physical spaces, distribute it via mail, social medias, have an online wallet where people can buy and tip you !

I'm a very, very small artist myself, and maybe I'm super naive about all that and it's just not possible but if it is, do it. It's the only way out.

[high-sea-husbands]

“What? Are you seriously don’t pay for it, not watching legally? You should ALWAYS pay—

Actually what if you just shut up

[chibelial]

@ every company who advertises on Spotify, my hatred for you will never fizzle out and will boycott you all for this misery

[lazylittledragon]

ok nobody cares but here's my review of procreate dreams after using it for an hour

pros:

you can use all your normal brushes which is GREAT because your animation still looks like your own art

the UI isn't that difficult to navigate once you know where everything is (i don't think it's much harder than learning any other new software)

motion tweening!!!!! i just like that a lot

the fact that you can just make a fully finished animation on your ipad is very cool to me

it has that feature where you can draw outside of the canvas so your lines don't get cut off when you move things around

it's expensive for an app BUT it's a one-time purchase and not a subscription

cons:

the timeline takes up a lot of space on the screen and you can't change it (other than hiding it completely) but that's just a me problem

obviously since it's so fresh it's missing some tools like select+transform (which is VERY annoying)

tl:dr - i think it's ok!! i'll probably use other software for storyboarding because i don't think it's the best for just getting stuff down quickly but i'll definitely use it for finished projects.

[sparkle-fiend]

As an artist, I’ve been struggling lately. It feels like everywhere I look, AI art is in the news, and I’m seeing more and more artists losing work while companies like Meta take our data to train more models and everywhere they are trying to shove shitty AI features down our throats. It’s infuriating, and frustrating, and depressing - and some days it makes me want to give up drawing altogether.

It’s honestly stolen my joy in working with digital tools. How can I rely on them, when tech companies are proving they can’t be trusted - when companies like Adobe are showing that they will turn on their customer base in an instant if they think it will gain them an inch in the AI arms race. (Where the whole goal seems to be the elimination of artists altogether.)

That’s why I’ve decided to try and transition to traditional art - or at the very least, a combo approach of traditional and digital. (And because traditional is slower for me, I will also try to simplify/stylize more, and rely on references less.)

It’s scary, because I’ve gotten comfortable in the way I work, and also because I know my style will probably change a bit (and I’m worried people won’t like it as much 😓) But I feel like it’s my only way to go forward with art right now. Hopefully folks will stick with me through this journey, and still enjoy my fanart 🙏

[variksel]

youtube ads becoming first one 5-second ad then two 5-second ads in a row or one 15-second ad then a million unskippable ads in the middle of videos instagram quietly inserting one ad in-between every 5 or 10 ig stories then 2 in-between 4 ig stories not to mention the new reel- and explore page ads. a quiet tumblr ad banner at the top of your dash then photo ads in-between posts then video ads then video ads in-between every 3 or 5 posts that play audio automatically while youre trying to read a textpost. the most popular, paid subscription, news apps adding ads between their articles, then in articles, then paywalling new articles further with a new "news +" subscription and putting ads in those as well. once every 15 tweets there being an ad, then every 5, then theres also an ad if you scroll to the replies. you cant look at tweets without logging in anymore, theres just no option for anon scrolling. facebook ai mining on instagram, facebook ai profiles hyping up ai generated photos im fucking going insane ai temu ads and gallery app ads and printer app ads and higher subscriptions while still seeing ads and i cant fucking do this anymore!!!!! its fucking shameless and worst of all its silent and nobody talks about how half the things we see anymore are fucking ads and we dont own a single thing we pay for and companies can just randomly raise their prices through the roof and nobody says anything about it

[monstersw1thv1bes]

the AUDACITY of thinking starting a streaming service is the move here. like, I get that maybe YouTube isn't the place for watcher anymore, but then put your content on another place that already exists, don't create yet another subscription based streaming service. we don't need more of them.

gonna just say it: pirating is completely morally sound in this day and age. the ONLY reason I was willing to stop doing it at any point was because Netflix came along and put all the content I wanted to watch in ONE (1) place, which was convenient for me so I was willing to pay for it. before that if a show was on TV and I missed it because, you know, I had a life, I'd download or have my grandfather record it for me on his VCR (yeah, ig im getting old).

