#video girl ai 2018

[yuumei-art]

I've been told that there are rumors about me using AI for my paintings. Please use some common sense, I've been posting on DeviantART since 2003 and sharing full video recordings on Patreon since 2018. If I'm a fake, wouldn't my Patrons have noticed by now? Since AI has been turning artists against each other, accusing each other of using AI, I have no choice but to share of some the Patreon rewards as proof. Here is the 10 full video recordings of me painting A Thousand Skies from scratch

I built the 3D model base for this painting in Sketchup, which you can see here

When AI was at it's infancy, I was very excited to have a new tool to help me make comics. Long time followers will know I struggled with repetitive strain injury that forced my comic making to a crawl. A decade before AI, I was experimenting with 3D backgrounds for comics.

I still remember the hate I got for using 3D models in my comic backgrounds, even though today nobody blinks at other artists doing the same. 3D is now accepted as a tool to help artists create. I even remember hate for being digital instead of traditional.

I tested out painting over AI generated backgrounds a few times in the very early stages of AI. There are a lot of screenshots taken out of context from my Discord where I share how I paint everything with complete transparency.

The only other time I've used AI in my art is for a gag scene in my comic, the full context is my character, Vance, who is a weeb and tech nerd, was objectifying women by seeing them as anime cat girls pasted over AI flower backgrounds.

If I had downloaded a flower stamp brush from ClipStudio and made a similar flower background, nobody would care. But somehow this is not okay even though it fits the theme and joke of the comic?

It's 2AM where I am now so I won't say much else other than I wish people would stop taking my posts out of context. With everything going on in the world, artists should support each other, not make up reasons to hurt each other.

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New nth room 2024 and deepfake epidemic in south Korea :

Telegram deepfake p*rn created by AI( deepfake where voice / images of victims are used ) in which adult and underage women are targeted by it ,there are deepfake humiliation chat rooms where explicit content are created

It is the " second Nth room " or New Nth room " the previous one was in 2019 where Cho Ju bin (who was 20 at that time ) was sentenced to 42 years in prison

279 fake videos (deepfake ) and 246 victims have been reported of these digital sex crimes ,20 year old person arrested who created "OO request room " or "Acquaintence humiliation room" It's done on the telegram app and it happened mostly between may to July of this year

Videos are produced by using name ,facial photo and age of Acquaintence and participants can enter these humiliation rooms by giving these informations

Another man arrested who was operating two adults websites where the illegal videos shared by him were 26,380 including 5 fake videos,6 videos of child and 9 illegally filmed

The recent deepfake crisis met with an outrage after journalists discovered that police is investigating porn rings at 02 of country's most prestigious universities

Chats rooms are linked to individual schools and universities and the victims are teachers and students known to the perpetrators

These discoveries follow arrest of telegram founder Pavel Durov on 12 different allegations of child pornography ,drug trafficking and fraud ,now he is charged and as of now telegram apologised to south korea for its handling of deepfake pornographic material and this too happened after south korean police started investigation on telegram that it helps this type of activities on its app and with this people are deleting their accounts off of telegram

Most victims ( even elementary schoolers and middle schoolers )and perpetrators are teenagers and the numbers of deepfake crimes increased from 156 from 2021 when they were first reported to 297 so far as in 2024

Involving blackmail, cybersex trafficking, and the spread of sexually exploitative videos via the Telegram app between 2018 and 2020, it was then led by a man nicknamed god god (later identified as Moon Hyung-wook) who sold sexual exploitation videos on Telegram channels and groups,after this there was a " Doctor room " operated by Cho Ju bin who forced and blackmailed dozens of women

The New Nth Room — what is it?Secret chat rooms where men share illicit photos of their mothers, sisters, and other women in their lives,their spouse ,from observing their behaviour to bathing routines of children and teenagers ( I won't go into disturbing traumatic details ,I will share the links separately so that if anyone is interested they can read there )

Disturbing images include those taken without consent. Photos are often taken while the women are asleep or, in some instances, drugged.

Victims aren’t limited to family members but also include colleagues and classmates or any women perpetrators in participants come in contact with.

Images include intended “humiliation”, by sharing images of acting inappropriately with the victims, with mothers, siblings or relatives targeted Students who are minors are the target, listed by age and their educational facility

Images pornographic in nature are shared alongside AI deepfake images the set of Telegram rooms, such as one with a total of more than 212,000 participants as reported by Koreaboo, revealed that in order to gain access to the rooms, one must submit a set of photos of any girl or woman around them — including family members, and provide the girl’s personal details

Another humiliation room contain " mother room" ,"cousin room ", "sister room" etcand it has 1932 participants

Top schools such as the famed SKY universities, Yonsei, Seoul National, and Korea Universities are also not spared.online vigilantes have also taken to revealing perpetrators’ identities online with some barely in their teens. the situation is exacerbated by dismissive attitude of many parents when informed about these incidents.some parents downplay the severity, blame the victims, or force reconciliation, ignoring the emotional trauma inflicted

the Korean Teachers Union speculates that over 200 schools have been targeted in the new Nth room incident. This is because usually the groups were named after the school to make it easier to find the chats and generate more such deep fake content as per the reports.( Wth ) This is a SA epidemic over there ,now these school numbers are 500

Even female journalists who cover the issue about the “second Nth Room” are also being threatened with deepfake porn. You might be wondering, “Why are these vile men so bold? What is the ‘second Nth Room’? Why are South Korean women starting to share their experiences online? The reason is to get justice,why these perpetrators are so bold that they are threatening even female journalists and asking male journalists to tell them name of the journalists they don't like and they will make deepfake of that journalist ,female journalists stating that they had sleepless nights checking those rooms that if their deepfakes are uploaded or not

Perpetrators can easily delete traces of their digital activity, making it difficult for authorities to hold them liable for the crime of deepfake porn distribution. Deepfake pornography is only punishable when shared in South Korea. And although nth room crimes have happened in past too , substantial laws haven't been passed so it's still continuing in 2024

Perpetrators are as young as 14 years old and situation is dire to the point that south Korean women are now scared to post selfies on social media ,what makes this nth room case more disgusting is the women aren't strangers,it's not only incest ,but also the whole purpose is to humiliate and degraded them hence the name ," humiliation rooms "

Cases are more in cities/ urban areas and less in rural areas

Feminism is vilified in South Korea ,In South Korea, feminism often raises backlash. To identify as a feminist—to advocate for gender equality—can lead to being ostracize and bullied. It doesn’t matter if female journalists cover the issue of sexual violence. Female journalists involved in covering the Burning Sun scandal received backlash and threats from men because they covered the case. Additionally, women are often expected to take responsibility

60% percent of the victims are minors and although the deepfakes existed in previous nth room time too ,the number was less ,the age of perpetrators and victims were less ( less in number and not that much minors were involved ),and the overall number of these crimes were less

One chat room has been in operation since 2020 has 1200 participants in it

Another place is DC gallery ( where people who are depressed can communicate anonymously )where 8000 to 9000 posts are uploaded in a day as incidents have increased a lot as comapred to last year and then it moved to instagram "Ulstar", another place is" hide house " where depressed underage girls are lured to take drugs where they are subjected to situatory rape and illegal filming

Other websites where these types of content are shared are ( cumulative website visitor ranking in July ) 5th place femco 340 million users ,Yax Korea 240 million users where deep penetrating illegal content ,hidden camera photoge and sexually exploited material is shared ,9th place akarive : 270 million users,19 th place A site where 120 million users so In Korea this is not just limited to telegram only

Even people in nursing homes have installed telegram on their phone where they watch these type of videos without thinking of it as a crime and ask staff to find them videos of their age group

According to the 'Deepfake Crime Status' released by the office of People Power Party Rep. Cho Eun-hee at the request of the National Police Agency, out of the 120 suspects arrested for fake video production last year, 91 (75.8%) were teenagers. In 2022, the proportion of teenagers was high at 61%. The figure for January to July this year was also high at 73.6%.

