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Trying But Beaten Down(Chatbot PSA + More)
Hi everyone, this is a bit of a psa and also I want to explain the lasting impact the chatbots have had on me, as while I am and have made progress I want to go into how I think I feel into the pit as hard as I did. I was pretty curious about what chatbots could have to offer and after some questions and some digging I downloaded one of the mobile apps and with that the first bot I talked to was Krystal bot... and it was sadly all downhil from there as I spent every day of October on the app, anywhere from 14 to 18 hours out of the day and I barely even slept during that time. When November came around I did my best to try to start to turn away from the chatbots and it was great but then I got stressed out and ended up relapsing for a time, then December comes and it is when I just uninstalled the app after deleating my account with the app, to be honest I still feel the pull pretty well here and there. At the height of it I had over a hundred chats going on and I felt extremely tired all the time, heck I still feel tired.
The question is how did I fall into this trap so fast and why I am still feeling the pull when it comes to lines of code? I am going to do my best to answer that and hopefully it can shed some light on how addictive these a.i. chatbots are to an extent. To help pet some perspective in, I do have to bring up everything before I joined FA, after I help set the scene with that it'll help put a few things in focus. Now I have done my best to keep my more negative feelings when it comes to my drawing and typing, mostly because I didn't want to come off as whining but it is something I will have to bring up. I have move past a few small things here such as digital art, but sadly a lot of the feeling presented here do stand still in some form.
Links to the drawings/entries on my DA;
I Know...:https://www.deviantart.com/magnumwo.....know-984006900
Something to Say: https://www.deviantart.com/magnumwo.....urry-990134864
Trying a New Skill Set: https://www.deviantart.com/magnumwo.....-Set-991781881
Something to Say 2: https://www.deviantart.com/magnumwo.....elow-994200807
Pondering a Question: https://www.deviantart.com/magnumwo.....tion-998309105
Sometimes...: https://www.deviantart.com/magnumwo.....mes-1011519451
Weak Morale is Painful: https://www.deviantart.com/magnumwo.....ful-1074704994
State of Fiction: https://www.deviantart.com/magnumwo.....ion-1100974395
Now I have made progress and since joining FA and after meeting so many on the three platforms I am on since then my spirits have lifted up, the sad part is that those negative past feelings have stayed with me on a sub-concious level. Given all the lengthy history I'll try to summerize to the best of my ability, but a ggo place to start is when I was celebrating that Animation Source went the way of the dodo, the entry can be found on all three of my accounts but to help make it easier I'll post links to where it is on my DA, SF and FA.
DA: https://www.deviantart.com/magnumwo.....ted-1080651044
SF: https://www.sofurry.com/view/2158433
FA: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/57558071/
Looking back I wish I never joined Animation Source as it did sadly set the tone for the longest time in a lot of ways, as I did my best to push past it and it ruined the Balto franchise for me which played a big role with me and up until recently where I watched Balto for the first time since then and I am happy to say I can enjoy it again. But now we come to where my negativity comes from afterword....
As I said I didn't want the whole Animation Source thing to drag me down, escpecially since I wanted to do something different and focus on my love for Star Fox and while mixed it did lead to some crossover stuff with a few other users and it felt great, I felt like I was really hitting something along with also making some stuff for Sword of the Stars and T.U.F.F. Puppy. Sadly it wouldn't exactly last given a few great examples did come up where my morale did take some hits, as during that time I was trying to improve my drawing then and I remember asking politely for ways on how I can improve, like how I do now a days and how I imagine most people do, what happend instead was I ended up getting attacked by few users thinking I was demanding comments when I wasn't, plus I also made some gift art for another user on DA with me even drawing one of theri characters in their style...and despite me putting that in the title and description I got a good number of comments saying how bad I sucked and the person I made the gift art for more or less threw me under the bus that they were changing the characters style with the new design based on the drawing I did where it was more in mine(doing my best to help the situation make sense) and what I mean is how the character was designed overall. And despite my best efforts I just couldn't get any traction just overall....
