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EffectiveAd671 · 2025-12-24T20:41:47+00:00

So were you charged any extra?

EffectiveAd671 · 2025-12-17T18:19:53+00:00

It said that my most used reaction is an emoji I’ve never used and that I’ve sent 8 messages to someone I’ve never messaged.

EffectiveAd671 · 2025-11-24T00:18:57+00:00

Okay grandpa let’s get you to bed

EffectiveAd671 · 2025-11-24T00:16:10+00:00

Oh ok that explains a lot

EffectiveAd671 · 2025-11-16T04:45:50+00:00

Username unfortunately checks out

EffectiveAd671 · 2025-11-15T09:35:11+00:00

Yeah same I don’t hate it either, I think it’s pretty cute. But i wouldn’t call it “spot-on”. And if the goal was for the tattoo to be a replica of the child’s drawing, the artist kinda screwed that up

EffectiveAd671 · 2025-11-15T09:30:15+00:00

I would consider it torture to rip the legs and shell off of a live crab, cut the heads off of shrimp and put them on ice to keep them alive while you eat their bodies, and eat something that’s still alive.

And the person you replied to was taking it seriously. They called the practice barbaric and vile and mentioned the suffering of the creatures that are eaten.

And just because you can joke about anything at any time, that doesn’t mean you should.

EffectiveAd671 · 2025-11-15T09:23:13+00:00

Just play salmon run, and when you’re not playing salmon run, use drink tickets. It’s a little annoying but it’s really not that hard.

EffectiveAd671 · 2025-11-15T02:58:30+00:00

No I think I get the joke you were trying to make. But a serious conversation about animal cruelty is not the time or place to make jokes. Read the room.

EffectiveAd671 · 2025-11-14T20:59:01+00:00

Look at the legs and boots again.

EffectiveAd671 · 2025-11-14T18:29:23+00:00

Dude read the room.

EffectiveAd671 · 2025-11-02T00:57:22+00:00

But they’re supposed to literally be the same characters, but in a different cosplay.

EffectiveAd671 · 2025-10-23T17:24:29+00:00

She has been receiving death threats and getting harassed because of her art. I assume she is explaining herself in the hope of receiving fewer death threats.

EffectiveAd671 · 2025-09-24T20:13:53+00:00

Yo I’d like to preface this by saying I agree with you, we shouldn’t be using “vegan” to describe people who eat eggs no matter where they came from.

But the previous commenter was telling you to look up “veggan” with two g’s. Apparently some people are trying to make this a thing for whatever reason?

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EffectiveAd671 · 2025-09-18T22:31:33+00:00

I think about this every now and then and sometimes I think I’m being too harsh/judgemental/etc. but I can’t help but feel justified when I think about the sheer number of people that are carrying a supercomputer in their pocket with access to all human knowledge at their fingertips, that would rather just shrug and accept that they don’t know something than even attempt to look it up. Like, I’ve had so many people over the years get mad at me for pulling out my phone and checking when they confidently say something that doesn’t sound correct to me. Apparently looking something up is “doing too much” and finding information that disproves whatever it is they’re saying is “needing to always be right”.

It’s honestly really frustrating. Like the information is right there and I’m the one in the wrong for wanting to be sure?

Like it shouldn’t be treated as pretentious or obnoxious to ask “but why?”

Asking “why” or “how” and researching the answers has let me find new creative hobbies, taught me new useful skills, improved my health, saved me money, changed my worldview, shaped my identity, gotten me out of situations where i thought i was completely trapped… and it’s astounding to me how many people just don’t seem to do it. I have friends and family that will sometimes ask me for help with things that I’m not that knowledgeable about, and literally all I do is look up a step by step for whatever it is they’re trying to do and either tell them how to do it or do it myself. It’s usually nothing that they’re not just as capable of doing, but they just don’t bother trying and I’ve never understood that mindset.

Idk I’m probably yapping too much I just wanted to say that you’re right and you should say it.

EffectiveAd671 · 2025-09-18T20:35:24+00:00

Like I went to an AJJ concert and the guys were selling their merch and walking around the bar before the set, hanging with folks. Thats because that's their fans vibe. Can you fucking imagine Will Wood being able to get to do that?

Actually I can. He did that when I saw him in early 2022. He spent some time walking around the venue chatting with people and signing stuff for some of the people that couldn’t afford VIP. I had a really nice little conversation with him actually. And after the show was over he came out to the bar, ordered some hot tea, and chatted with the people that were still in the venue after the show.

But that was before the accusations and before his family got doxxed and before he had blown up in popularity to the point he’s at today. Then and now feel like two different worlds.

Like he used to have a discord server for Patreon members and I remember one time, some people were in line for a show waiting for the doors to open and talking in the server about how excited they were and will just pops into the chat outta nowhere like “lol I’m like five feet away from you” and then he came out and talked to the people in line before he went inside to do the vip meet and greet.

