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One of the funniest thing about energy drinks for me is thaf Hell energy drinks advertise themselves as a source for B12 vitamin. A can contains 30% of the daily recommended does, at least that is the claim.

As someone who tries her best to avoid eating meat, I only need to drink my usual 2 to 3 cans of energy drink per workday and I am golden.

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So when I watched the video on youtube the comments were paused, which sucks but it was ptobably a lot of people taking the video in the worst faith possible and not being kind about it. I'm not going to try tone policine the video, I get where the bitterness is coming from and I see worse on twitter on the daily.

I wanted to leave a comment because I wanted to add my own thoughts on the male-centric bias.

I don't expect the video creator to read all of this, but if she gets this far: Hi! Can you pleade post your data on tumbrl? the link in the youtube description doesn't work and I am interested in your study data and methodology.

Back to the ramble:

The inequal gender distribution in fandom is old as time and it will probably be always with us. It is an uraboros eating its own tale and there are a lot of factors that I would take into account when trying to explain why. Not all of them have equal weight and which one holds true and to what degree depends on the person.

Here are what came to mind while procrastrinating work:

There are more male characters and more well written male characters in the media most people grow up with. This will influences a lot of things: who your favourite character is, what is your favourite archytpye, what you think a man's or a woman's story looks like, what one's story can be based on gender. It can limit the imagination and create guardrails. To a certain degree, you recreate what you consume. I would say, even when creators consciously rebel against stereotypes, they still reinforce them in some way because a lot of characters would lose depth if they didn't have the benefit of not being that stereotype.

We are hypercritic of female characters. You can see it everywhere in fandom that female characters are held to a higher moral standard than male characters: women and their relationship cannot be too problematic or toxic because they will be accused of being bad representation and their creator of being a misogynist but they cannot be too good or wholesome either because they will be seen as bland and shallow and again will be accused of being bad representation and their creator will be labelled as a misogynyst (see your average discussion between wholesome vs toxic yuri shippers). If you cannot walk the tight rope of having just the right amount of moral complexity you as the creator will be attacked.

The same goes for sexualisation as well: a female character cannot be too sexy, which is subjective, because that is gooner art but at the same time, when portrayed in a sexual context, should have sexual agency. Gooner art of all spice level have a place but I think it is the people who want their female characters to also have depth who would back away from gooner art for fear of reducing their character to a sexual object. This can take the fun of creation away and can send a creator down a guilt spiral that will have them back away from their female characters as a whole.

Reasons why women are hyperctitical of other real women extend to fictional women too. The reason why I personally have a higher standard for women is because I was raised by women as a woman. I know what women are capable of, how complex, wonderful, flawed and horrible they can be but also because I have an idea of how to be a "good" woman. Or more like, how to be good at being a woman. This partially comes back to the point of "bad" female characters bringing a lot of negative attention and creators not wanting to risk it, but I also think it speaks of escapism too. If you were raised as a woman a part of you or the women who raised you will be reflected in the personality traits you give your characters or the ones you don't. A well thought out female character takes self-reflection from afab people and not everyone wants to do that when they are creating a character.

There sometimes a sense that you cannot have a female character created just for fun, so a lot of people back away from it. Not all characters have to be flashed out and I think we are losing out on a lot of silly or sexualised female characters too by having the bar high, but I think the people who would care to make a fully flashed out female character probably back away from that more for above reasons.

As a woman, sometimes you want to escape being a woman and the expectations and social norms that come with it and creating a male character is a good escape. Through a male character the female chreator can do whatever they want and be whatever they want to be.

As a side note to the above, I noticed that women love to have male characters feminised, put them through their own experiences, both sexual and social, either for enjoyment or to reflect on those experiences from a safe distance.

Sexual and romantic attraction. I think that because women are attracted to men, they just think about men a lot: about what their ideal man is like, what men they find attractive, how men behave towards them... "gooner art" depicting men outside of mlm ships (i will not be touching this topic, i am choosing my peace, thank you very much) might be rare-ish but that is partially because men and women interact with and express their psycho-sexual attraction differently. As the age old adage says "men watch porn and women read it". Who knows whether the full bio male oc is just the creator's husbando.