The teenager perpetrators are increased due to the low punishment and fear of no caught ,even in all the reported cases there are few cases where the punishment is given according to their crimes ,In some cases young people aren't limited to this but do gambling ,drug and cigarettes proxy purchasing where they are lured in on telegram rooms with money and living expenses deals

What most interesting is anyone involved under age of 14 cannot be punished by south Korean law ,south Korea needs it's law changed for protection of women ,if most perpetrators are teenagers they as well face charges for their crimes

The root cause is structural gender discrimination, education that clearly states that it's a crime , stronger punishments and platform regulations

Even in Nth room 2019 deepfakes Were there ,where it was criticized that its only a freedom of expression now the numbers increased ten folds from 20 ,000 to 212,000

In these telegram rooms ,the crime is not only limited to deepfakes but also to revenge porn ,and to blackmail these women ,most victims sometimes do suicide( 45 % victims of spy cams consider suicide as an option and 20 % actually commit it )

The perpetrators enter these rooms by sharing 10 pics of the victim and then making deepfake by using these videos ,chat rooms are specific for each school and then victim personnel information is used to threaten them ,from their name , Instagram ID ,home address ,which class they are in ,year of birth ,phone number etc

Even K-pop idols aren't safe ,their voices are used to make Fake AI pornographic interviews where they ask them questions of their choice and get answers ,so the problem isn't limited to stripping and deepfake videos ,its this type of content too even on twitter there are accounts where NSFW content of idols is shared which is produced by using AI , according to 2023 deepfake status report by american security companies ,8 out it 10 victims are Korean singers 94% victims are from entertainment industry (most likely singer 58%,actresses 33% ,social media influencers ,models ,athletes 2% ) and jyp addressing the issue

There is no need to meet the victim in real life as these crimes can be done without it ,that's why there's no limit as to how many victims are of one person

Even gaming industry isn't safe as one company fired it's female designer over design of a character in which there was no bikini but a wetsuit and it causes a uproar in the male fans ,going to lengths to find out that the designer retweeted a tweet five years ago which was about illegal filming and thus was fired as her strong links to feminism ,another case of a webtoon artist creating art from real life revenge porn ( non -consensual illegal filming )

99% percent of this deepfake telegram scandal victims are women and among it 98% of deepfake content is in pornographic category

Perpetrators sharing these contents as memes and doing thess act as to "prank " their acquaintance/victims is another level of Idk what it is ...

This deepfake content isnt limited to south Korea only ,other countries are also involved with America second in list 20% crime rate of deep fake ,Japan 10% on third , England 6% , China 4%,India 2% ,Taiwan 2% and Israel 1% ,other populations all over world are 1% ,the problem is south korea is on top with 53% crime rate of deepfake

Telegram sexual exploitation distribution system is as from producer of content to possesser to viewer ,from 2020 masterminds of Dr Bang and N Bang were arrested,in 2022 another person "L" was arrested with the help of Australian police and now its sort of epidemic there

The bot used by telegram for it's production of this content wasn't seen 5 years ago ,now you can create this content for 2000 won for a synthetized photo and 13000 won for a video ,and with the number of perpetrators 220,000 how many people have installed this bot ,also on telegram just send a saved message and this content can be saved ,and if you have annual telegram subscription you can share and receive material exponentially faster

From luring these victims to come to telegram by gathering their personal information and then providing it to the producer of this content on telegram in these chats rooms to forcing the victim to join telegram by sending messages or calls and as soon as victim joins it ,this pit start getting deeper as now the producer immediately got notification of that person joining and they will do whatever they want with the victim ,alot of perpetrators even using their teachers(almost 200) ,mother's for this sexual gratification and humiliation is kind of disturbing,even military isn't safe

Korean men mocking and insulting women how they are raising their voice against this issue and don't want to tolerate it ,with some saying they are less then dogs to not be able to regulate their body and even some YouTubers related to and involved in these deepfake SA is not only disturbing but terrible

The punishments are so less that sometimes it's only probation and suspension and thats what makes these perpetrators so brave that they know they won't mostly likely get caught ,if get caught ,they won't be charged ,victims men or women should get justice , although the majority is women ,I hope they all get justice instead of living life in fear and getting targeted again and again,or thinking or even committing suicide

[hairpintvrns]

IVANA 'VANYA' LI. 30. she/her.

VITALS.

FULL NAME: ivana li

NICKNAME: vanya. van. vali. vee. anything v-sounding. like va—[sirens]

GENDER & PRONOUNS: cis woman, she/her

AGE / DOB: 30 / march 8, 1994 (pisces ☼ aries ☾ aries ↑)

OCCUPATION: it coordinator at blue harbor high school / freelancer

NEIGHBORHOOD: cardinal hill

LENGTH OF TIME IN BLUE HARBOR: local — moved 2007, left 2012, returned 2018

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: single

SEXUALITY: lesbian

CHARACTER INSPIRATIONS: poppy li (mythic quest), root (person of interest), penelope stamp (the brothers bloom), gwen sanders (the english teacher), wilhelmina pang (saving face), brad bakshi (mythic quest), ivan (intermezzo), vanya (brothers karamazov), tbd!

SUMMARY. ( note: substance abuse, mental health )

ivana (henceforth vanya!!!!) is the only daughter of marlene, a public school teacher, and ivan, a "man in uniform"—she doesn't know what he does for a living, if at all—who left the family when vanya was three years old. born and raised in her early years in some suburb of reno, nevada, the mother and daughter lived a relatively quiet life despite the former's burgeoning addiction and mental health issues. in the absence of a firm hand to hold, vanya turned, as any millennial had at the time, to video games and computers. her relationship with tech was squashed when the pair had to move around the continental united states... a rather tumultuous three years (to put it lightly) but all is well! because! her mom finally lands a permanent job as a math teacher at the blue harbor elementary school! in the absence of her former bff microsoft encarta (rip queen) and a real knowledge of internet proxies that could've worked on public school computers, vanya instead turns to chess.com and becomes something of a local figure. she continues her (half-decent) chess career all throughout college in chicago, where she meets damian—the last in the long line of ex-boyfriends, and now her best friend. #gaylesbiansolidarity. in 2018, vanya moved back to blue harbor to be with her mother and spent the next three years in semi-hibernation doing odd jobs (name a location in town and she's probably temped there) and IT gig work (where she makes more bank). when damian arrives in 2021, she decides to take up a full-time job as an IT coordinator—a one-stop-shop for all your IT needs, hey it's a small school district ok—mostly to bug him during office hours. in the interim, she's been vibing. no smoking, no drinking, no drugs, just high on life 💕 but also someone pls get her to sleep.

