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Trump won't let up! Someone help Papyrus out to block the talking orange!
Maybe... Maybe Sans could help? Surely he knows what to do!
...Nevermind.
Trump is harassing Papyrus again
Trump, leave Papyrus alone. :<
Trump is harassing Papyrus again
Trump, leave Papyrus alone. :<
Artists UNITE!!
So... With all these changes going on, I got a few things to say.
The new "Block" feature. I put quotes on that because with the new changes made, it is essentially useless. As it says, any accounts blocked will still be able to view your content, but won't be able to engage with them, such as leaving a comment or retweeting or anything. BUT if you truly want to protect your posts and limit who can see what, you can lock your account. But that means you won't be able to get more engagement or new followers.
This also means that NSFW artists/content creators who've blocked minors from seeing their content? Yeah, those minors are gonna have full access anyways and there us nothing we can do about it except maybe report them.
Any abusers/stalkers who like to keep tabs on your accounts? They can see, regardless of being blocked.
This has got to be a violation and Google Play and Apple App Store should put X on blast for it.
The second thing!!
If any of you have seen the tweet going around, there has been a recent change to the Terms of Service and will be effective come November 15th.
It'll let Twitter use your posts (images, videos, audio) to train their Grok AI. You can opt out, but come Novwmber 15th, you just automatically get opted back in.
I dunno about y'all, BUT I DO NOT CONSENT TO HAVING MY STUFF USED FOR AI PURPOSES!!
And if you feel the same, I have a suggestion:
I think that we, as artists and content creators, should unite together and nuke our Twitter/X accounts. I know it's a lot, especially those who have really put a lot of work into it, but would you really want to have all that hard work just be fed to an AI?
I say any and all content we have on Twitter should immediately be migrated over to other sites.
Bluesky is always nice and have no complaints so far and since these changes Twitter/X made, they've gain a huuuuuge amount of traffic.
Cora is another place I've been hearing about. I have no opinions about it so far, but did make an account. I've heard they're very anti-AI, so that's good!
Pillowfort could still be a go-to possibly. Hell, maybe even here on Tumblr since it's been getting active again!
We've got options! We can give one last fuck you to Elongated Muskrat to show what we think about his new changes! But that choice is ultimately up to you.
If you guys wanna follow me, my BlueSky account is here, but fair warning, I do post NSFW art on there.
due to block & TOS tomfoolery, lots of artists have started to move from twitter to 🦋 bluesky 🦋
if you want to get started on bsky yourself as either an artist or an art enjoyer, there's a 'starter pack' feature where you can follow a curated list of people; it's a great way to find artists! you can either follow everyone with one click, or selectively go through them and decide who you want to follow.
here's some i've found:
women of the pixel art community by @ilta222 (me)
recommendations 1 & recommendations 2 by @tofupixel
cute/cozy art starter by @byjessicaelena
black artist accts BIG MIDDLE & SMALL by @titea-art
art merch artists by @zandraillustration
TTRPG artists & horror artists by @nheiraashford
art streamers by @shiinareii
there may be ns---fw accounts within here (i don't have time to check them all sry) so be aware of that!
** ss is from pinterest. i'm not on xitter**
the day this breed of internet mfs (the op, not the person who qrt it.) learns to read between the lines is when i will finally fucking rest. i refuse to believe that they looked at that painting and were like "oh this is funny let's use it to make a joke" maybe it was ragebait or whatever but even still it gets to a point. they had to come across that image, look at it REALLY closely, think about what to post with it and hit the post button.
unfortunately it never happens but every new year my hope is that we leave this kind of pure idiocracy in the passed year. this is not my usual content but i saw it and it pissed me off so i'm ranting.
TW: DEPICTION OF SA
