Think The Reason Why A Lot Of AI Art Discourse Feels Kinda... Stupid? Strange? Outrageous??? To Me Is

i think i have a weird “reverse social anxiety” where im like pretty comfortable chatting and hanging with IRL flesh people most of the time but when it comes to online interaction and the idea of hitting it huge on social media i get very anxious and mind-racey, compared to other people who i THINK are more socially anxious IRK but more chatty online…??? Idk. But If i ever get a sudden “Wally Darling” type megafandom situation instantly surrounding me without buildup i’d just fucking shit myself and die.

sometimes i wonder if the reason why im hesitant to post on social media is cuz it’s going to actively damage my thoughts with paranoid thinking cycles and i will not be able to think calm unless i just not post shit. But idunno. Dippin my toes one inch into the water like im the most thalassophobic man alive tryin to face his fears.

….why is autism speaks a valid troll name……..

kinda fucked up how Ronald Reagan is a completely valid Homestuck troll name

my first hate anon 🥰 💖✨✨✨

My short time on Art Fight was pretty damn pleasant and drama-free, all the people i drew for had kind things to say and i got plenty of revenges in return to boot, even though people had said this was the most drama-filled the website had been in a while (annoying tiktok kids were mostly to blame). but i still had at least one “wtf” moment on the site.

Found some guy’s OC from pressing the random character button, thought it was genuinely sooooo fucking cool and creative and unique so i really really wanted to draw it, but then i checked the artist’s profile and—

?????!!!?}? this was in his profile??!!?

in the end I never drew the guy’s OC because i was really scared i was gonna be drawing shit for a zionist 😭😭😭 like it’s one thing if you’re just stuck in the shitty ass country and you still absolutely loath the horrible horrible things they’re doing to palestinians but nonono, he displayed this so proudly on his profile during a fucking genocide no less that he probably did NOT have the best intentions to heart. Also i have nothing to go on other than this cuz he never updated his socials in years other than his artfight so ?????

bruhhh

i do not mean to be a "party pooper" or whatev but like,,, so many people falling hook line and sinker for a company's hyper-cutesy distraction tactic that was definitely originally designed for people to put way less attention into the transmisogyny n shit plaguing the website. and it's happening again. why

even back in april the whole boops thing felt really fucking insidious to me. like whenever i saw the people on my dashboard eagerly celebrating the boops i started to feel a worse and worse pit in my stomach

OMIGOD YAYYYYYYYYYYYYY FREBBVENTURE I LOVE FREBBVENTUREEEEE

SILLIEST GAME EVER. LOVE THE PLATFORMING THE COMBAT THE CHARACTERS THE LEVEL VARIETY THE BOSSES THE STORY THE FUNNY SHIT THE LITERAL EVERYTHING PLAYITPLAYITPLAYITPLAYITPLAYIT—

(oh and foamy isn’t actually playable in the main campaign, only in extra challenge modes. she’s gonna be a main character in the sequel tho!!!!!!!!)

Foamy La Fey, hillbilly bike-riding opossum girl from the VERY obscure indie action-platformer Frebbventure (and its upcoming sequel).

even if Mihoyo prolly paid these guys pretty well for making these animations it still feels really fucking disingenuous like. have you SEEN the discussion of Mihoyo as a company on twitter now it's gotten rly big like seriously you're supposed to be boycotting these guys to the ground rn for fucks sake

it feels kinda cursed seeing some random indie/animation meme YouTubers I've casually enjoyed watching and who I've never seen having an interest in gacha games just,,, suddenly drop these fully-finished animations promoting Zenless Zone Zero out of the blue

It feels so out of place with the rest of their stuff, it's like,,,, they've been possessed by an evil gacha game spirit,,, hhhhhhhhgggsgs,,,,

I LOEV THEM

Wat animals should i try to make furries of and im trying to mostly make them look like vague shapeys and not so much like the animals

Felt an instant wave of dread hit me today when I discovered a Webtoon Canvas comic I randomly read a year or two ago had suddenly rebooted itself into a Webtoon Original

no! cozy games will kill the patient. she needs violent dogshit to live