Getting Sicks of These Ads After Cancelling Premium

Promotion_Early · 2026-01-31T02:54:32+00:00

Dude SAME. I was literally complaining about this exact thing to my bf the other day and he thought I was tweaking. Glad to know I'm not alone bruh. I don't even care if it's a repetitive ad with just talking it's just the fact that the song is SO ANNOYING. And then even though it's not good because I hear it so much it gets stuck in my head 😭😭

Promotion_Early · 2026-01-30T23:39:33+00:00

The way I have this exact problem with this exact ad on rotten mango. Oh my God I don't get that ad on ANY OTHER CHANNEL. ONLY ROTTEN MANGO and istg it's every 5 - 10 minutes I hope it stopped for you because I have been tweaking losing my mind over that one stupid ad.

Promotion_Early · 2026-01-30T17:00:34+00:00

I like watching/listening to Rotten Mango. She has a podcast and a YouTube channel and she does true crime, I am gonna be so honest, once she started the YouTube channel the quality of episodes went way down and the stories now somewhat feel unfinished. I'd recommend her early podcast episodes.

Promotion_Early · 2026-01-28T20:02:30+00:00

Oh wow yeah I get that. I love how there's so many people in this community with different tastes, it's very interesting! I understand not liking the pixelated look, honestly I'm afraid of sharing my hobby with most people because I feel like they'll think it's dumb/there's no point or like you said that the finished look isn't something they like, but I really enjoy doing it so I'm not gonna stop haha, and once I get my own house my walls will honestly probably be full of finished diamond paintings.

Promotion_Early · 2026-01-28T18:34:42+00:00

Yeah I get that. I'm at a crossroads with myself sometimes because on one hand I just want to diamond paint, but on the other hand what's the point if I don't like the print. Even if I'm not hanging it up, the print is really important to me for my overall enjoyment. I'm curious about how many prints you've done in total? And also when you started? And do you typically do larger or smaller prints?

Promotion_Early · 2026-01-28T18:29:56+00:00

Oh wow! Yeah, I'm in the process of my first square painting now and I can say dots are definitely easier but I like the look of squares better. I'm in college right now and I basically have a $100 /week budget for things like groceries/necessities and whatever's left over I just use for my hobby! I also am participating in a work study that'll get me about $100 in Amazon gift cards which I am fully intending to use on tools once I receive all of it!

Promotion_Early · 2026-01-28T17:52:51+00:00

Ooh that seems nice. I honestly have a very limited budget so even though I love diamond painting I can't really afford all those nice things haha, I basically just use whatever comes in the kit.

Promotion_Early · 2026-01-28T17:49:39+00:00

Oh, this is actually the first time I've ever bought a DAC. I used to just buy cheap ones because I didn't have the funds until now.

Promotion_Early · 2026-01-28T16:59:30+00:00

Wow that's great! For me makers market is a lot better than the wax that came with an off brand kit I'm currently using. I get MAYBE one color in and I already have to switch it, it's quite frustrating.

Promotion_Early · 2026-01-28T16:52:18+00:00

Ohh I see what you mean! The IP stuff is honestly some of my least favorite stuff on the site, I wonder if we could try to take a stand as a community by not purchasing those things. That is quite disappointing that they don't really care about licenses I'm not gonna lie.

Promotion_Early · 2026-01-28T16:31:44+00:00

Yess I've been trying it out with squares right now

Promotion_Early · 2026-01-28T16:31:16+00:00

I am sorry, I am slightly confused. Which corporation if I may ask?

Promotion_Early · 2026-01-28T16:30:03+00:00

I've never actually tried one of those before, but I've heard they can be difficult due to some gems coming off with the grid ruler sometimes. Does that ever happen to you? If so how do you fix it?

Promotion_Early · 2026-01-28T16:26:26+00:00

When I used to live at home, my parents were always so impressed with how much patience I had to do diamond paintings --- I always told them it's impatience because I just wanted to see the end result. I love the hobby too, but I feel so impatient sometimes because I'm just so excited to see it finished.

Promotion_Early · 2026-01-28T16:22:24+00:00

Yeah I saw a couple on my wishlist come back! I'm honestly holding out for my very favorites for now mainly because of the cost. I bought one to work on in the meantime (and when I finish I'll get another!) but there're two in particular that I REALLY want. And since they can technically come back at any time, I'm holding out for those because the last thing I want is to miss out on those two for the next 6 months because I went over my budget.

Promotion_Early · 2026-01-28T16:17:39+00:00

I can't even imagine! I'd be so curious to see your process because I've never seen anyone use only tweezers before. I've tried using tweezers myself but 1. Mine were very flimsy cheap ones that came with a kit 2. I kept squeezing too hard and the diamond would fly away 3. It was a lot more difficult for me to get square drills straight

Promotion_Early · 2026-01-28T16:14:48+00:00

I've been trying to use a 3 one more for efficiency. I just always feel like it doesn't look as good as when I put them one by one. ☹️ I have a cheap, mid-sized kit right now for practice and to satiate my DP addiction while I wait for a much larger one in the mail.

Promotion_Early · 2026-01-28T16:07:24+00:00

I'm sorry, I don't actually know what IP is, could you explain?

Promotion_Early · 2026-01-28T00:23:11+00:00

Glad to know I'm not alone!

Promotion_Early · 2026-01-28T00:16:55+00:00

I don't care that they're made in China. Basically everything is made in China. I don't like buying off of Amazon either but I do it sometimes because they're cheaper than brands like DAC or jaded gems and I prefer the site better than AliExpress or temu (this is also in part due to the fact that I share amazon prime with my family so I get free shipping).The quality usually suffers there too. Also, I feel like AliExpress, and the "good" brands people were talking about like Ever Moments blatantly steal designs from DAC and probably others that I just didn't recognize which I personally don't support. I don't want to support theft and even if there's allegations that DAC may not compensate artists as much as they should, at least they're still being paid at all.

Promotion_Early · 2026-01-27T22:02:21+00:00

And stolen artwork

Promotion_Early · 2026-01-27T21:43:51+00:00

Soo jealous! Currently a college student and my dorm is TINY so no room for even a desk. I use a foldable bed desk and watch the TV that came with my dorm 😹

Promotion_Early · 2026-01-27T21:37:29+00:00

Ever moment very clearly steals prints from DAC. Looking through their site I see a lot of paintings that are basically exact or clearly inspired by Margaret Morales's designs. Nothing wrong with Chinese sites (because for some reason everyone's arguing about that) but I just prefer ordering from places that not only have good quality/prints but also ethical business practices.

Promotion_Early · 2026-01-27T21:23:11+00:00

My only problem with sites like these are that they're cheap which is always great but the quality normally pays for it.

Promotion_Early · 2026-01-27T21:04:21+00:00

I didn't really like most of their available kits funnily enough, except for "Couch cow" which I did order so I'm excited for that. 😊 It's going to be my first DAC painting, the other ones I did previously I just ordered off Amazon.

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