#artists deserve more money

[potato-lord-but-not]

finally watched the movie and was so disappointed I had to draw the man to cope

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

nervously holding out & rattling a Little Tip Jar

[emmybeearts]

Anyone else miss The Dark Crystal?

Netflix really promised so much and then took it all away :( i really wanted to see SkekSa out of comics and books so bad!

[recklessmoss]

i'm so unironically baffled at the amount of downgrades this site pushes out on a nearly weekly basis at this point. Near half if not all of them are almost completely useless and give absolutely zero benefit to user experience, if anything @staff is quite literally distancing their userbase.... do you think i want another twitter? Like what purpose or benefit does taking away dash avatars has... what's the benefit of taking away basic accessibility features.. fucking genuinely. I hate it here. I don't know how many more feedback letters I have to send in order for all this shit to stop... i'm so tired.

[unlikecharlie]

nothing more annoying than a bitch who complains about their favourite artist/song becoming popular or 'tiktok-ified'

[applesandbannas747]

actually i think I am going to be a dick about this even though it's possible I'm being unreasonable. I think it's shitty to post art from behind Jo's paywall unless it's art you commissioned. Otherwise, you are denying her income from posting and/or posting something someone else bought, which sucks a little

[lucaonthropy]

With this I'm done designing all four main cast of Dukun Sarjana, wahoo 🎉🎉🎉

Left is Tania, right is Evi. Tania inherits ilmu kuyang from her mom as you can see by the line on her neck, while Evi is a Literature major who is deadset on investigating the star-crossed lovers of Perdukunan major

base!

[jaythelay]

I think selling mods is dishonest, unethical, and likely to harm everyone in the end legally.

I don't think profiting off your work is bad. Have a website with ads, a patreon, ko-fi, paypal, I don't care.

I do think selling work that's a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percentage's percentage of the required parts and overall work via a paywall, is going to harm everyone in that, companies don't give a shit, they're just gonna shotgun blast modding and right to repair/reverse engineering dead in courts. Alongside the fact...it's just...unethetical in my mind.

Creation is about inspiring others to create, when you just...do it for profit it's no longer that, but leeching off fame with wasted and mostly inherently stolen talent. It causes a rift in a community that was largely in agreement against bringing the legal hammer down on people.

But I think selling remakes of games, not as the company but a fan, is just...a bit fucking much man. Some of these fuckin' people just want to make sure the legal hammer comes down.

Like here's the thing, a Let's Play and a Reaction Video are basically the same in my mind, even though I believe most Reaction videos to be Entirely Leechy, on it's face it's inherently the same as an LP, you're not reliant upon the game so much as you're bouncing off of it, or if it's a Walkthrough with Commentary, then that's a guide that yes requires the product, but is not Reliant upon it for the person's Own Creation. They could write guides for alot of things, some of them.

The difference is that they Profit, Without a Paywall, they just have ads, or a patreon, and at that point exclusive content is fine because it's usually extras I have little interest in, and likely will come out for free eventually anyways.

Here's the distinct difference, the "Wall" part is not my ethical issue, the issue is Ads are Inherently Non-Problematic, on the surface. See, you go to YT for the videos, that's the point, it's thing, you watch a video, it has an ad, there's little control over it but otherwise you're giving YT money, and then they pay people. At no point is someone selling access to videos via a different website for a privated video you get whitelisted for on YT alongside an adblock just for extra measure.

You aren't cutting out the middle man while inherently, Inherently, using them. I'm incredibly open about creation and how it can be done, like fuck copyright, I think you should be able to sell a fuckin sonic game without sega's permission, use Adblock. But, here's the thing, We Don't Live In That World. We live in a world WITH copyright and incredibly hostile laws. I don't want the legal hammer to come down on what's barely scraping by obscurity in the public anymore. This shit ain't gonna last if we keep pushing boundaries.

Ya gave money as a gift, not as an expectation. With ads, you gave it with the expectation that it's the way the website you're using can profit, and they in turn, pay the creator's that people go there for. That's what keeps communities surround products from being sued into oblivion.

I honestly think the reason companies started being harder on mods and fan-games is because people elsewhere were straight up stealing the companies work and selling it (as mods).

What a paywalled remake/mod is, is a legal nightmare, a community splinterer where eventually everyone will have to pay for mods that were once free (no one benefits because no one really profits but the people who have a clique to game the systems) eventually this becomes a headache for companies who Legally Own Everything and then goodbye modding and right to repair/reverse engineering. Just like...

Can people not tempt the devil in themselves and simply just create? Without "hussle" just like...make something dude. Shit. It's embarrassing.

[arcadian-vampire]

What if.... Instagram for my kandi.......

[zestysthoughts]

I'd like to make a saucy artist tier list.

[elvenking42]

I was really disappointed in the number of pieces at Art Prize yesterday that were AI generated. If it was just one I would have assumed it was a mistake the committee missed but there were many of them and they were very weirdly proud about being AI generated. I saw a guy on the street who was bragging about how he trained all this AI data and it's like. Dude you didn't even make the image, what are you even proud of? Using a search bar???

[avephelis]

if anyone talks shit about the writers striking i will slap you silly and throw you at a wall until you get stuck there forever like a sticky hand

[gedwimora]

refreshing myself on the exact real prices for the kind of work that goes into these graphics was a mistake now i'm remembering why i didn't do it for years lol

[jiangshinigami]

If I wasn't broke and had an actual steady income idk if I'd spend it on commissions or estrogen

[lenteur]

waking up and seeing exo members terminating their contracts with sm was not on my bingo this year

[rhymaes]

i know the 'i liked [insert popular artist/work] before it was popular' person is unbearable but also. i am that person and i do hate when something i love becomes popular like the straight people i went to school with & the cruelest people I've ever known do NOT get to like ethel cain & chappell roan like i like them they are both too brilliant