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[ai-art-thieves]

Hey, am I overreacting or do some of the videos on the youtube channel @/FactsByBriggs contain ai generated images?

Here's the link to the channel if you need it: https://youtube.com/@factsbybriggs?si=QC-lGMhM9239_g5C

I don't usually tackle cases that are on youtube, but for the sake of investigating whether or not something is ai generated I'll do it.

(FUTURE A2T HERE: THIS IS GONNA BE A LONG ONE.)

Aaaaand right out of the gate I see AI.

However, I can't call this ai trash just because they generate art from ai.

The real deciding factor would involve a few things:

Does this channel tell people that some of the pictures are ai generated?

Does this channel credit any images they use online?

Are they using ai to mislead and/or farm content solely for monetization purposes?

Only one way to find out.

Ok, so right out of the gate, we don't see any links to images.

This guy also has a lot of socials.

....And a LinkedIn for some reason.

Let's put a pin on that for now.

What do the videos have to offer?

Ok. So we got an ai voice, an avatar that reeks of content farm garbage, and an image that has not been credited.

We're off to a good start. (in case you couldn't tell, that was sarcastic.)

What they didn't do is crop the url that is above, so we know the art got taken from somewhere.

Luckily, we have Google Lens.

That image is from @yuumei-art.

They took that image and did not credit where the image was from.

But, it gets better. IT'S NOT THE ONLY ONE.

There's even some where they even left the artist's signature! Not once, but twice.

And to answer your question, fellow anon, yes. They do use ai generated imagery as well.

This channel is generating images or taking images from the internet for their videos.

No, this is not me hypothesizing. This is what they are actually doing.

I know this because in one video, they use a stock image with the watermark still intact.

But let's take a step back for a mo'. We need to investigate that LinkedIn account.

I have no idea why they have this account here. Like, at all.

LinkedIn is a job hunting website, not TikTok!

The link they have goes back to their Linktree.

Another thing to point out is that they have a Kofi page.

Well, BuyMeACoffee.

Same difference.

There doesn't seem to be anyone supporting that page.

Looking at this channel some more, this doesn't seem to be a content farm.

It has the stench of one, for sure. But it's also responding to comments.

Feeling like I've hit a dead end, I dropped "Facts by Briggs" on google.

That's when I learned that Facts By Briggs actually has a tumblr page.

....It's just not advertised on the Linktree.

And they have their own tumblr domain.

....wait, tumblr domains cost 22 bucks (18.02 pounds sterling in the UK). Isn't Briggs struggling with financial stuff?

...Something's not adding up.

They reblog posts from a London Hip-Hop DJ and Rapper by the name of CANMKING.

I was going to let this fact pass. But...

And yes, he is a real guy.

But let's get back on topic.

What's even stranger is that Can isn't the only one of the usual suspects that replies.

ctkvi, the people that made an album cover for Can.

They too have a linktree and a tumblr domain.

They also do ai video and music work.

And upon investigating those guys...

"Instagram Growth Service"?

Ok, the LinkedIn accounts are starting to make sense.

Let's tackle that monstocity another day, because it looks pretty daunting.

As for the avatar...

Google Lens saved me again, and that led me to Adobe Express.

And lookie here!

It's Briggs!

And considering that its a part of the Adobe Express ecosystem, I can probably infer that the whole video is made on Adobe Express.

Along with some of the other projects that CANMKING has done.

"Riley Frankcap"

Yes. This man made another one.

Better yet, Can has a total of 6 accounts.

And they reply to all of his stuff.

ongawdclub is the oldest of the alts, going as far back as December 2021, but Can has been on tumblr since 2011.

...

Huh. Looks like this case does involve this fellow hellsite after all.

Ok that's enough rabbit hole digging for today. Also I've hit the image limit on this post. Needless to say, there's a whole lot to unpack.

TL;DR:

Yes, Facts by Briggs is a content farm.

Yes, it uses ai art. BUT...

It also uses images off the internet and doesn't credit artists.

Briggs himself is not an original creation, but an avatar that you can easily use on Adobe Express. It's probably how most of the videos were created.

Facts by Briggs has a lot of social media accounts, as seen on their Linktree, including one on LinkedIn and one on a Kofi-like site.

What Facts by Briggs doesn't have on the Linktree is a tumblr. One that has a domain. This goes against what was said in the Kofi, which states that they are struggling with money.

Facts by Briggs reblogs posts by a London hip-hop dj/rapper named CANMKING.

CANMKING replies and reblogs numerous posts by Facts by Briggs, along with five other accounts (reallysmalls, ongawdclub, needgoodgraphics, ctkvi, and rileyfrankcap (A news based content farm). Facts by Briggs also replies to posts made those five accounts. CANMKING is the oldest account out of the total seven, so we assume that the six are sockpuppets that astroturf his tumblr posts.

ctkvi deals with ai video and audio, and needgoodgraphics has a service that, and I'm probably guessing here at the moment, artificially boosts your instagram account by astroturfing it.

