#report this fucker

[the-lady-writes-what]

Now for something completely different: The AI Problem with Etsy

I was minding my own business and scrolling through Pinterest, when I came across this:

First you think, that's a pretty dress. What could be wrong with it? Turns out, quite of few things. I will admit that the AI is pretty good here, but you can't help but notice how stiff the "model" is. Then, the cracks start to appear. The eyes seem to be looking in different directions. The background looks too unfocused. The hair doesn't make sense.

And then you get to the dress itself.

I am not a professional seamstress or dressmaker. I sew as a hobby, so please take my word with a grain of salt. However, I know enough about the basics of sewing and construction to tell you that something funky is going on. First the price. The seller slashed the price from $475 USD to a measly $142.50 and doesn't include shipping. The most expensive dress I have made would have set me back at least $100 if not for the fact that I purchased the fabric from the craft I worked at during that time. It was a simple medieval gown of linen. A ball gown with corset lacing, lace, boning, gathers, and at least 6+ yards of fabric for the skirt alone would set you back a couple hundred dollars just for supplies alone. The total cost of the dress with all the supplies plus labor would make the item cost higher than the $475 figure.

This wedding gown looks like what a $500+ ballgown should be.

The dress retails at $579 plus $97 for shipping. If a dress originally worth $475, it's going to include a pricy shipping and handling tag. And the only reason someone would make a dress worth that much money and knock that price down by 70% is if they're going out of business and desperately need to get rid of their stock. Here's a thing about retail, most often if they're giving you such a big sale, it's because the retail value is much lower than what they're selling it to you for. They already bumped up the price to cover the cost of shipping and handling, although in the case of most corporate big box department stores I suspect it has more to do with making more money when they trick you into thinking that you're getting a deal for a dress that should probably match the sale price and not the marked up one.

Let's get back to the original dress. There's a couple of discrepancies right off the bat. The gathered ruffles at the top mysteriously end in the middle of the bodice. The bodice looks like it has three strings trying to imitate corset lacing and I can't seem to figure out how it would be sewn. I don't see seams for boning and you would definitely need some boning structure for a dress like this just for stability while wearing it, especially if you're wearing a strapless bra. The lace at the end of the sleeves melt, literally MELT, into the other fabric instead of, you know, being SEWN? It also doesn't look right from a design stand point. You have all that gorgeous pink satin and you slap on cheap lace where there is lace nowhere else on the dress?

This is another picture from the same listing but it looks like a similar but very different dress.

The bodice style is completely different going from a more heart shape to a straight across. The front lacing is even more funky, the sleeves somehow got worse and are completely different from the first image, and the "model's" face looks like it's melting if you look closer at the image.

Here is the supposed back:

Even with my amateur eyes, this back is incongruent with the design of the front and looks like a new kind of dress. The sleeves have changed yet again and the lacing is a horrifying mess of Lovecraftian proportions.

Everything about this listing is alarming. There's only one color, the size chart is very small (only 0 to size 12), there's no shipping, and no refunds. Sometimes you need to be cautious around sellers of any goods that offer exchanges rather than cash refunds. There might be legitimate reasons a good seller doesn't do refunds, so you need to take that into account before labeling someone a scammer. If you see "no refunds, only exchanges" and there are other red flags, then you would most likely be in the right to call that seller a scammer. Even with a 70% "sale", $132 is a lot of money to throw away on a dress that might not exist and by the time the store gets shut down, you might not get your money even if in the off chance Etsy or whatever platform decides to throw you a bone and compensate your loss.

The same store has a much more obvious AI "dress" they're trying to sell.

The "model" is even worse. The eyes are definitely going into different directions and the mouth literally looks slapped on. I'm not an expert in photography or anatomy, but there's also something funny going on with the legs. Should legs look like that? The listing calls this one a "Vintage Style Gothic Medieval Dress, Halloween Party Costumes for Women, Vampire Cosplay Long U shaped Skirt, Baggy Sleeves Roleplay Tunic". First, if the listing of a clothing item is a fucking novel, it's either fake or shoddily made in China by an underpaid seamstress in a sweatshop. Second, nobody calls that a "U-shaped" skirt. That's not a thing.

The proper terminology would be a "high-low" or "mullet" skirt. I have never heard of "U-shaped" skirt before.

