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i’m following in the age old tradition of reading k/s fanfiction at 1 am

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Okay so bad news for everyone on YouTube right now

Starting the 13th, we will have an AI determine if we are children or not and if you are a child, than you are forced to send your ID, send a selfie or a credit card

This has the obvious cons of having your privacy being revoked from you and and in case there is a security breach, major identity thefts.

So what do we do in this scenario?

Well right now I have real idea as this is relativity new to me, but I do have two plans

Plan 1. Bug the shit out of them, send letters and send emails about how much of bad idea this is.

Include why the AI will mess up and target adults who watch cartoons, include privacy issues, censorship issues, anything you can think of that relates to this. I want you guys to bug the hell out of YouTube until they reverse this idea

Here their address for letters

Send a mass amount of letters on the 5th of August and than another mass amount on the 8th

Plan 2. Blackout.

Since the thing is coming out on the 13th.

The plan will be to completely avoid YouTube at all cost for that day (and beyond), no watching, no sharing, no uploading, no nothing.

Download videos before things go down, watch Netflix. Whatever you do, don’t touch YouTube.

That’s all I can say right now, I also want you guys to let YouTubers know of this situation cause if it’s important for everyone on the website to talk about this immediately

Spread this stuff around, let people know of YouTube’s upcoming policy and how it’ll hurt everyone

Edit: I have taken into consideration and I am going to agree that the blackout should be until the decision is reversed, this is so we are not out at risk as users and so YouTube doesn’t just ignore the original black out

I might have a more detailed plan posted later today, but it depends on everything goes

Another edit: just to remind yall to send in letters and emails about this to google to force their hands to reverse this decision

There is also the law itself, though I can’t speak much on it other than finding lawing bodies that can force YouTube to reverse this decision. If anyone can find a place to file or call for this, that will be greatly appreciated! (I heard maybe the FTC and or the California Consumer privacy right can be considered, but that needs more research)

BIGGER UPDATE: we have a new plan in motion, here is the updated plan for you all to see

and also here's a petition to stop the law that would help support this into becoming a thing

and also a tumblr post about it and how you can help further prevent this from being allowed in office

Don’t forget to send this fellow people outside of tumblr

YouTubers, Twitter users, send it through out and make sure you are heard

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that moment when you beam down to your first away mission and you find your captain and his first officer like this (you're a redshirt btw)

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the thought I'm having re my previous post is that a theme of anon hate I received during the past campaign was "why are you writing this" and no one ever seemed to accept the answer of "because it's enjoyable to me?" and literally that's the argument AI bros make. it's like "why would you ever put in WORK to do something" and it's like well it's fun? I genuinely adore writing critical meta and other criticism and it fills me with great joy? Like, there's a lot of things other people do for fun that I personally cannot stand but at least I'm capable of understanding that like, rock climbing or endurance racing or sewing are fun for other people, so really what I'm saying here is that people who send me anon hate have the same "why would anyone do something that involves effort that I wouldn't personally enjoy" mindset as an AI bro.

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This shirt came to me in a vision

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I honestly blame the rise of anti-intellectualism and things like hating on old books because they're not up to modern standards on why people can't think with nuance and are afraid of bucking the norm or forming their own opinions. You're going to read Of Mice And Men and you're going to be fucking uncomfortable because that's the goddamn point. You're going to read the original Romeo and Juliet and remember the whole point is to make fun of how stupid and dramatic teenagers are and you're going to sit there and be uncomfortable because the only way you're going to expand your horizons is if you're feeling weird and off and hate it for awhile.

You're going to have to sit in front of the trolley problem as hate that there's no "win" scenario because that's the point. There is no Everybody Wins and Nothing Bad Happens in real life 99% of the time.

You need to be uncomfortable. You need to be conflicted. You cannot be a complete, nuanced, and intelligent person if you refuse to engage with the gray. You are just a bad person at that point. And a stupid one. Because I'm done pulling punches.

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forget mammoths, bring back dire wolves! wolves but bigger, what could go wrong. while we’re on the subject why not make some other animals dire. i’d love to see a dire iguana or something

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Keep an eye on who agrees to this; with a cast this size there are going to be a lot of actors we're all going to be very unhappy with real soon

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TOS as text posts 🖖🏻

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Commissions are open!

Hello! Ya girl is in a tight spot financially, so I'm opening up commissions again. Small cards start at $3 and large pieces start at $20 and go up depending on level of detailing. For those who haven't commissioned from me before, the process is basically shooting me a DM here or on Discord, tell me all about what you're wanting for your piece and we hash out all the details, payment and shipping from there. Anyways, anything is really appreciated right now!

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sometimes you get so insane about a character that you forget they are not in fact everyone else’s favorite character

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I got into an incredible show a couple of days ago. And in doing that, I got into an incredible character. Spock is so amazingly written and serves to be such a compelling character. Live Long and Prosper 🖖

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fly me to the moon

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Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

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Lady Gaga is scrubbed up for surgery on DS9