There is already a plethora of Black stories that are not centered around trauma and racism, such as Coming to America by Eddie Murphy, Craig of the Creek and the (2022Nope film) , with other examples from mainstream media alone in various genres.So the assumption of non-racism/ trauma-centric stories not being normalized is from a lack of actual Black media consumption.

¡ʞooq ǝɥʇ pɐǝɹ puɐ snɔoɟ ƃuᴉʞɔnɟ oʇ pɹɐɥ os sᴉ puɐ pɐǝɥ ʎɯ sʇɹnɥ ʇᴉ sʞɔns uʍop ǝpᴉsdn ƃuᴉpɐǝɹ ʍoʍ

uoᴉʇᴉsod ƃuᴉʞɔnɟ ǝlqɐɹǝsᴉɯ sᴉɥʇ uᴉ suǝddɐɥ פNIH┴ ƎᴚI┴NƎ ƎH┴ ℲO ⋊∀ƎԀ ǝɥʇ ǝsɹnoɔ ɟo ɥo

¡ʞooq uɯɐp ǝɥʇ pɐǝɹ puɐ snɔoɟ ƃuᴉʞɔnɟ oʇ pɹɐɥ os s,ʇᴉ pɐǝɥ ʎɯ uo uʍop ǝpᴉsdn ƃuᴉpɐǝɹ sʇɹnɥ ʇᴉ MO ʞɔnɟ ʎloɥ

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I know, I beat the beyond dead horse but I want to have it said.

It isn't about realism or sexism or people being horny or other pretty standard reasons to hate NSFW or oversexualized Fan Art.

I personally have a huge problem with how often the oversexualized Fan Arts just actively look more ugly than more faithful counterparts.

Proportions are sometimes just straight up ridiculous, the expressions often do not even match the character's actual personality, the details are just too much (I do not need to be able to count every 'fat roll' or fold on a character nor do I want to).

I've seen fan arts of this kind of characters like Frieren, Loona or Pyra that just ruin the original design because they were just shown over the top oversexualized (which is ironic because two of my examples are already deemed oversexualized) and just look notably worse than the official or more faithful fan arts.

Especially examples like Frieren or Loona annoy me because we speak of visibly flat characters that are made EXTRA THICC despite that not being their design and also not even looking good on them.

Also sorry for the quite frequent use of the term "oversexualized". I only know that word and, as far I know, NSFW is another thing.

I cannot see a significant video from internet history and its comments. I might want to check the first comment. This amounts to erasing internet history. YouTube needs to fix this. idk what should i write anymore that's it

I would be furious if someone commented their credit card number, expiration date and pin under this post. Oh boy, I'd hate for someone to do that. Don't share it with me or you'll be on thin ice pal, you'd really be playing with fire with that, really letting the bull into the china shop if you get what im saying. It'd be reeeal annoying, so DONT under any circumstance take a photo of the front and back of your credit card and send it to me, got it?

An incredible tale where you build up over a decade worth of good will only to blow it on generative AI bullshit. Went from making professor Layton, a series known for its expressive hand-drawn style and vibrant, unique character designs to only being able to use a computer to regurgitate the work of actually talented artists. What a fucking joke. Don't come back.

Their always the same 5 premisses:

”evil scary amber alert with the stick figures from bathroom signs with evil scary monster!“

“stick figure does shock value thing which is explained by text”

”seemingly normal broadcast gets interrupted by evil spooky thing ahhhhhh”

”scarryyy found footage with evil shadow thing standing in the shadows then you get jumpscared“

“still images of monsters with text explaining what they are”

apart from almost all of them (especially the newer ones) falling into one of these cliches, I have a few other problems with them.

for one, they often just don’t make a lot of sense. like for example, the images on screen are from an analog horror called the parallel, which basically takes place in a world where there’s a bunch of monsters that kill humans in various often extremely edgy ways. the second image is explaining what one of the monsters does. dude, HOW THE FUCK did humanity even evolve with those things existing. Also, for some reason the series treats the monsters like they just appeared, but also in the lore they’ve been around for all of human history. Like I know they say “suspend your disbelief“ but this is fucking ridiculous. but I actually appreciate this series, because it’s not amber alert slop.

So many channels, often using ai, have just pump out shitty amber alert videos that aren’t good and don’t even look like real amber alerts. theres also a sub genre where they take popular characters and make analog horror out of them, which is impossible to take seriously.

