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an attack on @captainludraws featuring Nopon Miku... Mikupon!

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Revenge against SupNovaGY featuring Keke!

Obsidian and her raven for @duskvortex on ArtFight! 🖤

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an attack on @digitalclaws featuring Rattomon and its baby forms, Squitmon and Molottomon!

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Attack on @silvishinystar featuring Cloudream!

A note to all creatives:

Right now, you have to be a team player. You cannot complain about AI being used to fuck over your industry and then turn around and use it on somebody else’s industry.

No AI book covers. No making funny little videos using deepfakes to make an actor say stuff they never did. No AI translation of your book. No AI audiobooks. No AI generated moodboards or fancasts or any of that shit. No feeding someone else’s unfinished work into Chat GPT “because you just want to know how it ends*” (what the fuck is wrong with you?). No playing around with AI generated 3D assets you can’t ascertain the origin of. None of it. And stop using AI filters on your selfies or ESPECIALLY using AI on somebody else’s photo or artwork.

We are at a crossroad and at a time of historically shitty conditions for working artists across ALL creative fields, and we gotta stick together. And you know what? Not only is standing up for other artists against exploitation and theft the morally correct thing to do, it’s also the professionally smartest thing to do, too. Because the corporations will fuck you over too, and then they do it’s your peers that will hold you up. And we have a long memory.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking “your peers” are only the people in your own industry. Writers can’t succeed without artists, editors, translators, etc making their books a reality. Illustrators depend on writers and editors for work. Video creators co-exist with voice actors and animators and people who do 3D rendering etc. If you piss off everyone else but the ones who do the exact same job you do, congratulations! You’ve just sunk your career.

Always remember: the artists who succeed in this career path, the ones who get hired or are sought after for commissions or collaboration, they aren’t the super talented “fuck you I got mine” types. They’re the one who show up to do the work and are easy to get along with.

And they especially are not scabs.

*that’s not even how it ends that’s a statistically likely and creatively boring way for it to end. Why would you even want to read that.

more attacks!

@duskvortex @siplick @tealbitz @mendely

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attack on @siplick featuring Crayon!

I watched the live with the CEO, here is the tl;dr

The good news:

• Chronological dash is here to stay! Whether you have to toggle it weekly or new users default to “For you” was not elaborated on but at least that’s confirmed.
• Custom themes are here to stay! Once again, may be buried for all I know but, for sure will remain an option.
• Search updates are in the works!!!!

The neutral news:

• Tumblr is seriously in the red financially and needs more support, Ad-free for example is not widely used
• They would not comment on the suggestion to bring back NSFW behind a paywall (which we all know would get them a boatload of money)
• They’re possibly going to add a donation system like Ao3 and Wikipedia.
• They would “rather not” sell data to make up the costs
• Most of staff are pre-2010 tumblr users including the CEO who joined in 2007, so they do actually use the site and have for a long time

The bad news:

• Condensed reblogs/removing reblog chains is going forward. The reason cited was to meet “certain expectations” of users coming from other social media, which isn’t good.
• Disability features (specifically turning off flashing ads for epileptics) was met with a request to purchase Ad-free

Overall it was more chill than I expected, @photomatt and @zingring seem to be far more in tune with the userbase than u/spez.

Condensed reblogs/removing reblog chains is going forward.

naniyou:

I watched the live with the CEO, here is the tl;dr

The good news:

• Chronological dash is here to stay! Whether you have to toggle it weekly or new users default to “For you” was not elaborated on but at least that’s confirmed.
• Custom themes are here to stay! Once again, may be buried for all I know but, for sure will remain an option.
• Search updates are in the works!!!!

The neutral news:

• Tumblr is seriously in the red financially and needs more support, Ad-free for example is not widely used
• They would not comment on the suggestion to bring back NSFW behind a paywall (which we all know would get them a boatload of money)
• They’re possibly going to add a donation system like Ao3 and Wikipedia.
• They would “rather not” sell data to make up the costs
• Most of staff are pre-2010 tumblr users including the CEO who joined in 2007, so they do actually use the site and have for a long time

The bad news:

• Condensed reblogs/removing reblog chains is going forward. The reason cited was to meet “certain expectations” of users coming from other social media, which isn’t good.
• Disability features (specifically turning off flashing ads for epileptics) was met with a request to purchase Ad-free

Overall it was more chill than I expected, @photomatt and @zingring seem to be far more in tune with the userbase than u/spez.

Under the bad news column:

I did ask our ads team to investigate any kind of vibrancy or flashing on ads - we do not want to accidentally trigger seizures or cause distress with flashing etc. Buying ad-free (or gifting ad-free to someone else) is always an option, but that is not the solution (and of course, some folks simply can't afford it). Sorry that it sounded dismissive in the session! That was not my intent.

Depending on how that looks/if it can be turned off, that could kill the site as surely as removing chronological following only feeds would...

We want reblogs, not rooted posts with comments under them. At that point you are just Facebook...

reblog chains where users iteratively produce something funny or informative are practically this site’s main cultural export i don’t know what kind of tepid soup is sloshing around in your skull that you’d even consider getting rid of that

Fourth artfight attack is up! I attacked @duskvortex with her kiwi boy Ringo, whom I had the pleasure of designing based on her written description of him ☺️

That makes two psyncer OCs and two AI-Ball OCs attacked so far, who’s next, who’s next… 👀