#like the thing i'm mad about is how youtuber's algorithm works.

[daz4i]

you know how nitpicky i get about definitions. so you can imagine my unnecessary rage whenever i click an iceberg video that did not need to be an iceberg video and is barely even in the layer format as is. and i know it's bc of the algorithm and ppl are generally more likely to click these videos bc we all like lists. but it still feels annoying yknow??

#once again an essentially harmless thing that makes me too upset (bc i am already constantly on edge so every small thing sets me off) #i'm more chill abt that than other things tho. #like the thing i'm mad about is how youtuber's algorithm works.

[lastoneout]

Everyone: YouTube is such a garbage platform! It only cares about ad money and exploiting creators, and they have frankly draconian rules about what you can say or show, and sometimes even if you follow all the rules you'll either lose your money and viewerbase to demonetization, and there's basically no way to fix that unless you are a huge creator who makes a massive stink about it on Twitter, or to the algorithm just deciding your videos aren't worth promoting anymore. I hate how many ads there are too, 2+ prerolls, midrolls, and ones at the end?? Tons are unskippable and they often contain triggering content with NO warning. And like, half the sponsorships are for corrupt scams and full of lies. And ugh the switch to prioritizing short from content is fucking over anyone who doesn't want to make discount tiktoks. Plus they're trying to stop people from using adblocker in fucked up ways. And on top of all that Google is just straight up evil. YouTube really does suck these days :/ I feel bad for the creators I love who are stuck using it.

Watcher: YouTube was a good place for our shows at first, but as you all know if you want to make money here you have to compromise the types of content you want to make to please the algorithm and advertisers, and we don't want to make content for them, we want to make quality TV shows for and supported by our viewers, so we can grow and offer even more, much higher quality stuff, so it's time to open our own independant streaming service. It's as cheap as we can make it, and we also want to give our fans more control and so there's a deal if you sign up now where you get 30% off for the first year and can vote on our next show, plus we will never implement any measures to prevent account sharing, one person can share with whoever they want. We're still going to upload trailers and premiers on YouTube, and we will NOT be deleting anything that's already up here. We hope you can support us, because it's your support that matters to us more than anything else.

Everyone: Oh my god you guys are such assholes who hate poor people, what the fuck is your problem!! How dare you abandon us, here's a huge paragraph about how your shows are the only thing that makes my life worth living because [xyz systemic issue], just so you know you're actively ruining our lives by trying to get rid of ads, make better content, and focus on what the viewers want. Why didn't you switch to Nebula or something?? Idc if that's not how it works. Fuck you all, I'm going to go review bomb all your videos. This is so evil and scummy. Also, I'm pissed because people are claiming this isn't avaliable in the rest of the world, even though no one has offered a single source to back it up. Anyway back to watching Dropout, a service you have to pay for, which I'm not mad about at all.

Me:

#can y'all shut the fuck up holy shit #watcher #the watcher #watcher drama

[lackadaisycats]

Hello!

First of all I wanted to say that your art is super gorgeous and I am super into your setting because ahm DUH cats + crimes are meant together

So I have several questions for you if you don't mind!

Out of all the platforms, how come you are still on tumblr? I am new here and as far as I can see usually major creators don't really use it anymore (and good gosh you are major for me <3)

Have you ever felt jealous of other creators? Do you think your work does not get attention it deserves? BECAUSE I CERTAINLY DO. I bet my friends are sick of me trying to promote your work :D

Have you ever had any fears regarding your art? Or in general?

