#metalife

[pixleddisplay]

How long do you think this investment will be covered? 

[simonfalk]

Metalification

[golbrocklovely]

I don’t have a tik tok. What are they saying about our boys 🙄

omg thank you so much for sending in an ask about my post bc… i need to VENT lol

first and foremost, what aren't they saying about the boys on tiktok??? that's the real question.

imma just list the shit i've been either told or saw myself said about snc (but mostly colby).

sam should sue colby for the killing best friend prank (this one was brought to my attention by @xplrvibes like yesterday lol)

colby was molested

colby was sexually assaulted

elton made colby show his self harm scars on camera

colby has a bad relationship with his brother

sam cried being sexualized too much

the fans broke shea and colby up

colby has hated elton from the beginning

snc were talking about elton on the that one video years back (the one where they did the lie detector test on awesomenesstv)

not a SINGLE one of these are true, btw. that's the insane part to me. like…. every single one of these is a lie that i have no clue how they got started or who said them first.

and here, for anyone's benefit (in case you're curious) i will disprove all of these in one go.

sam was IN on the prank and has openly said that himself in the past

didn't happen/colby has never said that this has happened

same thing (granted if you want to make an argument that some fans have almost done this, that's a different story. but that's not what the fans on tiktok are talking about when they mention this)

colby has never self harmed. colby has never had depression, anxiety/has never been diagnosis with any mental illness. he even outright said in a video, EXPOSING THE TRUTH ABOUT COLBY BROCK, when asked if he was emo "depending on your definition of emo, if you say emo is somebody that hurts themselves - no. i'm not emo in that way." not to mention that if this is something that did happen, how come there was not a WORD about it until 2022??? the last time snc collabed with elton was in 2019. there is no WAY this shit could have happened, only to be talked about now with no proof. ALSO colby literally stated multiple times, back on metalife and even in a livestream in 2020/21, that he has never suffered from a mental illness, which is why he doesn't feel comfortable giving advice on it.

literally…. how would anyone know this in the first place? colby doesn't really talk about his family. but if you want to get technical, for a while in the back of his videos in 2020/21, you could see on his record player his brother's bands record. plus he literally went and saw him run a marathon in 2022 so… his relationship with him is fine.

that's literally not a thing at all lmao

shea and colby never dated, as much as shea would like you to believe otherwise. and if the fans are talking about their friendship… they are two grown adults. no one can make them do anything they don't want to do.

snc lived with elton for a full year, and continued to collab with him until 2019. elton didn't even become a hater until late 2020/early 21. so… no. colby didn't hate elton from the beginning just bc he has resting bitch face in some of the videos. if you want to make an argument that elton took some of his pranks too far, sure. but that's not what this is about.

this one is just ppl taking an old clip and trying to make it make sense to nowadays, so i'll give some slack. but again, this wasn't about elton. it was about aaron when they had beef with him for like a week and a half in 2019 lol

there is probably TONS of other shit said on there that i don't remember off the top of my head. but the fact that i've seen tons of these comments and tiktoks saying this shit is true is bonkers to me. idk who is starting these rumors, but like… dear lord above stop.

like i'm literally gonna have to make a snc tiktok account just to dispel rumors bc it annoys me to no end how these fans believe this stuff with literally NO PROOF.

[glamfurarchive]

This post originally had art, however this art has been removed due to it coming to my attention that the artist has been tracing art from others. Read below for more information.

Due to recent information regarding the artist “Metalific” impersonating and harassing others, I have removed the art shown and replaced it with this warning post. The GFA will no longer be hosting this artist.

Here is an example of some tracing:

On top of the tracing, there is impersonation regarding colorpicking and OC stealing from an artist commonly featured on the GFA; autopsyfriend/autopsypimpp

The impersonation is easy to see from first glance even as Metalific also uses the name “Braille” just as autopsypimpp does.

Please beware of this artist.