Without a survey of people providing their reasons you can never really get a full picture of what the data shows, because the why the numbers are what they are is the interesting part.

What would make the study done during the video interesting if it was repeatable with a different set of random users but same parameters, including allowing for the biases of the cobductor of the study on the more subjective topics such as what is considered gooner art.

ok. ive been trying to space out the timing of when i innoculated each of my social media accts w this video to avoid getting overwhelmed, but things are already way past that atp so it can't get much crazier LOL. i worked pretty hard on this and would really appreciate your time and feedback.

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Pusha T, the absolute legend that you are.

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I am the idiot who actually provides feedback on trainings we need to take at work in our learning system. Usualls it's the same, "this should be voiced" bc they are just throwing walls of text at us and it makes it difficult to retain information.

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weather update: i should not be allowed to have thoughts past 10PM

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Do you ever just feel like your body is dying around you? Like death is brewing inside your chest? Filling you up like the heavy smoke does vials in those chemistry lab demonstrations? Like every time you breath out you are releasing some noxious gas into the world that will drag every other living thing into decay with you?

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while i was chasing an outdoors moth in my room it landed on the broom I was chasing it with and for a moment I thought "maybe I could try to manouver it through the room and the balcony to the window and throw it out" but then I turned the broom over and smashed it to the ground

it didn't die and i had to chase it for a bit longer to kill it, but now that I did I feel awful because why was I even trying so hard to kill this thing

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My toxic trait is that i occasionally like to reset the my gacha game accounts I spent years on, throwing everything away from my account because I am convinced I can do it better on the second try.

I like to think of it as a minor suicide, my own form of regression: I may not be able to change my past, I may be trapped in my meat sack, but I at least can safely burn this down.

Ironically, I tried to do that with my fairly decent Bleach Brave Souls account I had for like six years (but still at only 544 login days) but the game lets create a different account on a different server without overwriting my main account so (which I did not know when i reinstalled the app on my second phone)...

Chat, is that a win?

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If you are a crearive who uses generative AI (chatgpt, midjourney, gemini, whatever) you forfeit your right to ever complain about your work getting scraped or the work of people you care about getting scraped. You knew these models train on the whole open internet, stealing everyone's work but you were okay with it when it was other people's works being chewed up.

If you happily eat up the bits and pieces the leopards tore out of other people, don't come crying when the leopards say it's your face's turn to be on the plate.

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I feel like this belongs on tumblr.

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are youtubers who do food challenges just extreme mukbangers?

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I was today years old when I learned that the most ass song on the new Wayne album was produced by Lin-Manuel Miranda. The song that sample a literal elephant.

... he needs to stick to Broadway ans Disney.

Every single second of this song was more ass than the previous. One of the youtuebrs described it as "Scooby-doo getting chased by the monster" montage music, but if it was actually Scooby-doo music it would be listenable.

The bear is obnoxious, the mix is too loud, drowning out Wayne's voice as if it didn't trust his lyrics.

There isn't a single second of the song where it sounds like something I might be willing to subject myself to.

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God, save your wayward daughter, they are making her send 64 notification emails.

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So I have been thinking about which is my favourite song from the Joey vs Daylyt exchange and I really like My Town from Joey Bada$$, it is an easy listen with grear bars and a head bumping beat. The way Loaded Lux comes in is really nice as well, it feels like a reveal, like if the song had a music video, this would be when Joey steps aside to reveal him

but when it comes to Joey Vs Daylyt, i still like Daylyt's vocal performance on WRD2MIMVA (god, these titles). it sounds more interesting the way he switches things up. His intros are undefeatable and I like the ad libs too.

I am just partial to performers who play with their voice and I really like how he makes his voiced sounds scratchy, like his throat's a bit torn up.

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