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God I Hate JINX, social panic! Coorporate crap
Posted 7 months agoAhhhh the 90"
I miss my youth.
But mostly, I miss the goth culture at its peak (in Brazil).
I think a lot of people have the same nostalgia of the 90"
Strange things got the right mood and season 1 was well praised.
But I have seen the modern take of the goth trend and it really turned me off,
actually, it pissed me off. And the best example I can describe is the character Jinx from league of legends.
God I hate her.
I watched season 1 and she had all the goth, rebelious girl cliche I would instantly enjoy.
Just like werewolves.
Would be really hard to hate her, but I do.
It would take a very long time to know why exactly. To know myself, my tastes, and my life in the 90s.
- - -
I don't remember ever using another T-shirt color besides black.
And I want to talk a bit about fashion, Why Stranger Things got everything so damn right.
The mood and setting. One black T-shirt was probably all it needed to be a sign of rebelliousness.
You see, it's all about contrast and context.
League of legends is a carnival of cliche designs, from all the world, from all the ages.
It just happens I lived in the time when a character like Jinx was inspired.
And everything is off, my best friends using black T-Shirts were some of the smartest people I knew, playing nerd games, living in a time where the future was promised but we knew better.
Jinx is just a stupid psycho maniac bitch, a gun lover, pro war girl, using goth clothes.
Reality doesn't match the semiotic. Cognitive dissonance in action.
Everything we goths fight against after the Columbine shooting, all the stigma and moral panic about goths and school shooters. I'm taking crazy pills here?
This is a warning. Maybe the new generation just think Jinx looks cool, whatever man.
Neowuf is just an old man yelling at the clouds. Maybe. VALID ARGUMENT BUT.
Stop to think for a moment about all the content people want you to consume.
War veterans don't see war movies like we do.
I will never forget what the 90s felt like. I will keep my Black t-shirt until I die.
And You reading this, if you keep consuming new content regurgitating with new interpretations.Disney movies reimagined, reinterpreted, story rewritten to fit the new social morals. History Rewritten to fit the narrative of people in power.
Just look how fucking fast people destroyed the Gibble Studio magic. A narrative diluted to a visual aesthetic without all the context of human effort and most important, the mood, the dreams, the semiotics, the historical context the gibble movies were made.
Yeah.. Yeah.. It's bad man. I'm not even touching politics, but the speed that social engineers can destroy a revolution, gaslight a narrative, and kill a movement for justice. It's just insane.
And like I said before. It's not just about AI generating art. My fear is about dreams getting corrupted by corporate content who want to make quick money.
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ps. League of Legends series is not bad, the writers did they best, but the worldbuilding they had to work with is just a pile of coorporate crap created without narrative in mind, like gatcha games.
I miss my youth.
But mostly, I miss the goth culture at its peak (in Brazil).
I think a lot of people have the same nostalgia of the 90"
Strange things got the right mood and season 1 was well praised.
But I have seen the modern take of the goth trend and it really turned me off,
actually, it pissed me off. And the best example I can describe is the character Jinx from league of legends.
God I hate her.
I watched season 1 and she had all the goth, rebelious girl cliche I would instantly enjoy.
Just like werewolves.
Would be really hard to hate her, but I do.
It would take a very long time to know why exactly. To know myself, my tastes, and my life in the 90s.
- - -
I don't remember ever using another T-shirt color besides black.
And I want to talk a bit about fashion, Why Stranger Things got everything so damn right.
The mood and setting. One black T-shirt was probably all it needed to be a sign of rebelliousness.
You see, it's all about contrast and context.
League of legends is a carnival of cliche designs, from all the world, from all the ages.
It just happens I lived in the time when a character like Jinx was inspired.
And everything is off, my best friends using black T-Shirts were some of the smartest people I knew, playing nerd games, living in a time where the future was promised but we knew better.
Jinx is just a stupid psycho maniac bitch, a gun lover, pro war girl, using goth clothes.