[xplrvibes]

This is so totally random, but what happened to Meta life? Why did they close it down? I'm currently watching a video where they mentioned it

Ah, Metalife. One of my many Sam and Colby Roman Empires, lol.

When mMetalife first started up, it was a very exclusive platform. They would only periodically open it up for new members to join, and would only do so for a very brief time before closing the sign-up opportunities down again. Because of that, Metalife was (from my understanding; I was never on there) a closeknit community.

In 2020, snc made the mistake of opening it up for an extended period of time to a larger audience. Now, to understand why this was a problem, let me explain a little of the Metalife platform and the environment of fandom in general at the time.

Metalife had a community tab that snc were apparently very active on, and people knew that. Because it was so small and tightknit in the past, the people who were on there had a much easier chance to be able to interact with snc than the people on public social media platforms. This was during a time when snc were really starting to take off, and their interactions with fans was starting to become a little harder and less personal, being that there were so many.

So, when Metalife opened back up for an extended period of time, a lot of fans joined for the express purpose of trying to get the coveted Sam and Colby "notices."

Now, prior to this platform becoming more public, it was being used as an anti-bullying, anti-anxiety, pro-mental health sort of tool for snc and the fans using it. I know there were some members who posted some of the videos snc made for it on youtube; not sure if they were still up but if they are, they give a pretty good idea of what they were trying to accomplish on the platform.

However, when everyone started to join and started trying to use the community tab to get noticed, it started causing problems.

Again, I was never on Metalife, not even at the end. All I know is what I saw of the drama that spilled on to places like twitter. But it seemed to me like people were using it for the wrong purposes and simultaneously starting drama that would best be left to other platforms than that one.

So, snc one day announced they were closing the community page down. And all hell broke loose.

Somewhere in there, someone had claimed they were being bullied on there and snc had done nothing to stop the situation. People started freaking out and threatening to leave both Metalife and the fandom because, with the community tab gone, they had no way of communicating with snc, so what was the point of even being on there?

Also somewhere in the mix, some people were alleging that someone had threatened them with legal action over either the bullying or shutting down the community page, but I don't know how true that was.

Either way, after about a week of this, snc came out one day and said they were shutting the whole thing down, effective pretty much immediately, and that was it. They closed it down, refunded everyone's money, and have never spoken of it since.

Now! Most people assume it got shut down because of the drama with the fans, but I always thought it was fishy that they would literally just pull the plug on their baby child like that out of the blue one day. So...I don't know. The fact that they will not even speak of it to this day suggests NDA's are in place, which is normal for anyone exiting a contract with a supply vendor, but also means we will probably never get the full answer and it will always remain a mystery.

If anyone else who was around back then remembers anything else that I forgot, please add on. In the scheme of everything else going on in 2020, the Metalife controversy became a mere footnote that was pretty quickly forgotten, but I do remember it being a huge drama for at least a couple of weeks there. I may have missed a few extra things though, so happy to receive any corrections or additional info that I forgot about!

[beyondtheplenty]

Quotations.

//Traganou, Designing the Olympics Representation Participat Thus, even though the use of space for this specific action by unauthorized individuals might have been illegal, it became acceptable and unnoticeable because it was disguised as a dominant type of action that was legitimate in the collective consciousness.

//Bureaud, MetaLife Biotechnologies Synthetic Biology ALi In a noetic network, the information that is in the network and the information that is shared by the minds perceiving the network are seen as a collective and continuous consciousness.

//Kant, Critique of Judgement Beyond doubt you cannot assume that it is the highest possible intelligence; for to do so you would have to see that a greater intelligence than that of which you perceive any evidence in the world is inconceivable, which means attributing omniscience to yourself* In the same way you infer from the greatness of the world a very great might on the part of its author.

//Deleuze, Expressionism in Philosophy At best, “propria” such as divine existence, unity, omniscience and omnipresence, which guarantee a moral teaching.4 For the end of Scripture is to subject us to models of life, to make us obey, and ground our obedience.

