Ive Been Playing Lobotomy Corp And This Is My Only Takeaway

The reluctance to consume new media is so real

I used to dislike LoR because of a certain friend who adored it as well as seeing it constantly pop up in random places on the internet, but as soon as I took a bite of the devil's apple myself I found myself hooked. Both the Red Mist and Gebura themes have been mashed together and fused in this cover to try and make a more complete song.

And then comes in Boboiboy, who always reassures, always cares for his elementals. What is the meaning of this? I almost killed you human. Why do you care?

I gotta make a name for myself. So call me muffin anon/MA.. But I don't mind nor care if you make it canon! Also Retak'ka.. yeah I wrote him to be very very just Not Good. And a bit ooc but still imposing an active threat despite there only being Cahaya

Muffin anon!!!!

I absolutely love how your fic was written, hes so menacing, the was hes portrayed, how solar's fear was formed and how uneasy he was because of Retakka suddenly being reassuring

Knowing retakka is only doing that because his tool being damaged or damaging themself is crucial to him having power as that is the very thing giving him power in the first place

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.

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:

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/

Cahaya: This year, I won’t be seeing my friend again…

Fang: Quit telling everyone I’m dead!

Cahaya: It’s like I can still hear his voice

Just have a though of this new streaming au .

We have Amato being one of the secret fan , then I think Fang will be in the line of Cahaya's fan too .

Have the image of Fang watching Cahaya's and Daun's streams to see how are they doing or have a secret account just for Cahaya . While during the space training in TAPOPS.

Or

the Fans know about the existence of Fang through Cahaya and they just wonder who is the " Fang " that Cahaya have misses . That a person have never got in front the camera before but always hear him mumbling the name unconsciously .

Something like :

" Sweets ? I don't have any favorite- Oh you mean this carrot donuts ? Um.....It's a old habit . I have a friend who loves to eat this and sometime I'll grab some for him . '

" Why I do this ? Pff- He's a carrot donut lover that he had to eat it everyday , if he don't he will sulk very hard . "

" He's my best friend and he wasn't here , he just go to.....have further achievements far from here ."

" ......I miss him."

"......I miss Fang."

Its like he died but he didnt

unrelated to my last post what do you think each sinners dynamic would be in the omegaverse?

unrelated to my last post what do you think each sinners dynamic would be in the omegaverse?

unrelated to my last post what do you think each sinners dynamic would be in the omegaverse?

imagine you’re a tiny thing. your mama is big and strong so you follow her everywhere. she’s very strong, which is why when she falls asleep on the floor you sit with her. you sit with her until she starts to fall apart. but its ok because she’s strong. and then you get really, really, really thirsty, and you think if you sleep it’ll be okay. and then you wake up surrounded by water and you see a face beyond the water and its blurry and you dont know how to feel about it so you go back to sleep and then you keep seeing the face beyond the water and they talk to you in soft words you dont understand and you’re still so small and confused but you know the face beyond the water is helping you. maybe it loves you. but you’re a tiny thing. and then one day you decide you’ve had enough water, and then you start to move. and you see the face beyond the water, who is so happy to see you and they do something you’ve never seen a face do, their mouth curls at the end in a smile and youve never seen it so you do it too and you keep doing it because you love the face beyond the water so much and they love you too and they’re strong like mama and they feed you and pet you and love you and one day you grow so big they can ride you. and they make you a hat and goggles to protect your eyes and they show you all sorts of wonderful things and YES this is about the happy ghast from minecraft im OBSESSED

unrelated to my last post what do you think each sinners dynamic would be in the omegaverse?