Reality doesn't match the semiotic. Cognitive dissonance in action.
Everything we goths fight against after the Columbine shooting, all the stigma and moral panic about goths and school shooters. I'm taking crazy pills here?
This is a warning. Maybe the new generation just think Jinx looks cool, whatever man.
Neowuf is just an old man yelling at the clouds. Maybe. VALID ARGUMENT BUT.
Stop to think for a moment about all the content people want you to consume.
War veterans don't see war movies like we do.
I will never forget what the 90s felt like. I will keep my Black t-shirt until I die.
And You reading this, if you keep consuming new content regurgitating with new interpretations.Disney movies reimagined, reinterpreted, story rewritten to fit the new social morals. History Rewritten to fit the narrative of people in power.
Just look how fucking fast people destroyed the Gibble Studio magic. A narrative diluted to a visual aesthetic without all the context of human effort and most important, the mood, the dreams, the semiotics, the historical context the gibble movies were made.
Yeah.. Yeah.. It's bad man. I'm not even touching politics, but the speed that social engineers can destroy a revolution, gaslight a narrative, and kill a movement for justice. It's just insane.
And like I said before. It's not just about AI generating art. My fear is about dreams getting corrupted by corporate content who want to make quick money.
---
ps. League of Legends series is not bad, the writers did they best, but the worldbuilding they had to work with is just a pile of coorporate crap created without narrative in mind, like gatcha games.
AI has become a new art movement, but can it be called ART?
Posted 7 months agoFollowing up my preview journal about AI.
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10877519/
The school of art where I got my art degree is now teaching generative AI.
A friend of mine showed me images and didn’t realize it was AI.
Artists on FA are getting banned, wrongly accused of using AI.
I have written about AI before, how it destroys creativity.
But AI is getting better and better in the technical aspect.
AI has become an art movement; just like the art movement called meme.
No longer are people content to express themselves using sketch drawings.
The eye candy art is back in full force: hyper-realism, micro-detail, 4K, super soft gradient transitions.
AI fits all the prerequisites of social media.
Instant gratification. Blitzering fast creation.
No development of an argument. Only sophism or propaganda.
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg of a bigger problem.
The fact that AI is stealing our data, our work, and spying on every corner of our lives is not just an AI problem;
this has been happening for a long time.
Privacy and copyright were never enough to hold back AI.
The biggest damage AI is doing is not about privacy or compensation.
For me, the biggest problem is the killing of creativity.
The problem goes back to when Netflix established the new business model:
content in large quantity above quality—recycling movies and regurgitating the same stuff over and over.
I think we all felt the problem: the lack of creativity. That was before AI art.
When artists say AI art has no soul, they really mean it.
It’s not about the perspective, the number of fingers, the anatomy, or any technical detail.
What AI lacks is human agency.
Text prompt vs. hand painting is a huge gap in decision-making.
And sadly, it hurts deeply in my heart. This gap will not be felt by amateur artists starting just now.
Human perception is the artist’s most precious asset.
Human experience is the artist’s most precious asset.
Human bias is the artist’s most precious asset.
Human mistakes are the artist’s most precious assets.
And all of that cannot be recreated using AI.
And if all that sounds like BS from an "artybollocks" generator.com:
Look more deeply into color theory—all the problems about human perception of color vs. how computers measure light.
Ask yourself why multimillion-dollar movies keep failing. Why do marketing research and consultocracy firms keep pushing the same formula again and again? Why are studios that replaced real artists with AI now regretting this decision?
Creativity can’t be easily manufactured. It doesn’t belong in an industry.
We live in a dystopian world where people think they are in control.
Where we are the product on social networks, yet we keep paying for subscriptions.
Where nothing is truly ours, and everything comes with planned obsolescence.
Where people use AI art, thinking they are the puppeteer, but instead, they are the puppets.
Keep that dream inside your heart. Don´t spoil it with AI generator.
You will be living someone else’s dream.
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10877519/
The school of art where I got my art degree is now teaching generative AI.