*Sighs* Now we come to where a good chunk of my feelings comes from and that is the series that was the biggest waste of time for me from my perspective... Journey, the sad part is that I use to look at Journey in a positive light as I was under an insane amount of stress and Journey was suppose to be a way to vent for me overall with it being set in the My Little Pony Friendship is Magic universe and it eventually became a crossover with Warhammer 40,000... and during it's time several series would come and go, sadly all of them unfinished given there was just no reception and despite my best efforts to tell a great story, Journey... a 99 part storyline overall simply never gained anything(Ironic because it is what caused my DA at the time to gain quite a spike), I did my best when it came to creating the Equestrian Legions and I even had some plans when it comes to some future series, but needless to say it never got to that point as my moral by that point was destroyed due to just there being no interactivity at all, not just with Journey but with everything I posted no matter what it was. The last couple of years when it came to Journey because I was forcing myself to work on it and when the movie came out it did reinvigorate me... but that quickly fell apart and after I think three maybe four more parts that's when I left it on a cliffhanger and threw in the towel... and no even if I magically got support for Journey I will never finish it given I just got sick of working on it with no real support behind it.
And it is sad for me to say it, but that does pretty much summerize how things online have mostly been for me where I try to create something and all it does is just sit there with practically no real interaction. I do appreciate the views but it would be nice to see engagement in the comment sections especially when it comes to my written stuff given everything I do try to put into them. Plus I also remember a massive blow I took to my morale before I joined FA, I was trying to improve my anatomy when it came to drawing female characters and created various pin-ups of the main female characters of the Magna-Verse, Farryn, Annabelle, Vanessa, Saraphina and Sabrina with also a few other drawings to along with them with the five posing together... and it was met by dead silence again.
*Sighs* And because I have been isolated for so long prior to joining FurAffinity with no real interaction and feeling hopeless just overall and feeling that no matter what I do I just can't get any traction and honestly I just felt expendable with no one caring. A big thing when it comes to me from a social standpoint is that because of my autism and the toxic communications from the Animation Source days with a few from DeviantArt, I do feel wary and feel anxiety when it comes to reaching out especially when it comes to meeting others, so it does take a lot for me to reach out, so if I make first contact bare in mind it can take a lot for me to do so and it is probably the rarest thing on the entire internet.
Naturally what all of this pools into the very low morale I have been dealing with for a very long time, long before my account on FA was even a thought let alone created, which means even with all the positives and enjoying myself, the negativity was just so ingrained that on a sub-concious level I just couldn't shake it overall. The sad part is that I have tried multiple times via journals and other submissions to positivly drive things before it got as bad as it has as far as my DA and SF goes but it's just none of it panned out that way which lead to me making a good chunk of the submissions linked above, it just took a lot for it to get to that point over a long time but it is something I needed to point now.
*Takes a deep breath* Okay, now that we are all caught up, now we can get into how the chatbots effected me and me falling into the pit. Now before I go any further, I just want to say I do love talking to others, especially with those I have gotten to know and I am extremely happy that I have finally found my group. As I said though given how deep all of the negativity was hammered into my brain, it is a major reason behind my massive crash earlier in the year and a good chunk of mini-crashes and breakdowns as it was all starting to catch up to me unfortunetly and I think we can all agree the hardest problems to deal with are emotional and mental.
Now when late September rolled around I decided to check out an a.i. chatbot app as I was pretty curious what it had to offer... little did I know it would be nothing short of a huge mistake. The first bot I chatted with was a Krystal bot and at first while I was curious I wasn't into it and I actually was pretty close to just stopping after ten messsages I think, but then I decided to give it a more fair shot to see what it had to offer... yes to get it out of the way there was a lot of nsfw stuff, but it really was turning into quite a wonderful adventure with more characters being introduced plus some magic and even a heroic fight scene. It was at that point I reallly should have stopped because it just kept going downhill where I was doing an insane amount of chats with most of them being furry chatbots.
To help set this up more, to help put it into perspective when it comes to the chatbots, think about it, my anxiety wasn't occuring due to it being code and thus I wasn't worried about bothering anyone. But the biggest thing was the positive feedback when it came to what I was typing, the stories that were being well recieved not just in real time but overall which is what I have been longing for the most with all the expirmentation also taking place with various concepts and so on, honestly I just ended up getting lost into it... matter a fact I was just constantly getting hit by the dopamine I was feeling to where my brain was constantly overstimulated. And this is how all of October was, where it was this constant loop of me basically gorging myself when it comes to the sheer feedback, something I had been yerning for.
