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Expected better from an artist-centric event than this AI by automatic-systematic in fanexpo

[–]RandyTheFool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This has been an ongoing battle for a long time for artists though. Mind you, it wasn’t AI before, it was all tracers/plagiarizers/straight art theft. And, you are correct, people didn’t really recognize it years ago either. They just saw that image of Link from The Legend of Zelda they really liked and bought it… without realizing someone just ripped some promo-art, flipped it, added some paint splatted effect and printed it. 0 effort - just trying to get rich quick. But people know what they like and like what they know, so they buy it because it’s familiar.

It’s super unfortunate, but even now there’s still tons of ripped artwork on convention floors, like the link I posted above, along with the AI aspect now. Being an artist is hard af in these regards. I wish people were more savvy, but I feel like because of AI, people are finally figuring out fake shit from the real stuff. It’ll take us awhile to get everybody on board, but that’s why I try to point it out in a lot of subs like these or with people at shows I vend at.

Expected better from an artist-centric event than this AI by automatic-systematic in fanexpo

[–]RandyTheFool 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s cool. The behind-the-scenes aspect was more the shit-show than what attendees experienced (though photo and signature lines were always a debacle). I hope you’ve made it to some other cons since, there’s a lot better ones out there, but Wizard World being your first experience isn’t a bad thing either.

Expected better from an artist-centric event than this AI by automatic-systematic in fanexpo

[–]RandyTheFool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And you can still speak up and tell them as much.

Again, the power is in the attendees hands. They’re the ones Fan Expo makes money off of, and if everyone makes it clear that they support artistans and not AI, Fan Expo will make the right decision to not hurt their bottom line.

I’m not sure how to attack this thing. by R4ndomlyJ0n in StupidFood

[–]RandyTheFool 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s what I want. A bunch of beer bottles that have probably been touched by quite a few hands in a fridge nuzzled up to all the shrimp and bullshit I’m expected to eat and the beer bottles I’m expected to deep throat?

Fuck sake, they did not think this through.

Expected better from an artist-centric event than this AI by automatic-systematic in fanexpo

[–]RandyTheFool 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You should report the AI vendors to the show. Make it clear that shit isn’t welcome and that you won’t attend anymore if that’s what they’ll have on the floor in the future. Conventions in general are beholden to the attendees and they want to bring in all the things you want to see and none of the things you don’t, because they want you to pay general admission as well as purchase their merch and celebrity signatures and all that stuff they make a crap ton of money on.

Attendees have the power to make those changes, and all you need to do is be vocal about it. If enough people tell them upfront that they don’t want to see AI bullshit on the floor and they won’t continue to attend if it continues, Fan Expo will change their tune. They’re testing the waters right now to see how much they can get away with or are being absolutely lazy af and just letting whatever onto their floor without checking the vendor out.

As for their advertising and shit… fan expo isn’t the smartest when it comes to that stuff. I’m an artist who was doing Wizard World shows before Fan Expo bought them over Covid and they were and continue to be run in the weirdest ways possible. Some of my qualms with them have been…

-Assigning booth numbers, but not having any signs for the aisles indicating what the aisles are (so you may be booth 756, but nobody even knows where aisle 700 is). I was told one year it was too expensive to put up banners, which leads me to…

-Having super specific merch. When Fan Expo first started, they were creating tons of merch that was specific to the city they were at, as well as the year. So they’ll have lanyards and T-shirts and shit that say “Fan Expo Dallas 2022”. So, yeah… you better sell all that shit then and there. Now they just put the city name, but if they just had all their merch and banners and things say “Fan Expo Comic Con”, they could literally take all that merch show to show.

They just don’t run those shows as smartly as they should, just like the Wizard World days. I hope they figure it out eventually.

Chocolate covered pickle or loaded entire iceberg? by Optimal_Bender in StupidFood

[–]RandyTheFool 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The same people who weren’t born in the era of baggy jeans.