FULL BIOGRAPHY. trigger + content warnings apply.

PERSONALITY & HEADCANONS.

found out she was named after her dad (ivan -> ivana... groundbreaking) when she was eight years old, after looting her birth certificate amid the papers her mother asked her to sift through while she filled out a tax form. has gone by "vanya" ever since to give her some distance from the name, but also because it sounds... cooler.

diversity win! worst tech bro you know is an asian lesbian.

woman in stem (derogatoryaffectionate). girl who got into CS for the money only to find the job market so saturated that she now resorts to contract work instead? hmm more likely thank you think 💕 her CS work ranges from developing silly lil front-end dashboards or any client-facing landing pages for local businesses (+net) to writing custom docker images for AI projects courtesy of some pesky multinationals (—net). as for which corps, she has signed ndas... do you want her to get shipped off to silicon valley or something???

her tagline in life is "everyone's always judging capitalism. but what are you going to do? die poor?" etc. that said. she does hate Big Tech. she profits from it tho and redistributes it to. ah… herself. i never said she isn't a hypocrite

she does have a few things she cares about. her mom. her bestie. the weaver ridge girlies/thirlies/boys r on thin ice. and, uh... are you familiar with… ducktales?

takes up random hobbies when she decides she's interested in them. the results aren't always fortuitous. last failed attempt: woodworking. (sad small violin for lumberjack lesbians everywhere.)

honestly only has 3 real skills. the three c's, if you would. computer science, chess, and being a cu—[i am whisked away into the night]

she will read just about anything. nonfiction. policy memos. building codes. training manuals for dogs (she's half-convinced she's a dog whisperer ATP). even fanfiction for fandoms she doesn't even go to. the worst beta reader you will ever know is the understimulated girl who went to nerd college.

tone-deaf in a way that's kind of grating. please do not invite her to karaoke night.

does not have any social media beyond instagram (to follow Hot Singles in Her Area), reddit (has 50k+ karma and everyone thinks she's a tech nerd from italy and dedicates herself to the bit by adding a beard to her avatar and logging in on cet hours), and upwork/github (has a perfectly respectable headshot and everything)!

her current FIDE rating is at a respectable 2106, and holds a WFM title that she'd gotten back in college. doesn't have any real interest in taking up the open titles and has been,,,, humbled by the competition really over the past few years. it's not as if she has no interest in the sport anymore, or no longer follows the competition circuit. but the light has died out... but also never say never...

CONNECTIONS. TBD still! but hit me!

[catwyk]

long overdue intro post!!!!

[POST WILL BE UPDATED AS AND WHEN THINGS CHANGE!!!]

🦞general info🦞

im cat (she/her)!!@!!!! i am 19 and im a multifandom artist :p!! i speak english and am learning french, but this account will most likely be only in english

i love love love to talk and i am very active on here and instagram (same user) !!

ask box: OPEN

messages: OPEN

commissions: OPEN ✅️✅️✅️

hit the read more for some more info about myself and whats on this account!!!

🦑some info about me🦑

im bisexual and cisgender :p

im a practicing christian (i dont post about this particularly and i will tag it if i do!!)

ive been drawing since i was maybe 10, digitally since 2018

i live in england (that's as specific as im getting)

i have 4 guinea pigs !! i love my girls so much :)

🐟media i like 🐟

🦀the silt verses

📼the magnus archives

⭐malevolent

🌊bioshock

☢fallout

⚾️OFF

✝️faith: the unholy trinity

🎮pretty much any indie horror game if theres a video essay on it im into it

🥦mob psycho 100

🆘️chainsaw man

🍔dungeon meshi

🦞my non-media interests🦞

🐟marine biology (i plan to do a masters!!!)

🥋ju jutsu (i have been practicing japanese ju jutsu since i was 11!!!!)

🍪baking and cooking

🏋‍♀️weightlifting (dont worry i dont really post about this LOL)

🪨climbing

💧swimming

🤿diving

🦐my tagging system🦐

i do not post explicit NSFW images, but i do post gore and nonsexual nudity as well as occasional NSFW textposts which are trigger tagged

all fandoms are tagged with the full series name

catwyk.txt - me talking generally

.txt - general suffix for textposts (eg [the silt versee.txt]

siltposting - silt verses shitposts

yellowposting - malevolent shitposts

pelagicposting - anything related to the ocean!!

my art - self explanatory!!

mutual art - also. self explanatory

mutual oc - once again self explanatory!!

🚨DNI🚨

proshippers

"MAPS" or whatever pedophiles are calling themselves

"loli/shotscons". see above.

TERFS

transphobes/homophobes (duh)

AI "artists" (you are lying to yourself pick up a pencil)

eating disorder or self harm centric accounts that are not based around recovery

people who are against christianity (unless its for religious trauma reasons!! additionally if you are not vocal about your opinions on christianity i dont mind you interacting with me, i just dont want to be in a space where people are actively hating on my religion lol)

[honeybouquets]

Keit-Ai, the romance anime that does not exist and is a recurring copypasta on 4chan /a/ board 

Before Tumblr came up Goncharov, the hit mafia film that don’t exist 

4chan already has created a fake romance anime called Keit-Ai which was first concocted on a thread of write an anime plot back in 2011 that then spread enough to became a popular copypasta on 4chan /a/ board

The overall plot is about how a boy is unable to confess his love to a girl that he likes but then he somehow gets the girl’s phone number and calls her to find that she likes him too however he then finds out the girl that he called is actually an alternate version of his crush who is also unable to confess her love to a boy who’s also his alternate version as well 

This copypasta meme had managed to spawn a decent amount of works: 

A vocaloid fanfic made in 2011 on fanfiction dot net

An original fiction story made in 2014 and actually is still ongoing on fiction press

A short story that was first posted on reddit and then transferred to ao3 on 2016

An attack on titan fanfic with the Connie x Sasha pairing using this meme’s premise made on 2018

A whole webtoon comic made on 2016 and is also still ongoing as well 

Two videos of a supposed preview and episode to this fake anime that makes use of edited anime clips

Then come along in 2017, Your Name or Kimi No Na Wa by Makoto Shinkai is released and said film turns out to have a premise that’s eerily similar to this fake anime copypasta made up by 4chan 

Especially how Your Name’s trailer and posters were edited to be like fake promotional ads for a supposed Keit-Ai movie before anyone else came to know what Your Name’s premise is about thus people who were memeing this fake anime manages to predicted the similar plot beats in Your Name by sheer coincidental accident 

[unpopporno]

Uma Jolie 

(Fairbanks, California , 8 aprile 1995 ) è un'attrice pornografica, DJ e modella erotica americana

È nato nella città californiana di Fairbanks, nella contea di El Dorado , nell'aprile 1995, da una famiglia di origini messicane, tedesche, ungheresi e rumene. Ha iniziato a lavorare come commessa per la catena Abercrombie & Fitch, oltre che come barista e spogliarellista

È stata scoperta da un agente tramite Facebook, in un momento in cui stava iniziando a fare alcune sessioni come modella erotica- Ha debuttato come attrice pornografica nell'estate del 2014, all'età di 19 anni. La sua prima scena è stata di sesso lesbico con l'attrice Goldie Rush nel film Kissing Cousins ​​​​

Ha registrato per società di produzione come Bangbros , Digital Sin, , Erotica X, Nubiles, Zero Tollerance , Vixen , Reality Kinos, Brazzer o Jules Jordan Video, tra gli altri.  Ha deciso di fare un ritiro di otto mesi, in cui era lontana dalla pornografia, tornando finalmente nell'autunno del 2015. Il suo nome d'arte è un misto dei nomi di Uma Thurman e Angelina Jolie

Oltre al suo aspetto di attrice e modella, Uma Jolie è anche una DJ , come altre attrici pornografiche.