TL;DR for the TL;DR:

CANMKING is a rapper/dj from London who uses sock puppets, astroturfing, bots, content farms, and straight up kofi scams to gain success.

...and he made those content farm videos all in Adobe Express.

To prove it, I reverse engineered a Facts by Briggs video.

Mostly.... I know Facts by Briggs uses ai voices... but I don't want to make another account just to access the ai voice add-on. So I used the legendary "Why You Lying?" instead.

I only found one post that talks about CANMKING's scamming efforts, but they've only scratched the surface.

If any of you have any more info about CANMKING that's not listed up here, do let me know.

[k-fangirledits]

APPRECIATION POST ヾ(＠⌒ー⌒＠)ノ(*/ω＼*)

Literally thank you to all of you that have interacted with any and all of my thai celebrity gif sets! y'all are so awesome and I wasn't sure how big the thai lakorn fandom was especially on Tumblr, so I am just shook.

Y'all have helped make my whole year just with your interactions with my posts in general so that's why I wanted to make this post.

if you have any one you'd like to request just dm me and let me know. thank you again!

also if you'd like to be in a taglist for a specific thai media involved celebrity let me know and I'll be sure to always tag you in the next gif set that comes out!

Taglist from 2024 Activity Notes as early as March

Likes & Interactions Taglist:

@sahidotcom | @1001nightsofsnowfall | @ailurophilerebeccaexists

| @thelostcupcait | @virulentesque | @my-dorama | @canmking | @ongawdclub | @solo-collision | @sbv21 |

@pyrebomb

@staceyisnthere

@taranya02

@nihilisticcondensedmilk

@zenjiiejiie

@salami-tender

@isla24

@deviantandroidsentbycyberlife

@inonetoomanyfandoms

Reblogs Taglist:

@dark-kitsune | @thelostsshoe

@nihilisticcondensedmilk

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Passing to

@snuh @ongawdclub @ginsengana @tsquared710 @spookyqueen888 @please-excuse-the-mess @sensuallyhipped @oikoumenee @stressed-depressed91 @a-mayan-joy-has-nuts @weedmistressnm @coloradogrown @danzingkat @captaincannabliss420 @papa-murf @zymsworldsblog

[black2infinity]

@ongawdclub

[hyperfixatingonfoolishthings]

again, not my target audience, but I'm not complaining.

@ongawdclub you have come for my medic RP blog and now my extras blog, well done ig?

[noraqrosa]

ON: SPAMMERS, RE: MUSIC-BASED POSTS

POSTED THIS EARLIER venting about spammers who accost people who post about music here:

but that doesn't quite illustrate it well enough

SO HOW'S ABOUT A VIDEO MONTAGE (sorta, if you can call a video of a screen recording a montage)

song is mine btw, more info underneath this Spotify link to it (tho you can find it & all my other stuff anywhere you can find muics):

this ain't even the half of it. avoid ctkvi/"the creative studio"/ongawdclub/canmking/whatever other sockpuppets they may have. most of these blogs will have the same sorts of posts:

and they get people by spamming likes and reblogs of anyone who mentions music, music videos, Spotify, graphics, etc.

AND I'M SURE THIS POST WILL ATTRACT MORE OF THESE "PEOPLE" (read: algorithms poorly pretending to be sentient beings) TOO

but, you know what? that's fine. that'll just make it easier for me to block them. and they'll be proving my point! bonus!!!!

anyway here's another song of mine, the latest single i put out (another one coming soon). they can spam? i can shamelessly self-promote.

[darcksama]

My New Music @dinosaurbangbang @thewonderfulworldofjubile3le3 @possible-streetwear @ongawdclub

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[moondust-bard]

Also known as

• Potent Poison, Treasured Tonic (Her Enchanted Garden, #1)

• PPTT

Comp titles

• Twelve Dancing Princesses

• A Dark & Hollow Star

Living, breathing symbols of a decades-old treaty, half-faery Elowyn Fleetwood and her eleven sisters exist between worlds: their powerful human father’s mundane modern kingdom of sleek chrome and neon lights and their elegant faery mother’s ethereal ancestral realm of magic and mischief. The Festival of Fortune— a celebration held once every decade to commemorate the pact between worlds— draws nearer by the day. Eight courts—four mortal and four immortal— will gather in the Realm Between. But this time, chaos will reign. An eternal life will yield to a pilfered poison, and only Elowyn holds the antidote to peace—or ruin.

