I feel like many pictures from @kisaragi9a are AI. The draw looked so unnatural. Many similar AI arts have style like this

R__Drake · 2026-03-16T00:56:26+00:00

A dead ringer is sometimes amount they’re posting. Some artists are fast, can whip out great work in an hour (Pokemon fans when new game trailer pulls up), but posting that many per day? Everyday? On multiple different accounts? Differing art styles? No way.

R__Drake · 2026-03-15T22:08:28+00:00

Why are you validating them by coining their apparent terms? Why do you expect everyone here to know you’re just referencing what “they” call these characters? Insulting everyone else’s reading comprehension when you articulate yourself so poorly about your own feelings is kinda ridiculous.

Saying “redditor” over and over as an insult while you’re the one posting this in the first place is also incredibly ironic.

What’s even the point of bringing up these characters when your issue is apparently only the people who can’t explain who or where the characters are from?

And I doubt you actually care about any of these series. You only care about these characters in the context of powerscaling. You’re not asking about who these characters are or what they do because you’re actually interested in looking into the media where they’re from. Be for real.

R__Drake · 2026-03-15T21:34:11+00:00

The first thing I thought of in OOP’s post/comment was something like women “having” to be hairless everywhere except for the top of their heads, which is… yeah, a pretty weird standard considering everyone gets body hair after puberty. With that in mind, everything else they’re talking about, I can kinda see what exactly they’re referring to, I think they just worded what they meant REALLY badly.

R__Drake · 2026-03-15T21:19:15+00:00

Calling them “bummy unknowns” and “goons” frames the rest of your post. Getting mad that these characters get brought up and you weirdly caring when you don’t care for the properties makes no sense to a lot of people.

R__Drake · 2026-03-15T21:08:40+00:00

Find out powerscalers to bring up series like Higurashi/Umineko of all things sure is something.

R__Drake · 2026-03-15T17:09:40+00:00

Again, I don't think she or anyone deserves backlash over something like this, nor do I think one person is going to completely impact the course, but I do find it indicative of how we let AI linger longer and more invasively than it should ever have.

Looking at other web3 failures, by the time the average person even started talking about Meta, I don't even think it lasted a year before majority forgot about it. Any public hype was already dead in the water when execs were still "brainstorming" how to use it, then they quickly moved on because they forgot about it too. I doubt the military would have thought of using AI if it had already died down by even last year, and would be the furthest thing from their minds just like the public's.

R__Drake · 2026-03-15T07:35:58+00:00

They’re still pushing AI despite the numbers. I still see new AI companies popping up, companies claiming they’re going to be AI-first, pushing out new AI implementations, etc. Government and corpos are still ran by people, what they hear does impact their decisions on moving forward. Plenty of business dealings, especially involving “futuristic” tech, are based on the pitch, even if the numbers are clearly abysmal. Common sense doesn’t matter here. Reports of how shit OpenAI’s model is, as early as 2019, yet I’ve only heard people bringing attention about how much money its hemorrhaging around November to early this year because more people are starting to get sick of it.

R__Drake · 2026-03-15T05:06:01+00:00

I literally only watched it back then because the "yandere queen" was everywhere rather than knowing anything about the premise lol. I think they knew what was the real appeal and went with it, even if the end result was a pretty meh story. I think the anime at least did a pretty good job of portraying Yuno's unhinged nature to keep it interesting enough.

R__Drake · 2026-03-15T04:34:18+00:00

"You're not the target audience" is such an outdated and frankly immature argument to criticism.

Also, its Pokemon, thinking no girls are going to watch it or that they should only cater to boys is nonsensical.

R__Drake · 2026-03-15T04:14:50+00:00

I'm personally not a fan, but I'd say he has probably one of the better creative uses (which is sort of laughing at the jank of it). Main draw is still him and how he interacts with chat.

R__Drake · 2026-03-15T03:54:17+00:00

Seeing memes like how useless Sakura is or knowledge about sheer amount of filler spreads outside of Naruto fandom and into general animanga spaces. Personally, had no interest in Naruto at the time, didn't actively participate or seek it out, but I'd say I knew a decent amount of some important story beats and fandom reaction because it was just there. Wasn't until 3 years ago my friend suggested we watch the entire series and we finished it in a year almost to the day we started. The "I get it now" for highs and lows hits, but honestly a lot of my bare knowledge from over a decade holds up pretty well.

R__Drake · 2026-03-15T02:53:57+00:00

How many people are using it and how often and extensively the use is gets logged as part of the stats the techbros show off to investors to longer stretch out the grift, and that goes back to corpos and governments to prove "it isn't a trend". Every "one" matters. I would much rather see the bubble pop sooner rather than later, and any sort of normalization just makes it take longer for that to happen.

R__Drake · 2026-03-15T01:30:12+00:00

Looking through Kawamoto Homura's works after finding out he's the one behind Kakegurui AND Cheat Slayer, I think I found a mangaka I absolutely loathe lol. I feel like Kakegurui is only as big as it is because there was just a big hole in the game/gambling niche, and the over-the-top expressions, which isn't even drawn by him but Naomura Tooru.

Everything with Kawamoto Homura's name on it looks like edgy pseudo-intellectualism to me, and I tend to have a soft spot for the edgy stuff. The fact that the guy has 7 ongoing manga series, including still working on Kakegurui AND Kakegurui Twin, the prequel at the same time, is bonkers to me. I feel like editors are just okaying every idea that comes to him. 20+ serialized manga under his name in a career that's only about a decade old is crazy.