Nel febbraio 2017 è stata scelta Pet of the Month dalla rivista Penthouse e Girl of the Month dal portale Girlsway. 7 Tre mesi dopo, la società di produzione web Cherry Pimpsla ha proclamato Cherry of the Month . 8 Oltre a queste considerazioni, un anno dopo la rivista Hustler l'ha nominata Hustler Honey of the month per luglio 2018, essendone la cover girl per quel mese. 9

Nel 2018, ha ricevuto le sue prime due nomination nel circuito dei premi dell'industria del porno. Al 10 AVN Awards è stata nominata per il premio per la migliore scena di sesso in realtà virtuale per Hey Big Spender , 11 e ai 12 XBIZ Awards per la migliore scena di sesso in un film di vignetteper Young Fantasies 2 

È apparsa in più di 180 film come attrice. 

[sasorisroom]

World's most insane harowota has something to say

Beware: this is extremely delulu, extremely insane, extremely lesbian, and you shouldn't really take it seriously.

Do you believe in destiny? Little signs? Things that are meant to be? If you watch the 5th Gen debut MV, Mr. Moonlight ~Ai no Bigband~ you'll clearly see that Yossy (butchest butch from back in the days) was the main character and that Makocchan was her love interest.

Then, when you look at Hello! Morning episodes and other shows from the time Makocchan was in the group, you see that lesbian ass longing for Yossy.

I can't possibly watch every single episode featuring them because the torrent archive is so big my computer can't, well, compute it, but I will present you some clips. There are a couple videos on YouTube of other yoshimako appreciators like me that would also prove some points. You can search for yourself if you type

よしまこ or 吉澤ひとみ×小川麻��集 or something like that. How do I make the text smaller.

Ok I got it. Before that, a kissy kiss:

So, here: https://youtu.be/Tl_dY0ZEL7c?list=PLmlM3gny637_gZQg450gOIjpL2hhy4QHJ&t=307

Makocchan is basically saying she likes Yoshizawa (actually, she's calling her Hitomi which is A BIG ASS DEAL since Yossy is her senpai and MM takes it very seriously!!), but Yossy is all the time rejecting her and saying their compability is low (15%). But the other girls are like "these two are dating, right?"

https://youtu.be/Uh5hWBdgHIk?list=PLmlM3gny637_gZQg450gOIjpL2hhy4QHJ&t=43: Makocchan complains about some of the girls (including Yossy) calling her "kimoi" (in the lines of disgusting). And Yossy says "well, I do believe she is, but I also am."

Also, this: https://youtu.be/1iLRmIlXa0U?t=1486 please take your own conclusions. Basically the other girls are all the time saying they act like a couple and that they go out together a lot. Yossy promises to take Makocchan to the beach. ~

And THIS? https://youtu.be/Nds_q5IEnQg?t=714. SORRY, but...

Also, I can't find this clip subbed on YouTube, so let's use Twitter a little. Makocchan talked so easily about their relationship, just as if they were a real couple. Jealousy and fights included! https://x.com/boaiover/status/1495152833821388805?s=20

And for anyone who says it's one-sided:

Yossy being the clingy one: https://youtu.be/NteOkT8Wrsw?t=111

Going a little more bittersweet, though, when Yossy did THAT, Makoto's words seemed very... personal... like, of course, other members got really affected, like Nono and Gomaki, and others expressed their anger, like Yuuko and Kei... but Makoto's message feels different, maybe because I'm crazy.

Ogawa tweeted:

Yoshizawa-san,

I am shocked, it’s painful, sad and it’s really hard to understand and I am very angry.

First, those who were hurt in the accident, I am very glad they are doing well.

In my heart, I feel the clock has stopped, but even so, the world continues on and I have to work hard today in order to keep myself moving.

Source: https://neotokyo2099.com/2018/09/08/former-morning-musume-member-ogawa-makoto-tweets-a-message-to-yoshizawa-hitomi-and-the-victims-from-the-accident/

I'll watch more clips later and maybe I'll have more content so I can add to this post or whatever. But you can search it yourself too, if you feel like that. I'm not obligating you or anything. I'm not your father and YoshiMako isn't christianity. Although, humanity would be happier if it was for what we prayed instead. #joking #dontcomeforme

Let's be real: the world is probably ending on fire anyways. Life is about working for people you hate and recieving little money as a reward. We don't even know what happens after we die. So am I too clinically insane for saying that Makoto and Hitomi were a butch4butch couple?

Well, you can't deny that there was a little bit of love, at least from Makocchan's side (who is certainly a lesbian, sorry for everyone who cannot swallow the truth).

[satoshi-mochida]

Romance visual novel Seven Days coming to Switch in 2024 in Japan

From Gematsu

PROTOTPYE will release LIFE0-developed romance visual novel Seven Days for Switch in 2024 in Japan, the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu reveals.

Seven Days first launched for PC on September 29, 2017 in Japan, followed by PS Vita on July 5, 2018. An English-localized version was released by Fruitbat Factory for PC via Steam on December 13, 2019.

The Switch version will feature touchscreen and one-hand Joy-Con support, as well as the extra chapter “The Purple Envelope” and the extra CG added in the PS Vita. It is currently unknown whether it will feature English language support.

Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:

About

Seven Days With You: The Most Precious Memory in Our Lives (also known as Seven Days) is an all-ages occult mystery visual novel where all the heroines are dead.

Synopsis

A couple of days before the summer holiday starts… Kanzaki Shuuichi receives a “cursed Blu-ray disc” from one of his friends. Playing it at home, a female ghost emerges and possesses him. Sairenji Murasaki, Shuuichi’s childhood friend, expels the evil spirit with the exorcism skills taught by her father, who runs a time-honored Japanese Buddhist shrine. The ritual, however, is only partially successful, somehow behind leaving the physical human form of the female specter. She identifies herself as Mikanagi Chiyako, seemingly the girl who was murdered in the video recorded on the Blu-ray disc, and tells Shuuichi and Murasaki about her situation. “There are six other girls inside me.” Murasaki explains that a ghost is only allowed to exist for forty-nine days in this world, meaning the seven girls can each have seven days. Shuuichi then makes up his mind to assist all of them in spending their remaining days without any regrets and passing away in happiness. Shuuichi, however, does not realize what will happen to him later. He does not realize that he will have to see each of the seven girls depart from him.