Hey, thanks! 1. Hmm…good question. It's been, what? At least ten years since Tumblr was really in its zany, tumultuous, hormonal heyday. Then came the Great Annihilation and the Female-Presenting-Nipple Fallout. The ashes have settled and what remains is a, uh, mildly eccentric, post-apocalyptic ghost town? Like Mad Max, except everyone is wearing pastels, sipping tea and chuckling cryptically to themselves about something amusing while fussing with their herb garden. Or thereabouts. Maybe the chaos agents lost interest and everyone else who dwelled here grew up into rather chill adults. I don't know. Either way, I'm kind of liking its vibe lately? I use other social media too. As someone trying to earn a living as a freelance artist, I sort of have to. I'm on Twitter. I'm on Instagram. I'm on YouTube. I have the comic up on Webtoon. I've even got a TikTok for animated stuff. I feel way more at ease here, though. There's less pressure to perform, and to do it aggressively and relentlessly so as to appease a nebulous, uncaring demigod of an algorithm. And when you're doing that amidst a morass of other people, when everything you labor over is reduced to "content", it gets to feeling like you're just flailing futilely around in a stormy ocean. Tumblr doesn't feel like that. No one is vying for massive success on tumblr. From a functionality standpoint, for me, this is still the best place to post a bunch of large images all at once without having to fully reformat everything. And I can answer questions in whatever exceedingly verbose way my heart desires without hitting a character limit…

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2. Ah, well, thanks very much. I really appreciate the of word-of-mouth championship! Promotion coming from an authentic place is absolutely the most gratifying kind (as long as your friends aren't too annoyed with it). It's difficult to objectively measure something like deservedness, though. Sometimes I feel guilty for the amazing good fortune I've had to be able to pursue some of my dreams. Sometimes it's an emotional, physical and financial struggle that has me questioning my life choices and frustrated that the universe doesn't spend any effort trying to balance sweat and tears against reward. Simultaneously, I know many artists who haven't had any of the opportunities I have in spite of - in my estimation - deserving it as much or more than I do. In a more perfect world, things would just be better for creators on the whole. And, well, for most people in general. And yes, I have experienced envy with a bitter edge, mostly when I was a younger, immature artist. I think envy is a pretty natural human reaction - it can be an overall positive motivator to see what other artists have been able to achieve and to desire some of the same level of skill or success. It can also easily turn into resentment that unleashes a whole array of destructive thought patterns and behavior. As I've grown older, I've found fewer and fewer reasons to really feel envious of anyone, though. You come to realize success is a matter of perception, a fleeting feeling, a pyrrhic victory, a largely illusory thing, and that other artists are your allies more than they are your competition. You come to value the things that are the actual substance of your life - like treasured time doing your thing (and maybe even doing it with other artists you enjoy) - more than you value the phantom triumphs and validations you imagine others possess.

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3. Oh yes. Fear is all around. Where to even begin? Fear of disappointing people, fear of ultimately wasting the time of the other artists I'm working with, fear of doing some harm, fear of accidentally offending someone, fear of disproportionate reprisals for accidentally offending someone, fear of losing everything in some contract arrangement gone bad, fear of injury that stops me from being able to continue working, fear of falling short of what I wanted to do, fear of income sources going under, fear of present political situations escalating and upending everyone's lives so profoundly that art isn't even an option any longer….and many more! They're always stacked and looming. All I know is that, while it's good to let rational fears make you careful and aware and prepared, you can't let them stop you.

[blueberry-lemon]

the never-ending hustle bums me out

I've posted before about how I worry about how hard it is to be a creative freelancer online these days, especially for artists and musicians.

I wrote about social media starting to splinter last year. And then later I wrote down some truly pessimistic fears over here.

But I had one more thing on my mind about posting work online, so here it goes:

It makes me sad when I see people having to do the online content creator dance to get more Likes, Shares, and Followers.

And to be absolutely crystal-clear, I'm not judging everyone who is doing these things. I completely sympathize and I understand being in a situation (especially financially) where it feels that there is no other choice. It just bums me out. Especially the feeling that platforms make us dance and beg for attention. I'm mad at the tech companies and all the ways that they leave breadcrumbs out, telling people that it's easy to build an audience on their websites when it isn't at all and the engagement doesn't always translate into anything.

Elaboration below.

Everyone's gotta hustle, and I get that.

You have to put effort in to get eyeballs on your stuff, whether you're doing it for your income or just as a hobby. But it bums me out when someone was originally doing something they were passionate about, and now all of a sudden they're uploading like 5 Youtube videos a week with clickbait thumbnails and the whole nine yards, or tweeting with all sorts of hashtags, trying desperately to get "picked up" by the algorithm so that they can get some forward momentum and followers.

