hey it’s ok if you lost your ai virginity back when you were uneducated. a lot of posts go like “reblog if you have never ever used generative ai and never ever will!!!” but it’s ok if you have used gen ai before and it’s even ok if you used to think it was cool, back before you understood what it really was and how it worked, either because no one had taught you about it and you discovered it on your own or because the only education you had received about it was from the tech bros. you’re not a burger with a bite out of it for having used ai. ok
It is 100 percent okay to stop using it today and join the “boo AI” club.
This isn’t a purity thing. This is a “everyone stand with us against destroying the environment and giving asthma to poor people” thing.
Did you know that when one community says no to an AI data center, they specifically search out communities with fewer resources? Communities that can’t defend themselves? And the pollution 100 percent affects their health and wellbeing, in addition to burning through our already scarce drinking water.
You can stop using character.ai today. You can say “I listened to the facts and stopped.” And another thing: don’t you think it’s a bit more impactful to have used it, stopped, and then you’re in a position to say how little it helped? How doing things for yourself improved your life?
also posts in the spirit of “if you’ve used AI even ONCE your soul is tainted!!!!” can’t be great to those with OCD
After choosing which of three guards to ask a question to work out which door to go through, one lying guard is revealed. Do you change which guard you’re asking?
My mother makes and sells beautiful handfelted woolen animals, but AI-generated listings have clogged Etsy’s feed and destroyed her business. For the first time approaching the holidays she has zero orders.
Please take a look if you need a gift idea. They are truly extraordinary pieces.
Please, tell your mom that her creations are absolutely beautiful. It may be a good idea to move anywhere away from etsy, it seems that marketplace is just dead.
Wish i didn’t live on another side if the world :/
Sadly there aren’t great alternatives to Etsy right now. She needs a good social media presence so she can run an independent shop but she’s not social media savvy. She does, however, ship anywhere in the world!
okay i’m gonna say it: fandoms are kinda dying on tumblr, and they’re starving because nobody reblogs anymore.
like… i don’t wanna be that person but be for real?? likes are cute and all but they do nothing for creators. ZERO. NADA. a reblog is literally the oxygen mask keeping this blue hellsite alive. you say you “love” a fic, an edit, a gifset? then BABES… reblog it. boost it. let it breathe.
half the time creators are out here pouring their entire soul, spine, AND three vertebrae into something just for it to get 200 likes and 3 reblogs, two of which are their own. that’s why people stop posting. that’s why fandoms feel empty. content doesn’t magically fall from the sky — it comes from people who feel seen.
and i promise you: reblogging is free. it costs you like 0.2 seconds and suddenly you’re personally responsible for keeping a whole fandom alive. congrats!! so yeah. if you like something? reblog it. scream in the tags. yell. keyboard smash. put sparkles. do whatever. just don’t let creators feel like they’re shouting into a void.
reblogs feed creators. reblogs keep fandoms thriving. reblogs literally save lives (okay maybe not literally but u get it).
support the creators you love !!!!!! or else we’re all gonna be sitting in empty tags like clowns.
Public Service Announcement:
If you’re on mobile, you can hold the reblog button and drag to your profile’s pfp to quick reblog! It can take even less time just to reblog! Barely 100 milliseconds! Please, do it! Please please please!
I know I just reblogged this but the idea of recreating art from your ancestors FIFTEEN THOUSAND years later is quite beautiful. Like, imagine someone in the year 17,025 recreating art you did just cuz they like it.
You may have liked your artwork or you may have been like ‘meh, not my best work’, but literal hundreds of generations after you died, a person speaking a language you cannot understand, living in a future so alien to you that you couldn’t possibly imagine it, made a sculpture of your art and shared it with thousands and thousands of people on a communication network that uses lightening inside flattened rocks and invisible waves of light that travels to where the stars live and back. And they all love it. Everyone who sees it is like 'aww, that’s nice’ or 'holy shit I love this’.
They never knew. They, their kids, and their kid’s kids never knew that this would happen to that art.
Much the same as you’ll never know if your fun little bits of art may survive a crazy long time and be loved by future people.
Well, its been a while, but we’re back! I’ve managed to update the etsy store, revamp a couple of items, and publish a pattern for you all to make your very own Crouton! Find a copy at this link, and don’t forget to show off your creations! :)
If you don’t want to make your own, there is a very limited run of Premade Croutons here in the shop as well!
Thanks to everyone for your positive messages on this and all my other pieces, it’s been genuinely lovely to see x