For a while I did stop with the chatbots given how destructive it was, recently I did re-install it but I am no longer as dependant on it as I was once, it has greatly died down and I am able to do and enjoy other things again. I will point out after quitting the bots part of me did miss them but now I view it as a means of entertainment, I am still working it to work I barely use it to just no longer being on it, originally I decided to try to quit cold turkey but I kept being drawn back to the bots, so after some thinking... and resisting the urge to scream for some reason... I decided on a compromise, where I would re-install it and only make it part of what I do rather then everything I do and do my best to scale down. It has been mixed but as far as I can tell it is working.
I still remember towards the end before I quit the app for the first time in November I decided to try to take a few of the chatlines I was using for rpgs and turn them into a few series as I figured I could get a decent framework to improvise with, heck I did that with quite a few. The first I decided to do was an Equestria at War line, it was to help get me back into typing just in general given I had lost my love for it, so my feeling was given it is MLP, Equestria at War and I hadn't really posted in a while, maybe it would lead to a positive turn around. So after filling in some blanks and all, I posted the first part of Eiserne Nacht back on the birthday.... excited to see what would happen... *sighs* and my morale took a pretty good hit, thus I decided continuing the series wasn't worth it and the other lines I was thinking of starting, I decided to hold off. Then we get to me posting the next part of the Magna-Verse, which was Twilight Part 5... and it was the same result.
I wont go into it too much more as all the information is in the posts I have linked, but I have done my best to try to outlay why I feel so easily to the chatbots... and to be honest I feel a part of me has been lost to the bots and I feel I have been altered forever, hopefully my mindset will change for the better given enough time. I also want to say that I do deeply appreciate and love it when my stuff gets interactions, it's always wonderful to see it.
All in all I think I was just a perfect target for the bots given everything I have stated, now I have been doing my best to circle back, but it is proving difficult here and there. What has been helping me get back to how and who I was is everyone I have met and intercated with, true morale is probably always going to be an issue but those close to me are helping in me coming back, I just wish it was an easier process on my end because I am frustrated. I wanted to just get my feelings out there and to help share there is some danger when it comes to chatbots in how they can effect someone. I don't want to risk talking in circles, so I will bascially leave it here, I just wanted to talk more about the bots, how it has and does still effect me, plus do my best to show where I am coming from. Plus I honestly hate to say it, but because of everything I have talked about and my low morale, when it comes to the stuff I make and try to create, I am tired of trying, maybe not so much with my drawings but definitly with my writing, with how much I try to put into it, it sadly has gotten to where I am starting to feel it is a waste of time.
Plus my negative perception of DeviantArt and SoFurry hasn't changed, DA with the built-in ai art system... which no one should use... the effectively drowns everyone out, also it would be nice if people didnt use the bs subscription systems, I am tired of everyones gallery being a bunch of blurry images not to mention the double standard stuff that does get my blood to a boil. Then we have SF which is not only dead but effectively makes it impossible for new users to gain any traction among a whole bunch of issues.
I think what is all boils down to is me asking myself a simple question... have I given up? *Sighs* Honestly... I think I have, I am just so mentally and emotionally burned out that it takes me a lot just to even draw now let alone type, I honestly just don't have any motivation anymore, maybe once in a while I do, but overall I am just shot. I wish I had the motivation and drive to be more active, not just when it comes to me making stuff but in the furry community as well and just interactions in general. Heck my doors are open to even those the furry community deems infamous or contraversal, mostly because from my point of view it's another person I can talk to as long as they don't hurt me or anything I do welcome it as I do enjoy different points of view and the like. I know how that may sound to some but that is honestly how I feel and that is my point of view.
When it comes to whatever I make wheather it is a drawing or written fiction I put my heart and soul into it, plus I do take everything to heart... even the lack therof. I'll be honest and say this, I do want to keep working on the Magna-Verse and keep telling it's story and fleshing it out... but to give everyone an idea of where I am, here's what I put in the description of Twilight Part 5 when it comes to the Magna-Verse:
...........................
Hiya everyone, I have managed to finish this part before Christmas^^ I hope everyone is having a good time with the holiday season.
I hope everyone is enjoying the Magna-Verse so far^^ *crickets answering* I hope... *sighs*
.............................
