The good news is that we hit 700 watches! Many people have shown appreciation for my creations, and it means a lot that I'm able to make something people like so much.
The bad news, is that we lost another fellow AI director. The hateful masses of Inkbunny that HATE AI art had ganged up on him and got his account deleted.
I can't believe how pissed off I am about it because Inkbunny is shamefully violating their core philosophy and letting their personal bias influence their actions and letting their integrity be eroded by these shitbags.
It says they value "artistic freedom above all else", unless you make AI, then here's all these rules of what you can and can't do.
It says "Don't worry too much about piracy. Yes, you just read that in the rules on a commercial art site. We're here to do things differently for a change!" unless you want to harmlessly make AI for your own personal interests and have ZERO shown interest in monetizing your works or stealing other people's fame. AI generation isn't stealing, at BEST it's a "Fan Art Simulator" AND this rule existed LONG BEFORE AI art generation was even a concept.
It says not to bully other people, yet some of these "normal" artists have filed over 100 tickets against AI artists for the things they make, and then the admins ban people without warning. This also violates their other principle of "Deal with it yourself" by just adding those tags on your blacklist and NOT bothering the admins about your petty problems.
And one of the rules regarding posting AI is that you can't use the works of artists that are living or haven't been deceased for less than 25 years. This rule is actually the most bullshit of all, and here's why. The OVERWHELMINGLY VAST MAJORITY of furry art in general is less than 25 years old, let alone there's any reason to think that artists would have been deceased for longer. On top of that, these AI furry models are ALL based on art that was interpreted from e621, from LIVING artists. Even if you don't use artist's styles directly, EVERYTHING GENERATED still uses mathematical data used from current artists. ON TOP OF THAT.... the expectation that ANYONE is supposed to know actual, real life, personally identifiable information about anonymous artists in order to determine whether or not they're alive is practically an IMPOSSIBLE ask!
All this is, is a GIANT FUCKING BUREAUCRATIC LOOPHOLE for them to save fucking face that says "UwU, we support ALL forms of artistic expression <3....... EXCEPT THAT."
Meanwhile, a whole REALM of people that didn't have time, money, resources, or intrinsic talent, for the first time in their ENTIRE lives, had the ability to make art, and experience that joy and passion for it. And what are they met with?
A whole community of people that have endowed themselves with the indignant "right" to squash that passion into the dirt by telling them what, how, when, and where they're "allowed" to make?! Backed by the ONLY place that "accepts" AI art + furry art + unique fantasies and kinks, all of which are banned from the vast majority of almost EVERY other art based hosting site, and a site that "supports artistic freedom" and "does not tolerate bullies" and now THEY have given into the demands of the bullies, and outright BAN people who participate even remotely outside of the realm of their tightly constricted noose of fucking "artistic freedom," intentionally or ignorantly.
Absolutely shameful. All of you act like AI art is destroying artistic freedoms, when it's really YOU who are destroying artistic freedoms just because a TOOL "could" be used to do harm, which is in fact ALL of the same harm that ANYONE CAN, AND DOES, CURRENTLY DO in the artistic space, and you shame, exile, and forcibly oppress anyone that uses that tool, negatively or not.
You have destroyed the hearts of people who found passion in art for the first time in their lives, destroyed the hearts of people who had NO negative intentions, you have effectively KILLED their passion and spirit for art that just BARELY began to grow and the desire to show it off, you have violated what this community "supposedly" stands for, you have given into mob rule to violate said integrities, or you have let your personal bias towards the tool and medium of AI art generation abuse your power and trump the integrities of the site and the position YOU'RE supposed to uphold, and you have allowed bullies to continuously do the same, no only without reprimand, but have also JOINED IN WITH THEM and ban people's accounts without warning while tying a tightly bound leash around their necks of what they're "allowed" to make.
The ONLY place we had to go, the place that accepts EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING, and you have turned your back on them too. Disgusting.