//Serres, Hermes Literature Science Philosophy This dream of omniscience translates Leibniz’s baroque monadology using the unidimensional platitude characteristic of the nineteenth century.

//Serres, Hominescence For, at the start, a certain omniscience is exhibited in a dazzling way in totems and fetishes, part human and part animal, and in fables and myths, in which metamorphoses function to the utmost: we thus travel across every genus of living thing, as though each of us were imitating a species all by himself, as though, in sum, humanity were entering into every species.

//Serres, Hominescence But, long terrified of this result, we desired, with all our anxiety, to put totality back into the hands of God at the same time as omniscience.

//Calasso, Ardor Divine omniscience does not extend to itself.

//Serres, Troubadour of Knowledge The Son descends to the earth, and, lower still, toward Hell, finally to be resurrected, then, at the Ascension, returns to the Heavens where he will come to judge, on the last day, the living and the dead. From God who is incarnated, the two movements achieve, in the end, an equilibrium: not solely static, but compensated by redemption or expiation. Second stability: invariance through variations, including, in passing, a tragic solution to the problem of evil. Here is the shadow and the light, suffering and omniscience.The third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit, takes the form of a bird, a dove, sometimes the appearance of a tongue of fire or an 1. In French, esprit means both mind and spirit. —TRANS. impetuous breath: it is windy, it thunders, it is lightening.

//Serres Latour, Conversations on Science Culture and Time The real difference between men and God, if He exists, must be that He created the world of things and the diversity of humankind by omnipotence and omniscience, whereas we, for the moment, create children whose bodies and spirits are unpredictable, in an unpredictable world.

//Zizek, Less Than Nothing - MORE THAN EVERYTHING. “Faces without faces, faces that have lost their beards, dummies without arms, stigmatised or crucified beings: Malevich’s icons show humanity to be the victim of some nihilistic apocalyptic devastation.

//Zizek, Less Than Nothing At the same time, the film shows us people wandering around the city whose faces strangely resemble those on the statues, and, furthermore, a researcher finds the same faces on many depictions of the crucifixion from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

//Serres, Troubadour of Knowledge. At the center of the star is hidden the third place, formerly called a soul, experienced by passing through a channel that is difficult to cross.

//Ovid, Metamorphoses Let’s hurl the forests and crush the life from his living body.

//Ovid, Metamorphoses Or else, if my plight cries out to be pitied even by you, my inveterate enemy, racked as I am by harrowing torture, relieve me of life, [180] the life that I hate, the life that was destined for nothing but labours.

//Pliny, Natural History Volume 3 The heart; the blood; the vital spirit.

//Pliny, Natural History Volume 3 The heart; the blood; the vital spirit.

//Seneca, Complete Works That which cannot contain the happy life cannot contain that which produces the happy life; and the happy life is produced by Goods alone.

//Seneca, Complete Works That which cannot contain the happy life cannot contain that which produces the happy life; and the happy life is produced by Goods alone.

//Lucan, Civil War Our life is not the object of civil war.

//Cicero, Tusculan Disputations These considerations apply to the living, but the dead are neither in need of the blessings of life, nor of life itself.

//Cicero, Tusculan Disputations These considerations apply to the living, but the dead are neither in need of the blessings of life, nor of life itself.

//Deleuze, Expressionism in Philosophy Life, that is, expressivity, is carried into the absolute.

//Girard, Violence and the Sacred The forms of the living revert to formlessness.

//Derrida, Signature Spirit is not the thing, spirit is not the body.

//Strabo, The Geography (19) Furthermore, concerning these divinities and their varied names, they were not only called servants of the gods but gods themselves.

//Cicero, Selected Letters The temples of the immortal gods are threatened by the expectations of indigent and wicked men.

//Serres, The Five Senses The dinner mimics that of the gods the individuals present believing that the mere loss of their individuation makes them gods.

//Serres, The Five Senses Indeed, at the banquet of the gods themselves.

//Serres, The Five Senses We at least have the palace.

