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Do not really know what to say. A year ago we were making posts about how Gaza was being bombed through Christmas- how the oldest Christian community was being bombed- how the birth place of Jesus was being destroyed and his people murdered. A year later, it is going to be Christmas again soon, and the bombings have not stopped. But the news, and the attention seems to have died down considerably. It feels terrible and scary.

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y’all need to put your ages in your bios or pinned posts, i’m an adult and don’t want to be unknowingly interacting with minors fucking hell

also if you’re a minor you should NOT be subscribed to the patreon, for goodness sake there is literal porn on there >:(

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I know it's uncouth to publicly drag another voice actor, but considering that this talentless fuck is using AI voices now I can hardly consider him a fellow VA anymore so it's open season on him. Let the record show that I hate Tingly Tones and I have had nothing but disdain for him from the first time he ever interacted with me. I've never seen someone so deeply involved in making audio roleplay have such a cynical point of view on the medium, it's practically contemptuous the way he disregards even the faintest sliver of integrity.

What the AI generated FUCK am I looking at here. AI generated images, AI generated text to speech, AI mods on his own voice because he burned every bridge he ever had and can't get anyone to collab with him anymore. I suspect he even uses AI generated scripts, seeing as he's a known script thief and God knows this fucking fraud could never string a coherent paragraph together, let alone a script. This dude sincerely sees audio roleplay as a cheap way to get clout and money. He can't even come up with a pitch. He's begged me to collab before, not by actually offering a role or a project mind you, but simply by kissing my ass and hoping that would get me pull all the weight for his sake in exchange for the offer of a nondescript feature on his dogshit channel.

He's tried every cheap in the book to try and grow his channel. Following every stupid trend and popular search term, mass-generating AI images, animating his audios with AI, trying to duct-tape stolen scripts into cohesive ongoing stories, trying to ride other's coattails every time a new VA starts to gain traction, spamming everyone (including minors) trying to peddle his NSFW Patreon. Everything other than actually making a good audio, an ability that he does not have and never will have.

The fact that this hack has more subs than many far more talented VAs is actually disgraceful. The number of Patrons he has bankrolling this slop is embarrassing. Attention coming to channels like this makes the whole audio roleplay scene look like shit, the fact that this garbage even exists is insulting to the medium. If Tingly Tones has zero haters, I'm dead. May his teeth crumble and his tongue rot away.

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I do agree with not being on Patreon, especially because there's a risk of Erik getting in serious trouble

However, I feel like adults shouldn't be so... averse? afraid? however so many of them seem to feel about interacting with minors. When it comes to NSFW content, I absolutely understand not wanting minors to interact!

But normal conversation, innocent/friendly asks, general interaction? There won't be a witch hunt because you shared headcanons with a minor. You can be friends and have it not be weird. Are there boundaries to be aware of? Absolutely. But there's plenty to gain from those friendships- you both have different perspectives on life and the content you consume, and sharing those can be valuable.

It also makes it more intimidating to interact with the fandom at all, in my experience. I'm not saying we should be welcoming/inviting minors into the fandom, but making it feel like a harsh environment is a bit much. Hell, I felt guilty interacting with people who I knew were adults, even if it was never more than friendly.

This is just my perspective, as I recently turned 18. And I kept my age out of my bio until then for my own safety, because there are weirdos who will look for underage people specifically.

We're here to enjoy Redacted, to appreciate Erik's hard work, and to ultimately share the experience together. Of course there are appropriate and inappropriate things to share, but I don't think cutting underage fans off completely is fair or necessary

y’all need to put your ages in your bios or pinned posts, i’m an adult and don’t want to be unknowingly interacting with minors fucking hell

also if you’re a minor you should NOT be subscribed to the patreon, for goodness sake there is literal porn on there >:(

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Oh my gods you're my hero THANK YOU BOTH !!!!

Hi, do you have all the D(a)emon results from the Redacted quiz? I'm making a presentation for my friends on Erik's lore and world building (we're doing a presentation night!!!), and I want to get all the D(a)emons and their Sovereigns right :)

Also thank you SO much for having the Empowered results, that helped me so much already lol

Hi!

Sorry, I don't have the results from the De(a)mon quiz 😭 Just for the Empowered types. I'm sure there's someone in the fandom that has it all. I remember vaguely that someone has it.

Good luck with your presentations, though! It sounds like fun~

[the-gender-bending-squid]

I'm getting my boyfriend into Redacted (he and our best friend have been listening to me rant/lore drop about it for like a year now)

And I was asking him questions, trying to figure out who's playlists to suggest they start with

And I realized something

My boyfriend is literally Guy

He loves writing, speaks mostly in brainrot, and makes everyone laugh all the time- cute and awkward and dramatic in the best ways

[the-gender-bending-squid]

This

I absolutely draw the line at incest and pedophilia (borderline and pseudo included), especially when the creator has mentioned being uncomfortable with certain things

At the end of the day, however, y'all are gonna like what you like

And it's better that those things are explored within the realm of fiction, instead of reality.

