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hot take…. people who immediately believed the “freddie mercury has a secret daughter” thing yet mock conversation over the possibility of a relationship between john lennon and paul mccartney are lowkey homophobic…… in this essay i will

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A Kind Of Magic (1986)

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I hope every company using ai goes out of business.

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Forget semantics about who knows what for just a moment. Someone somewhere should have declared it ai. Especially if they want me to believe it was a genuine misguided attempt at a tribute approved by the uninformed and not an attempt to make a profit off of fans by selling harmful overpriced tat.

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fifty-fucking-dollars is an insane price for a glorified piece of paper no one actually put time into designing.

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Thinking about it again. It's kind of funny, in like, a dystopian and angering sort of way that they slapped limited on the stupid poster. Like I know it was to induce fomo. But, think about it. What are people missing out on by not getting one? It's not like it's an original piece at all. It's what a machine spat out. There's nothing special about it at all, because if they really wanted they could make it spit out more slop. It's certainly not Freddie's art. There is nothing about it that couldn't be made again in that exact same form because it's not fucking art.

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Once again thinking about how the ai isn't declared on the merch. It should be. Especially the damn poster.

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me when i’m the bandmate of joy and whimsical intent

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Friendship is watching Bohemian rhapsody with me so I can ramble about the details (and the scene) afterwards.

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Missing this androgynous queen a bunch

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So seldom discussed is the gender contained within 70s era freddie mercury.

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Going to attempt to take my mind off of the ai for like a day, and by 'take my mind off of,' I do in fact just mean not posting about it for a day.

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shout out queen's use of ai during pride month! pissed me off so bad I forgot to make my fixation slideshow I had planned to torture my friends with.

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I envy casual enjoyers of queen, especially now. Because that’s not what I am. I have had an insane queen fixation for the past year, and all of the ai and following conversation hasn’t served to diminish it. I’m just angry, and every time I think about posting anything else, I'm just back to talking about the ai again.

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I do maintain however, that if it were to be revealed eventually that they truly had no idea what they were putting their names on, that they should step back. Let someone more educated take the lead. Not because I think any to touch ai ever should be cancelled, or, like, banished. I'm not suggesting that. I'm merely observing that two producers of a lyric video, who signed ai posters, and are the face of the band and therefore the brand (a big brand mind you,) put their blessing on something harmful. That's not good practice, if you are going to be in the hot seat, still participating in something the bare minimum is to be educated. The average joe probably doesn't know ai is bad, but I'd expect the ai salesman to know that it is. I expect most people in the position to sell me things to know what they're doing. That's without mentioning that the use of ai at all goes against everything Queen stands for. For one it's not very rock and roll. Then, of course, it's bad for the environment, their fanbase of queers and artists. Most importantly, it's a really, really bad tribute to Freddie Mercury.

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I don't think Brian May or Roger Taylor are idiots, nor do I think they're sinister and evil for the use of ai. I am willing to wait for an explanation, because I would hope that there is one. However, I do think that regardless of what the case ends up being, whether they had good intent, bad intent, no knowledge or some knowledge. It's not great, we'll say. The ai visuals on their own, I would complain less about (that's not to say I wouldn't, I still would complain. They fed Freddie's work to a machine to replicate him during pride month. It's fucked.) What I take absolute issue with is the lack of honesty. No matter how you swing it, they didn't just approve of and produce a bad, tasteless, disrespectful piece of slop for you to ignore for free on youtube. They sold it to people. Profit was made off of ill-informed fans, who were not told anywhere in the description or the title of these products, that they were in fact ai. That, above technicalities about intent, is what hurts me.