//Serres, The Five Senses The gods come together thus.

//Serres, Statues The gods were no longer hiding themselves—nor men.

//Foucault, History of Madness In this way we find ourselves beside a thousand other cultures that grouped together ‘I am mad’ with ‘I am an animal’, or ‘I am a God’ or ‘I am a sign’, or even ‘I am a truth’, as was the case for the nineteenth century up until Freud.

//Serres, Troubadour of Knowledge At the center of the star is hidden the third place, formerly called a soul, experienced by passing through a channel that is difficult to cross.

//Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics It is m fact a reality, but it is not only this reality.

//Foucault, The Order of Things At each point of contact there begins and ends a link that resembles the one before it and the one after it; and from circle to circle, these similitudes continue, holding the extremes apart (God and matter), yet bringing them together in such a way that the will of the Almighty may penetrate into the most unawakened comers.

//Deleuze, Foucault Not that brief memory that comes afterwards and is the opposite of forgetting, but the ‘absolute memory’ which doubles the present and the outside and is one with forgetting, since it is itself endlessly forgotten and reconstituted: its fold, in fact, merges with the unfolding, because the latter remains present within the former as the thing that is folded.

[jacomo-madici]

PATHWAY OF HETERODOXY, ROOMS OF EVERYTHING EVERYONE EVERYWHERE, A WAY TO ALTER THE FABRIC OF ANALOGUE NORMS

Has technofetishism changed the way we act[1]? From here, we consider the future course of architectural datarchitectonics, beginning again with what isn’t the future course of datarchitechtonics[2]. If the way we see virtual animals is inevitably influenced by the way we see real animals, it is because the reading of the analogue is retrospective[3]. Through paths of heterodoxy, everything that is in any way changed, is in some way in potentiality[4]. The way things are made, the way they are put together, the way one thing comes to the other, at any rate, they cannot be described[5], if not lived and brought to the edge of the hyperlinks connecting everyone and everything[6]. The aqueduct hosts the cellars of the deepest kinks and the vaults of the richest knowledges. A line of rooms, 5.6x6x5, a new layout for what is collective knowledge and digital normatives. A path where the similar and the digital, resemblance and code as moulds, where analogue norms are already casted. Modulation as putting into variation the mould, a transformation of the mould at each moment of the operation[7]. Rooms linking in different ways, through a path, everything everyone everywhere, in unique perceptions and collection of plenty, imploding the normative analoguous.

[1] Bureaud, MetaLife Biotechnologies Synthetic Biology ALi

[2] Green, Architectural robotics Ecosystem of Bits Bytes

[3] Peters, Digital Keywords

[4] Aquinas, Summa Theologica

[5] Derrida, Gramatology

[6] Vrisendorp, The World of Madelon Vriesendorp

[7] Deleuze, Cinema 2 The Time Image

[crydayz]

230408 土

小さな哲学の積み重ねとその持続によって「世界観」と「物語」を作る。

MetaLife（メタライフ） https://metalife.co.jp/remote-work/

ってのYouTubeで一時期CM打ってたでしょう。何の気なしに登録してやってみた。部屋カスタム面白いけど結局「箱庭おままごと」以上の可笑しみや価値ってなんかあんのかな、って。

まあ、たぶんある。そこに「ビジネス」や「趣味」に基づく人間関係が成立しているならば。

このサービスは基本的に「ビジネスユース」を想定して作られている（その割に回線速度やブラウザの縛りが他サービスよりもシビアなのはどうかと思うが）。だから部屋カスタムやデコレーションはあくまで「オマケ」というスタンス。

なので趣味で使おうとするととにかく中途半端なのだ。

ビジネス用WEB会議システムに求められる機能ってエンタメ系のそれとくらべてかなりシンプル。

総合的に���Discordで得られる体験と比べて刺激も満足感も乏しい。

ただ、オブジェクトをうまく並べて「一人遊び」する分には楽しい。やった事ないけど「アメーバピグ」やGREEの「ハコニワ」のやり込み感によく似ているのだと思う。部屋作っていじるだけなら課金いらないので存分に遊べる。

