#creating more sales

[insanelyclevermarketing]

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[cobra-creampuff]

the fact that they made it illegal to make ads louder than programs on tv in 2010 but haven't updated it to apply the same regulation to streaming. who do i have to call.

[elvensemi]

Been working my ass off on a double length update for the premier of A Place Among the Stars, my original sci-fi... debut? I guess? In that it's my debut into sci-fi. Guys I've worked so hard on it hhhhh I hope people like it. There will be some teaser art coming out soon-ish.

It'll be releasing April 28th thru Patreon.

In May, I'll also be releasing a free ebook that contains the first few chapters from each of my stories, to allow you to sample Khajit's wares (is that joke too dated). Once it drops, please feel free to download it and also send it to every single group chat you're in that has a book recommendation channel lmao. Remember: you can't beat free!

[elvenfoe]

i call this a Lovecraftian angel sigil. i start with a statement of intent, make a sigil out of it, and go to town on it lol. It's time consuming but i find it therapeutic. this one symbolises the statement "i am capable"

[ikol-loki]

they may never make bider-man canon but its a massive missed opportunity by marvel to not say that spidey swings both ways

[lucaonthropy]

Behold, the Depaysement short animatic! Just ignore the promotion at the end I was told to add that lol

Bg music: Volt Tackle by Deco*27, instr. ver.

[sakebytheriver]

If Universal and Warner Bros were smart about this, they'd make a Barbieland addition to their parks instead of trying to build a cinematic universe out of Mattel toys

[insanelyclevermarketing]

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[leadzen-official]

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[sauerkrauted]

Ok but you cannot blame this on queer people, you see that right? It is not our fault, nor is it our duty to coddle corporations. I know we like to fight with each other but at no point is being critical of shallow corporations attempt to cash in on us a bad thing. I know for a fact that targets recent pride collections have been a big hit, there were thoughtful designs and designs from queer artists. People liked them. This isn’t because no one was buying the products.

This is backlash from the alt right gaining a mainstream platform and raising a stink over boycotting if companies release a pride collection. It is solely the corporations faults for being chicken shit and not actually caring about us at all, only their profit.

You bring up great points, but recognize that it isn’t the queer communities fault for being under attack right now.

very funny (irritating) to me that everyone whined and yelled about stupid rainbow capitalism and how performative wokeness/allyship is a net bad we should all refuse to support and now like.

tumblr is doing nothing for pride and target isn't selling much (if any) of their pride collection offline except at certain stores (in democratic areas, basically) and build a bear has a much tinier collection than normal and all the actual pride stuff is on their "adult" website (not sure if it's in stores, but pride = adult is a hell of a message)

there are genuinely good criticisms for performative allyship in all its applications. it shouldn't be the only thing we expect from people and companies. but if all the shit I see being called performative stopped tomorrow then in terms of the LGBTQ+ community especially we just. wouldn't talk about queerness or queer issues or celebrate pride or do anything.

open your fucking eyes. we are very close politically to having gay marriage rolled back. now companies are basically being let off the hook to even make a miniscule effort (which matters to the people who don't have access to any other kind of support in their communities! which normalizes the community in public spaces!) because the only reaction they have gotten over the last few years are negative ones from BOTH sides.

we are so entrenched in discourse at all times for the sake of our OWN performance of who is the wokest and who is REALLY an ally or a good community member that we have basically handed over all the work of activists of the last several decades to the other side because we'd rather scream at each other over fucking chicken restaurants and shit than the real life backsliding that's happening.

and this goes for other shit too. feminism, poc rights, all of it.

also. trans rights aren't discourse and aren't just culture war arguments. in case any terfs think they can spin this to be antitrans.

[glitch-in-the-code]

I don't even buy games off of my steam wishlist, I just watch them go on sale and think 'hm. interesting.'

[chromegnomes]

the most frustrating thing about AI Art from a Discourse perspective is that the actual violation involved is pretty nebulous

like, the guys "laundering" specific artists' styles through AI models to mimic them for profit know exactly what they're doing, and it's extremely gross

but we cannot establish "my work was scraped from the public internet and used as part of a dataset for teaching a program what a painting of a tree looks like, without anyone asking or paying me" as, legally, Theft with a capital T. not only is this DMCA Logic which would be a nightmare for 99% of artists if enforced to its conclusion, it's not the right word for what's happening

the actual Violation here is that previously, "I can post my artwork to share with others for free, with minimal risk" was a safe assumption, which created a pretty generous culture of sharing artwork online. most (noteworthy) potential abuses of this digital commons were straightforwardly plagiarism in a way anyone could understand

but the way that generative AI uses its training data is significantly more complicated - there is a clear violation of trust involved, and often malicious intent, but most of the common arguments used to describe this fall short and end up in worse territory

by which I mean, it's hard to put forward an actual moral/legal solution unless you're willing to argue:

Potential sales "lost" count as Theft (so you should in fact stop sharing your Netflix password)

No amount of alteration makes it acceptable to use someone else's art in the production of other art without permission and/or compensation (this would kill entire artistic mediums and benefit nobody but Disney)

Art Styles should be considered Intellectual Property in an enforceable way (impossibly bad, are you kidding me)

it's extremely annoying to talk about, because you'll see people straight up gloating about their Intent To Plagiarize, but it's hard to stick them with any specific crime beyond Generally Scummy Behavior unless you want to create some truly horrible precedents and usher in The Thousand Year Reign of Intellectual Property Law

[fingertipsmp3]

I don’t know what it is but the sound of someone rattling my letterbox is the MOST infuriating noise in the world. Like, I already wasn’t going to answer my door to you, but now I’m really not going to answer my door to you

[attila-werther]

'kraken gm appears gutted by his decision to fire hackstol' I'm about to start swinging a chair