The front of the dress is supposed to be laced, I think? But the design loses cohesion. If you tried to zoom in, the entire image gets blurry. The dress, the background, the "model." It all looks super funky, and not in a fun way. I can't tell if they were going for corset lacing, rouching, gathering, or all three at once. The AI mess up big time. And of course, all the images in the listing look like similar but different dresses.

I'm including a link to the shop in the hopes if anyone sees this and cares enough to report the shop and all its listings to Etsy. I don't know if they'll do anything about it since they seem to care more about making money than protecting consumers these days, but it can at least send awareness that we don't want scammers and fake artists using AI to hurt people.

Scammer Etsy page link here

[buttercuparry]

Scammer...

[autumnalmess]

To anyone struggling with their mental health this holiday season: read Les miserables by Victor Hugo

it won't help, but at least then you'll know about the sewers

[to2llynottoby]

Donald Trump had some choice words for the current administration regarding the increase in lemonade lethality. Here is the audio from this talk he recently gave

[liminalweirdo]

As people falsely claiming to be Palestinians ramp up their scam attempts please remember that Palestine does not have access to Paypal!!

If someone is saying they are Palestinian and soliciting donations through PayPal, it is most likely a scam. Just because something says it is vetted does not mean it's true unless vetted by a trusted user on that person's blog.

PLEASE read the guide below so that real Palestinians can receive access to mutual aid and scammers stop receiving so much support.

How to report phishing on tumblr:

Click on the meatball menu at the top right corner of the post

Click "report post"

Click "report something else"

Click "unlawful uses or content"

Click "Phishing"

[ladyinthebluebox]

what in the bloody fucking hell.

MeDiEvAl StAtUs QuO???

buddy. pal. i assure ye that lgbt+ pepps lived back in the day. learn some history 'cause it seems like your understanding of it is severly lacking. also. IT'S A FUCKING FANTASY GAME IN THE FIRST PLACE.

[batwynn]

Extra big shout out to my selfish aunt today for still not managing any of my dead grandfather’s affairs—even when she was given power of attorney and access to his account info specifically to do that for him—so that I’m getting debt collectors calling for all his overdue accounts almost two fucking years later. And I’m the lucky winner for this prize because my number happened to be on file from when I helped him set all his accounts up when I was living and taking care of him fulltime and being abused and treated like shit by him. 👍

Yes, I know she only agreed to it so she could slurp up any money she could from him while he was dying. No, I had no real expectations for her to do anything that benefits anyone else. I still thought maybe this time the work needed for this (like two phone calls and maybe an email of his death certificate) were simple and easy enough for her to manage for her own father, who she loves to go on and on about caring about and for when she did exactly jack shit for him. But I guess now that he’s gone, she can only trot out his corpse when she needs a show of sympathy when her attention meter gets too low. Why put in any effort now, when she couldn’t be bothered while he was alive, I guess.

Love being haunted by my shitty family in weird, ridiculous ways.

[emma-dennehy-presents]

WHY AM I GETTING ALL THESE WEIRD DRUG AND HOOKUP BOTS THROUGH THE MONSTER FUCKER TAG?!?!1! WHAT MADE YOU THINK YOUR STOLEN PICTURES OF A CONVENTIONALLY ATTRACTIVE CIS LADY ARE GOING TO GET ME?! IM HERE FOR TENTACLES, SLIMES, AND WEREWOLF GIRLDICK!

[bugwolfsstuff]

Luke being an implied monster fucker will never not be funny to me

[cashandprizes]

You can't take me into bookstores because if I see old YA romance novels you're going to get the backstory of why I am the man I am now. Stockholm syndrome, captivity, sexy teachers, CNC, and fetish stuff just got slipped into YA books I was reading - I didn't know reading the fourth book of vampire academy would permanently alter my brain chemistry! There weren't content warnings on stuff back then and I wouldn't have known what it meant even if it had.

That being said - if you're looking for some wild ass book recommendations I think I'm a pretty good source.

[honestlyvan]

Let me be absolutely clear -- the problems with Tumblr will keep getting worse if the disabled minority and the trans people and the people frothing at the mouth at the opportunity to yell at a transphobe, keep @’ing staff and the developers on this site, tell them to kys, because in the meanwhile the transphobes and racists and white supremacists will keep using the actual tools Tumblr provides for blocking and reporting, further poisoning the datasets used for moderation, and encouraging the idea that using the official tools does nothing to basically ensure the only statistically meaningful data available to Automattic is poisoned, poisoned all the way down, poisoned beyond usability.

