#fuck big corporations

[littleevil0ne1]

Me: I'm going to call it "the app formerly known as twitter"

Me: I should look up the original context for this

Bbc article: Prince legally changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol...

Me: Kinda like Twitter did

Bbc: ... as an F U to his record company for demanding he constantly churn out music and do ads

Me: HELL YES STICK IT CORPORATIONS ARTISTS ARE NOT FREE CONTENT FARMS 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[snufkinsoldshoes]

Why did 2023 have to start so terribly for the animation folk?

First, The Owl House. The entire episode gets leaked by Disney itself. Leaving Dana Terrance (@danaterrace ) helpless. This is the second time s3 was sabotaged.

Second, Inside Job gets canceled. Just after new episodes dropped. It's heartbreaking knowing that those characters won't get their well deserved happy ending.

And now, Dead End Paranormal Park. I remember watching it the day season 1 dropped. I remember how happy everyone was hearing about s2. How it got the chance to even be produced. Checking @hamishsteele 's bolg looking for updates. Going through tumblr after binge-watching it, checking whose theories were correct.

I will never be able to express how angry I am knowing that all these stories won't get the ending they deserved. How finishing them was taken away from the creators. How we were robbed of seeing what happens next.

All I can say is I'm sorry. Sorry for the creators, writers, animators, voice actors, everyone who put their whole soul into these stories. It hurts me that our, as fans, love wasn't enough to convince 'the above'.

Thank you for putting the worlds you made in your head out there, for everybody to enjoy, and I wish for you and myself, that the animation industry gets its deserved recognition and justice.

[adeceasedtulip]

Its so fucked and morally wrong that writers aren't getting their pay for literally making the shows that are making millions in revenue for huge corporations. These companies and CEOs CAN afford to pay these people fairly but are refusing!! I hope they get all the money they deserve and MORE.

[glowingbonsai]

If this WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike goes longer than November (maybe even sooner than that) I can see both unions calling for a public boycott and you know DAMN WELL I’ll be canceling every god damn streaming service

[shitpostcharlie]

[starinthebasement]

Raise your hand if you're counting hours til you strike. ✋

[cheemerthelizard]

yknow maybe my workplace should fix the fucking air conditioning before they let us go back to work again, idk

but noooo if they closed the building for a few days they'd lose a mere fraction of a fraction of a percent of their total income and that's toooo much :/

[inkskinned]

i hate how commodity and capitalism has ruined so much storytelling . i hate how sequels and prequels and whatever else all ring like merch sales; i hate that i as an author have to include any social media following i have as a marketable trait; i hate that everything feels like a xerox of a copy of a dream of a memory.

i hate that my nostalgia has been turned into profit. i hate that companies fear consumer backlash so no real commentary may be made; i hate that companies care more about quantity over quality. i hate that so many artists and creators are being overworked to the point of complete collapse rather than being allowed to tell the story their way. i hate that every point of representation has to be fought for. i hate it i want us all to go back to living in a cave .

when you sit with friends over a bonfire and the night is getting long and people start telling this slow, almost hypnotic story - in this quiet voice, like they don't expect you to listen while they say the most fucked up shit you've ever heard - that is storytelling. who cares if the punchline is car hand hook door. storytelling has always been about community, about us all sitting in the dark, choosing to fill the silence while the last embers are dying. we forgot that storytelling is spellwork. hallucinating together, our breaths held, waiting for the ending we already knew was coming.

[sanekfr]

Honestly, fuck Unity. They’re done for, no matter how much they backtrack their reputation is going to be permanently stained, and completely deserved too. This might not be a problem for, oh I don’t know, AAA’s, but this is going to kill the indie game scene, and already devs are planning on removing games. Cult of the Lamb im pretty sure, and I’ve heard about Rain World considering too, and I don’t even know what’s going to happen to silksong. There’s more too, this is just the big ones being talked about mainly. Go and rant somewhere online, even if you don’t care about video games or the internet at all. The more people talking the better.

slight edit:

Basically any indie game you can think of is fucked. Bloons, Ultrakill, big chance whatever game your thinking of was made in Unity. On top of this, Unity is also fucked. So much big companies make stuff in Unity they are bound to get a lawsuit by one of them. Anyways, thanks to the Unity idiots for ruining basically all of my favorite games. I sure do appreciate it.