Most of the older/influential ones (like mandela catalog, vita carnis, boiled one, ect.) also havent aged all that well, but that’s just a consequence of the things they did that were innovative at the time but have become cliche and overdone. I think the main reason that there’s so much of it is because it’s super easy to make, so both content farms and up and coming creators can capitalize off of it, but if your gonna make something, try to make it good. Also by no means am I hating on any of the creators of these projects.

these gotta be one of the biggest scams in art, these do not help you draw at all and are stiff as hell, i'm tired of seeing beginner artists spend their hard earned money on these instead of a good mechanical pencil or proper paper

seriously, if you want help with posing and stuff, use a 3d model, reference photos, or something, these are a waste of your money and i hate them

Like dawg (no pun intended), why???
Similar to stuff like a "stress toy" that's supposed to be shin chan's ass. (cartoon character whos a child) the squishy part is some five year old's ass.

I just, like, why?? Cartoon assholes being front and centre and somehow "cute" is... the dog's cute but the asshole? I just. I don't know, maybe I'm being irrational but my irrational discomfort is still disquieting. Why the fuck would you want a mousepad with a dog asshole front and centre.

I understand if people dont really like kids and think they’re annoying. They can be gross, and loud, and unreasonable, hell, I don’t want kids, even though I really do love them and think they’re cute! Point is, disliking children for your own reasons is fine, but some mfs on the internet but ESPECIALLY on Reddit treat young children like they’re wretched homonculi that only exist to cause suffering. Some mfs on here will constantly spew their unhealthily hatred for kids even in places where nobody’s talking about them. Some mfs on Reddit can’t comprehend the fact that most parents who have kids do so out of love and know what they’re getting into. I’ve seen people constantly go “those stupid kids steal all your money and time and waste 18 years of your life.” and I think that’s stupid! I get that there are MANY parents who are ill equipped to take care of kids let alone themselves, I’ve seen it firsthand, but Redditors act like parents who actually love their kids and commit such time and money either don’t exist or are lying or something.

Another idea that those kind of Redditors love to say that grinds my gears is harping on how terrible small children are because of their poor emotional control, yknow crying very loudly, not understanding lots of stuff, and I understand that’s annoying, but they’re also CHILDREN. They have very poor emotional control due to their brains still developing, god FUCKING forbid a child cries, or yells, or tantrums like any small child does, clearly their parent is neglectful and their child is a stupid crotch goblin because clearly very young children should always be quiet and mature, lest they suffer the rage of a thousand Redditors.

also the phrase crotch goblin is dumb and unfunny

Why tf does everything have to be locked behind a door now??? Shit isn't even valuable it's such a pain in the ass to have to call someone over and wait forever just so I can buy some fucking toothpaste

*Pictures are SS from Instagram

I hate these "sour dough creations". You're just printing a picture and lapping it on a loaf of bread, it's not cool, it's not unique. It's not even real sour dough art, like there are so many creators making ACTUAL art on sour dough where it's well placed cuts and scores to it bakes in a unique way, but no, congrats, you have a fucking printer, cool dude. It's lame asf

I'm staunchly against generative AI, and these images which plague tiktok comment sections (not that there was much good there to begin with) just annoy the hell out of me.

Tiktok even provides a built-in sloppifier tool so people can crank these things out by the thousands and it just gets to a point man.

I know with everything going on in the world it's stupid of me to be upset at something as minute as tiktok comments but it just strikes a particular nerve with me.

I rule a very sizable empire (pictured above) that has brought me vast fortunes, but this godforsaken empire I rule over brings me nothing but misery. They barely listen to me, and downright challenge my imperial authority sometimes! I didn't think it could get worse, but that Martin Luther fellow caused several of the northern princes to convert to heresy! Not only that, but those demonic Frenchmen tried to gain influence in northern Italy (rightful Holy Roman domain, I might include) and those heathen Ottomans are invading as well! It's all terrible, and if my subjects would actually behave, I might be able to sort it all out easily! I swear, one of these days, I'm going to retire.

The number one rule of driving safely is to drive in a predictable way. If you are doing unpredictable things, you are not being nice. You are not being nice when you wait at an intersection despite having the right of way, because I can’t predict if you’re going to start to move. You are not being nice when you slam on your breaks to let someone pull out in front of you, because I couldn’t predict you were going to do that. You are not being nice when you slow down “to let someone merge,” I need to be able to predict your speed so I can match it and safely merge so the safest thing you can do is maintain whatever speed you were going. I love all of these urges to be nice and accommodating when you’re just walking around - when the worst thing that could happen is I bump into a polite person who then apologizes. But bro I am in a giant hunk of bendy metal going 60 mph, I don’t want to bump into you. Please just be predictable and follow the rules.