Hatespeech and bias needs to be reported for it to be considered statstically significant to act on from a developer point of view. Suicide baiting and spamming any of the official means of communication will get you eliminated as a spammer, even if you’re peppering legitimate criticism within your ventpost about how you hate the new thing. You are playing the TE/RFs game.

[turtally-tubular]

resellers/scalpers are genuinely a disgrace and stain on this planet like actually die if you do shit like this i would probably get banned if i described my hatered and anger for yall in more depth but you are fucking disgusting. buying up all the dolls on shelves, taking them from LITERAL CHILDREN and collectors and selling them for like 6x the price like actually kys you are a burden i usually would never say anything like that to anyone but you fuckers deserve it

its also mattels fault for being fucking awful and stupid and not putting protections and limits on this kinda stuff and restocking regularly so fuck you too mattel

you’re stealing so much joy from collectors and children alike and that’s unforgivable. go fuck yourself and die im begging you

also if you see any items like this PLEASE report them for price gouging as thats what they’re doing!!

dont let price gougers and scalpers have a platform and get away with what they’re doing

[oblivionsdream]

Why did I just see a porn bot post that said “Open my belly”??? I don’t think that one understands the assignment 💀

[chubbygaysunite]

monster/alien invasion movies will never reach their full potential until they can comfortably depict the part of humanity that would see a previously undiscovered and rampantly aggressive species and immediately try to kill and eat one of them

[tomwambsmilk]

tumblr nuking ming’s blog for talking about that article (presumably) is truly a new low

[arikihalloween]

honestly you and the others should just report all those fakes

you get some fuckers who come up with stupid fish barnabys

some greyscale Wally ripoffs

and of course that retard fucking glitch barnaby

you and everyone else behind wttmv are superior

love your work hope you get rid of the stupidass copies

Wow, that is a lot of anger and frustration to process, it seems

Go to the corner to think about it while I show why this is bad fandom behavior

Now now, it's my birthday today, so I am allowed bitch ranting and I'll be a bitch for once

Hey, hi, don't fucking say that

People like that are the reason creators abandon their aus, and yeah, one of the reason wttmv is in pause

We lost motivation due to school, busy life, ect, but also because people keep coming at us with this mentality

I get that you like our work, and it would be flattering, if you didn't put others down to compliment wttmv

I can't stand this behavior

Let people tell their stories !

It's inspired from other works, so what ? Humans get inspired all the time

WTTMV itself is inspired by Underverse and X-tale, at core !!

Rippoff is a strong word, and a wrong one at that

Similar concepts are bound to happen

Heck, there is a character with the same core concept as Stitcher, a Julie destroying worlds while thinking she does the right thing

But Designer and Stitcher are different, they have different stories, different narrative themes, and that's why both are cool as fuck (also they would likely get along if they were to meet)

I don't understand why I would want to get rid of the others

The other aus and multiverser aren't competition

They never were

The multiverse concept is not new, it's not ours, it's big and full of possibilities

That's why when our snowball effect rolled early one, with the mootieverse craze and all, we quickly detached ourselves from the word "mootieverse" so everyone could use it

Idk if people noticed that we stopped calling ourselves mootieverse

Mootieverse is for anyone that has a wh multivers characters and who is mutual with the others, and all stories are worth telling

We also try to give a little lore explanation about how we see the multiverse in wttmv, so that it doesn't exclude other creators and to avoid behavior like this

I'm putting this on full blast

This is BAD fandom behavior

It's behavior like this that makes creators want to lock themselves in their private discords to just play with their friends and never show the world their amazing creations

I don't like being seen as superior than anyone

It's uncomfortable

It makes people want to attack and blame *us* for words like this, when we never even implied anything of the sort (that happened yeah)

I rant a lot, but I think it needs to be said more

Appreciate all the stories

That's what makes us unique and not like AI

If you like wttmv, just say you like it, don't put others down, don't ask us to report (it wouldn't do anything anyway cause the others didn't do anything wrong, duh)

Scroll away if you don't like something, or mute, or block, it's as easy as this

Of you want more wttmv, idk, just ask lore questions, request doodles (me and koko are open for requests), show that you love it and maybe it'll get us motivated to show what we've been working on

Do you just understand all of this

Negativity will get your favorite AUs nowhere

It will only make them disapear