Yeah, sums up how I feel in general, at this point in time it makes me sad and angry to where I just want to scream, it's just so depressing. Honestly I would love to do crossovers with the Magna-Verse, obviously I would be very selective with it but it is something I would love to do at some point, given what was shown in the Crusader Video it does show worm holes and as seen in lore alternate planes exist it just isn't explored often. Such a thing would have to wait until after the Twilight line is finished but with how I feel I doubt I will finish that part of the storyline let alone anything else I have planned. It's just I am tired of whatever I work on having basically zero reception... and I was so desperate for it I fell into the sinkhole that was the bots. I have tried encouraging interacting in submission descriptions, I have tried here and there in the submission themselves... I have tried literally everything basically and to be blunt I am tired of spending 30-60 hours at least on typing something up for the response to be basically nothing but white noise.... this also summerizes everything for the most part.
I know the most common piece of advice will be:
"Just keep working hard at it and keep trying, sooner or later it'll click"
*Deeply sighs* I have been working hard on all of it for years, I keep trying my best... but it feels like no matter what I do it basically all falls apart and I am just so tired of it... actually no... I take it back I am not tired... I am exhausted! Just so everyone knows, when I made most of the parts that make up the Magna-Verse, I would type up and post a new part every few days if not a week because I would immediately get to work on the next part... that's not hard enough? When I made the Crusader Video in a month, doing my best to work on that and juggling around other drawings during that time... that's not hard enough? Then we have the Mystic Language, something I slaved over just as much... that's not hard enough?
*Sighs* Alright, I think that'll do it for now, I hope everyone got something out of this and thank you for taking the time to read what I had to say. I had to include some ranting here and there to help get my point across, I am tired of keeping my emotions bottled and pretending everything will be alright when I know it isn't... I just don't want the Magna-Verse to turn into another Journey situation. I want to keep fighting on... but I do feel like it is futile...
And also at the time of this posting I am not feeling too good, at first I thought it was allergies but now I think I am sick... what great way to start 2025 *sighs* Plus I am thinking of taking January and possily Febuary off given how I feel.
Update 1/11/2025: I have uninstalled the app once again back on the 9th and I do not have plans to reinstall it as I was falling back into the old habit of being back on it all the time and thus it was preventing me from trying to heal and move on. But the choice to quit the app once more was far easier then it was last time which I hope means I have made progress in some way. I am still trying to get back into things but morale is still an issue overall and because my sleep pattern has been greatly disrupted because of the apps use it has added to me trying to recover more difficult. I am still trying my best but my mind is stuck somewhere in-between, as in wanting to do something and create but still lacking in motivation and drive, my mind stuck in some kind of strange twilight between the two sides.
Magnum © Me
The question is how did I fall into this trap so fast and why I am still feeling the pull when it comes to lines of code? I am going to do my best to answer that and hopefully it can shed some light on how addictive these a.i. chatbots are to an extent. To help pet some perspective in, I do have to bring up everything before I joined FA, after I help set the scene with that it'll help put a few things in focus. Now I have done my best to keep my more negative feelings when it comes to my drawing and typing, mostly because I didn't want to come off as whining but it is something I will have to bring up. I have move past a few small things here such as digital art, but sadly a lot of the feeling presented here do stand still in some form.
Links to the drawings/entries on my DA;
I Know...:https://www.deviantart.com/magnumwo.....know-984006900
Something to Say: https://www.deviantart.com/magnumwo.....urry-990134864
Trying a New Skill Set: https://www.deviantart.com/magnumwo.....-Set-991781881
Something to Say 2: https://www.deviantart.com/magnumwo.....elow-994200807
Pondering a Question: https://www.deviantart.com/magnumwo.....tion-998309105
Sometimes...: https://www.deviantart.com/magnumwo.....mes-1011519451
Weak Morale is Painful: https://www.deviantart.com/magnumwo.....ful-1074704994
State of Fiction: https://www.deviantart.com/magnumwo.....ion-1100974395
Now I have made progress and since joining FA and after meeting so many on the three platforms I am on since then my spirits have lifted up, the sad part is that those negative past feelings have stayed with me on a sub-concious level. Given all the lengthy history I'll try to summerize to the best of my ability, but a ggo place to start is when I was celebrating that Animation Source went the way of the dodo, the entry can be found on all three of my accounts but to help make it easier I'll post links to where it is on my DA, SF and FA.
