When There Isn’t 20 New Fics For Me To Read After Refreshing The Tag (I Just Finished Reading Everything

When there isn’t 20 new fics for me to read after refreshing the tag (I just finished reading everything and have absolutely no patience)

When There Isn’t 20 New Fics For Me To Read After Refreshing The Tag (I Just Finished Reading Everything

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8 months ago
Run And Go Au Todosiblings!!!
Run And Go Au Todosiblings!!!
Run And Go Au Todosiblings!!!
Run And Go Au Todosiblings!!!

Run and Go Au Todosiblings!!!

4 months ago

I’m Declaring War Against “What If” Videos: Project Copy-Knight

I’m Declaring War Against “What If” Videos: Project Copy-Knight

What Are “What If” Videos?

These videos follow a common recipe: A narrator, given a fandom (usually anime ones like My Hero Academia and Naruto), explores an alternative timeline where something is different. Maybe the main character has extra powers, maybe a key plot point goes differently. They then go on and make up a whole new story, detailing the conflicts and romance between characters, much like an ordinary fanfic.

Except, they are fanfics. Actual fanfics, pulled off AO3, FFN and Wattpad, given a different title, with random thumbnail and background images added to them, narrated by computer text-to-speech synthesizers.

They are very easy to make: pick a fanfic, copy all the text into a text-to-speech generator, mix the resulting audio file with some generic art from the fandom as the background, give it a snappy title like “What if Deku had the Power of Ten Rings”, photoshop an attention-grabbing thumbnail, dump it onto YouTube and get thousands of views.

In fact, the process is so straightforward and requires so little effort, it’s pretty clear some of these channels have automated pipelines to pump these out en-masse. They don’t bother with asking the fic authors for permission. Sometimes they don’t even bother with putting the fic’s link in the description or crediting the author. These content-farms then monetise these videos, so they get a cut from YouTube’s ads.

In short, an industry has emerged from the systematic copyright theft of fanfiction, for profit.

Project Copy-Knight

Since the adversaries almost certainly have automated systems set up for this, the only realistic countermeasure is with another automated system. Identifying fanfics manually by listening to the videos and searching them up with tags is just too slow and impractical.

And so, I came up with a simple automated pipeline to identify the original authors of “What If” videos.

I’m Declaring War Against “What If” Videos: Project Copy-Knight

It would go download these videos, run speech recognition on it, search the text through a database full of AO3 fics, and identify which work it came from. After manual confirmation, the original authors will be notified that their works have been subject to copyright theft, and instructions provided on how to DMCA-strike the channel out of existence.

I built a prototype over the weekend, and it works surprisingly well:

I’m Declaring War Against “What If” Videos: Project Copy-Knight

On a randomly-selected YouTube channel (in this case Infinite Paradox Fanfic), the toolchain was able to identify the origin of half of the content. The raw output, after manual verification, turned out to be extremely accurate. The time taken to identify the source of a video was about 5 minutes, most of those were spent running Whisper, and the actual full-text-search query and Levenshtein analysis was less than 5 seconds.

The other videos probably came from fanfiction websites other than AO3, like fanfiction.net or Wattpad. As I do not have access to archives of those websites, I cannot identify the other ones, but they are almost certainly not original.

Armed with this fantastic proof-of-concept, I’m officially declaring war against “What If” videos. The mission statement of Project Copy-Knight will be the elimination of “What If” videos based on the theft of AO3 content on YouTube.

I Need Your Help

I am acutely aware that I cannot accomplish this on my own. There are many moving parts in this system that simply cannot be completely automated – like the selection of YouTube channels to feed into the toolchain, the manual verification step to prevent false-positives being sent to authors, the reaching-out to authors who have comments disabled, etc, etc.

So, if you are interested in helping to defend fanworks, or just want to have a chat or ask about the technical details of the toolchain, please consider joining my Discord server. I could really use your help.

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See full blog article and acknowledgements here: https://echoekhi.com/2023/11/25/project-copy-knight/

9 months ago

drew this helpful diagram for mha fans who don't understand what a character arc is

Drew This Helpful Diagram For Mha Fans Who Don't Understand What A Character Arc Is
9 months ago
Not 100% Accurate Bc I Can’t Make Choices
『My Hero Academia』| Worldwide Character Popularity Poll『WORLD BEST HERO』
A Worldwide Character popularity poll celebrating My Hero Academia's final chapter WORLD BEST HERO will now begin! The battle to decide the

not 100% accurate bc i can’t make choices


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9 months ago

just started decorating my apartment and i love how at first it looks kinda cute with pink dishes, candles, flower pillows

kinda giving pinterest vibes yk?

and then you turn around and you see my dabihawks figures and my league of villains poster


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3 months ago
“Who Are You?” “I’m You But Less Tortured.” 
“Who Are You?” “I’m You But Less Tortured.” 

“Who are you?” “I’m you but less tortured.” 

One year ago today, our sleepless nights were celebrated, and Taylor’s tortured masterpiece was announced. We’ve come so far since… 🥹💙🤍 

📸: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for The Recording Academy and Neilson Barnard at Getty

1 month ago
Mr Compressor.💙🧡

Mr Compressor.💙🧡

this is certainly not a Horikoshi, but I tried to repeat the quick sketch of Mr. Compressor..

1 month ago

repost from twt bc i like tumblr better lol

JKR attacking ace people recently after years of intense transphobia should tell you that these people hate all LGBTQIA+ folks, but they start by going for the most marginalized and misunderstood ones. they’ll move on to hating pan and bi and then all of us.

at least this shit proves that is was never about "protecting the children" from the scary transgenders and that it was always about punching down on already small and marginalized communities.

to think they have selective homophobia is delusional, to think that “oh no i’m not one of these weird gender people” is delusional. to think you're safe from their hate is delusional egoism. "oh no not me im not xenogender" "oh no not me im not trans" "oh no not me im the normal one"

at some point it will be you and by then there will be no one left to fight for your rights. this is how you weaken a community, by telling some they’re worth more than the rest.

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