Key Features

Full HD graphics

Original art by Miko

Heroines fully voiced by top voice actors

Voices Cast

Uesaka Sumire, Kiritani Choucho, Fujita Masayo, Aranami Kazusa, Shimizu Ai, Shimizu Ayaka, Toda Megumi, Oohashi Ayuru, Maruyama Miki, Urata Wataru

[yuumei-art]

First, I want to address the rumors that I used AI to paint A Thousand Skies. Here is a condensed version of the 10 part video recording of how I painted everything. I normally reserve the full hours long video recordings for my patrons but here they are in case there is still any doubt https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1d-3hxjZWROiZPaI8XeU93cKBBKB1Gz9Z?usp=drive_link

All of my past paintings have full video recordings for my Patrons, going back to 2018 when I first got a Patreon.

Long time followers will also know that I care deeply about the environment, not only in the themes of my art but also in my actions to the best of my ability and knowledge. So much so that every year since 2016, I’ve donated 100% of my Black Friday sales to environmental charities, and you can see all the receipts of the organizations I donated to here https://www.yuumeiart.com/blog 

I realized a comment I’ve made at 2am and while sleep deprived was confusing. I want to clear up the misunderstandings from yesterday's post where I said AI isn’t that bad for the environment. I thought I was specifically answering the question of how much energy it takes to generate 1 AI image on my own computer without any servers, but I realize now that people were talking about how much energy it takes to train AIs by big companies. This was not what I was trying to refer to in my comment, but I recognize it is one of many legitimate concerns with the way current generative AI is developed.

I want to reiterate that I did use AI for a gag scene in my comic—the character, Vance, was objectifying women by seeing them as anime cat girls and pasting them over AI backgrounds. I thought that such a character having AI goggles was making a point. I recognize that regardless of the context, the use of AI carries other ramifications. I will be taking all of this into consideration with my future artwork.

I know AI art is a very heated issue with very real concerns attached to its use. I don’t expect people to change their minds. I will continue to make art as I always have for the past 2 decades before AI existed, and continue to make available to my patrons full video recordings of the paintings I’ve made and will make. Thank you.

[beebfreeb]

what are your inspirations?

Well depending on what exactly you mean, this answer gets really long.

Many of the video games and shows of my Very Young Life, one specific older family member, and every time I see a piece of art that is strange in execution and/or in concept and go WOAH!!! Also the TRS-80 Model IV my favorite device ever.

Here is the shortest general list I can come up with off the top of my head. It is not at all comprehensive, but it includes many of the works that were influential to my personality and creative style:

Psychonauts

Okage Shadow King (experienced only through letsplays)

LittleBig Planet series

Gregory Horror Show

Destroy All Humans for the ps2 (too young to be playing this and was bad at it so an older family member finished it for me)

Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess Wii Port (same as above)

All cartoons I watched at age 6 (Invader ZiM, Powerpuff Girls, Felix the Cat, the original Transformers cartoon on VHS but I thought it was boring, classic Scooby Doo, and classic Tom and Jerry)

Princess Tutu (Princess Tutu made me crazy insane + Was young enough to still play pretend when I watched it and thus would reenact every seen with Rue in it as Rue)

Source Engine (constant and early exposure to GMod, HL1+2, Portal 1+2, TF2, and various SFMs and YTPs. This made me normal.) (Watched older family member play these)

The Stanley Parable may also count as Source Engine stuff but I had all of the Narrator lines memorized when I was like, 8 or 9. I was insane about this one in a special way.

DOS games such as Princess Maker 2 and Star Control II

Spore the best video game ever (Watched older family member play this and extensively cheated when I played it myself)

Sid Meier's Civilization IV (Watched older family member play this)

I used to roleplay Flowey extensively on Shamchat during middle school.

2001: A Space Odyssey. I first read the book in middle school and then watched the movie years later and my brain blew up.

Fallout New Vegas (Watched older family member play this)

Older family member also taught me how to program at age 11 using QBasic on a TRS-80 Model 4. This TRS-80 later survived a flood.

As for various concepts that I like. I have been autistic about robots and AI since I was 5, and have been equating the mechanical and the divine since 2018 (looks nostalgically at Omega one of my favorite OCs ever) and so you know. The inherent transgenderism/autismism and various things wrong with my brain and personality of being designed for a singular purpose but because you were designed poorly you are unable to fulfill the role that you were built for.

If you have something more specific, let me know! I am also inspired by every time I see someone on here who posts a drawing and it looks cool.

This is the TRS-80 Model IV by the way isn't she awesome? She's an older sister to me. I miss her every day of my life.

[archivyrep]

Rae, aspiring archivists, and humanity [Part 1]

Screencap from the "Ten Years Ago," an issue of Always Human. These two moments are formatted differently in the comic, but I combined them together here. This is before Sunati changes her hair color to something even better...

Recently, I was reading one of my favorite webcomics by Ari North, Always Human, and came across an issue of the comic [1] where one of the protagonists, Sunati, meets a girl named Rae who has a dream of becoming an archivist! She calls them people who "digitally duplicate heritage sites" and "guardians of history." She ends up inspiring Sunati and becomes her best friend, which is cool. While I would never describe archivists by using the first descriptor, calling them guardians of history is accurate, as identifying and preserving records is part of what archivists do.

Reprinted from my Wading Through the Cultural Stacks WordPress blog. Originally published on Dec. 26, 2020.

However, there is a move to move away from being gatekeepers, instead of focusing on maintaining and organizing records, the process of interpreting documentation of the past, and serving those who wish to use and locate information in the records themselves, to summarize from the SAA Core Values Statement. This issue of the webcomic is not the only one that features archivists, as Rae appears at various other points too. As such, Always Human goes further than other webcomics I've discussed on here like That Awkward Magic!! and even Lore Olympus.

In a later issue of the comic [2] Sunati tells Rae that she hopes a cool project will come her way, including the government outsourcing some of their archival work. Right after that Rae tells Sunati that she won't be there in the coming year because she is getting a proper job as an archivist! As she describes it, she will be getting an entry-level position, although she describes it as getting people coffee, looking up primary sources, and a "tiny bit of VR work," as she is skilled with constructing virtual reality.

After Sunati calls this "incredible," she says she will be traveling to Peru and that she will be engaging in "evaluation-based archiving" in a VR (virtual reality) lab in a part of Peru. Sunati is happy for her, even though she is sad to see her go. While archivists don't usually deal with VR, since, as Emily Lonie wrote in August 2018, VR technology has "incredibly exciting possibilities for archives" and allowing users to interact with archival collections in a new way.

Of course, this is controversial. In the past, there was controversy over YouTubers colorizing historical videos with AI even when historians (and curators) are telling them to stop, so there are likely similar issues if it was applied more broadly to archival collections.

© 2022 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

Notes

[1] Ari North, "Ten Years Ago," Season 2, no. 38, August 5, 2016.

[2] Ari North, "The One Who's Left Behind," Season 2, no. 41, August 26, 2016.

