#if they weren't too goddamn lazy to fix the errors

[halsins-herbal-underpants]

Oh my God, I hadn't realized but it's... It's every single one. Every single one! I saw flipped art & missing scars here and there and was like 'oof, I hate forgetting stuff too' but I always wondered why they never FIXED anything either, just reposted the same errors...and it bugged me but I gave them the benefit of the doubt. And that shirt pic with the 10 pack, just thought 'huh ok well, weird an accomplished artist would make that mistake but maybe they got carried away'...I'm so mad at myself for forgiving so much & ignoring tells just bc I was happy to have a prolific Halsin artist that did such fun pieces. That's on me.

Normally I wouldn't bother making a post like this but it came to my attention yesterday via a twitter thread that tumblr user fridaypls is using AI elements in their fanart. Now, if they were doing this because they didn't feel entirely confident in their artistic ability, and they were just doing this for fanart they posted online, then I'd shrug my shoulders and go "eh, whatever"

However, I then found out that fridaypls is selling this fanart and even making posts like "buy my Gale print and get Tim Downie to sign it" and I just can't sit idly by whilst someone makes profit off AI 'art' and there are so many other artists (myself included) trying to make a living off our own art.

The tweet thread about the use of AI by fridaypls can be viewed here and here but I'll also copy and paste some of the examples under a cut line in this post.

So far on twitter, fridaypls got wind of the thread going around about them and they deactivated their account rather than take accountability. I'm probably going to be blocked by them for making this post, but I encourage you to reblog this and spread the word and please, PLEASE don't buy artwork from someone using AI generated images. There are so many other hardworking artists out there making amazing fanart and merch that you can give your money to instead.

Examples from twitter: