#the stolen generation

[chernayawidow]

Indigenous Australians ARE BLACK. I’ve just come from tiktok after seeing lots of Americans say that First Nation people are not black. THERE ARE OTHER PLACES AND CULTURES IN THE WORLD OUTSIDE OF THE USA.

I myself am white, so if any Indigenous Australians are uncomfortable with me saying any of this please let me know and I’ll take it down. Or if any terms/information needs correction please please please let me know.

I have friends who are light skinned Indigenous and they should NOT have to defend their heritage against a country of ignorant fools. My primary example is Malakai and Missy from Heartbreak High, an AUSTRALIAN show, who are having their heritage erased because they’re not “black enough”. How the fuck are people saying that in 2023?

If your country cared enough to acknowledge the existence of others in the world, you would know that Indigenous Australians were subjected to the Stolen Generation. What’s that, you ask? Where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were stolen from their families by governments, churches and welfare bodies to be raised in institutions, fostered out or adopted by non-Indigenous families, as a way of white washing them and erasing their culture and heritage.

TW: Racism, Death/Murder, Abuse - sexual and physical - (not graphic but mentioned)

They were abused, killed and raped by white people, as well as being forced to have their children as a way of “breeding out the black”. So when you guys say “they’re not black enough”, it’s one of the most disgusting and insensitive things you can say. The amount of pain Indigenous Australians have suffered is astounding, and they’re finally getting some on-screen representation. But here come you Americans, just shitting all over them. African American representation is extremely low, now guess what? Indigenous Australian representation is even lower. To the point where you guys don’t even know they exist.

To this day, they experience systemic racism at the hands of government, and especially the police. Not only that, but Australia is still fighting to change the date of “Australia Day” so that it doesn’t fall on Invasion Day. They’re trying to reclaim land that is rightfully theirs, as well as protect and maintain the preservation of what little history they have left. So before you go shitting on the oldest and longest running Indigenous culture in the world, do your fucking research.

[akajustmerry]

that report on Zionists abducting blonde Palestinian children to be "adopted" by Zionists makes me physically shake. I'm an Aboriginal person with extended family who were abducted by the "Australian" government decades ago and put up for "adoption" by whites as part of what is now known as the Stolen Generations. All Aboriginal children, but especially those who were lighter in features, were the target of this genocidal assimilation policy. The colonial legacy of Aboriginal child abduction on my peoples is an intergenerational abyss of cultural loss, the destruction of bloodlines, despair and grief that is still felt by every First Nations person in the country today. To be alive and witness another Indigenous people experience the same destruction by practically the same hand drowns me in anguish. Fuck settler colonial projects. Death to all of them. They're all the fucking same. Land Back for every First Nations peoples living under occupation, from Palestine to so-called Australia.

[ionomycin]

Welcome home

[cinemamind]

Might as well post this here for posterity, since Youtube has yet to resolve the matter.

A couple of weeks ago, my short film 'Pleasant Inn' got a false copyright strike from an individual named Kazi Zidane Mim. He has been striking any Youtube channel that reacted to my short film in the hopes of uploading his own stolen version titled 'Paradise Hell.'

For comparisons, here is my original short film:

[This is a horror animation and contains flashing lights, so viewer discretion is advised]

And here is Kazi Zidane's stolen version:

Kazi Zidane Mim has a history of just flat out stealing.

As an example, this is his 'Bloody Mary graphic novel,' which is actually a manga called 'Ibitsu,' with only the text/dialogue changed.

He's literally just selling this on Google Books and Amazon without any push-back.

I also found out that he has a Sketchfab account.

Why is this important? Because Sketchfab offers a great library of 3D models made by other artists, such as this animated deer by Games in Motion Studios;

Look familiar?

I'm sure coincidences are possible, tho 🦌

Kazi Zidane even made a bogus IMDB page of my stolen short.

And to add insult to injury...

So far, Youtube hasn't done anything about this and I'm tired of waiting. Many channels have received false copyright strikes by Kazi Zidane Mim just for reacting to 'Pleasant Inn' since 2019.

[protojohn3253]

‼️‼️‼️⚠️‼️‼️‼️AI ACCOUNTS ARE STEALING PEOPLE’S WORK‼️‼️‼️⚠️‼️‼️‼️

I was scrolling through tumblr and noticed some very familiar art popping up with no captions at all, so I checked the 3 profiles these posts were coming from. 2 of these accounts had similar names, and I can say for sure that 2 of them had ai generated profile pictures and descriptions. I know that 2 of them also had the same exact descriptions. These accounts have been spamming stolen sonadow themed art— they aren’t reposting them, and they aren’t credited. When I try and report them, google keeps saying there’s an error. It might not work on iOS and I don’t have access to a computer. (Also, 2 of these account names have ‘crush’ in them, and all of them have ‘02’ at the end, so be on the lookout for similar named accounts.)

These are screenshots I took of these accounts showing up in my ‘tags’ feed. If anyone can, please report these “people”. We don’t need tumblr turning into the new facebook, with half of the stuff on the platform just being Ai generated slop.

[yandere-daydreams]

please PLEASE I’m begging you to make a Yandere Childe bot on c.ai I love the way you write and I just want to have a little deranged version of him in my pocket!! If I can be greedy I’d love another Yandere Childe sex doll au too! I’m on my KNEES🙏

if i ever make a character ai of literally anything at any point i need someone to come to my house and break every bone in my body. if you want smut so bad then write it yourself. there's no soul in those machines and they do NOT know what it is to want to peg a fictional man.

[thatonegaytrekfan]

[darkwood-sleddog]

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

This is your reminder that the Alaskan Malamute is NOT an indigenous dog breed. It may have indigenous ancestry but its creation, the standards imposed on it, and every aspect of its direction have been steered by white people from the very beginning. Even it’s name is inaccurate to its ancestry.

There are still Inuit breeding traditional sled dogs today. They are not some mythological people of old. They’re uploading photos their dogs, their hunting, their friends, their communities to social media as you read this.

Inuit dog breeds such as the Canadian Inuit Dog and Greenland Dog share struggles the Alaskan Malamute never has. The Canadian Inuit Dogs were culled en mass in the 1970s by the Canadian government which is still a source of trauma for people today. Knowledge of traditional dog keeping has been so fractured that I know of several young people using YouTube to learn their traditional crafts instead of being taught by people in their communities. The Greenland Dog is perhaps one of the most isolated dog breeds in the world and is extremely vulnerable to changes from Global Warming. As the climate warms it is harder and harder for the dogs and the people that seek to continue their traditional way of life to function as they desire. Much of Greenland subsists on hunting and tourism of their landscape and traditional activities. Climate change will make both more difficult.

Yes, the Alaskan Malamute has had its own struggles, World War II took a massive toll on the breed as it did many others. But we cannot let ourselves be deluded by the false histories and mythologizing pushed by the breed club, the kennel club because at their base they are clubs ruled by the west and the west alone. Our breed went to Antarctica successfully where many breeds did not, but somehow that wasn’t enough for the people in charge. They will flush and turn their heads away when you fact check their made up delusion. They will claim the breed is SO different than the other indigenous freight dogs that they HAD to create a new breed while at the same time saying “wow this breed is ancient!”. Is the 1930s ancient? Why must we sell this lie? Where does it fucking stop.

[mi---amor]

something something ya crashlanded into my heart lmao

⚡my self-insert oc goes by any pronouns 💖 we are not the same person!⚡

[river-mort]

i just keep thinking about how with ai plague everyone getting like. Stupid. No one have any desire to learn new skills anymore which is an extremely important resource for out brain development. One of the most popular advice against alzheimer and dementia is learning new things (languages for example). They all say well, I don't know how to sing/write/draw to show my ideas and I don't think their ideas are any lesser because of that but this whole time people somehow always managed to bring their ideas without ai. They had no other choices but learn and they did in fact learned. So much online artists who play a lot of various instruments and sing, so much artists who learned how to draw without any specific schools or teachers. And, okay, I actually CAN understand the singing problem for example, really, but learning instruments is not as hard as singing. And you don't even need real instruments! Or drawing digital is easier and cheaper to learn than traditional and once again it's possible to do. That's what technology improvement actually means. Computer makes your life easier but it doesn't take away learning process.

And what about all students using chatgpt? It's the craziest for me. It's like you use Google Translator for your English lesson. You not only don't learn shit but you learn mistakes instead. Its like learn violin on your own - you might make it sound more or less right but your posture and movement will be wrong and may hurt you even. And that's so sad. It's worse than anything people saw before because everything else still left you room for learning. Finding answers for your test still was some sort of work and you may still learn something while searching but with ai you don't do any work in general. If brainrot videos change your brain in bad way yet you still can overcome it and fix your brain working, ai literally makes it stop working in at ALL. It's a very addictional laziness on a destructive level where you use ai even for basic every day tasks and then more and more until you're incapable of anything on your own. Because you're stupid.

[evilios]

Hell are you creating AI "art" of Apollo for. Does "patron of art" mean nothing to some of you people.

[fuckyeahweaving]

a letter you get from gale if you never speak to him, before he leaves the party

[freedom-of-fanfic]

‘Generative AI can’t make real art!’ I agree

But for commercial purposes, most people/companies aren’t looking for ‘real art.’ They’re looking for ‘content’ they can purchase at the lowest possible price point.

If they can get the Stolen Art Remix Machine to create that content, well. You can see where this is going

[warmfuzzyanimal]

nothing to boil the blood in the morning quite like coming across an etsy page of AI generated furry adopts and going "okay, well, surely no one's *buying* these seven fingered airbrushed freaks," but, alas. almost 600 sales. making literal hundreds of dollars off of stolen work. fuck off and blow up.

[glubandeepspace]

i always see so so many "this is so cool, credit to the original artist idk who" and like hello You downloaded it from somewhere and it's an era where you can reverse image search in less than a minute (if not copy & paste link even quicker).

if you dont know how then you can also learn as fast.

if the results arent precise then first of all also why do you think the point of "credit" is only saying it's not yours?

is it not obvious that most artists post not only to share but to be recognized for their own hardworked skill & creativity?

but nooo youre the one who'll be or wanna be hearing all the "ahh yes this is so good"s for far far less of a point (without even giving others the option to check out the artist's other potentially similar works that both of you may enjoy)? is that the only way you can find community? just say "art not mine, idrc abt the source" atp at least if you won't (ideally) stop entirely. honesty & self awareness is great with the bar this extremely low. consumers these days

[theultimatedisaster]

LET ME MARRY THE GRUMPY SILVER FOX GENERAL BETHESDA