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Normally I wouldn't bother making a post like this but it came to my attention yesterday via a twitter thread that tumblr user fridaypls is using AI elements in their fanart. Now, if they were doing this because they didn't feel entirely confident in their artistic ability, and they were just doing this for fanart they posted online, then I'd shrug my shoulders and go "eh, whatever"

However, I then found out that fridaypls is selling this fanart and even making posts like "buy my Gale print and get Tim Downie to sign it" and I just can't sit idly by whilst someone makes profit off AI 'art' and there are so many other artists (myself included) trying to make a living off our own art.

The tweet thread about the use of AI by fridaypls can be viewed here and here but I'll also copy and paste some of the examples under a cut line in this post.

So far on twitter, fridaypls got wind of the thread going around about them and they deactivated their account rather than take accountability. I'm probably going to be blocked by them for making this post, but I encourage you to reblog this and spread the word and please, PLEASE don't buy artwork from someone using AI generated images. There are so many other hardworking artists out there making amazing fanart and merch that you can give your money to instead.

Examples from twitter:

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Before Israel killed him, Palestinian scholar Refaat Al Areer wrote to his daughter:

If I must die

you must live

to tell my story

Yesterday Israel killed his daughter Al-Shaymaa along with her husband and baby.

Who is going to tell Refaat and Shayma's story? Who's going to continue to tell the world how Israel obliterated entire bloodlines?

Refaat's poem continues to say

If I must die

let it bring hope

let it be a tale

We must promise to keep the tale alive and to uphold the legacy of Refaat, Shayma and the 40,000 others who were murdered by Israel in its ongoing genocide.

Try as they might, but Palestine will never die.

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My name is Alia. . Palestinian woman in Gaza. Mother of 4 children. I need your support to get me, my children, my mother and my father out of stricken Gaza. Every donation, no matter how small, will help save our lives. If you can't donate, help me by posting the link. Thank you from the heart

So I've spoken to Alia here (yes I know, I was suspicious of this account too at first). After a series of texts exchanged in DMs and photo proof, I was able to verify this fundraiser as vetted!

They just started this fundraiser! Do not hesitate to donate!

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Clicking on a new blog for a potential follow just to see their HP house in their bio

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Dean: snakes are evil and they'll bite!

my male ball python: *likes to watch the TV, esp if it's horror films*

my female ball python: *likes to sleep on my laptop when it's closed*

my garter snake: *likes to fall asleep in hoodie pockets*

my corn snake: *likes to sit in hoods and take a nap*

my bull snake: *likes to fall asleep next to my leg whilst watching horror films*

#dean winchester you are WRONG #snakes arent evil #Ace does bite tho #none of the others do!!! just Ace :)

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regal boy

#this is Red Baron btw #people get him mixed up w Gallipoli altho idk how tbh

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noodles

top row: Ace Janoušek (Corporal) on the left, he's a wild type confirmed male bull snake. Fox Mulder (Special Agent) on the right, he's an orange confirmed male corn snake who is currently in blue.

middle: Gallipoli (Baroness), she is a pewter confirmed female ball python & is gravid atm.

bottom row: Der Rote Kampfflieger/Red Baron (Captain, Baron) on the left, he is a pastel het albino confirmed male ball python & the father of Gallipoli's children. Kaiju (Godzilla if he's being a cunt) on the right, he is an albino confirmed male checkered garter snake.

#I've had people tell me Gallipoli is “obese” and no she isn't #she has 5 eggs in her & I have the x-ray scans to prove it #she is gravid. she hasn't eaten in like 2 months

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A tweet about the complicity of zionist academia:

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I'm curious. What's the tea on Banksy then? I'd love to hear your thoughts on him in general as I've found it hard to find criticism of him 🤔

The below is an answer to a similar question I got in 2017 so apologies if some links are outdated:

For starters, he keeps hijacking walls that are not his. Not only did he paint and tried to beautify the apartheid wall in Palestine, but he literally went to predominately Black and Latinx areas in East NYC, where art is strictly local, and painted over the walls there.