I think it's the "picked up by the algorithm" or "hoping to go viral" thing that bothers me especially. Because it's so nebulous, with ever-shifting goalposts that the companies who make these platforms don't care about at all. Even creators who DO have over 100k or 1m followers still struggle to maintain their livelihood because of all the ever-shifting preferences of the (supposed) algo.

This all came back to mind recently because of a mini trend on Twitter where creators are pretending to repost their own art to get more retweets. Basically, the theory is that people who steal art and repost it get more retweets than creators, so it's worth trying to pretend to be a reposter to get more people to share your art. "Woahhh, who drew this??" as a caption on your own drawing.

If I'm being totally honest, I don't really care about this little trend-of-the-day either way. I thought the original (now deleted) tweet was interesting and funny, and I'm sure most artists who have tried this afterward are doing it as a joke. I also think the lesson isn't really to say "yo who did this??" but rather just that people tend to retweet things with shorter, snappier, more relatable captions rather than a long self-promo post. I'm sure, psychologically, that self-promo posts with hashtags tend to turn a lot of people off, so they don't retweet them.

But in the grand scheme of things, I don't think any of these small tricks are going to make the difference in people having success or fun with their creative work. @erica had some nice thoughts about it over here and I'm inclined to agree. When the never-ending hustle to make social media work for your art feels hopeless, I think it's because the particular treadmills that you're running on might actually be hopeless. It's exhausting to constantly push more for more Likes, Shares, and Follows. I know that it's pretentious for me to say this (full-disclosure: i make a living off working for an indie game studio and don't currently hustle for freelance commissions) but I think scraping every last Like, Share, and Follow you can grab is unfortunately not going to change your life.

This is purely anecdotal, but no one who I support on Patreon or Twitch or whatever is someone who I just randomly saw on my timeline with like "cool art" or "a funny joke." It tends to be people whose work really speaks to me, or more likely, someone who speaks to me as a person because of their own thoughts, life, and experiences.

At the end of the day, it's probably more worth it (emotionally yes, financially maybe) to forge connections and bonds with people in smaller crowds. Places outside of Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, Youtube, and TikTok. Places in real life, like conventions and meet-ups. Places on the "smaller" web, like forums, Discord servers, personal blogs, etc.

But, again....................what are we all to do? It sucks. And if there's a chance, even a small 1% chance, that you can get more followers, peers, friends, clients, and customers by hustling on these huge platforms.....I totally understand why everyone does it.

It just bums me out to see it. Particularly because I know that it takes time. And it takes effort. And mental and emotional energy. And all of that time, effort, and energy is probably better spent somewhere else, making the actual work that you like making and doing cool shit and exploring your own ideas and talking to people who really do follow you because your work speaks to them.

It also sucks because it pushes everyone into being the same type of "content creator" rather than specifically being a painter, or animator, or composer. Everyone feels compelled to make short-form video content, or microblog, or whatever it is that people say will make you go viral that week.

It all just sucks big-time and maybe it's obnoxious that I'm even writing this. My heart goes out to everyone freelancing. I have my fingers crossed that more stuff emerges that makes a clearer path forward. Patreon has thankfully helped make this life slightly easier for some people, but hopefully other tools will come out to supplement that and give people a safety net in case Patreon shits the bed.

#blog #blogofkylelab #social media #social media meta #art

[j1r4ch2]

I'll admit that my opinion is probably colored by the cynicism of never succeeding at making money being a creative and instead constantly scrambling back and forth from various min wage entry level industries just to make ends meet, but i think that the way artists are conceptualizing AI video rendering as the end of the world is kind of ridiculous.

Obviousely the possibility of artistic jobs being downsized is very real. There is a present reality of AI taking good jobs from real people. It sucks. It's awful. Real people are suffering; I'm not denying that.

But at the same time this technological paradigm isn't going away any time soon, and as it is now, is way too resource intensive to replace every artist making a living with thier work.

Maybe someday down the road enough GPU farm services will be widely enough available where it is feasible for companies to use generative AI for all of their media needs, thus eliminating countless jobs for artists who spent decades of their life honing a skill, but if being demoted from a professional artist to a hobbyist is the end of the world for some people I seriously question why they practice their craft in the first place.

If it was always for the money, then let the robots take the burden of performing the role of a artist from you, and please relearn creating just to feel something inside of you.

