A lot of those channels are just trying to game the algorithm by uploading multiple videos of the same topic. Or sometimes word it differently to give you the illusion of choice when in reality it just tells you to draw boxes every day and fuck off.

Has anyone seen that one video on Chinese color theory that I think has been making rounds? Fine advice because everything in that video is not even exclusive used in China. Pretty much everyone has been using them for years.

Ratchet if you asked three-year-old me.

Dibs on Fujiwara No Mokou

If you're wondering who made those weird mall-goth paintings of the glitch characters? It was me.

Normally I prefer gallery but this case, if you want everyone's works displayed at once, strip is fine

If you don't mind characters in frames then I got some submissions for the collab

(Sry for adding another Digital Circus drawing to the pile. I just really like that series)

Maybe it's because it came out 50 years ago? Wegra, it's no longer 2025. Stop pretending the web exists and help me fight off this wild pack of mutant dogs created by that nuclear bomb Trumptron 9000 bombed Canada with creating this post apocalyptic holocaust.

It was going to happen eventually. Unfortunately I'm not surprised roblox did this if they were legally required to implement it like this site was. I can only be mad at the governments that pass those laws.

Emphasis on "if". To my little knowledge, Roblox has been in some hot water lately.

The only way to stop this is to not go after the websites affected (Not completely anyway) but focus on the governments who push these authoritarian laws instead. They're at fault for making everyone turn to these sketchy verification sites instead of taking the easy route and telling parents to stop neglecting their children. We probably don't even need special metadata tags or device based age verification if the government put more responsibility for protecting children on parents and not corporations that are going to fuck it up.

It's because George Bush is hiding it under our flat earth. If the game came out, the truth will be out.

You see, GTA6 contains a mission where you uncover evidence that George Bush, the shapeshifting master of darkness, was the one who unleashed an unspeakable evil on a distant land. America covered it up by creating the propaganda cartoon, Samurai Jack to fool the sheeple into believing it was a demon named Aku. This is why the 5G towers exist. It's to brainwash the masses to not cross the Ice Wall and climb under our earth. Those who do climb ususally get shot by Ice King's double barrel shotgun anyway because he's in cahoots with the government to hide the truth. But reportedly, if you pass, you'll find GTA 6 and where Tom Fulp keeps Nightmare Cops

I should get on that. I got some new watercolors.

RIP to SMG4. End of an era for Machinima.

Tricky. I know Spiderverse used AI for the lonework affect to achieve the comic book look and overlayed the lines onto the character models. Then the animators would correct the lines. Here, they were trying to achieve a painterly look. While AI purely as a tool rather then to generate computer made art is somewhat controversial, people are less annoyed by that because theres still a human effort in it.

But that animation you brought up (I'm going off the animation itself, not the process as I'm currently in a hurry) looks very slapdash. Like they modeled everyone and told the AI to put paint strokes onto it and called it a day. It ends up looking like those Instagram artwork where everything looks well defined except for the eyes which looks blurry. If they are going back in and correcting the AI, they aren't doing it enough.

I dunno, I think that might be "useless" at this point.

So this is it. Some kid wanting to be the next Edd Gould resulted in the Jojo battle no one asked for on the forums.

I feel like an argument is a sign that this thread is loosing steam.

I'm just waiting for them to cover DS and Wii games. How would they fuck that up? Just hope Partners in Time and Bowser's Inside Story is on there.

Weird choice to remake Dark Moon. No one remembers that game aside from now 22-year-old weirdos who fell addicted to the scarescraper mode in 2014.

I don't have a jokey comment about that one.

Honestly, the only good thing is this is proof Nintendo remembers the 2000s existed.

It's just like "simp". It was quickly turned into an insult for people who are attracted to someone when it was originally used for guys who can't get over unrequited loves and persue parasocial relationships.

Well, you're the man of the house

With modern social media pushing perfectionism on everything like old media of before thanks to the algorithm and the toxic side of those sites. I'm worried we're going to see more cases of younger artists using AI just to gain a following if they aren't already discouraged. What do you think?

Should probably take that to this thread. (Been meaning to use it to air out my own gripes)

2000s games had way to many gimmicks that sometimes result in them being unplayable unless you were there or have the peripherals which could be super expensive. Nintendo's gimmicky consoles in the latter half, Wii and DS games are hard to port without major changes that could potentially negatively affect the gameplay.

Anything locked behind the internet pisses me off because some of my childhood games have have completely inaccessible sections. Mario Kart Wii had a mission mode, too bad N WiFi is down since 2014 making the mode inaccessible without a patch.

