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2 years ago
So lets start with a verbatim copy-pasta of something from a journal I just put on on Deviantart:
"If I stay on them, namely DA/FA and twitter, I am going to show as much respect for these websites, going forward, as they have for their community. I am going to repost work uncensored. I am going to post whatever I damn please, be it people jerking off in barney suits or or fully sentient fully sapient feral characters sticking their giant throbbing red rockets into someone's gaping anus. I'm gonna draw TONS of on-model adult pokemon just going at it for hours likes pigs on a mudslide! (I like to think I'm good at painting a picture in more ways then one. >w<) I do not care about your craypaper banhammer anymore. I do not care about the opinion of 14 year old puritans who think I'm a zoophile and witch hunt every couple of months. I no longer care about the visibility of my SFW stuff being at risk of nuking because someone's priest collar was cutting off the blood flow to at least one of their heads that morning.
That said, I will also be signaturing a lot of stuff I didn't before, watermarking things into oblivion and linking people on these websites to places that actually DO have consistent rules, competent mods and a well designed interface. Sites that at least for NOW haven't been bitten by the brain rotting parasites that have clearly infected all others this year. I'm not going to do this because I care about art theft or AI scraping. I think I would've taken other steps by now if I felt that way, don't you? I'm doing it to make it as clear as possible to people that I do not give a shit about these sites and it is better to find me elsewhere.
If this ends in me getting banned over this... I don't care anymore. You're not IMPORTANT enough for me to care anymore."
Bit hypocritical I know, considering I find this place important enough to come back and leave this journal after saying I never would never grace it again. This site is founded on hypocrisy. This site is a veritable skyscraper held together with caste iron hypocrisy rivets and kragle, built on a bedrock of cobbled together hypocrisy that descends miles down, oozing to the brim with flowing shiny hypocrisy!
I'm just one drop.
I've sat here some nights, for a few months now, wondering if I overreacted with my last journal. That was an extreme lashing out at the fact that everyone who disagreed with the policy in june and fled this mess was more then happy to put personal ethics aside and come crawling back in latex pup-play mitts and collars to the whim of your digimon master. The moment that other site with the bird and the bullshit artist proved to be just as dumb.
I'm not gonna sugarcoat this - If you did this? I think you are dumb. I think you are on borrowed time. I think it is only a matter of a year, maybe less before they hit you with this 1-2 combo all over again. You made a MISTAKE.
And now maybe so do I again? There's just one difference to me and a lot of other artists who seem to think its business as usual: Those are my terms above. Take them or leave them.
I will never treat this site as my "primary" ever again. Outside of common decency to not do things I think are criminal, nothing is going to be held back in terms of content I upload anymore. I will be watermarking things and linking to the proper art at better locations. I'll be going back and reuploading what already exists with these features.
So with that in mind... is there any point ? There are a lot of people who HAVE told me after I left, very sensibly I think, that coming back to this site is a mistake for my mental wellbeing. That I shouldn't do it. I respect those people a lot and I don't want to prove them right in the end. I think... push comes to shove, if I put my mind to it? I COULD exist on here purely for social interaction and ignore the raging inferno all around. But is there a point in trying?
So... I'm not making this call. I'm leaving it up to my "community". Assuming it still exists. Assuming anyone's still listening to me out there in the void-touched wasteland that remains of this site - You decide.
"If I stay on them, namely DA/FA and twitter, I am going to show as much respect for these websites, going forward, as they have for their community. I am going to repost work uncensored. I am going to post whatever I damn please, be it people jerking off in barney suits or or fully sentient fully sapient feral characters sticking their giant throbbing red rockets into someone's gaping anus. I'm gonna draw TONS of on-model adult pokemon just going at it for hours likes pigs on a mudslide! (I like to think I'm good at painting a picture in more ways then one. >w<) I do not care about your craypaper banhammer anymore. I do not care about the opinion of 14 year old puritans who think I'm a zoophile and witch hunt every couple of months. I no longer care about the visibility of my SFW stuff being at risk of nuking because someone's priest collar was cutting off the blood flow to at least one of their heads that morning.
That said, I will also be signaturing a lot of stuff I didn't before, watermarking things into oblivion and linking people on these websites to places that actually DO have consistent rules, competent mods and a well designed interface. Sites that at least for NOW haven't been bitten by the brain rotting parasites that have clearly infected all others this year. I'm not going to do this because I care about art theft or AI scraping. I think I would've taken other steps by now if I felt that way, don't you? I'm doing it to make it as clear as possible to people that I do not give a shit about these sites and it is better to find me elsewhere.