Hundreds of different streaming services are not convenient, and I'm not paying for a whole other subscription (I already have 2 and honestly that's too many) just so I can watch content made by TWO GUYS (sorry Steven. you seem nice but I'm just not that into you).

Also, removing content from YouTube that has been free and available on there the whole time until now is straight up just a scummy move.

I don't even wish the Watcher guys the best with this. They could have done literally anything else without being capitalist scumbags. I hope this whole idea goes up in flames, because this is the most bullshit idea ever and if we as consumers keep going along with all these subscription-based models, this is going to be a continuing trend (like it already is but people don't seem to realize that it'll stop happening once it stops being profitable. they just complain and still pay for it). and fuck that.

[dailydegurechaff]

Today's Daily Degurechaff is… blessed

[nando161mando]

san francisco, 1977

[unsubscribed]

The unachieveable dream of paying for a good, permanently recieving that good and then never hearing from the person you paid for it again.

[gor3sigil]

I recently stopped using Spotify. The one thing that prevented me to do so was that I wasn't able to support artists without it because albums, even digital, tend to be a bit expensive and I'm not in a position where I can currently afford it + the slow death of physical discs makes it next to impossible to get a second hand copy of RECENT releases for a better price. Especially indie ones because most of the time they release like 100 to 500 copies of cassettes/CDs/Vinyls and that's it.

So back to 🏴‍☠️. I'll try to buy a couple of my fav releases a month to support artists. But Spotify, I can't anymore. Not only does it really NOT support artists, but the CEO is pro Palestinian g3n0cide, and just to be honest, I HATE subscription/streaming shit. It killed so much of the joy of curating a collection, it also became really not so affordable as it was, you don't own anything anymore, everything is slowly becoming subscription based and that is not something that I want to partake on. I'm sorry, but I'd rather steal than contribute to a system that robs both creators AND consummers with a false "but it's cheaper for THIS MUCH content !" crap.

And if we want to have a sliver of a chance to ever own the things we pay for, I encourage everyone to do the same.

[millionsknives]

they’re gonna kick me out of bible study

[princealberich]

Imagine if default phone things had ads. Ad before every call. Ad after every 10 messages sent. Your alarm is an ad. Dear old Auntie Phillys calls crying and sobbing to inform you that Uncle Joe just passed away in a tragic accident but 5 minutes in she has to listen to an ad about shaving your balls with manscaped in order to continue

[unapologeticmelancholy]

Instead of paying actors and writers a fair wage, Netflix has just listed a few AI job postings with extremely lucrative salaries on their website. At this point, I thought, I don't wish to support such a greedy and unethical corporation with my own money. The writers are on strike but my subscription is still generating revenue for Netflix even though Netflix isn't making any new content. This isn't exactly helping the actors and writers.

So I cancelled my subscription. I encourage everybody to do the same: cancel your streaming service subscriptions for the time being. Starve them out just as they themselves admitted to doing the very same things to their actors and writers: real people for whom that may even mean starvation and homelessness. See how those executives like the taste of their own medicine.

And if you come back to Netflix within 10 months, you'll be able to restore all your account information, watched shows and all. You don't lose anything. But imagine the impact on Netflix if it rapidly lost a huge chunk of its revenue. It won't even take 10 months for those money-obsessed CEOs and executives to start talking to actors and writers differently.

Money is power. Those companies have that money FROM US. Let's take it away and see what happens.

[1eos]

kinda unrelated but you can pirate spotify premium from apkmodio

i know ive had it pirated for years now. my specialty is not paying for shit ☝🏾

[comeback-from-the-dead]

I wanna watch echo.... it's look interesting

Tbh Idk what's actually going in the who mcu timeline rn.....and idc

And I also haven't watch gotg vol.3 and I am so late for it..... it's on my watchlist for like....a long ago now...I wanna see it so bad but I like...I don't have the energy??