This fandom (at least here) has gotten way too comfortable making petty call-out posts instead of talking to the person they have an issue with personally.

Grow up. Talk to people like people and figure out your shit in a more respectful way. I'm not interested in your proshipping/antishipping drama. Respect the creator, respect each other, and learn to use the fucking block button.

"you can't ship that, they're-!"

shush

listen to me

they're fictional characters

shut up

[the-gender-bending-squid]

I know I sound like your mom but you kids need to stop fucking vaping

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[the-gender-bending-squid]

Hey so fun new scam just dropped! I got a call earlier today from someone spoofing the local police department's desk number, asking me if there was a reason I'd missed my jury summons this morning.

Friends, I had not received a jury summons for this month. Which I told him, at which point his previously clear diction suddenly turned into a rapid mumble, only becoming clear for scary words like 'federal' and then asking to confirm my address, at which point I hung up and decided to call the police department later.

When I called the police department the desk officer sounded so tired y'all. All I had to say was "Hey I got a call earlier saying I missed jury duty this morning?" and she immediately sighed and told me that yes it was a scam that was going around and thanked me for calling to confirm.

So this is your periodic reminder that law enforcement agencies will not call you to tell you that you're in trouble. If you need to pay a fine of some sort they will mail you a physical invoice. Anyone calling you saying they're from the police or any other law enforcement organization (up to the CIA and yes I have heard of scammers attempting to impersonate CIA agents over the phone) who then tries to get financial information from you over the phone is a scammer.

I know I actually bang on about this a weird amount, but it is my fervent hope that the information will stick in peoples' brains if they get randomly selected for the adrenaline spike lottery. Scammers use scary words to get you to panic in order to shut down your critical thinking, and if even one person's brain spits out "Tumblr user waterhobbit said the cops/CIA/federal marshalls don't call about this shit" before their bank account routing number is in the hands of assholes I will consider it a job well done.

[the-gender-bending-squid]

Wow. The patience, kindness and calm communication skills. Outstanding.

From raindovemodel

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"Colombia’s congress has voted to change a law that allowed minors to get married with parental consent.

The proposal would make the minimum age for marriage 18, and seeks to protect the rights and development opportunities for minors. It still must be signed into law by President Gustavo Petro.

Currently, the country’s civil code allows person as young as 14 years old to get married with parental consent.

The initial proposal to reform the law – presented in 2023 – used the slogan “they’re girls, not wives” and aimed to prevent young girls from being forced to marry, to be subject to different forms of violence and to miss out on education and development opportunities.

“Minors are not sexual objects, they’re girls,” congresswoman Clara López Obregón said in a statement after the proposal was greenlit.

Child marriage remains a widespread practice worldwide and affects around 12 million girls per year, according to the UN’s agency for children, UNICEF.

But there’s been a global drop in child marriages over the past few years, according to the agency’s statistics. “Ten years ago, one in four young women aged 20 to 24 was married as a child. Today that number has fallen to one in five,” UNICEF said.

In Latin America, poverty is the main factor leading to minors getting married, according to UNICEF."

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Sneak peak of the big ol’ project I’m working on, +Bonus Gavin Art

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BEIT HANUN, GAZA, PALESTINE - 2015/02/27

Photo by Ahmed Hjazy/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images

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anyone notice a new trend of really entitled people joining fandom?

I feel like jerks have existed since the beginning of time, but it feels worse lately.

So far this year, I've witnessed:

People offering free unasked criticism to artists because they're not happy with the way their favourites are portrayed, stating that 'they deserve to know what they did wrong so they can improve' while the feedback they offered was 'why does everyone look like they're on ozem***' (idk if i need to tw this word)

Also giving feedback AND REVIEWS to FANFIC as if they're published works (and adding them on GOODREADS TO RATE)

People mass producing binded fanfiction and making THOUSANDS of dollars off work they did not create (they stole the artwork too)

People running incomplete fanfictions through AI because the writer wasn't updating and COMMENTING on the fic telling others to do the same so they can get an ending

And now, in the span of two days:

People trying to argue that if they can't sell binded fanfiction, then you're not allowed to commission fanart from artists either

The same people encouraging people to use AI or steal fanart for their binds

ALSO the same people openly admitting that when they typset fics, they will edit the fanfiction and change entire sentences so that it 'makes more sense to them' -- one person complained the entire fic was rough gramatically and was seeking permission not from the author but OTHER BINDERS to freely edit as they please

I'm trying to be a positive person in the communities I'm in, but GOD I am so tired. Every day I fight a battle deciding if I should just be a worse person, everyone's doing whatever the hell they want anyway.

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