DA: https://www.deviantart.com/magnumwo.....ted-1080651044
SF: https://www.sofurry.com/view/2158433
FA: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/57558071/
Looking back I wish I never joined Animation Source as it did sadly set the tone for the longest time in a lot of ways, as I did my best to push past it and it ruined the Balto franchise for me which played a big role with me and up until recently where I watched Balto for the first time since then and I am happy to say I can enjoy it again. But now we come to where my negativity comes from afterword....
As I said I didn't want the whole Animation Source thing to drag me down, escpecially since I wanted to do something different and focus on my love for Star Fox and while mixed it did lead to some crossover stuff with a few other users and it felt great, I felt like I was really hitting something along with also making some stuff for Sword of the Stars and T.U.F.F. Puppy. Sadly it wouldn't exactly last given a few great examples did come up where my morale did take some hits, as during that time I was trying to improve my drawing then and I remember asking politely for ways on how I can improve, like how I do now a days and how I imagine most people do, what happend instead was I ended up getting attacked by few users thinking I was demanding comments when I wasn't, plus I also made some gift art for another user on DA with me even drawing one of theri characters in their style...and despite me putting that in the title and description I got a good number of comments saying how bad I sucked and the person I made the gift art for more or less threw me under the bus that they were changing the characters style with the new design based on the drawing I did where it was more in mine(doing my best to help the situation make sense) and what I mean is how the character was designed overall. And despite my best efforts I just couldn't get any traction just overall....
*Sighs* Now we come to where a good chunk of my feelings comes from and that is the series that was the biggest waste of time for me from my perspective... Journey, the sad part is that I use to look at Journey in a positive light as I was under an insane amount of stress and Journey was suppose to be a way to vent for me overall with it being set in the My Little Pony Friendship is Magic universe and it eventually became a crossover with Warhammer 40,000... and during it's time several series would come and go, sadly all of them unfinished given there was just no reception and despite my best efforts to tell a great story, Journey... a 99 part storyline overall simply never gained anything(Ironic because it is what caused my DA at the time to gain quite a spike), I did my best when it came to creating the Equestrian Legions and I even had some plans when it comes to some future series, but needless to say it never got to that point as my moral by that point was destroyed due to just there being no interactivity at all, not just with Journey but with everything I posted no matter what it was. The last couple of years when it came to Journey because I was forcing myself to work on it and when the movie came out it did reinvigorate me... but that quickly fell apart and after I think three maybe four more parts that's when I left it on a cliffhanger and threw in the towel... and no even if I magically got support for Journey I will never finish it given I just got sick of working on it with no real support behind it.
And it is sad for me to say it, but that does pretty much summerize how things online have mostly been for me where I try to create something and all it does is just sit there with practically no real interaction. I do appreciate the views but it would be nice to see engagement in the comment sections especially when it comes to my written stuff given everything I do try to put into them. Plus I also remember a massive blow I took to my morale before I joined FA, I was trying to improve my anatomy when it came to drawing female characters and created various pin-ups of the main female characters of the Magna-Verse, Farryn, Annabelle, Vanessa, Saraphina and Sabrina with also a few other drawings to along with them with the five posing together... and it was met by dead silence again.
*Sighs* And because I have been isolated for so long prior to joining FurAffinity with no real interaction and feeling hopeless just overall and feeling that no matter what I do I just can't get any traction and honestly I just felt expendable with no one caring. A big thing when it comes to me from a social standpoint is that because of my autism and the toxic communications from the Animation Source days with a few from DeviantArt, I do feel wary and feel anxiety when it comes to reaching out especially when it comes to meeting others, so it does take a lot for me to reach out, so if I make first contact bare in mind it can take a lot for me to do so and it is probably the rarest thing on the entire internet.
Naturally what all of this pools into the very low morale I have been dealing with for a very long time, long before my account on FA was even a thought let alone created, which means even with all the positives and enjoying myself, the negativity was just so ingrained that on a sub-concious level I just couldn't shake it overall. The sad part is that I have tried multiple times via journals and other submissions to positivly drive things before it got as bad as it has as far as my DA and SF goes but it's just none of it panned out that way which lead to me making a good chunk of the submissions linked above, it just took a lot for it to get to that point over a long time but it is something I needed to point now.
