The Lost Of Power, The Lost Of Who You Once Was

have you seen the manga? specifically pupupu hero

pride???????/

I got this comment on a story from my Other AO3 Account this morning.

(Info redacted because I prefer keeping these accounts separate but no one follows me on the side blog I have for that account.)

The story was posted almost a year ago and is relatively “popular” by my average statistics even though it has tropes and themes that are big turnoffs for a lot of people (hence separate accounts). This popularity is undoubtedly because it’s a Marvel Loki story and that fandom is massive.

So there is obviously an algorithm or a bot scrubbing ao3 statistics and leaving this comment on fics that meet a certain metric with the main character of the fic inserted into the comment.

I had a little time to kill this morning so I decided to investigate further. And y’all this is so predatory. Come on this journey with me. It made me mad. It may make you mad.

First, if you go to Webnovel’s website, you HAVE to choose between male lead or female lead stories before you can go any further. WTF?

And that’s weird, but this gets so much worse. This is basically a pay-to-read site that has different subscription models. Which… okay BUT! The authors don’t get paid! Look at that comment again. They’re promising a supportive and nurturing community, but zero monetary compensation. It’s basically, “post your stuff here so we can get paid and you can get… nice vibes?” I mean look at this Orwellian writing:

Using the phrase “pay-to-read model” in the same sentence as “qualitative changes in lifestyles for authors” deliberately makes you think that you can get paid and maybe even make a living on this website. But that’s not actually what it says and authors will not receive one red cent.

Oh but wait, the worst is still to come. In case this breaks containment (which I kind of hope it does) this is where I mention that I’m a lawyer in the US.

I don’t do intellectual property or copyright law but I do read and write contracts for a living. So I went to look at their terms of service. It was fun!

Highlights the first, in which Webnovel gets a license to do basically whatever they want with content you post on their site. This is how they get to be paid for people reading authors’ writing without paying them anything.

Highlights the second, in which Webnovel takes no responsibility for illegally profiting off of fan fic. This all says that the writer is 100% responsible for everything the writer posts (even though only Webnovel is making money from it).

Highlights the third which say that by posting, the author is representing that they have the legal right to use and to let Webnovel use the content according to these terms. So if a writer posts fan fiction and Webnovel makes money from people reading the fan fiction, and the House of the Mouse catches wise, these sections say that that’s ALL on the writer.

So that’s a little skeevy to start off with but the thing that is seriously shitty and made me make this post was that these assholes are coming to ao3. They are actively recruiting people in comments on their fan fiction. And they are saying they are big fans of the character you’re writing about and that they share your interests.

They are recruiting fan fiction writers and giving every impression that you can make money from posting fan fiction on their site and hiding the fact that you absolutely cannot but they can make money off of you while you try, deep in their terms of service which no one but a lawyer who writes fan fic and has some time to kill will read.

I see posts on here regularly from people who don’t understand how this stuff works, don’t understand that they (and others) can not legally make a financial profit from fan fiction. And there are tons of people who will not take the time to dig into the details.

Don’t deal with these bastards. Fuck Webnovel.

he probably tried to use his boots to go up higher then got yelled at

Hi, I will have the... Uhm...

uuhhuh look its niko

(id: an image of walter white and jesse pinkman from breaking bad handshaking. jesse is on the left, and walter is on the right. they are both smiling slightly. jesse is labeled “kirby fans”, walter is labeled “splatoon fans”, and the handshake itself is labeled “having a gay shop that’s basically canon but nintendo won’t confirm it even though official content supports it”. in front of jesse is a low-opacity image of meta knight and king dedede, and above him is a screenshot from kirby fighters 2 labeled “sworn partners: king dedede, meta knight”. in front of walter is a low-opacity image of pearl and marina, and above him is a picture of marina’s opinion on pearl from the japanese version of the official splatoon relationship chart, with the translation “maiden in love” in front of it. end id)

"Meet the mods!!" [< -- at a graveyard]

Going back to the michael streamer au uhhhhhh just gonna be dumping things here lol

Idk, when he was in the fnaf 6 fire he tweeted something along the lines of "Hey guys! I won't be streaming for a bit! As I have some personal things to attend to! I'll let you know when that's all sorted out! :3"

Uhhh idk Michael teaches CC and Lizzie twitch and he makes them his mods 😭😭😭😭

You know what screw it Charlie's also mod, and It's just that one meme of that guy standing in the corner with a solo cup and going "haha they don't know I have ghosts moderating my twitch chat"

He gets a sponsorship from fazent one day which he turns down 😭

It confuses literally his entire audience because his entire platform is about the fnaf games (little do they know he has much beef with fazent lol)

when he becomes glamfred, he thinks to himself "dam, is this karma for turning down that sponsored stream?"

I think he'd do drawing streams from time to time, and idk, when he's glamfred he boots up procreate in his internal software or something 😭😭😭😭

He's always asked "how do you know that didn't happen?" In chat and he goes "don't worry about it chat"

Tranquility

hey look my OC, and more old art

I told my gf that I was having an episode earlier and she replied "is it the beach episode" and it shocked me so much that it grounded me immediately