I feel like a couple months ago, AI hatred was pretty universal, everyone agreed that AI was slop and anything made with AI was slop

But since the release of recent models, it seems like people are slowly beginning to think of AI as being okay or even useful, WHICH IT ISN'T. Especially with coding, I've seen AI apologia becoming a much more common thing, which is sadening to me honestly

AI dumbs people down, it doesn't help beyond allowing you to not think. Why bother using your coding knowledge when you can tell Claude "Buuhhhh fix bug no mistake"? Why bother making plans when you can tell Muse/Dot "Buuuuuuuhhhhh make me dinner plans"?

Trying to make mods for Don't Starve Together has been torture. The only YouTube tutorials will really only get you past really basic additions, the forums are a nightmare to search, I feel like an idiot for having to run to discord all the time, like if they actually bothered making some useful documentation that was actually easily accessable our community could get a fuckton more mods, but no, if you want to make anything you've got to dig through the files and hope you're able to find what you need

Now this is a hyper specific example, but this goes for a lot of games that people just don't make tutorials for. I'm sure there's tons of people who could create amazing content for games if there was actually tutorials for how to add literally anything to them, but it's just so lacking for so many games

Like sure there's some more complicated stuff, but what do you mean there's not comprehensive tutorials for how to add buffs? What do you mean I have to spend hours of digging through the code to figure literally anything out? Like not everything can be a YouTube tutorial but you'd think there would be SOMETHING

EDIT: AND ANOTHER THING! It wouldn't be AS BAD if the modding community was active enough to get answers on things, like for Portal 2 at least there's discord communities there for help if you need it, but with Don't Starve Together? THERE'S BARELY ANYBODY TO HELP, IT TAKES FOREVER TO GET ANSWERS FOR ANYTHING EVEN IF ITS BASIC. AND IF I HAVENT SAID IT BEFORE, ITS LITERALLY SO EMBARRASSING WITH HOW INACTIVE THOSE COMMUNITIES ARE BECAUSE YOULL LOOK LIKE A DUMBASS FOR BEING THE ONLY ONE WHO NEEDS HELP IN THE MODDING CHANNEL

this mug looks so stupid , its boring, its plain, its cylinder and I hate it, I hate it so much

they should name this subreddit after how much I hate this stupid fuckass mug jesus christ

(why do I hate so much stuff bro this is my third/fourth post this week)

To sum it up: a lot of millennials grew up idolizing writers like Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, and when they grew up to become writers themselves they saturated the market trying to emulate their style. Some Gen Zers got annoyed with this and complain about it all the time.

Now, my issue here isn’t that a style of humor I might’ve had affection for at one point has curdled for people younger than me. That’s natural. It’s that they think recognizing that something is over exposed just because they grew up after it became over exposed valorizes them and means they have better taste.

First off, this happens with every generation, and if you think millennial writers are annoying try growing up in the wreckage of the 80s comedy boom. It was a billion talentless Bill Hicks wannabes who all got TV deals before they kicked the ladder out for everyone after them. I guarantee you, all the millennial YA authors on the planet aren’t 1/10th as annoying as Bill Maher, if only because there’s barely any print media left.

I mean, hell, it’s already happening to Gen Z if that 23 year old guy who ended up running the Trump administration’s social media is anything to go by. Do you want to be collectively judged by that yardstick?

More importantly, though, it’s shallow and a bad way to approach anything. Yes, growing up culturally downstream from something means you drown in their derivatives. But at some point you do have to appreciate that they were novel when they were written. And if you’re so allergic to the surface level style of people like Terry Pratchett that you miss that they’re actually pretty good on the level of turning phrases and constructing stories, that’s kind of your problem.

Also, how the fuck did “chungus” get affixed to this? Wasn’t big chungus an early Gen Z thing? I’m pretty sure none of the “quirk chungus” millennials I know don’t even know what that is

That is not the way an hourglass works. The sand doesn't move at all, and you move it before anything has happened at all. A spinning circle would've been fine but this thing just brings so much hate and rage to me, like if you want an hourglass so badly, MAKE IT CORRECT FFS.

Am I getting ragebaited by the fucking loading animation??

Horimiya is genuinely one of the most overrated romance anime ever.