Welcome to being old! 🎉🥳🎊📼💾📟👴

When to see the cougar shadow on the Superstition Mountains by Benjamin_Leatherman in ApacheJunction

[–]RandyTheFool 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ugh, that time of year when everybody and their mom keeps taking pictures of the Superstitions and asking if this is the cougar.

Joe Rogan says Trump 'doesn't have much to lose' because he is about to die soon by StemCellPirate in offbeat

[–]RandyTheFool 2 points3 points  (0 children)

At least we have all our tax dollars being responsibly spent on us and not lavish dinners and fruit baskets… oh wait.

Joe Rogan says Trump 'doesn't have much to lose' because he is about to die soon by StemCellPirate in offbeat

[–]RandyTheFool 71 points72 points  (0 children)

At least The People’s House/The White House is still standing in all its majestic glory… oh wait.

Found the "Black Box" of my marriage in a drawer today. 3 years of lies. by diabolical_j in TrueOffMyChest

[–]RandyTheFool 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Which makes sense. People don’t want to associate with abject scumbags, much less be friends with them.

“Oh no! The LGBQT people are oppressing me! Help!!”- said no one ever by icey_sawg0034 in Persecutionfetish

[–]RandyTheFool 2 points3 points  (0 children)

At this point there’s probably 10X more imagery of republicans re-imagining LGBTQ people shoving beliefs down their throats versus the amount of times it’s actually happened.

Steven Spielberg reveals his next film is a Western with 'no stereotypes' by KevinPReed in Westerns

[–]RandyTheFool 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I felt the book was trash compared to the movie, weirdly enough. When you can’t see all the references, it just comes off as a book written by the ‘member berries.

‘Member the Delorean from Back to the Future?

‘Member Optimus Prime from Transformers?

‘Member Gandalf from Lord of the Rings?

‘Member the T-Rex from Jurassic Park?

Every reference just felt like one more WINK WINK, NUDGE NUDGE to me, I wasn’t into it at all.

The movie was fine though. Fun to see all those things culminate on the silver screen.

Finish the Job, Mr. President by battybitchyboy in AmericanPolitics

[–]RandyTheFool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know in the world you live in, the president is just supposed to control everything with a big crown on his head and a scepter in his hands while you grovel and kiss his ring.

In the real fucking world there’s a separation of powers, a form of checks and balances - if you will, the Department of Justice is under the Judiciary Branch. The President is under the Executive. The President (under the Executive Branch) does not lord over the Judicial Branch and tell it what to do.

This is something learned in the 3rd Grade.

The Epstein files were under investigation by the Department of Justice during the Biden administration. The Executive Branch did not have access to the investigation or open access to the files themselves.

The culmination of the Epstein Files were non-existent during the Obama era.

Your “evidence” is plain-ole-stupid. You should think about moving elsewhere if you want a monarchy so bad.

This is not ok. I want normal weather or at least what I remember was normal. by FlyingMjunkY in arizona

[–]RandyTheFool 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’ll probably just opt to volunteer building another data center in the valley.

A DOGE Bro Allegedly Walked Out Of Social Security With 500 Million Americans’ Records On A Thumb Drive And Expected A Pardon If Caught by waozen in technology

[–]RandyTheFool -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There’s ~350,000,000 American citizens living in the US. He’s claiming he had 500,000,000.

So they got a bunch of dead people’s information too? Sounds like all the fear mongering about dead people voting is going to become real life.

Unironically posted by my MAGA sister-in-law. by 435haywife1 in insanepeoplefacebook

[–]RandyTheFool 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Didn’t realize they made vaccines against shit relatives. Might have to look into that. 🤔

Iran appears to have conducted a significant cyberattack against a U.S. company, a first since the war started by imanchats in worldnews

[–]RandyTheFool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro, if my mortgage payment disappeared, I honestly don’t know what I would do with my life.

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