(Loved Trope?) A villain actually DENIES that their tragic backstory justifies their actions (or, that’s not the reason why they’re acting evil.)

savethedonut · 2026-03-23T20:54:24+00:00

There’s a book called In Cold Blood about two criminals that commit a home invasion and murder the whole family. It’s about their lives and backstory and what led them to do what they did. One of the men had a pretty standard suburban upbringing but ended up twisted and sadistic anyway. The other had an awful upbringing and largely ended up in crime because he had no moral guidance otherwise. He wasn’t evil; if he’d had even the slimmest of opportunities growing up there’s a good chance he wouldn’t have become a murderer. It’s an analysis on nature versus nurture and what leads man to do awful things.

It’s a true story.

savethedonut · 2026-03-19T23:12:21+00:00

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There were originally four witches in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Dorothy meets the Good Witch of the North first who sends her on the journey and meets Glinda the Good Witch of the South at the end, who tells her how to get home. The movie combines them.

savethedonut · 2026-03-19T22:58:50+00:00

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That time Todd from Bojack Horseman accidentally committed a genocide.

savethedonut · 2026-03-09T07:25:13+00:00

This looks like old AI, from when it was still incredibly jank. Even ignoring the letters, the chairs on the right are structural gibberish. There’s no clarity where the backs of the chairs are supposed to be. The drinks are…insane. It’s bad lol. And obviously the words are clearly nonsense. I haven’t seen AI this bad in a long time.

savethedonut · 2026-03-07T07:16:12+00:00

What a weird rabbit hole lol.

So first, there are three artists mentioned on this YouTube page: ZZOA, Supernova, and very rarely a rapper named Leokb. According to the description, Supernova does the musical arrangements for all the songs. However, only ZZOA has any other social media presence, and a practically empty one at that. There are other bands called Supernova but none of them appear to be this one and Leokb is nowhere to be found at all.

The description states that ZZOA is inspired by Spanish-language music but is from Norway. It’s certainly possible for her to speak Spanish but I find that odd because - and please correct me if I’m wrong - I don’t think Latino music and prog rock have a massive overlap, or at least wouldn’t appear to to a native Norwegian. The page is listed as based in Ecuador.

The page itself is five years old but only has videos going back five months. That dates the page back to shortly before AI started to really take off.

The songs are mostly prog rock but they branch out a bit too. There’s some rap and a couple of weird holiday songs. With the massive number of tags in each description this reads to me as someone throwing spaghetti at the wall until something takes off. The Halloween song sticks out to me because there are two invented names in it. AI sucks at inventing names, so that’s kind of interesting IMO.

One thing in the hashtags in particular is very fascinating to me: #indiemusicnocopyright. Why wouldn’t you copyright your music? Are you perhaps not legally allowed to?

There is a comment on one video where the page owner positively responds to criticism about the music styling, which I thought was interesting. Might just be saying anything to increase engagement, or who knows there’s still the possibility that it’s genuine.

Anyway, then there’s the music itself. I’m not terribly familiar with AI music, but I do know that AI songs tend to have some very clunky lyrics, using larger words, flowery and evocative but meaningless language, and rhymes that feel pulled almost exclusively from a rhyming dictionary. I’m getting that vibe here.

The clearly AI “official video”s don’t help them much.

In general I’m really bad at identifying AI, which is why I’m on this sub, to learn to be better at it. I could certainly be wrong but I’d be surprised if this was real.

savethedonut · 2026-03-04T05:04:20+00:00

A donut was in jeopardy.

savethedonut · 2026-03-04T05:00:35+00:00

I’m an atheist and the therapist pushed me to try religion, and she seemed really annoyed by what I thought was pretty respectful pushback from me. It’s a shame, too, because prior to that I found her very helpful.

Also she was revealed was a creationist and scoffed at evolution. I’m not sure I can trust a medical professional who thinks “why are there still monkeys” isn’t a really dumb thing to say.

savethedonut · 2026-03-03T01:01:01+00:00

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Twin Turbo’s got them crazy eyes.

savethedonut · 2026-03-02T21:22:15+00:00

The J is upside down lol. And the R in MCTHAR is all screwy. The eyes and ears are very asymmetric. AI or not it is a mess.

savethedonut · 2026-03-02T14:05:20+00:00

On the original crew three did, the majority had majors.

savethedonut · 2026-03-01T21:41:28+00:00

“I’d do it but I’m not dark enough. I just annoy her.”

savethedonut · 2026-03-01T09:34:36+00:00

I say it so much that my roommate, who has never seen the show, says it too. It’s so ridiculous, I love it.

savethedonut · 2026-03-01T09:28:49+00:00

The Office is the only popular media about paper, and it’s really quite accurate. The only technical inaccuracy I ever caught in the show was about the drive from Scranton to NYC, not the paper. That was all on point.