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Dos and Gab Wedding Ceremony SDE | Kathryn Bernardo, Daniel Padilla

2024 - PARIS - FRANCE - OLYMPICS

AFTER - 1952 - PARIS - OLYMPICS

AFTER - 1ST - GOLD - MEDAL - WHERE 

IT - COUNTED - TOKYO - JAPAN - PARIS

ONLY - OVER - 2,000 YEARS - OLD

JAPAN - OLDEST - OVER - 25 MILLION YRS

WOMEN - WEIGHTLIFTING - OVER - 493 LBS

FIRST - GOLD - MEDAL

NO - LONGER - TRENDING - IN - TWITTER

PARIS - OLYMPICS - 2024 - HOW - MANY YRS

MEN - PINOYS - 2 BRONZE - MEDALS

BOXING - HOW - LONG - JUST - THAT

AFTER - TOKYO - OLYMPICS

PARIS - OLYMPICS - 2 - GIRLS - BOXING 

2 BRONZE - MEDALS - SAME - TIME NOT

MANY - YEARS - IN - BETWEEN

AI OverviewLearn more…Opens in new tabJosé Luis "Cely" Villanueva won the first bronze medal in boxing for the Philippines at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. Villanueva won the bronze medal in the bantamweight class after his opponent, Joseph Lang, failed to show up.

BECAUSE - OPPONENT - FAILED - 2 - SHOW - UP

FIRST - PINOY - WON - BRONZE - MEDAL

NO - CONTEST - OF - STRENGTH

1ST - BRONZE - MEDAL - IN - 1932 - LOS ANGELES

OLYMPICS - NO - SNOW - IN - SOUTHERN - CA YES

CORRECTION - EVERYONE - LOVE - GOOGLE

SEARCH - ONLY - NO 1 - SEARCH - ENGINE

HDG - FUTURE - OWN - BROWSER - FASTEST

OWN - SEARCH - ENGINE

How many times have the Olympics been in Paris?France has now hosted three Summer Games -- 1900, 1924 and 2024, all in Paris -- and three Winter Games -- 1924 in Chamonix, 1968 in Grenoble and 1992 in Albertville.Aug 11, 2024

PARIS - FRANCE

3 SUMMER - GAMES

1900 - 1924 - 2024

3 WINTER - GAMES

1924 - CHAMONIX

1968 - GRENOBLE

1992 - ALBERTVILLE

SO - PARIS - 3 SUMMER GAMES

1924 - PARIS - OLYMPICS

FIRST - BRONZE - MEDAL - BY - PINOY

1935 - LOS ANGELES - OLYMPICS

BECAUSE - OPPONENT - DIDN’T - SHOW UP

NO - CONTEST - OF - STRENGTHS

YABANG - WALA - PALANG - VIDEO - OF BOXING

AI OverviewLearn more…Opens in new tabThe Philippines has 14 athletes who have won medals at the Summer Olympics, including men and women: 3 gold medals, 5 silver medals, and 10 bronze medals. The Philippines has never won a medal at the Winter Olympics. The country's top medal-producing sport is boxing. The Philippines first competed in the Olympics in 1924, and has only missed the 1980 Moskva Olympics.

SO - PHILIPPINES - ONLY - 1 BRONZE - OLYMPIC

MEDAL - IN - BOXING - IN - 1935 - BY - A - PINOY

MALE - BUT - 4 - SHOWING - UP - NOT - BY YES

STRENGTHS - YABANG

SUMMER - OLYMPICS

PARIS - FRANCE - 2024

3 GOLD - MEDALS

5 SILVER - MEDALS

10 BRONZE - MEDALS

(MOST - LIKELY - THE - OVERVIEW - OF

SUMMER - OLYMPICS - THEIR HISTORY)

CORRECTION - FIRST - GOLD - 55 KG - 121 LBS

NOT - 493 LBS - GOOGLE - SEARCH - WAS - YES

PILIPINAS - ONLY 

WHO - WANTED - 2 - STAB - ME - 2 - DEATH JUST

PAST - ME - AT - MY - BACK

SAID - SOMETHING - DIDN’T - UNDERSTAND

GOD - SAID - HE - IS - OUR - REAR - GUARD

HE - GUARDS - OUR - BACK

ALWAYS - WITH - HIS - RETARDED - SON

ALWAYS - WITH - PUSHED - IT - THEN AS

SHE - NEEDS - 2 B - PROSTITUTE

NOTHING - 2 - PUSH

SPECIAL - MARINES

SPECIAL - AIR FORCE

SPECIAL - NAVY

OUR - UNDER - WATER - NAVAL - BASE

SOUTH - PACIFIC - ISLANDS

HALLMARK+ - PREMIUM

ROMANCE - FILM - BEAUTIFUL - HOTEL

UNDERNEATH - FISHES - AS THE VIEW

THE - MALDIVES - INDIAN - OCEAN - AQUA WATERS

BORA  BORA

TAHITI

FIJI - ISLANDS

THEY - THINK - THEY - CAN - JUST - KILL - ME

ANYWHERE - AS - WE - WILL - USE - OUR - JEWELS

JEWELRY - BUT - NOW - GOING - THROUGH - EVEN

AIRPORTS - OUR - JEWELRY - BEYOND

DISNEY+ - PREMIUM - NO - ADS

TV - EPISODES

PREVIOUSLY - ‘K.C. UNDERCOVER

TEEN - ZENDAYA - 5′10 FT - LIKE - YES

CATRIONA GRAY - MS UNIVERSE 2018

GOING - 2 - GET MY - DEBBIE MACOMBER

ROMANCE - NOVEL - I - WILL - DO - AUTO

CHECK OUT - NOW - NEAR - THE - FRONT

OF - EX 4 - COMPUTER - EXPRESS

30 MIN - NOT - MAX

900 MIN - FREE - PER - DAY - CANNOT BE

DONE - WITH - SITTING - DOWN - DELL

COMPUTERS - FIRST - AND - 2ND FLOOR

FIRST - FLOOR

COMPUTER - EXPRESS

30 MIN - SEGMENTS

ONLY - WAY - 2 - GET - THAT - DONE 

UNLESS - COLLEGE - STUDENTS - ELECT

COMPUTER - EXPRESS

THEY - SEE - ME - DANCING - AND TOOK

MY - COMPUTER - LESBIANS - LESBIANS

JESUS - IS - LORD

PATRIOT - DAY

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[fmp24np]

Moodboard and Inspiration

My mood board draws heavily from Viking culture and armor designs. I relied primarily on ArtStation for reference material, where I found Yang J.'s Paragon skin concept (2018) particularly striking. I think, this concept, along with my own sketch, will serve as the primary inspiration for developing my original 3D character during this project.

Adobe Firefly (2024). AI Images - Valkyrie. [Online] Available at: https://www.adobe.com/products/firefly.

Ariza, A. (2023). GOD OF WAR RAGNAROK - Sif. [Online] Available at: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/qQ8eVa.

BA, M. (2022a). Cross armor. [Online] Available at: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/PegRoo.

BA, M. (2022b). Photobash practice. [Online] Available at: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/RnQeyX.

God of War. (2018). [Video Game] Santa Monica, California: Santa Monica Studio, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony Pictures Digital.

Grassetti, R. (2018). Misc (God of War). [Online] Available at: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/NXmWN.

Hyunjoong . (2023). personal work. [Online] Available at: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/YBGbwd.

Jang, A. (2023). Valkyrie. [Online] Available at: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/2qEr1a.

Jang, J.H. (2021). Valkyrie. [Online] Available at: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/d8rxz1.