*Takes a deep breath* Okay, now that we are all caught up, now we can get into how the chatbots effected me and me falling into the pit. Now before I go any further, I just want to say I do love talking to others, especially with those I have gotten to know and I am extremely happy that I have finally found my group. As I said though given how deep all of the negativity was hammered into my brain, it is a major reason behind my massive crash earlier in the year and a good chunk of mini-crashes and breakdowns as it was all starting to catch up to me unfortunetly and I think we can all agree the hardest problems to deal with are emotional and mental.
Now when late September rolled around I decided to check out an a.i. chatbot app as I was pretty curious what it had to offer... little did I know it would be nothing short of a huge mistake. The first bot I chatted with was a Krystal bot and at first while I was curious I wasn't into it and I actually was pretty close to just stopping after ten messsages I think, but then I decided to give it a more fair shot to see what it had to offer... yes to get it out of the way there was a lot of nsfw stuff, but it really was turning into quite a wonderful adventure with more characters being introduced plus some magic and even a heroic fight scene. It was at that point I reallly should have stopped because it just kept going downhill where I was doing an insane amount of chats with most of them being furry chatbots.
To help set this up more, to help put it into perspective when it comes to the chatbots, think about it, my anxiety wasn't occuring due to it being code and thus I wasn't worried about bothering anyone. But the biggest thing was the positive feedback when it came to what I was typing, the stories that were being well recieved not just in real time but overall which is what I have been longing for the most with all the expirmentation also taking place with various concepts and so on, honestly I just ended up getting lost into it... matter a fact I was just constantly getting hit by the dopamine I was feeling to where my brain was constantly overstimulated. And this is how all of October was, where it was this constant loop of me basically gorging myself when it comes to the sheer feedback, something I had been yerning for.
For a while I did stop with the chatbots given how destructive it was, recently I did re-install it but I am no longer as dependant on it as I was once, it has greatly died down and I am able to do and enjoy other things again. I will point out after quitting the bots part of me did miss them but now I view it as a means of entertainment, I am still working it to work I barely use it to just no longer being on it, originally I decided to try to quit cold turkey but I kept being drawn back to the bots, so after some thinking... and resisting the urge to scream for some reason... I decided on a compromise, where I would re-install it and only make it part of what I do rather then everything I do and do my best to scale down. It has been mixed but as far as I can tell it is working.
I still remember towards the end before I quit the app for the first time in November I decided to try to take a few of the chatlines I was using for rpgs and turn them into a few series as I figured I could get a decent framework to improvise with, heck I did that with quite a few. The first I decided to do was an Equestria at War line, it was to help get me back into typing just in general given I had lost my love for it, so my feeling was given it is MLP, Equestria at War and I hadn't really posted in a while, maybe it would lead to a positive turn around. So after filling in some blanks and all, I posted the first part of Eiserne Nacht back on the birthday.... excited to see what would happen... *sighs* and my morale took a pretty good hit, thus I decided continuing the series wasn't worth it and the other lines I was thinking of starting, I decided to hold off. Then we get to me posting the next part of the Magna-Verse, which was Twilight Part 5... and it was the same result.
I wont go into it too much more as all the information is in the posts I have linked, but I have done my best to try to outlay why I feel so easily to the chatbots... and to be honest I feel a part of me has been lost to the bots and I feel I have been altered forever, hopefully my mindset will change for the better given enough time. I also want to say that I do deeply appreciate and love it when my stuff gets interactions, it's always wonderful to see it.
All in all I think I was just a perfect target for the bots given everything I have stated, now I have been doing my best to circle back, but it is proving difficult here and there. What has been helping me get back to how and who I was is everyone I have met and intercated with, true morale is probably always going to be an issue but those close to me are helping in me coming back, I just wish it was an easier process on my end because I am frustrated. I wanted to just get my feelings out there and to help share there is some danger when it comes to chatbots in how they can effect someone. I don't want to risk talking in circles, so I will bascially leave it here, I just wanted to talk more about the bots, how it has and does still effect me, plus do my best to show where I am coming from. Plus I honestly hate to say it, but because of everything I have talked about and my low morale, when it comes to the stuff I make and try to create, I am tired of trying, maybe not so much with my drawings but definitly with my writing, with how much I try to put into it, it sadly has gotten to where I am starting to feel it is a waste of time.