[kiraleighart]

What exactly do we do about an internet that isn't a tool we use, but a tool power uses to use us? I don't have an answer.

I mean, I do, but the answer is something many folks just can't accept...

[adeceasedtulip]

Once again saying a big fuck you to big corporations

[notablogto]

Personal Good Omens Headcanon...

Just something I think about...a lot...along with the rest of my GO brain rot. The Metatron and Crowley have some kind of history. Some kind of ancient, old, petty beef that stinks to high heaven.

And the Metatron was directly responsible for Crowley's fall.

I also have a personal headcanon that the Metatron’s real name is Bruce.

[honeypleasejustkillme]

wow another day already?? im not mentally prepared for this :,)

[venacoeurva]

...I know people in this day and age think any collaborative effort can fix things, often despite reality (ex. the MULTIPLE tumblr blackout protests over the last like 10 years across different owners of tumblr that didn’t change shit),

but I think going out of your way to buy things from tumblr en masse as a “well then they’ll be profitable and won’t have to change things to resemble profitable sites!” as if the CEO/higher ups are personally going to see this and not AT MOST just go “oh we made money, sick, Anyway.” is just. the most naive and frankly 5-year-old level of problem solving unrealistic idea if you think about it for more than 5 seconds. People are just so blinded by naive optimism it’s painful.

Staff isn’t going to see your purchases and go on a full redemption arc and restore porn in spite of payment systems’ massive stigma against it or Apple’s restrictions and never ever try to mimic Twitter or TikTok again, or whatever the fuck you’re expecting, they’ll keep focusing on shit tweaks that resemble other sites because those are what keep investors who think they know tech and user wants hooked and they think new people from other sites will come over for that instead of the fact these people are typically escaping those kinds of features.

Staff isn’t your friend, their vying for support like they’re your buddy who is hitting hard times and has been here holding your hand all these years is deliberate corporate marketing, they’re an arm of a corporation that spits in the face of LGBTQ+ people and especially black people for daring to post about themselves while touting themselves as The Queer Site! A diverse site! Look at this AMA we’re doing with someone about Black History Month! and you’re doing nobody a service when you’re unintentionally rewarding a service for getting worse because they will not know nor care about your motives, they just care that they got money and will continue making it worse regardless of you. They’re a corporation, not a small business ran by 10 people who are trying their best. People throwing money at Staff already encourages them, let alone when you buy into the weird parasocial shit they try with us which will continue as they see success with that method.

Like the mere idea of everyone buying the crabs to gift to make the site profitable is just unrealistic (especially in this economy with such terrible inflation and in NA there are issues with the weather and fires, on a site that mostly consists of groups of people who are typically low income or unable to work???), it feels very much like the gofundme pages people set up to raise money for celebrities who have debts who will be fine regardless and definitely don’t need your help. Corporations and CEOs are not your friends, they never will be. They do not care about you and they’re not some poor uwu victim of circumstance.

TL;DR half-assed blackouts aimed at companies that don’t care (that I have seen over and over) and “cr*b day” type efforts are incredibly dumb and will change nothing, and they will not change anything, just encourage them since they see they’re making money during their current marketing schemes, if they notice at all. You pitying them like they’re a poor innocent person is exactly what the corporation wants.

If you want to make a difference give that money to an artist or lgbtq+ people who basically get flagged as mature for Existing, or people who get their posts flagged for criticizing the site, or something, someone who gets screwed over by this site on the regular. It will do far more good than that whackadoo type pipe dream and sit down and think for a second, please.

[lynnbutlertron]

^^ might be getting a job at a cute little ice cream shop on the beach in my town GRAGGHHH. i have a trial shift tomorrow i hope i dont cock it up