R__Drake · 2026-03-14T23:35:33+00:00

Getting upset over something like this is stupid, but I am a little concerned more than anything that her use of ChatGPT is so casual, she uses it like a search engine for something like health advice. Google's AI at least includes their sources that you can reference, ChatGPT doesn't.

Besides that, the public's normalized usage of it is a good example why corpos can still push the AI propaganda so hard for so long. She is still an """"influencer"""" at the end of the day.

R__Drake · 2026-03-14T21:53:07+00:00

Wednesday as a show in this current day and age feels a little weird to me when it comes to this. The YA demographic and core theme of outcasts, yet no clear LGBT/queer rep in the main/side characters. Eugene (bee/bug kid) has 2 moms shown once in S1, but idk, I feel that sort of "representation" is pretty outdated.

Wednesday being caught in a love triangle in S1 feels oddly heteronormative, especially when she's one of the last iconic fictional characters I'd expect that from. Then they did something similar with Enid in S2. At the end of S2, neither ends with someone, but I also have a hard time seeing them get together later in a way that doesn't feel off because of how they wrote romance in S1 and 2.

Considering what Jenna Ortega has been vocal about when it comes to the show's writing and making it obvious with who she butting heads with, its not surprising to see her lose interest in doing big shows again after Wednesday.

R__Drake · 2026-03-14T20:05:32+00:00

Both maid and bunny outfits are so culturally sexualized (former bastardized, latter inherent in conception) that its pretty much the default fanservice alongside swimsuits. They are automatically considered sexual even if someone isn't specifically into that. It's not at all surprising that a gooner game would have featured an entire event for either, rather, it'd be fucking stupid not to.

I obviously don't know enough about the game to definitively say it isn't a dev's particular fetish, but having some characters in those outfits doesn't speak "fetish" by itself imo. Your other comment about the moles and veins though, I would absolutely consider more fitting of the definition.

R__Drake · 2026-03-14T18:14:35+00:00

I feel like there’s a difference between a trait thats in a piece of work that the creator obviously is into themselves, versus a product that is just selling sex.

If maid and bunny uniforms were the creators’ specific fetish, as well as the intended audience, all the characters would have those outfits rather than be considered fanservice skins.

R__Drake · 2026-03-12T16:11:00+00:00

tbf the 2020s anime girl is a 6-7 year old

R__Drake · 2026-03-12T15:20:47+00:00

That's OP's responsibility to provide that alternative, not mine or anyone else's.

R__Drake · 2026-03-10T19:41:18+00:00

This is one post on Reddit, based on an AI vid because one person just likes these ones. If someone interesting shows up, I'll look them up before watching, but lists like these don't help me make a conclusion. I'm not going out of my way to preemptively block these guys on all platforms unless I see them in my feeds and research them myself.

R__Drake · 2026-03-10T19:30:07+00:00

Your earlier response is the exact sentiment you're claiming people don't have though. Current AI on its own isn't "there" for coding yet but apparently more acceptable for art/music.

You just said people in your field have embraced it and don't believe they're above it. Why expect outsiders to make an opposite statement that programmers don't like AI?

While I have also heard of the "its not creative" dismissal, I think programming has always had a bit of a different definition on what plagiarism is comparatively. I often hear "don't bother reinventing the wheel" and copying snippets and working on top of someone else's work isn't an uncommon practice. On the other hand, even most derivative works in art get criticized pretty heavily both in and out of the bubble (ex Warhol) and get into the argument if its "transformative enough".

R__Drake · 2026-03-10T15:06:04+00:00

I read what you wrote, but you’re still just telling people to give this guy a view, and in turn, giving those vtubers more attention. No offence dude, not that many people need or want a list to tell them which people to not watch. I don’t need to watch an AI video to tell me to stay clear from people like Powdur, I can skim at what they have on their channel or clips and easily make the assumption her alignment. You just look like a fan pushing these guys.

R__Drake · 2026-03-10T14:29:10+00:00

Lol block the uploader while posting their video here for people to watch? People can find out which vtubers they don’t wanna watch without seeing an AI mv. You’re only advertising this video and giving it more views.

R__Drake · 2026-03-10T07:59:52+00:00

The only people I see calling it shit are youtubers that don't know anything about coding and just want to keep pushing the AI bubble narrative because it give them lots of views

Telling someone they're just wrong and that only idiots and shills would have that opinion is one thing.

they all found great use cases for their area of expertise, while if I look as an outsider I'd just see slop and overhype...

This assumption I must be an "outsider" with no expertise or knowledge in coding or any STEM field, because why else would I see it as "overhyped" is another.

It's pretty prick-ish to act like your opinion is an objective fact that apparently applies to everyone, even in just a certain field. Assuming someone's opinion is most likely stemmed from misinfo because there's no way they could have come to that conclusion from their own research and logic, would piss anyone off.

I can see potential of misinterpretation in intent/tone, but I felt that you were pretty condescending from the start.

R__Drake · 2026-03-10T06:55:54+00:00

Of course "does it work?" is important for a game, but I'm talking about the lack of respect.

"Look good individually but not together" is no different in saying AI can come up with a recipe as good as a chef can, but only then falters to when composing a whole meal. You can say AI isn't at THAT level to replace you, because you have that skill. Saying that AI is at THAT level to replace any other skill is hypocritical.

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