友だちと一緒に通話しつつカスタムすれば数時間は余裕で溶けるくらいには面白い。しかし、そもそもディスコは別にこれといったツマミがなくとも余裕で「10時間くらい溶ける」のだ。それと比べたら5～6時間遊んだくらいで「もういっか」と感じてしまうコンテンツはエンタメ強度が低すぎる。

あらためて言うがメタライフはあくまでビジネス用会議ツールであってエンタメ系ツールではない。だから仕様的にはなんの問題もない。

ただ、触っているうちにちょっとだけ・・いや、かなり「愛着」が湧いてしまい、結果的に「もっとここがこうならいいのに」という欲が湧いてしまうのだ。

「みんなでいじる」のは楽しい。しかしすぐに「（遊びでやる分には）意味がない」というオチにたどり着く。こういうもんは独りでちまちまいじりつつ、ある程度環境とローカルルールを完成させた上でそこに人を呼び込み、いかに「ポジティブな交流」や「建設的思考と体験の積み上げ」をさせるかが大事だろう。

「看板」という機能でJPGや透過PNGを画面内の好きな場所に貼り込めるので正直それだけでも世界を作れてしまうが、看板は誰でも位置とサイズをいじれてしまうので固定ステージオブジェクトとして配置するには緊張感がありすぎる（バカでかいリュック背負った状態で瀬戸物コーナーの細い通路で買い物する時の「緊張感」みたいなもん）。

さて。ここまで書いておいて作った部屋を公開しないというのもアレなのでアドレスを載せて・・

いや、やっぱやめとこう。

画面の雰囲気はこんな感じです。

【✓】

[pixleddisplay]

Immersive tunnel brings you to the universe!

[itspolii]

@kreatorofficial 🤘 #MexicoMetalFest . . . . . . . . #metalhead #metalmusic #metalife #kreator #germanmetal #legendsofmetal #mexicometalfestV (en Expo Feria Guadalupe) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjOCYUUuSjkOx-K375hzBiA6BtbDy_ZpqYlPU00/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[sunrisebrock]

How we feeling ladies and gents🥵🥵 Colby in that first photo is hitting DIFFERENT.

(ps I’m pretty certain the Hawaii thing is a joke lmao)

[socialanxiety-queen]

Can we just talk about the genuine smile Sam has while talking about Metalife? 🥺😭❤️

[golbrocklovely]

snc need to have an actual suggestion box or something bc some of the shit they come up with, assuming that fans have wanted said thing for so long, is just not accurate.

them adding a social side to xplrclub.... babes, half the ppl that will be on there are ppl i have blocked on twitter and on here. bffr, if i wanted to socialize with this fandom, i'd do it my damn self. and i already do. there's too many crazies out here lol

this is gonna turn into metalife again, i swear to god sksksk

[xplrbrolby]

His lips are looking a little softer, they be looking like 👄.

[xplrvibes]

Colby has anxiety? Diagnosed?

I don't know if he was ever diagnosed (he's never said anything about an official diagnosis so I'm going to say he either never saw a doctor for this or doesn't want to speak about it publicly), but he does talk quite often about struggling with what does seem to be a form of chronic anxiety.

He spoke about it a lot during the MetaLife era; some of those videos were he describes his experiences may still be available on YouTube if you search for them. He also spoke about it a bit in the 25x25 video where they went scuba diving.

And again: I'd deep dive through his old tweets. He used to speak about anxiety and late night panic attacks quite a bit.

There was also a podcast that he and Sam appeared in about a year or so ago (I will try to find the name of it) where they spoke about anxiety and while he was very careful to not label it as any type of disorder, the way he spoke about his experiences were...telling.

Again, a lot of other things he has said about this topic over the years have either been deleted or are behind a paywall, but there are some examples still out there if you'd like to know more.