We've had knitting machines and mass produced clothing and textiles for ages, yet in this day where my car can drive itself, people spend hours learning to do fibercrafts etc. And you aren't hearing about etsy fiber artists making 60k/year from their work yet they still enjoy the creative process of it!

This is a nuanced conversation, and a lot of people in poverty situations are going to lose access to their jobs as it becomes automated away, in a more exponentially growing version of what's been going on since 2008 and even back to the 90's.

Its a real problem, but the majority of creators i see whining about this on tumblr, YouTube etc. are middle class or higher individuals who's only experience in blue collar work is the half year they spent working part time at their university campus Starbucks.

A lot of people think they're mad because automation is threatening the validity of their job, but they're actually mad because they think learning a creative skill makes them better than your average blue collar worker and they're appaled at the idea of being the same as the people who run their electric grids, clean their sewers, and stock their supermarkets.

Theyre just using the cultural backlash against explotative machine learning (which is a justified backlash, it's fucking wrong for these generative models to be stealing existing work of art and incorporating it into its training, that's not what I'm defending here) as an excuse to dodge the awareness that they don't think anyone should be doing blue collar work because surely they never dreamed of doing it.

As it stands now generative AI models are too resource intensive to truly replace the scale of workers people act like they will, and the advancement of ML algorithms has enough real potential to better people's lives that its not going away, so I think aside from doing the work of protecting our existing art with things like nightshade etc, it's important to be realistic and give up the fantasy that we are at war with AI companies, and must win, or even more delusion at war with the very concept of machine learning.

Its reminiscent of people who were afraid of computers in 1995 and now can't function in their daily life without the help of their gen z loved one to help them navigate the most basic of user interfaces.

Society will advance, regardless of how we like it, all we can do is be resourceful about it, and find ways that the advancement benefits us.

#Or yall can go on daydreaming about dismantling algorithms or something #Personal #AI

[jaythelay]

I'd go to college for video editing if I didn't find out as a kid how fucking BAD it was. Perhaps it's improved now, but with the fact it's so social media driven, I imagine it's only gotten exponentially worse.

A cousin of mine came over and saw that I was using Camtasia, and that they were taught editing, with it, in college. In. College. Camtasia.

By this point in time, I had already figured out how to break the thing in order to make animations via the zoom tool, figured out how to greenscreen effectively better than anyone else, and had made several half hour long videos, to the point that even I knew this thing was a scam of a product, and completely useless for someone wanting to improve. It's a good starter, don't get me wrong, if you'ree just getting into video editing, Camtasia (legally obtained) is the peak to start.

But oh my god if it isn't pathetic as an editing program.

So, imagine being told that people paying for college are using a program that you've been using for years, while you're literally breaking the thing to make it work towards your whims, for Youtube Videos, knowing full well, this thing isn't good for professional use in any case you could imagine. This thing is like a suped up windows movie editor, that's what we're discussing being used in Colleges.

I was like...13? At 13 I was more advanced than college kids. Yeah. No. I'm not paying for college or bothering with it. That would honest to god, Crush My Soul if I walked in and Saw fucking Camtasia. I'd throw a god damn fit. I'd be so mad that any money was put towards fucking CAMTASIA.

Maybe things have changed, but I'm not interesting in learning how to set up lights for facecams or how to game the algorithms or some pathetic shit I guarantee alot of colleges are doing now. That's the kinda bottom you don't get to far up from in just a over a decade.

Gross. That's what I can only feel about college in general. Go into forever growing debt for sub-amateur skills you easily could've learned yourself, faster, and without any price of entry. Of course for medical shit, obviously it can't be too bad, but anything artistic? Naaaaaaaaaah. Scams by amateurs. I wouldn't even run a college class, but I can tell you for a fact, I was better than whatever nut they hired for that class, at 13.

God the world changed so hard. I remember when I was actually kind've unique, now kids are smarter than me doing better than me with far better than I had to work with. Good. I'm glad we don't need college to make good edited content. But you'll NEVER be the first to do a Let's Play of the Half-Life 2 Beta. That's forever mine. Go claim your own.