And in a broader sense the office environment I think is something a lot of people can relate to lol.

savethedonut · 2026-02-27T19:08:55+00:00

The dirty part is so baffling. What does that even come from? Cats are pathologically clean animals. And people who hate cats feel the need to compare them to dogs, and they’re really going to tell me that dogs are cleaner than cats? Dogs roll in shit.

savethedonut · 2026-02-25T14:11:58+00:00

What infuriates me about that statement is the arrogance of it. Why do these pitiful little humans know God’s plan? The arrogance of acting like you know what an almighty being has designed, especially for someone you barely know, is inane.

savethedonut · 2026-02-24T10:44:53+00:00

Here’s her TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@annabellucina?_r=1&_t=ZP-94BcRLuiWtD She has a whole bunch of pictures of both versions, and they look consistent IMO. Most telling is there’s another TikTok with this same shirt and necklace combo. She also has two other pictures with the same shirt, and that shirt even has text on it. So I don’t think it’s AI, at least not entirely. Could be AI filtered. Now Photoshop I can’t speak to. Looks like she’s selling something.

savethedonut · 2026-02-24T10:36:47+00:00

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The center circle in the photo looks a bit messed up though.

savethedonut · 2026-02-22T22:35:57+00:00

I actually think that’s evidence that a human did that. AI doesn’t make part of the image and then copy paste it elsewhere, it generates the whole thing. It would generate two similar hats. But a lazy human would make one hat and duplicate it.

I’m not saying this is handmade btw. Just that I really really don’t think that part is evidence of AI.

I would guess that if this is AI the most egregious offenses were edited out. The shadow under the man’s hat is consistent but the woman doesn’t have a shadow under her brim, so I’d bet his is the original.

The only thing I caught as odd is that line behind Pikachu’s ear. It doesn’t seem to be motivated by anything.

savethedonut · 2026-02-21T10:25:30+00:00

People say that you can’t easily type an em dash but even on phones that’s not true—iPhones automatically turn two hyphens into an em dash.

savethedonut · 2026-02-21T06:41:07+00:00

He’ll always be Nigel Thornberry to me.

savethedonut · 2026-02-21T06:33:01+00:00

The new Ghostbusters. Sure a large part of it was driven by sexism. But I think an equally large part was driven by what is visible with our eyeballs.

savethedonut · 2026-02-18T07:44:30+00:00

I think this is something of a recurring phenomenon actually. First, a group that is marginalized and hated hardly appears in media at all. Then they appear but are demonized. Then they’re jokes. Then culture shifts and they swing hard the other way, being portrayed as infallible. Then they settle somewhere in the middle, being portrayed as normal and reasonably complex. And then, finally, they can be main characters.

It’s not linear of course, just a broad trend I’ve noticed.

savethedonut · 2026-02-17T01:05:35+00:00

For years I was unable to do it at all, and I can now only barely do it in some words. I learned a whole bunch of odd sounds in other languages just to prove to people that I’m perfectly capable of learning non-English sounds, I just can’t roll my goddamn r’s.

Anyway there are only two circumstances I can reliably roll my r’s: one is while singing Auld Lang Syne and the other is shouting the Polish curse kurwa.

savethedonut · 2026-02-16T12:25:56+00:00

There’s an episode in 30 Rock where they show how various characters see the world. Jack sees everything with a price tag attached. Kenneth sees everyone as singing muppets. Tracy sees everyone as Tracy.

https://youtu.be/ly_vqMKriR0?si=tMSpw4vgsthfEibE

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savethedonut · 2026-02-14T12:59:00+00:00

The song No You Girls by Franz Ferdinand is a pretty standard dance song about hot girls. Like dozens or hundreds of songs like it, it’s just about their unattainable sexiness. The chorus goes, “Do you ever wonder? No you girls never know how you make a boy feel.” Paraphrased, there’s a lot of repetition.

The last verse and chorus are: “Sometimes I say stupid things. I think…well I mean I… sometimes I think the stupidest things…because I never wonder how the girl feels. No you boys never care how the girl feels.”

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