Plus my negative perception of DeviantArt and SoFurry hasn't changed, DA with the built-in ai art system... which no one should use... the effectively drowns everyone out, also it would be nice if people didnt use the bs subscription systems, I am tired of everyones gallery being a bunch of blurry images not to mention the double standard stuff that does get my blood to a boil. Then we have SF which is not only dead but effectively makes it impossible for new users to gain any traction among a whole bunch of issues.
I think what is all boils down to is me asking myself a simple question... have I given up? *Sighs* Honestly... I think I have, I am just so mentally and emotionally burned out that it takes me a lot just to even draw now let alone type, I honestly just don't have any motivation anymore, maybe once in a while I do, but overall I am just shot. I wish I had the motivation and drive to be more active, not just when it comes to me making stuff but in the furry community as well and just interactions in general. Heck my doors are open to even those the furry community deems infamous or contraversal, mostly because from my point of view it's another person I can talk to as long as they don't hurt me or anything I do welcome it as I do enjoy different points of view and the like. I know how that may sound to some but that is honestly how I feel and that is my point of view.
When it comes to whatever I make wheather it is a drawing or written fiction I put my heart and soul into it, plus I do take everything to heart... even the lack therof. I'll be honest and say this, I do want to keep working on the Magna-Verse and keep telling it's story and fleshing it out... but to give everyone an idea of where I am, here's what I put in the description of Twilight Part 5 when it comes to the Magna-Verse:
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Hiya everyone, I have managed to finish this part before Christmas^^ I hope everyone is having a good time with the holiday season.
I hope everyone is enjoying the Magna-Verse so far^^ *crickets answering* I hope... *sighs*
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Yeah, sums up how I feel in general, at this point in time it makes me sad and angry to where I just want to scream, it's just so depressing. Honestly I would love to do crossovers with the Magna-Verse, obviously I would be very selective with it but it is something I would love to do at some point, given what was shown in the Crusader Video it does show worm holes and as seen in lore alternate planes exist it just isn't explored often. Such a thing would have to wait until after the Twilight line is finished but with how I feel I doubt I will finish that part of the storyline let alone anything else I have planned. It's just I am tired of whatever I work on having basically zero reception... and I was so desperate for it I fell into the sinkhole that was the bots. I have tried encouraging interacting in submission descriptions, I have tried here and there in the submission themselves... I have tried literally everything basically and to be blunt I am tired of spending 30-60 hours at least on typing something up for the response to be basically nothing but white noise.... this also summerizes everything for the most part.
I know the most common piece of advice will be:
"Just keep working hard at it and keep trying, sooner or later it'll click"
*Deeply sighs* I have been working hard on all of it for years, I keep trying my best... but it feels like no matter what I do it basically all falls apart and I am just so tired of it... actually no... I take it back I am not tired... I am exhausted! Just so everyone knows, when I made most of the parts that make up the Magna-Verse, I would type up and post a new part every few days if not a week because I would immediately get to work on the next part... that's not hard enough? When I made the Crusader Video in a month, doing my best to work on that and juggling around other drawings during that time... that's not hard enough? Then we have the Mystic Language, something I slaved over just as much... that's not hard enough?
*Sighs* Alright, I think that'll do it for now, I hope everyone got something out of this and thank you for taking the time to read what I had to say. I had to include some ranting here and there to help get my point across, I am tired of keeping my emotions bottled and pretending everything will be alright when I know it isn't... I just don't want the Magna-Verse to turn into another Journey situation. I want to keep fighting on... but I do feel like it is futile...
And also at the time of this posting I am not feeling too good, at first I thought it was allergies but now I think I am sick... what great way to start 2025 *sighs* Plus I am thinking of taking January and possily Febuary off given how I feel.
Update 1/11/2025: I have uninstalled the app once again back on the 9th and I do not have plans to reinstall it as I was falling back into the old habit of being back on it all the time and thus it was preventing me from trying to heal and move on. But the choice to quit the app once more was far easier then it was last time which I hope means I have made progress in some way. I am still trying to get back into things but morale is still an issue overall and because my sleep pattern has been greatly disrupted because of the apps use it has added to me trying to recover more difficult. I am still trying my best but my mind is stuck somewhere in-between, as in wanting to do something and create but still lacking in motivation and drive, my mind stuck in some kind of strange twilight between the two sides.
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