#rambling #college #sorta #Understand this blog had no purpose other than to store thoughts for people to read and go #huh #that's stupid #and move on with their day haha #Pure rambling is all this place will ever be #and of course can't forget the occassional politics or the ongoing genocide by israel upon Palestinians

[thetreetopinn]

After perusing my youtube homepage to see what the algorithm might be erroneously trying to recommend to me, I came across something and felt compelled to leak my unloveliness across the internet.

I am continuously baffled by the fact that there are still people out there who think that a specific tactic is wise and or good--though it probably IS somewhat efficacious.

You've probably seen these channels. They have flashy thumbnails and attention-grabbing titles like "IS MARVEL DEAD!?" or "DISNEY HAS RUINED STAR WARS!!" or some shit like that.

Just look at these:

I'm not going to bother sharing the name of this channel. I've already told youtube to not recommend it to me anymore. The video that brought this channel to my attention was "DISNEY DOESN'T UNDERSTAND LIGHTSABERS!!" which... um... okay... it's a fictional weapon, and I didn't really see anything in the mainline Star Wars movies that suggested this but go off, king.

Just looking at the thumbnails, without clicking on any of them to watch the videos, they all seem like reactionary, factory-fresh hot-takes just WAITING for you to get mad and write an angry comment because negative engagement is still engagement. I could be completely wrong. I could click on any one of these and it could be a thoughtful discussion of why some people think the thing found in the thumbnail, and it's intended to be satire to draw in people who WANT to argue. It very well could.

I don't want to click to find out.

Because it's just as likely--if not more likely--that these are all exactly what it says on the tin. It could be that it's done in a satirical manner to make fun of these kinds of reactionary knee-jerk people... but there's a problem with this thinking.

Satire is only effective if you KNOW that it's satire.

Satire--by definition--must be obvious, otherwise, it runs the risk of being confused for the very thing that it is attempting to satirize. At which point, it stops being satire. Oops.

I get channels like this popping up in my recommendations from time to time, because the Youtube algorithm is just... really good at understanding me... just the absolute best, no notes, completely perfect, roll it out to everyone and it will solve world peace.

(see how I used satire there?)

Every time I find one of these channels, I have to take a moment to look through their list of videos to look for the common red flags: - Click-bait thumbnails using reactionary hooks - Click-bait titles of the same sort - A relatively high video release cadence (multiple videos a month with relatively similar subjects) - An 'About' description that says A LOT without saying much

According to this person, "The Last Jedi" is, to quote them, 'very, very bad'. Now, far be it for me to say that someone is wrong for not liking a movie. If you don't like The Last Jedi, that's your right to hold that opinion. I don't agree, but that doesn't mean I'm right and you're wrong...

...that said... there's a very specific kind of person who thinks it's super important to announce that they think The Last Jedi is very, very bad. In their About description.

And right here is what I'm talking about when I say there's a specific kind of person who thinks it's super important to announce to the world that they are a big-brained genius who "knows" that a specific star war was one of the bad ones.

It's also why I don't think this person is attempting satire... but I know there are plenty of people who there who DO attempt satire of this kind of thing--and they end up looking exactly like the thing they're trying to satirize.

I don't really have much of a point here.

I guess I'm just kind of ranting.

I'd like a better class of video to be shown in my recommendations--not this hot garbage.

But that youtube algorithm just KNOWS ME SO WELL!!!

I guess that's why I follow a bunch'a folks whose work I genuinely like over on Nebula, so that I don't always have to put up with this nonsense when I'm looking for good stuff to watch.

[sn0tcl0wn]

on one hand take all my rants with a grain of salt because i'm only partially serious in my delivery but i very much do hold those opinions. specifically the ones about social media and this tumblr vs everyone else bullshit i keep seeing. you are not immune to algorithms, but many of you clearly are incapable of using them and it shows. this is the future now, we have to learn how to use these tools if we want to have positive experiences using sites and apps that primarily utilize them. either get over it and learn or get over it and stop bitching about that when the real issues aren't even the algorithms themselves. that is a neutral force and this fear of curated content is so paranoid. like the only times i see shit i dont wanna see on tiktok or youtube is if i go looking for shit i wouldn't usually have looked up or hit tags on out of curiosity and it was quickly remedied after a week of doing my normal thing and simply hitting the "i dont want to see this" button. it works on reddit too.