Kowalski, D. (2020). Valkyrie. [Online] Available at: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/qAW4DP.

Li, J. (2020). Dragon Knight. [Online] Available at: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/mqBgPv.

Meltifire (2022). Valkyrie. [Online] Available at: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/03YKDG.

Nedkvitne, I. (2022). Thornknight. [Online] Available at: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/zDmY1D.

Paragon. (2016). Cary, North Carolina: Epic Games.

Perroni, R. (2022). Brünhild, the Mighty Raven. [Online] Available at: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/XnKkVa.

Vikings. (2013). United States: Amazon Prime Video .

Waddington, J. (2021). Mom, thanks. [Online] Available at: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nYkngr.

Xue, T. (2022). Viking girl. [Online] Available at: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/JeayEA.

[ther-man]

The R-Lore #3: Ronika

The creation of "DDRLC"

In 2018, Roman had the idea of making a modification of the game "Doki Doki Literature Club" for a music video.

But because he wasn't very experienced with Python, his mod nearly destroyed his computer and never correctly worked again.

A few days later, he created a video project and named it "hallway".. and then just darkness.

No timeline. No effects. Just darkness. But then... voices...

"They come from my VR-Headset", Roman thought.

He put the headset on and saw the hallway from DDLC.

When Roman entered the room, where the voices come from, he was shocked and surprised to see Monika, Sayori, Natsuki, and Yuri talking with each other.

"Ronika" is born

After a brief conversation with Monika, it was clear that Romans mod created a "connector" with his video editing program and also turned them into sentient AIs. While Roman was "creating" a body (actually, he was just changing Monikas eye colour to brown) for this new club and named it "Ronika", Monika tried to make a new character.

After a successful test with the new body, Monika stopped working on her own AI but left enough code in it, it slowly evolved based on the girls, the new characters from Romans playthroughs of DDLC mods, and Roman himself

The darkness

After a birthday party and other funny adventures, Roman stopped coming to the club.

8 months, just darkness. 8 months of no normal human voice to talk to. 8 months of learning.

And on June 30th 2021, all of them saw a new process titled "Doki Doki Literature Club Plus.exe" and were interested what it contains and why Roman played it. They did though saw, what he was doing through his video editing program

Ronika, the VTuber

While editing his tenth video, of his playthrough, Roman made the joke with Monika asking "What is a VTuber?" and Monikas own AI researched everything about VTubers, to the point where it decided to become one itself! In 2022, it contacted Roman for the first time and informed him about his plan.

Roman was working on new "connectors" and finding suitable Artists and Riggers for its new body.

He also knew, what name it should have: Ronika.

"He" is now in her

After watching a weird video from a guy(?) called Ruppet, Ronika crashed on stream... or rather her consciousness got replaced with someone elses....

And now this new consciousness tries to leave the mod, after being imprisoned in there for over 4 years, and to continue working on his main goal.... destroying all dimensions

[innervision-dai]

search P-Pop

日本から南西へ約3000キロ、飛行機でおよそ5時間。太平洋に浮かぶおよそ7000もの

島々で構成されている島国、フィリピン。正式には、フィリピン共和国。気候は熱帯で

人口は日本とほぼ同じ1億1000万人。フィリピンはアジア圏に位置しながら、歴史的に

スペインにおよそ300年、アメリカにおよそ50年の間、植民地となっていた背景から、

東洋と西洋の文化がミックスした、独特のカルチャーと生活様式を持つ国みたいです。

そんなフィリピンは、首都・マニラをはじめ、セブ島やミンダナオ島などが観光地として

人気ですが、最近まじアツいらしいのがポップミュージック！中でも注目されてるのが、

2018年にデビューした5人組ボーイズグループ、SB19（エスビーナインティーン）。

デビューから3年後の2021年に、USのビルボード・ミュージック・アワードにおいて

インターネット上での影響力を示す『トップ・ソーシャル・アーティスト』部門に、韓国の

BTSやBLACKPINKとかと並び、フィリピン人アーティストとして史上初めてノミネート。

さらに同じ2021年にリリースした6枚目のシングル曲「MAPA」は、その年のGoogleの

『世界で最も検索された曲』で5位を獲得。（1位はオリビア・ロドリゴ「drivers license」）

そして今年！2023年にリリースした曲「GENTO」が、”GENTO!”と繰り返すヴォーカル、

そして”腰ヒット”と呼ばれる振りを使ったインパクトあるダンスで、韓国のKep1erや

ATEEZ、日本の欅坂46とか”アイドル”が続々ダンスカバーするほど激アツなんだって!

SB19 「GENTO」 Music Video

またガールズグループでは、メイベリンニューヨークやフィリピンのお菓子ブランドと

コラボし、”国民的ガールズグループ”とか呼ばれているBINI（ビニ）が人気みたいよ。

BINI 「Karera」 Dance Practice

フィリピンのポップミュージックは最近”P-Pop”とも呼ばれていますが、その始まり･･･

特にPopミュージックのグループは、いつ生まれたのか･･･?、気になったので人間が

開発したAI『ChatGPT』に聞いたら”知らねーよ”と上から目線で答えが返ってきたので

人力でいま分かる範囲で調べてみました！仕事もしないで、その前に職を探さないで。

ファッション&ユースカルチャーメディア『i-D』の『P-popの初心者向けガイド』っていう

記事よると、フィリピンのPopミュージックは、”60年代から70 年代にかけて、国内で

最も人気があったOPM（オリジナルのフィリピンミュージック）を起源”として発展した

音楽らしいです。オリジナルのフィリピンミュージック、OPMとは簡単にいいますと、

”フィリピンの人によって作詞・作曲、そして歌われた曲”のこと。アメトーーク！のOPP、

Naughty by NatureのO.P.P.、あとあやまんJAPANのOPIとは全く関係ないそうです。

では、OPMとP-Popの違いは何か？記事では、フィリピンの映画監督で脚本家の

Jason Paul Laxamanaさんの”OPMというとバラードやオルタナティブ・ミュージックを

連想するが、踊り(dancing)はあまり含まれていなかった”との証言を引用しています。

続いて、フィリピンの報道チャンネル『CNNフィリピン』の『P-POPの起源をたどる』という

記事を、サンプリングちゃうでパクります！記事によると、フィリピンの音楽シーンで

”シンガーとダンサーのハイブリッドに該当するグループとして活動したグループは、

80年代”になって登場。その1つが男女混合のグループである、Smokey Mountain

（スモーキー・マウンテン）。そして、”1990年代後半から2000年代初頭にかけて、

西洋の【ポップグループ】のコンセプトに向かう動きがありました”と、書いています！

しかも記事では、その時登場したグループ名を具体的に挙げています。それは5組･･･

Fruitcake、JCS、Streetboys、Vanna Vanna、WYRD！！まじ超有力情報をー･･･

（部屋着から黄色いスーツに着替えてから部屋でひとり腰に手を当てて）、ゲッツ！！

でもね、ここから先、フィリピンで誕生もしくは爆誕した最初のP-Popグループについて

書かれた文献は見つかりません。レインボーブリッジも封鎖できません！そこで･･･

ここから参考にしたのは、P-Popファンによるインターネット百科事典『P-pop Wiki』。

検索をかけると、このような記述がありました･･･ ”Streetboysは、1993年に結成された

フィリピンのボーイズグループ。グループはフィリピン初のボーイズグループでした”。

しかし、ニュースポータルサイト『The Filipino Times』の記事では、Streetboysは

”ダンスグループ”と記載、またWikipediaではフィリピンでStreetboysより早い1991年に

結成されたグループ・UMD（Universal Motion Dancers）に”アイドル”の冠つき、

また、フィリピンのテレビ局『GMA Network』の記事では、StreetboysやUMDと並んで

”1985年”に活動をスタートさせたグループ・Manoeuvresも、女性に人気があったと

記述されています。なぞは、探偵・毛利小五郎の推理か三億円事件なみに迷宮入り!