For fans of

• fairytale retellings

• weird plants

• political maneuvering

• glitchy magic

• complex family relationships

• trippy fairy festivals

• fairy court drama

• murder mystery

• nature deities

• tech vs. tradition

genres

• new adult

• urban fantasy

• portal fantasy

PoV

3rd, present

Themes

• magic vs technology

• family

• loyalty & betrayal

• sisterhood

• tradition vs change

Meet the characters

• Elowyn Fleetwood

Character Masterpost

Deity Masterpost

The Courts of Faerie

Playlist - lyrical

Playlist - instrumental

Pinterest - the characters

Join the taglist! @ongawdclub @unclevladscorner @amywrites256 @sternenmeerkind @iriswords @artcoffeecats @yors-truly @aalinaaaaaa

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[ongawdclub]

T h e T r i p l e R

[looowkeeey]

Love you guys @ctkvi @needgoodgraphics @ongawdclub and @canmking

[birdo-is-here]

getting a post liked by user Ongawdclub the most gratifying experience ever

[sohannabarberaesque]

As Top Cat and clowder return from another diver's holiday with the Catalina Diving Clowder on Catalina ...

This could be considered the gist of a conversation, debriefing even, between Top Cat and his clowder on board one of the Catalina Express boats heading back to Long Beach following a recent diving excursion and romantic weekend with the Catalina Diving Clowder, itself my own Hanna-Barbera-influenced creation, on--naturally--Catalina Island. Basically, they're summarising the single most unforgettable moment with such member of the Clowder they were assigned to sleep with.

Benny the Ball: Perhaps his pet moment was in getting ready for the early-morning dive at the Casino Point Dive Park with Jessamaine, his companion on Catalina; Jessamaine was heard suggesting to Benny that his fins may have been a bit tacky, but cool-looking nonetheless.

Choo-Choo: Romance (howbeit borderline unlikely) came upon his mind in bedding with Lola, being caught by surprise to hear a passing thunderstorm over Avalon the second night and trying to sleep, unaware that Chooch and Lola were rather close in bed as if attempting some feline lovemaking in the Catalina fashion.

Fancy-Fancy: Assigned Jayne as his sleepover companion, the quasi-Lothario of the TC clowder managed to allow his swagger to show (with the Diving Clowder pretty much apologetic for it) during a dive session close to Toyon Bay, replete with much in the way of his brand of passionate hugging and kissing taken underwater directed at Jayne. Back on the Clowder's dive boat, Jayne admittedly felt surprised at Fancy-Fancy's advances and his passion taken to such depths, but acknowledged that it was just Fancy-Fancy all along.

Brain: With Samantha as sleepover partner, TC's most loyal feline couldn't help but resist doing as much the "wolf whistle" both when Samantha was assigned the "cherchez le merchat" act during a dive session off Ben Weston Point--and when Brain somehow decided to join Samantha in the mermaid getup during the ensuing dive.

Spook: For sheer wonderment in the diving experience, Joleen (to whom Spook was assigned bed share) admitted that during the time off Two Harbors, off Isthmus Cove even, Spook may have been on a par with the clownfish in some of the rock reefs so dived unto--as a sheer comic wit.

Top Cat: Always given the sleepover with the Diving Clowder's leader, "Bubbles," TC's finest moment was helping out in the kitchen ahead of the welcoming supper, particularly in getting the shrimp lo mein started and getting the table set. "And need I add, boys, how romantic Bubbles can get to be sleeping with her, especially with the underwater fantasies we manage to share with each other!"

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[hiphop]

I posted 306 times in 2022

That's 51 more posts than 2021!

35 posts created (11%)

271 posts reblogged (89%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@hiphop

@ongawdclub

@lordmajeed

@hiphop-reclaimed

@trillartworks

I tagged 53 of my posts in 2022

#hip hop - 26 posts

#spotify - 19 posts

#youtube - 14 posts

#rap - 9 posts

#hip hop art - 8 posts

#hip hop on tumblr - 7 posts

#soundcloud - 4 posts

#kendrick lamar - 3 posts

#illustration - 3 posts

#netflix - 3 posts

Longest Tag: 33 characters

#mixtapes are not a crime volume 2

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

You can’t help the world until you help yourself

The culture

14 notes - Posted May 8, 2022

#4

18 notes - Posted November 19, 2022

#3

this banger as the lowest play count. let's flip it.

24 notes - Posted January 7, 2022

#2

A new, extremely limited 'Deadpool' #1 variant cover by Ken Lashley features Notorious B.I.G.'s first appearance on a Marvel Comics cover.

Created by artist Ken Lashley in association with hustl., the DEADPOOL #1 cover finds Notorious B.I.G. sitting upon a golden throne and wearing his iconic crown with Deadpool standing at his back. The variant cover, which features the rapper's first ever appearance on a Marvel Comics cover, is available to purchase at TheHaul.com starting today, November 2 in very limited quantities.

This is what I'm here for

144 notes - Posted November 7, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

"What If" from anteddai

Had to start w/ Biggie and Pac.

More to come from the amazing "What If" Collection by the talented @anteddai

167 notes - Posted November 23, 2022

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