the only site i've really had the bad experiences y'all talk about regarding other apps is tumblr. like, for example, whenever someone i follow starts posting stuff i don't like meaning i can't even say "don't show me that", i have to manually put tags into the blocklist or straight up unfollow people i like because i cant just hit a button that makes it so i never have to see that shit again. like it even goes as far as to ask what you didn't like so to further help your algorithm. tumblr just shows you shit and makes users do everything themselves making the UI pretty shitty if you asked me.

i love tumblr and im not leaving, but i will complain and refuse to act like it's somehow better or even a good site. y'all are just mad because you don't wanna learn how to use another app like you had to learn tumblr and you expect everything to be handed to you with minimal effort. you go on and on about how algorithms just give you content but you don't actually learn to work with it to get what you want. then you complain. because you don't know how to use the app. and that's fine. but it's still annoying as fuck when i read your posts and know for a fact your bad experience was your own fault for not learning how to use the damn app properly while simultaneously shitting on them for not knowing how to have a fulfilling experience on tumblr.

(also we totally have fascists, pervs, and all the same kinda scum you find on the other sites too, so it isn't even like we're "safer". so don't even talk to me about safety issues. tumblr is a hotbed for predators and fash recruiters. we are not immune and, in many ways, we're ultimately the fucking cause of this shit.)

[akookminsupporter]

ok dumb question and i am embarrassed to ask but the thought occurred to me, there is so much jikook on youtube, twitter and other social media (yay). we see all the jikook moments that are true and not faked with edits and slo-mo because we can watch original content and see the truth and know 99% it must be real. but someone like us who focus on jikook all the time we might not be exposed to any taekook or jihope or v-hope or other...i know there are ‘cute moments’ between all of them but...

are there not some equivalent ‘moments’ with other pairs and i just don’t see it because algorithms only show me jikook?

i have not seen any evidence or heard anyone speak of equivalent moments but i was wondering if its because they are shielded from me. i am truly curious how these other people think there are any other real couples in BTS but i thought, maybe i just don’t see the stuff they see.

no evidence of other pairs who wait for each other after rehearsal? or ride together often? or go out together when not working? or stick their hands down the other’s shirt to keep them warm?  i am just curious and afraid to search because i don’t want my youtube filled with taekook but i thought maybe asking might satisfy my curiosity if you happen to know?

i find it hard to believe people blindly think what they think is true if there is another couple in bts besides jikook. and if they do that is sad for them.

i believe in watching complete original content and so far i have not come across anything other than what looks like jungkook and jimin being so so close but i am only 2 year old army so still a little new. there is so much to watch even from other countries where they do shows and stuff i know i am missing watching a lot. thanks and i hope i didn't make anyone mad.

Anon I'm a bit confused. If you really watch original content shouldn't your question already be answered? In fact, if you really watch original content it doesn't make much sense for you to ask those questions.

There are other ships that have cute moments but they lack what for me Jimin and Jungkook have plenty of: carnal attraction, desire. The way they look at each other is just different. The way they treat each other, the intimate familiarity there seems to be between them. And that just their relationship screams more, at least to me. That's something that in all the BTS content that I've watched since September 2020, I haven't seen in other pairs. And I think at this point I've seen almost all of it.

It's easy to list "suspect" moments between other pairs or flirty moments between them but one thing they don't have is consistency. And that's a key part of what differentiates Jimin and Jungkook's dynamic from other pairs and their dynamics with other members. Plus the context in which many of those moments happen make those moments make sense and that makes them not an indicator of anything, at least to me. Something that I don't think is mentioned much and which also makes a difference is the reaction of the other members. Not for nothing many of us always say 'poor Joon' or say that Hobi knows things and that he should share it with us.

This fandom or this part of the fandom has something and that is that it has to magnify everything that the ships within BTS do. And that goes for shippers of all ships without exception. So for other ships, the most common thing like a hug is a sign of a relationship but they don't see or don't want to see the difference in those hugs, for example. And it's because of things like that that for many people other ships are real. The funny thing is that for the fandom, with the exception of jikookers, the only ship that isn't real or has no chance of being real is jikook.