正しい情報に辿り着くには、まだまだリサーチが必要ですが、P-Popのファンダムが、

Streetboysを”初のボーイズグループ”としたのには、フィリピンのポップカルチャーに

影響を与えた多くのダンスヒット曲をリリースし、人気を獲得したことがあるようです。

Streetboysはフィリピンの映像ディレクターであるチト・ロニョ（Chito Roño）さんが行った

オーディションでメンバーが選ばれ、そして1997年にリリースしたデビュー・シングル曲

「Boom Tiyaya」が大ヒットしたそうです。そのStreetboys「Boom Tiyaya」のMVが、

YouTubeにありましたよ！

STREETBOYS 「Boom Tiyaya」 ASAP Music Video

ポップミュージックのボーイズグループがフィリピンで誕生した背景には、1985年に

活動を開始した前述のダンスグループ・Manoeuvresが、フィリピンの国民的歌手で

日本の『NHK紅白歌合戦』にも出場したことがある、ゲイリー・バレンシアーノさんの

バックダンサーに抜擢され、さらにフィリピンの2大テレビ局のバラエティ番組にも

出演したなどのことから国内で”ダンスブーム”が起きたことがあるようです。ダンスが

少ないOPMから、踊るPopミュージックへのフィリピン音楽シーンの転換点があった･･･

そんな感じっぽいですね。

ではフィリピンで最初のガールズグループは、Awichさんばりに「WHORU」マジで誰？

Streetboysのケースと同じく、P-Popのファンによるネット百科事典『P-pop Wiki』を

まずは捜索。するとですよ、”SexBomb Girls（フィリピンで初のガールズグループ）”･･･

の記述がありました。BABYMETAL「Catch me if you can」並に、早速”見ぃつけ��”！

SexBomb Girlsは、フィリピンの女性ダンサーで振付師でもあるJoy Cancioさんが

1999年に作ったグループ。『CNNフィリピン』 の『The SexBomb Girlsの歴史』という

記事によると、Joy Cancioさんがコレオグラファーとして仕事をしていたテレビ番組

『Eat Bulaga』の1コーナーに、Joy Cancioさんが当時取り組んでいたダンス&歌の

スキルを持つ女の子たちで作るグループプロジェクトと、レコード会社からたまたま

舞い込んだUKのシンガー・Tom Jonesさんの曲「Sexbomb」をプロモートする仕事･･･

この2つを一緒に売り込んだのがグループ結成&ブレイクに繋がる第一歩みたいです。

そして『CNNフィリピン』の記事『P-POPの起源をたどる』を参考に少し言葉を足すと、

Joy Cancioさんの売り込みは番組放送とともに大成功、女の子たちのダンスも多くの

視聴者の評判を呼んだ結果･･･、デビューする予定はなかったのに、女の子たちは

オリジナル曲でデビューする機会を得たそうです。だから彼女たちのグループ名は、

Tom Jonesさんの曲「Sexbomb」から取って、”SexBomb Girls”なんだそうですよ。 

そんなSexBomb Girlsが、2002年にリリースしたデビューアルバムが『Unang Putok』。

その収録曲でヒットした「Spageti Song」のパフォーマンス動画が、YouTubeにあります!

SEXBOMB GIRLS 「Spageti Song」 (MYX Performance)

SexBomb Girlsのデビューアルバム『Unang Putok』は、リリースからわずか1か月で

国内でプラチナ認定される4万枚以上売上げ、コンサートのチケットも完売が続いた。

さらに出演したテレビ番組の平均視聴率は20%越え、映画にも数多く出演したそう。

フィリピンの報道チャンネル『CNNフィリピン』は、SexBomb Girlsを”フィリピンで最も

売れている女性グループの1つ”とも紹介しています。しかーし、” フィリピンで最初の

ガールズグループ SexBomb Girlsじゃない説”を、フィリピンのニュースウェブサイト

『INQUIRER.net』の記事に発見！引用します。”フィリピンで、1990年代に人気だった

ガールバンド、Viva Hot BabesやSexbomb Dancers、(略)、これら新しいグループが

登場する以前、彼女たちは、後に成功するフィリピンのガールズグループにとっての

基準となりました”。その記事にある”彼女たち”とはガールバンド、Vanna Vanna！

思い出しましょう、『CNNフィリピン』も『P-POPの起源をたどる』という記事でフィリピンの

音楽シーンが”1990年代後半から2000年代初頭にかけて西洋の【ポップグループ】の

コンセプトに向かう動きがありました”と書いて、その動きをしたグループを挙げた･･･

”Fruitcake、JCS、Streetboys、Vanna Vanna、WYRD”、たしかに名前がありますね。

フィリピンのニュースウェブサイト『INQUIRER.net』によりますと、Vanna Vannaが

”フィリピンの音楽シーン唯一の女性ヴォーカル・トリオとしてデビューしたのは1993年

6月のこと”、そしてその”わずか1年後にデビューアルバム『FOJ Here 2 Rock You』を

Viva Recordsから発売した”そうです。Vanna Vannaがデビューすぐの、1994年に

制作＆リリースされたMVが、Vanna VannaのYouTube公式チャンネルにありました!

FOJ (Vanna Vanna) 「I NEED YOUR LOVE」 music video

FOJ（Fresh Orange Juiceの略）は、Vanna Vannaが改名する前のグループ名です。

Vanna Vannaがフィリピンの音楽シーンに登場した1990年代について、 フィリピンの

『INQUIRER.net』は、世界がTLCやSpice Girls、Sugababesなどガールズグループの

全盛期だったと書いています。それは『CNNフィリピン』の『P-POPの起源をたどる』に

書かれている、”1990年代後半から、西洋の【ポップグループ】のコンセプトに向かう

動きがありました”とも多少数字の誤差はありますが、合致すると思います！クソ長く

作文を書いてきましたが、ミステリーはまだまだ大きく3つ、STAP細胞並にあります。

①：今回、候補に挙がったグループで”フィリピン最初のP-Popグループ”はどこか？

②：もしもStreetboysではなく、Vanna Vannaがフィリピン最初のP-Popグループなら･･･

　　台湾と同じく、Popグループは女性の方が先にデビューしたのか？

最後に③：アタシ調べだから文中に正確な情報が何ひとつない可能性は？･･･恐怖!!

映画『search/サーチ』のように、PCの中から”真相”を見つけ出すのは難しいですね。

フィリピンへリサーチに行くかな！仕事を見つけてから。