And stolen Warriors fanart they generated from AI vomit.
But I gotta commend them for at least crediting the base makers.
AI bros be like: But AI is the ultimate good! It doesn’t steal! It’s a magic machine that pulls art out of thin air! It cuts back hours of hard work! It’s gonna revolutionize the art world! It’s gonna—
And yet they still continue to prove my point that AI is an art thief machine.
yeah I’ve had to report like three of them so far, they’re bots running comics through some ai thing. every one I report more show up and they do the same ones, I think they steal trending comics off deviantart, they might reblog some posts to try and look human but these are absolutely bots
AI bros be like: But AI is the ultimate good! It doesn’t steal! It’s a magic machine that pulls art out of thin air! It cuts back hours of hard work! It’s gonna revolutionize the art world! It’s gonna—
Another fake ass wannabe poser running images through photoshop filters to fake a sketch. Wanna really impress me? Actually fucking draw something instead of scamming people.
A few years ago I was paid $10K to illustrate a picture book, and it took 6 months.
AI is fucking killing the market. And its “illustrations” are shit.
So I did the maths and. $150 over 2-3 days - let’s say 2.5 days and assume a 7.5 hour working day (i.e. 8 hours with a lunch break). That works out to roughly $8 an hour. I don’t know what the minimum wage is in the US but I converted that to GBP and it’s less than two-thirds of minimum wage in the UK.
It’s also less than $3 per illustration. And about 20 minutes per illustration. Speaking as someone who does some art in its free time, if you ask me to make you something in 20 minutes for $3 all you’re getting is stick figures and my spit in your eyes
I actually wasn’t expecting him to go along with the apology.
I’m gonna be the petty person here and not accept his apology, even if I’m the one that said he owed me one. I don’t owe an explanation, but due to how LovelyPrincessN64 behaved as well as a few other unsavory followers of his, I have my rights to not to. LP was an absolute butthole, pulling lies out her ass about me like she was a prize grab machine. And the one asshole that claimed his hate art was satirical and was requested by Vix himself. Others told me to KYS among other unsavory comments which were tame compared to the hate I’ve been getting from AI fuckboys.
I have my reasons for not accepting his apology.
However, I do commend him for being the bigger man and taking the responsibility of apologizing for his past behavior and doing his best to change his behavior. He gets an A for effort there, and that he should keep up the effort. He has talent, he shouldn’t be wasting it on unnecessary drama. The way I see it, if you don’t want drama, you shouldn’t be starting it.
I think that it’s best that you just move on and ignore Vix because this feud between the two of you is getting nowhere honestly
The thing is, I have moved on, but his followers kept clutching onto the bad situation and kept making mountains out of mole hills. I’m hoping, at least, with this apology letter he made, that’ll put this to bed. I’ve been ready to move on, I got my point across, he deleted the posts that harassed fans, but are his fans?
I actually wasn’t expecting him to go along with the apology.
I’m gonna be the petty person here and not accept his apology, even if I’m the one that said he owed me one. I don’t owe an explanation, but due to how LovelyPrincessN64 behaved as well as a few other unsavory followers of his, I have my rights to not to. LP was an absolute butthole, pulling lies out her ass about me like she was a prize grab machine. And the one asshole that claimed his hate art was satirical and was requested by Vix himself. Others told me to KYS among other unsavory comments which were tame compared to the hate I’ve been getting from AI fuckboys.
I have my reasons for not accepting his apology.
However, I do commend him for being the bigger man and taking the responsibility of apologizing for his past behavior and doing his best to change his behavior. He gets an A for effort there, and that he should keep up the effort. He has talent, he shouldn’t be wasting it on unnecessary drama. The way I see it, if you don’t want drama, you shouldn’t be starting it.
He fucked around and found out, now he’s crying about it.
Like, there’s no issue with making fanart of someone else’s fan characters, but boundaries need to be respected at the end of the day.
I make fanfic and fanart of someone else’s OCs, but at the end of the day, that OC belongs to someone else and what they say goes.
It’s called being respectful.
This one acted like an absolute dillhole not only to me, but had a scummy prideful attitude about a popular fan character to the point that they believed they should own or adopt the fan character because how very dare the creator not do anything with it. This person wrote an entire fanfic where they magic’d away Leah’s disability when TC already had an idea for the character. Even if TC no longer works on this because of this exact behavior and treatment, that doesn’t mean their characters no longer belong to them.
The takeaway here is, be respectful to content creators, don’t be dicks.
(I would also like to note that this asshole had the lord’s prayer in his About Me, something about christians and their entitlement to things that don’t belong to them goes hand in hand even in fandom spaces)
To quote a friend: Some people need to return to Kindergarten and relearn social skills.
This is unacceptable behavior towards content creators.
All because he couldn’t get his way with someone else’s fan character.
Got a new definition here after this butthurt baww fest: Character appropriation.
Where in someone feels entitled enough to take someone else’s fan character and do whatever they want, with an inflated ego that shit talks the original creator for telling them to stop.