He has the disgusting habit of normalising and whitewashing struggles. Like how he painted an Israeli occupation solider having a “pillow fight” with a Palestinian or how he graffitied Steve Jobs as a Syrian refugee in order to bring “awareness” to the refugee issue, as if all immigrants have the same privilege as Jobs or that they should be dismissed if they don’t become a version of Steve jobs. He simplifies and glorifies oppressions and struggles.

Which brings me to my next point. He butts into issues that aren’t his and to which he shows little to no understanding at all. Like how he had the nerve to paint a “go back to Africa” in a area of poverty and racial tension, which he believes is “satire” that marginalised communities are ought to understand and recognise as beautiful and be happy about it (as if such phrases are not traumatising in nature). He’s basically shoving his way down these communities’ throats as a white saviour whose stencils are going to bring about change, and god forbid we say anything against them. He’s been asked numerous times to leave, be it in East NYC or Bethlehem, and yet there he is.

He views himself as this edgy hipster and as a result he does not understand how complex of a subculture graffiti really is. His white opportunistic ass is always ready to jump onto issues that are not his own, dominate spaces that aren’t his and in the meantime making profit (some of his work has been valued in six figures) by using our struggles and painting over our walls. He shows no regard or respect to writers and as a matter of fact, he painted over the oldest graffiti in London which made many artists angry.

In short, he’s corny and shallow. His attempts are very lazy, peak liberal and weak and are mainly celebrated by the bourgeoisie. What’s treated by law as “vandalism” apparently only applies when the artists are Black/brown/lower class, yet he gets the police protecting him. And while he can tag walls freely, other artists get arrested for it, and while they hardly get any recognition, his white ass gets coddled by the elitist art scene.

You should also go through my Banksy tag for more Banksy hate.

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As always

#that dude raped a dead pig and we're supposed to believe that anything that comes frkm his mouth ISN'T pure bollocks?

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[image ID: a Palestinian freedom fighter sits with their arms crossed, wearing brown uniform, and holding a gun closely to their chest. They are wearing a black full-face mask that covers everything but their eyes. In white, the subtitles read: "On the contrary, we are kinder than otjer people, as we are patient and we endure."]

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What's a hindutava?

It is a ultra-right-wing Hindu nationalist ideology characterized by ethnonationalism, militarism, and extreme islamaphobia. You can think of it like Indian fascism, because it was directly inspired by European fascism.

#theres also this weird sharing of resources between these fascist ideologies #like Zios and Hindutvas have a robust arms exchange #so Israeli weapons contribute directly to the occupation of Kashmir #the fascist playbooks also overlap #india has in the last decade #imported about $3bn in military hardware from Israel #<- prev tags bc they're important

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Some guy on Twitter had his wife go to the Columbia protests with a shirt that had “JEW” written on it in big letters and the video was the biggest flop bc he kept having to turn the camera around so that signs like “JEWS FOR A FREE PALESTINE” wouldn’t be in the shot.

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FYI Zio is an extremely disrespectful term to use

I can't stress this enough, but when I use the term Zio, I mean it in the absolute most disrespectful way possible

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Do you know how to talk about anything else? We're living rent free in your head

Living rent free in places you don't belong is on brand behavior for Israelis tbh

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If you're not familiar with the Accountability Archive I highly recommend checking it out. It's a website dedicated to keeping record of journalists, politicians, and public figures who endorse/encourage the ethnic cleansing of Gaza/Palestinians.

The goal of this website is to archive the data to be used in a number of ways. It will be available to future historians and researchers to understand how this type of mass killing can take place through research. It will also potentially be a resource for lawyers looking for supporting evidence in trying defamation and war crime cases.

I urge you to visit their website and submit evidence you've gathered. I don't think people who support an apartheid state/genocide should get to walk around without being held accountable.

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Over 100 anti Israeli posts but not a single one condemning Hamas 🤔

That's because I don't. Hope that clears things up for you

#Hamas could drop a nuke on London and it STILL wouldnt be even HALF as bad as what Israel has done