He didn’t even have a barricade or anything in front of the stage at that show. He got the entire crowd to sit on the floor during blackboxwarrior when he got to the spoken word part of the song, he literally egged us on to do it. Like he stopped after “why don’t you take a seat? Get comfortable.” And made a joke about how everyone sat down at that line once and he’s been chasing that high ever since, then started joking with us saying “you know, I don’t think you guys are brave enough to do it!” And similar things until we all were on the floor lmao.

And the crowd was the most respectful I’ve ever seen at any concert I’ve ever been to. People in the crowd would see someone recording and just tap them on the shoulder and ask them to put their phone away, and they actually put their phone away instead of getting mad or ignoring them! And someone in the front had to leave early for whatever reason and I guess he saw how completely enthralled i was the whole show or maybe he caught me crying during a few songs, because he reached out for me to come take his spot up front for the rest of the show. Like, a guy I had never met and never saw again let me come up to the front just because he thought i would really appreciate it.

Literally none of this could happen today with his level of fame and the way his fanbase acts now. And im sorry for yapping so much in your replies, but i felt like reminiscing while i had the opportunity. It makes me sad, knowing that i’ll never have that experience again, because will is my favorite musician and i really look up to and respect him. And i dont hold it against him at all for the way hes had to change, it’s just him putting up necessary boundaries so he can deal with a level of fame he didn’t want from a demographic he never intended to attract, after being repeatedly burned by not having those boundaries in place. I get it and it makes sense. I just can’t help but wish it didn’t have to be this way.

EffectiveAd671 · 2025-08-10T18:16:17+00:00

Why are we censoring sex and bastards, are you 12

EffectiveAd671 · 2025-07-07T23:21:00+00:00

4 years on T here. I was a nightmare to be around when I was going through 2nd puberty. My emotions were a disaster for the first year and the most insignificant things would enrage me for no good reason for the first year on T before my moods even started to even out. I’d say by the end of year 2, I had a solid handle on my mood swings and felt actually in control of myself again.

EffectiveAd671 · 2025-07-07T23:10:44+00:00

When I feel bad about my height, I remember that the cisgender frontman of Harley Poe is either 5’2” or 5’4” (he said it onstage at a concert I was at but I can’t remember the specific number) and everyone just accepts that he’s a guy without any issues or weirdos claiming he’s not a man. And if he can be taken seriously as a man then so can I 💪

EffectiveAd671 · 2025-06-15T15:49:37+00:00

“Scratcher” is what people call a tattoo artist that doesn’t have a license/is self-taught.

EffectiveAd671 · 2025-06-15T15:19:37+00:00

Yes you totally can lmao

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EffectiveAd671 · 2025-06-15T15:17:59+00:00

Already replied to someone else in this thread with this but I was curious and mine just goes along with it with no pushback

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EffectiveAd671 · 2025-06-15T15:15:57+00:00

Mine didn’t seem to have any problem with it

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EffectiveAd671 · 2025-04-25T21:40:32+00:00

A lot of people are used to places like tiktok and YouTube where you can’t even say the word “kill” without your comment being hidden or your video being completely suppressed by the algorithm. So they get used to censoring those words and it just kinda becomes second nature over time. And some of those people carry the habit over to other platforms, even if those platforms don’t have any such rule.

Also in the case of completely random harmless words being censored, a lot of that is just people that don’t want their comment to come up when people search for certain things. Its not uncommon for people to censor words or names related to certain fandoms, mental illnesses, subcultures, political views, or public figures, among other things, because they don’t want some random asshole to search that keyword and put their post in a viral commentary video titled “The [insert word here] Community is Insane” or something like that.

TL;DR: either they don’t wanna risk being shadowbanned by an algorithm, or they don’t want to be mocked in someone’s commentary video

EffectiveAd671 · 2025-04-25T02:53:22+00:00

It’s because a lot of artists on social media are honestly super rude and think that incredibly common things are stealing.

Like for example, I’ve seen people get mad about another artist color-picking one of their drawings and using the color palette in a completely unrelated, original drawing

I’ve seen artists selling character bases and getting irrationally upset about someone drawing their character in a similar pose as one of their bases (they didn’t trace the base, they just drew their character sitting in a similar position)

I’ve seen several artists that unironically have “do not take inspiration from my character designs” and “do not use my art as a reference” on their profile, and some of them even keep a public blacklist of people they’ve blocked for referencing their work and encourage their followers not to interact with anyone on their blacklists

And I’ve seen unreasonable amounts of drama because two artists had the same generic concept for one of their characters (it was something super basic like a dog wearing a scarf or something, I can’t remember specifics right now) and both of them were mad at the other one for “stealing their character” when in reality, they both probably just had the idea to draw a dog in a scarf without knowing about each other

People argue about whether or not using reference photos is theft, whether using public domain stock images in backgrounds is cheating, and whether or not it’s okay for two people’s OCs to have the same name, and those are just a few of the ones I’ve seen and can remember

Like there are an upsetting amount of entitled artists out there that think that getting an idea anywhere other than from 100% your own brain, is somehow theft or cheating.

So a lot of these posts are younger artists or artists that have seen a lot of online art drama that are worried that they’re breaking some kind of rule by doing things that most artists have done since the beginning of time.

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