My solutions are probably generic but:

1. The education system needs to change so kids can learn how to apply their knowledge and creativity in the real world rather than regurgitate it to sound smart.
2. Destigmatize criticism and teach people how to differentiate helpful vs unhelpful. Helpful will always have a suggestion on how to do things differently, warn about common mistakes, and even point out what you're doing well.
3. Make people more comfortable about imperfection. Man made works will never be perfect because we're apart of nature. If someone makes something that isn't good, simply direct them to resources where they can learn or suggest how they can improve in the future. Getting rid of algorithmic curation will help with this.
4. Make people more comfortable with working within their limitations if they can't get help.
5. Spread awareness about the corruption of the tech industry. AI stealing human work and making media more lazy is a product of said corruption.

Some thoughts on schools telling kids to use AI:

My personal experience isn't exactly the same as the younger generation because I was born in the early 2000s where the main issue in my generation's schools saw was the over reliance on the internet making it easier for kids to cheat and plagiarize. But the main cause is universal to all ages. Schools don't teach a work ethic, critical thinking, or creativity, they just teach people how to regurgitate knowledge. Reason why kids typically hate school is because the system doesn't care about their development and in some cases damages it. I've seen a few people criticizing how reading tests actually make kids avoid reading because they associate it with work. Stifling their literacy development and is probably the main issue for this literacy crisis I keep hearing about. And if any of those kids fail to regurgitate. They're rejected.

So seeing schools telling kids to use AI is simply them going mask off. It's not about teaching kids adulting and/or to use their skills and creativity in the real world. It's only about the grades.

Then you got how the the internet over the past 10 years have been getting more unfriendly to those who aren't pros. I'm not saying criticism is bad. I wholeheartedly support the blam system and believe we as a community need higher standards.

The problem is when user submitted entertainment sites (YouTube specifically) create algorithms that only allows people with the time, money, and resources to create professional grade media and spit them out at a fast rate while quickly garnering millions in a short time. It discourages those who aren't skilled yet and the underprivileged.

And now that the younger generation is being told to use AI, they're probably not gonna know how to use their creativity because their school and the entertainment sites they're on wants them to become a cog in the machine.

Now that's not what I think is the reason why the creator of that video used AI. Only they can give the true reason. But I'm worried this will become a common reason as the younger generation gets older.

It does have some human effort. But it is still over-reliant. Not to mention, the AI stuff is trying to copy Eddworld. AI can be used to assist but I disagree with allowing works using AI generated media on the portal as that can result in a slippery slope where people start pushing the boundaries. Not to mention the ethical implications of it.

Especially since pro-ai users will point out the exceptions from the past as to why they think they're justified.

That's just my two cents.

And as @Jojo said: people here would be fine with an outright ban.

1. Youtube has a bunch of comics tutorials. (Hopefully Tom adds a section on the wiki for webcomic tutorials)
2. Glitch Productions is massive compared to most of us newgrounds weirdos and it was founded by an already popular figure in the machinima community. Maybe someday you'll get popular but I garentee it will take longer and be more difficult.
3. Good luck with ComicFury's web design engine. That thing will drive you nuts.

Homestuck is probably the last BIG webcomic and that was 2009. And the medium was quickly taken over and basically killed by a legion of relatable gag-a-day comics or comics about how quirky the author was in the mid to late 2010s. And that was after people stopped copying Penny Arcade in the 2000s.

So the only real chance for that happening is this site's emerging webcomic community or the ones on ComicFury.

This whole thread is a mess of people getting mad over the existence of sexual content.

But most sex negative people are still right wing. That whole anti sex feminist thing. That's just an attempt by the right wing to poison the water by using leftist terminology to make their views more "acceptable".

It's also what TERFS are doing.

If you saw another piece called "Say Hello To Tau" no you didn't

If they're not breaking any rules or laws then they're harmless.

Hoo boy. I remember looking for fanart of a specific goth webcomic I like and I had to sift through so much ai shit. Shame too, Deviantart does have some genuinely talented artists (Especially before the 2010s softcore fetish porn era) and holds just as much significance in internet art history as this site. But now it's pushing whoever's left away by embracing something the art community is rightfully worried about.

In terms of why people love AI art. AI bros see it the same way people saw Flash in the 90s without understanding the key difference between the two. Flash still requires you to create an animation from scratch, only difference from cel was it was designed to have the whole process be digital while AI already has the stolen images and all you need to do is prompt it to mash the pictures together.

The mainstream animation industry is fucked but with how web animation is less corporate, people will likely move over to the net for animation. Helps that we have a new wave going on right now with Glitch Productions at the leads and nostalgia for 2000s-2010s webtoons becoming more prominent.

Also, the only AI girlfriend I approve is Glados.

Oh my god, it's Obama

Sweden is not real. Vargskelethor made it up.

Quality threshold and you need to have more than 4 works submitted to your profile.

Ski mask ✓

Sawn-off ✓

Guilty conscience, fear of death ✓✓✓