This fandom in general I think, celebrates almost everything other ships do or say. They laugh, joke about it etc., but when it comes to jikook? 98% of the fandom is silent, except for jikookers of course, and those non-jikookers who dare to say something, are almost always bullied into retracting or deleting what they posted. It sounds dramatic but sadly it is not.

But at the end of the day, everything I said above is the opinions I formed from what I have seen. I recommend you not to look for anything on youtube, definitely not video analysis, you better look for original content and pay maybe a little more attention to the other pairs, I guarantee you you will answer all the questions you have.

#anon #ask #ships #shippers #watch original content

[thetimelordbatgirl]

MC films at this point just feel like a long series of ’Please clap/scream now’ moments specifically engineered to elicit reactions or viral moments on social media, and I guess provide materials for those corny online articles like ‘Ending of Doctor Strange 2 explained!’ and ’Five facts about Wanda only comic book readers would know!’; I wasn’t surprised at all to learn that Disney mines online spaces like Quora with algorithms to find out what people like for their plots, and sadly, it works; and I feel like the general rise in anti-intellectualism that derides critical thinking as snobbery exacerbates the problem.

I'm sorry but, five facts about Wanda just makes me think: "Number one: she's whitewashed in the MCU."-but those lists will never admit it so.....

I have not heard of Quora today but upon looking it up, I think its just sad to rely on websites like that. Like, why not just look at your fanbase sometimes instead of looking at question and answer websites???? Or the damn comics even....since that's what the MCU is meant to be adapted from.....

But yeah, I do see where your coming from there. Like, MCU is kind of just desperately trying to replicate the reactions they got from Infinity War-Endgame, and they failing hard each time. They think people just want cameos and cameos, but like, once you get past the excitement for seeing old Spidey villains and the two Peter's in No Way Home and having Captain Carter appear in Multiverse of Madness along with Mr. Fantastic and Black Bolt....your kind of left with people realizing how shit the pacing of the films was, let alone how shit the stories were. Even Endgame fell victim to people realizing this, because once the dust settles, you get people looking at the film critically and it never ends well for the MCU nowadays.

I would say at least thankfully people seem to be looking critically at Multiverse of Madness in some areas. Because people who saw the writer fuck up Loki obviously saw him proceed to fuck up Strange and co and are obviously finding the film very bad in areas of pacing, let alone how the story handles Wanda in wake of WandaVision and so on. Like, the only people praising Multiverse of Madness are your typical suspects and people on youtube and twitter and somehow Wanda stans praising Wanda gaining a body count while wanting to kill a child.

But the fact that this makes MCU money anyway is probably a sign that no matter what bad writing in favor of cameos and shit, the MCU does.....people will still buy into it and act like its the greatest thing ever and rinse and repeat.

#multiverse of madness spoilers #mom spoilers #anti mcu #like people seem to only enjoy this movie for wanda.....somehow.....and for cameos #once you look past it its meh #not even miss america has people excited much as people only got excited cause dad strange content #aka the irondad people finding new content

[atalienart]

Your arts good an all but I dont get why your so tumblr famous. Dont get me wrong, I'm not hating I'm just trying to understand why some artist are so known yet others arent but both are on the same skill level

First of all, I’m not tumblr famous. Idk why one person gets more attention and the other one doesn’t, but I think it’s a lot about luck. If you post something at the right moment, the right person sees it and is in a good enough mood to reblog it, if someone popular notices your work, if the algorithm works for your advantage, if your work speaks to other people - it’s all luck. I’m on tumblr since 2013, it’s 7 years. People come and go, some stay, some are bots. I think if the person is persistent with sharing their works, and constantly improves their skills people will be interested. If the stories that you’re telling resonate with people, they’ll be interested, even if your skills are less developed. If you show things they like to look at, they’ll be interested. If you have a certain personality, you’ll attract more people. But there are so many tastes, so many different things people pay attention to, that you never know what, when, where and why stuff happens. You can either embrace it, or be jealous, or mad about other people, or you can check some youtube videos where people give you some advice how to get popular on different social media, some of their tips can be very usefull as well. Dunno, good luck.

#Anonymous #Q&A