#this is not just a vent btw

[bug-the-chicken-nug]

preliminary note: if this resonates with you at all. I would very much appreciate you reblogging it. a problem with so much anti ai sentiment is like. for such a self-professed pro-human movement. it sure does have a lot of misanthropy implicitly baked in.

which in turn comes off like its basically kinda constantly running the risk of turning more and more artists into dogmatic elitists

because it essentially kinda constantly risks "artists are intrinsically pure angels who deserve everything and are always inherently superior to Icky Computer. but normal people are icky dumb irresponsible sheep who are always totally selfish and will blindly do whatever the rich tech companies say! surely there is no nuance! surely, no one can care about two things at once, or have a coherent reason to not be wholly and rigidly against something with flaws! if they say they do, they just have no integrity! they're making excuses and trying to normalize oppressing us, so it's secretly okay to give in to black and white us vs them thinking after all! won't anyone think of The Artist?! you know, even though a huge portion of 'anyone' is all the people I just shunted into my out group and am now completely blocking and ignoring anyway?"

"won't anyone stand up for the Little Guy, even though, in this instance, a ton of we Little Guys keep showing worrying early precursor signs of temporarily embarrassed millionaire syndrome and claiming humble goals, but lowkey wanting to be the new Big Guys over at least Some people in the process? so by our own logic, actually you should shun and ignore us and reverse the same black and white thinking on us for having these faults?"

oh, but you probably realize: that would be a bad faith thing to do, now that it's about *you*. this whole argument is unfair, reductive, and insensitive, now that it's about *you*.

Yeah. You're right. It is veering into hyperbolic overgeneralization, huh? It is very convenient and cherrypicked, isn't it?

And yet so many people in this crowd never try to consider if *they're* being unfair, reductive, and insensitive too.

but tbh it Does smack of like. Strong precursors to TERF logic, doesn't it? A proverbial "Little" group becoming so frothingly mad at the "Big" group that they become self-righteous, and shunned and reviled by many of those they said they wanted to protect, all while now coming to see those same people as enemies and continually becoming more bitter and insular.

it also smacks of often feeling like a fresh new iteration of the underlying stuff behind that issue i personally had in middle/high school, where I was always shy and lonely in a way that spiralled into a weird and lowkey self-absorbed inferiority/superiority complex

"I hate mostly everyone and I'm smarter than them, but also I still deep down REALLY want them to be my friends and validate me and prove themselves Worthy, all while I do barely any outward work in challenging my perceptions of them, meeting them halfway, or positively enticing them to behave that way, and instead just continue waiting for them to miraculously decide to do all the work themselves, because I'm Entitled to that, even though I'm also wildly insecure and think I suck"

with an insidious extra trick because this time you can go "ohrr but we keep telling them to roleplay with us instead of char.ai!"

as if you Don't immediately block them the moment they're honest about it or sharing anything positive or even just suspiciously neutral at all about it?

as if you can at all actually guarantee that across the board, your RP communities are always inclusive, welcoming, non-judgmental, and accessible?

as if you don't love to just blame the ai folk for not "trying hard enough" to find you or put themselves out there... as you then follow that sentiment up with a self-deprecating reblog of a hugely popular post about how a ton of you are soooo bad at replying to people?

like. i'm sorry. really. your mental illness is not your fault. this part especially is a low blow on my end. but this behavior is still one of the things that erodes accessibility and feelings of inclusiveness while also risking hurting the feelings of others. you still have to do your best to work on it instead of just apologizing or joking about it over and over. particularly because you kind of brought that responsibility upon yourself the moment you starting tooting your side's own horn about how much more "fulfilling" and "positive" it is.

otherwise, you come off like you want way too much praise and credit for the bare minimum.

And some of you probably thought "but im NOT self-absorbed, you have me all wrong, i'm doing this in the name of All Artists!"...

as if there aren't like an assload of harmful dogmas that are self-evidently harmful even though they are, just like this, still motivated by genuine care for a large group of people, and coinciding hatred of a large group of people who seem to pose a threat to them. (racism, for one. much of it is in fact a loving desire to "protect" your entire group, and your perceived ideas of its best interests.)

and you'll notice that the vast majority of those dogmas are self-destructive, irrational, overly fixating on punishing and isolating the threat and all who are even vaguely too sympathetic (hence a major reason for their self-destructive tendency) and reliant on cherry-picking, even though the goal is pretty noble when you reduce it to sound similar to the prevalent anti-ai ethos. (does "protect the children!" ring a bell? does it sound all that dissimilar to "protect artists!" on the face of it?)

[peaceandlove26]

everything is funny & i love being alive

[filibusterfrog]

you ever feel like this

[disableddyke]

depression does this neato thing where it makes you too lethargic to do anything and as a result you constantly let people down around you which, shockingly, makes the depression worse and you are expected to claw your way out of this hole by yourself while it keeps getting deeper so as not to put anyone out or make anyone uncomfortable. and then the hole starts to feel like home

[jrueships]

HE IS SO CUTE !!!!!! i love love LOVE when ppl can do what they love and make success out of it and STILL love what they do like !! cuutee!!!!!

[siffrinsometimes]

It Burns

[b0tster]

whoda thought having to throw out an entire game story and writing a new one for an already finished game at the 11th hour and 59th minute would be hard lmfao

[emberglowfox]

pure animal terror

[eksentrismi]

"People with OCD are so valid, I'm so supportive of them"

Okay, but are you actually normal about people with POCD, harm OCD and other similar OCD subtypes? Are you normal and supportive even then? Or just supportive towards the subtypes that aren't as "bad and gross"?

[sad-leon]

theres a metaphor in here somewhere

[leo-artista]

I really don't like talking shit about fanfics because I don't think fanfic authors owe anyone anything, considering they write and share their works for free and are the literal backbones of most, if not all fandoms. But I feel like there's a very thin line between writing angst and writing straight up misery porn, and I've seen that line get crossed a lot recently

Not that I think it's wrong to write or enjoy that sort of thing, but to me it gets to a point where it's not even enjoyable to read about a character going through bad stuff anymore

[b-303]

This meme is old. however. this art... is also old👍

[volkolak]

DISINHIBITED

[plague-of-insomnia]

[mail-me-a-snail]

2024 / 2025 i think things are gonna be okay.

[reimeichan]

oh sure when actors playing a character with DID or otherwise acting as multiple people in one body switch between alters on screen they're "such a talented actor" and you "get chills" but when I, actual diagnosed DID system, switch in front of you, it's "scary and unnerving" and you "no longer know how to talk to me".