A friend of mine showed me images and didn’t realize it was AI.
Artists on FA are getting banned, wrongly accused of using AI.
I have written about AI before, how it destroys creativity.
But AI is getting better and better in the technical aspect.
AI has become an art movement; just like the art movement called meme.
No longer are people content to express themselves using sketch drawings.
The eye candy art is back in full force: hyper-realism, micro-detail, 4K, super soft gradient transitions.
AI fits all the prerequisites of social media.
Instant gratification. Blitzering fast creation.
No development of an argument. Only sophism or propaganda.
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg of a bigger problem.
The fact that AI is stealing our data, our work, and spying on every corner of our lives is not just an AI problem;
this has been happening for a long time.
Privacy and copyright were never enough to hold back AI.
The biggest damage AI is doing is not about privacy or compensation.
For me, the biggest problem is the killing of creativity.
The problem goes back to when Netflix established the new business model:
content in large quantity above quality—recycling movies and regurgitating the same stuff over and over.
I think we all felt the problem: the lack of creativity. That was before AI art.
When artists say AI art has no soul, they really mean it.
It’s not about the perspective, the number of fingers, the anatomy, or any technical detail.
What AI lacks is human agency.
Text prompt vs. hand painting is a huge gap in decision-making.
And sadly, it hurts deeply in my heart. This gap will not be felt by amateur artists starting just now.
Human perception is the artist’s most precious asset.
Human experience is the artist’s most precious asset.
Human bias is the artist’s most precious asset.
Human mistakes are the artist’s most precious assets.
And all of that cannot be recreated using AI.
And if all that sounds like BS from an "artybollocks" generator.com:
Look more deeply into color theory—all the problems about human perception of color vs. how computers measure light.
Ask yourself why multimillion-dollar movies keep failing. Why do marketing research and consultocracy firms keep pushing the same formula again and again? Why are studios that replaced real artists with AI now regretting this decision?
Creativity can’t be easily manufactured. It doesn’t belong in an industry.
We live in a dystopian world where people think they are in control.
Where we are the product on social networks, yet we keep paying for subscriptions.
Where nothing is truly ours, and everything comes with planned obsolescence.
Where people use AI art, thinking they are the puppeteer, but instead, they are the puppets.
Keep that dream inside your heart. Don´t spoil it with AI generator.
You will be living someone else’s dream.
Weekly Review
Posted a year agoWeek 39 Review:
❌ Eat healthier
✅ Stream on Picarto Tue-Thu-Sat
✅ Stream on Twitch Mon-Wed-Fri
✅ Gym 3x
✅ Paint Portrait Commission
September art report. 📆
This month was hard.
- ❤️🩹 I had to stop everything for a week to recover my wealth.
- ✅ I completed a portrait commission.
- 📈 My quadruped animation studies had some progress.
- 📈 I'm improving my workflow, painting werewolves.
- 👓 New prescription glasses are coming!3D Retopology Services
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Thanks!! Lonewolf in the corner in this forest of struggling artis...
Posted a year agoI've been browsing through FA journal lately, and it seems like people don't discuss personal lives as much anymore. There's a vast ocean of artists offering commissions, which is fantastic.
But where has all the social interaction gone? I guess I'm just an old wolf having nostalgic moments about the days when people actually wrote on platforms like LiveJournal. Those were simpler times.
Nowadays, people don't write much anymore. Do they even know what a pen is? It feels like the internet is dominated by extroverts who prefer real-time voice interactions in live streams.
It's all a bit overwhelming for me. It's like the social anxiety of walking into a nightclub when I was younger, but even more complicated because English isn't my native language.
That's why I love expressing myself through drawing. It's so much easier. But drawing is slow, and AI has ruined everything.
"Everybody just yells and scream at each other. Nobody's civil anymore!"
I hope you all have a great week!
But where has all the social interaction gone? I guess I'm just an old wolf having nostalgic moments about the days when people actually wrote on platforms like LiveJournal. Those were simpler times.