If this ends in me getting banned over this... I don't care anymore. You're not IMPORTANT enough for me to care anymore."
Bit hypocritical I know, considering I find this place important enough to come back and leave this journal after saying I never would never grace it again. This site is founded on hypocrisy. This site is a veritable skyscraper held together with caste iron hypocrisy rivets and kragle, built on a bedrock of cobbled together hypocrisy that descends miles down, oozing to the brim with flowing shiny hypocrisy!
I'm just one drop.
I've sat here some nights, for a few months now, wondering if I overreacted with my last journal. That was an extreme lashing out at the fact that everyone who disagreed with the policy in june and fled this mess was more then happy to put personal ethics aside and come crawling back in latex pup-play mitts and collars to the whim of your digimon master. The moment that other site with the bird and the bullshit artist proved to be just as dumb.
I'm not gonna sugarcoat this - If you did this? I think you are dumb. I think you are on borrowed time. I think it is only a matter of a year, maybe less before they hit you with this 1-2 combo all over again. You made a MISTAKE.
And now maybe so do I again? There's just one difference to me and a lot of other artists who seem to think its business as usual: Those are my terms above. Take them or leave them.
I will never treat this site as my "primary" ever again. Outside of common decency to not do things I think are criminal, nothing is going to be held back in terms of content I upload anymore. I will be watermarking things and linking to the proper art at better locations. I'll be going back and reuploading what already exists with these features.
So with that in mind... is there any point ? There are a lot of people who HAVE told me after I left, very sensibly I think, that coming back to this site is a mistake for my mental wellbeing. That I shouldn't do it. I respect those people a lot and I don't want to prove them right in the end. I think... push comes to shove, if I put my mind to it? I COULD exist on here purely for social interaction and ignore the raging inferno all around. But is there a point in trying?
So... I'm not making this call. I'm leaving it up to my "community". Assuming it still exists. Assuming anyone's still listening to me out there in the void-touched wasteland that remains of this site - You decide.
Putting you down as a +1 to stay though. Even if I did what I propose above? I have a feeling the moment I'd start posting again there'd be a wave of people saying "Unwatermark it you dick!" >.>
I am using my own telegram channel for years without any problem.
The neutral plushy stuff is posted here and my practice pictures are posted on deviantart.
You decide
And second: No. You don't get to turn this around on me and say I decide. I made my decision. You and everyone else votes "you decide" and I stick with it and disappear back into the aether. DA screwing the pooch just as hard has just made me reconsider my approach, but it still depends on if enough people weigh in and if I find the "stay" arguments convincing.
If it's not that case, It'd be up to you, but if happens, let us know where you'd keep being
Plenty of links up showing where to reach me whatever comes nest. And I might update those at the very least.
a definite solution, and then just bounce. Staying on a site that
gives you so much negative eotion only hurts you.
It's like how little I update or post art, but I find myself happier just sticking to Discord as a place of sharing art and being around a circle of fans and friends. I only really come here to field commission questions and posting what people buy, that's about it.
The more FA/dA screwup the less inclined to come here and, as I said, nothing really goes on here - people are busy/don't like the subject matter I'm into/etc. - most of the time I just get oddball comments from weirdos and that, unfortunately, is the extent of time on this website, tbh. 10 years ago on a place like dA it was different, but everyone parted ways and vanished (some came back, different even).
I say ultimately it's your decision but if I had to say anything; Discord helps me. These sites just aren't the same and getting kinda boring on my end, imo, lol.
I've tried the discord thing long, LONG before this crap started, and it does help. But however good, it feels like a bubble to me. It's hard for me to step outside mine and go to others, you've probably noticed! >.> But I do need to step outside it time to time. Sounds like I have a very different experience to what you have here though. I do get the occasional "weirdo" but the comments are usually USUALLY more constructive then that and I need them to keep me going.
Appreciate the suggestions. Still up in the air for me regarding those three dinosaurs. Not feeling a whole lotta love atm, I gotta admit.
You got the right idea though. I would read/reply to the comments! I'm doing it right now! ^^ But beyond that and uploading my overall interaction with this site would be in the bare minimum.