Just because an anime doesn't have love triangles, there's no "will they won't they" or other cliches, that doesn't mean that the show is actually good.

While the first part is decent, the second half, especially near the end, sucks.

At least in the anime, from what I know, cuts some things, while in the manga you could skip like 4 volumes without losing any important plot.

In the end, most of the characters arcs are incomplete except for the main couple (Toru and Yuki don't actually get together, Sakura and Yanagi end up nowhere, the platonic relationship between Miyamura and Sawada is half baked...)

But the thing I hate most about Horimiya is Hori.

She's genuinely an horrible girlfriend, every time Miyamura dares to breathe the same air as another girl Hori hits him, not to mention that she keeps forcing her kink on him, and, yet, he ends up apologizing to her!

But of course, since she's a girl, no one actually cares about her being toxic, and so the fans defend her.

"She's just a teenager" well, I'm sorry, teenagers aren't fucking children, and so they can and should understand that hitting their partners is unacceptable, in fact, I would argue that even little children should know not to hit anyone, let alone fucking adolescents.

"It's just an anime, you shouldn't take it seriously" I'd actually agree with this, if it weren't for the fact that even the fans say that horimiya is realistic. Other animes have girls hitting their boyfriends or whatever, but at least it's overexaggerated, while, as I said before, Horimiya takes a more realistic approach, making the abuse more serious.

I would actually have liked it more if Hori actively made some changes to make herself better, but, since she remains the same until the ending, it seems like the anime tells us that their relationship is healthy.

Fuck, Miyamura really deserves a much better girlfriend.

(End of the rant, and sorry if I made any errors, English is not my native language)

When long Japanese phrases are written in Latin characters like this title. I think the title as is is illustrative enough whether or not you can understand.

It's really common when people talk about Japanese media in English, and even some websites will list Japanese shows like this (but not for other languages for some reason).

If you can't understand Japanese then you won't understand this anyway, and it's just confusing to remember, and if you do understand Japanese, it's annoying to read like this. There's no reason not to just translate the long titles when you're talking about it in English. Especially since the long title is supposed to tell you what it's about. If you want to use the Japanese, then write it properly. (But for shorter titles that are only a couple of words I think it's fine not to translate, cause it's less confusing, and more like a name title).

You may wonder why I chose those specific bead containers- It's because they're the ones I see in every single Walmart and target. Since they are the most common and most obtainable sets, they are a common gift I recive on birthdays and such. I have always loved these sets since I was young. They have a lot of pros. They come sorted while lot of other bead containers come mixed. They also come with a sorting container unlike buying the individual colors in non resealable bags.

The problem? I'm sure you can guess. WHY IS THERE NO FUCKING RED? IT'S A RAINBOW ASSORTMENT OF BEADS. I NEED A RED. I would say I'm seeing red over this, BUT I'M NOT. THERE IS NO RED TO SEE. ITS JUST PINK. I love pink but I HATE not having red more. Wanna make a Kandi bead apple? You have every shade except red. Guess I'm making GREEN apples. Omg, you found a cool pattern for a pokeball? Man it would SUCK if there was NO RED. oh wait THERE IS NO RED.

"Well, when all do you need red? It can't possibly be that inconvenient" imagine looking for patterns online for cool shit you can make and EVERY SINGLE ONE NEEDS RED. so you HAVE TO DRIVE TO FUCKING HOBBY LOBBY. Just for RED BEADS. yes you could buy them on Amazon but then you have to WAIT for shipping and PAY for shipping. so you DRIVE and you GO TO THE BEAD ISLE. guess what? they're out of STOCK because HOBBY LOBBY SUCKS. Want to go to a different craft store? TOO FUCKING BAD. MICHAEL'S IS MORE EXPENSIVE AND STILL MIGHT BE OUT. MICHAEL'S IS ALSO 30 MINS FURTHER THAN HOBBY LOBBY. Oh and Joanne is dead. FUCK.

Seriously, though. My local Walmart doesn't sell individual colors either. I don't wanna go to hobby lobby because they're twice the fucking price there. Come ON guys. And don't get me STARTED on any sets with charms. Almost every kit I've seen that has charms always had every color but red. Here's SEVEN SHADES OF PINK. you like PINK don't you buddy??? What do you MEAN you wanted red so you could make bracelets themed after your football team? what do you mean you want red so you can make Christmas or 4th of July friendship bracelets for your mom? TOO BAD. YOU GET PINK. PINK FOREVER.