Nowadays, people don't write much anymore. Do they even know what a pen is? It feels like the internet is dominated by extroverts who prefer real-time voice interactions in live streams.
It's all a bit overwhelming for me. It's like the social anxiety of walking into a nightclub when I was younger, but even more complicated because English isn't my native language.
That's why I love expressing myself through drawing. It's so much easier. But drawing is slow, and AI has ruined everything.
"Everybody just yells and scream at each other. Nobody's civil anymore!"
I hope you all have a great week!
The case of melting face dogs
Posted a year agoI was looking at reference, big breed dogs, and I noticed a pattern.
The larger the dog, the more floppy its face becomes!
Look at Great Danes, Mastiffs, St. Bernards, and Bernese Mountain Dogs.
Their faces seem to melt. Yet, they're incredibly strong and large.
Unless you want a borzoi, their face are not melting, but they dont make a good references for a Big Bad wolf. Do they?
Dobermans offer a good compromise with strength and floppy fur, but their skulls aren't wide enough. Rottweilers have wide skulls but very floppy faces.
In the end, I had to look at all sorts of references, even big felines, to create a truly beastly wolf.
The larger the dog, the more floppy its face becomes!
Look at Great Danes, Mastiffs, St. Bernards, and Bernese Mountain Dogs.
Their faces seem to melt. Yet, they're incredibly strong and large.
Unless you want a borzoi, their face are not melting, but they dont make a good references for a Big Bad wolf. Do they?
Dobermans offer a good compromise with strength and floppy fur, but their skulls aren't wide enough. Rottweilers have wide skulls but very floppy faces.
In the end, I had to look at all sorts of references, even big felines, to create a truly beastly wolf.
Commission 3 slot open! Portrait
Posted a year agoWeekly Review
Posted a year agoI'm sorry I couldn't stream this week.
I haven't been able to create more art due to eye strain. 😵
It seems that age is catching up to me!
I'm going to make an appointment with an eye doctor. 🤓
I haven't been able to create more art due to eye strain. 😵
It seems that age is catching up to me!
I'm going to make an appointment with an eye doctor. 🤓
AI is very destructive for creativity
Posted a year agoI Feel sad for people starting to learn art today.The pressure is enormous, and now there is AI to ruin everything.
Using generative art doesn't teach how to draw, and the only way to get good taste and have a style is doing, step by step the creative process.AI is someone's dream, fast food of "creativity", it's the worst thing new artists can do.
Reminds me of a slot machine, always waiting for something good to appear, something that is not exactly what you want, it appears before our eyes because someone else did, someone dream. It corrupts the mind's eyes, it ruins that feeling only someone doing art knows, I can imagine, but I don't know what it is yet. We just accept what AI offers us, consuming, not really creating.
What can we do about it? For new artists, my suggestion is.. draw. Don't trust those easy paths for your dream because there is not. Drawing can be really, REALLY frustrating, and that's what makes it so rewarding in the end when you look at the paper and it is not imagination anymore, it's real.
And for me, I need to do my part. I need to teach other people how to draw, I want to do a perspective course, lets see how it goes.
Using generative art doesn't teach how to draw, and the only way to get good taste and have a style is doing, step by step the creative process.AI is someone's dream, fast food of "creativity", it's the worst thing new artists can do.
Reminds me of a slot machine, always waiting for something good to appear, something that is not exactly what you want, it appears before our eyes because someone else did, someone dream. It corrupts the mind's eyes, it ruins that feeling only someone doing art knows, I can imagine, but I don't know what it is yet. We just accept what AI offers us, consuming, not really creating.
What can we do about it? For new artists, my suggestion is.. draw. Don't trust those easy paths for your dream because there is not. Drawing can be really, REALLY frustrating, and that's what makes it so rewarding in the end when you look at the paper and it is not imagination anymore, it's real.
And for me, I need to do my part. I need to teach other people how to draw, I want to do a perspective course, lets see how it goes.
