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(most of) ACHIEVEMENT HUNTER REUNION STREAM MOODBOARD

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About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

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No see results option, I'm forcing you to perceive yourself. rb for more results plus

#i'm probably cooler online but like i tell some stories to my students about irl shit and they think i'm awesome

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#bruce springsteen and mcr and frank sinatra and bon jovi and queen latifah #dionne warwick and lauryn hill and frankie valli and whitney houston #so many great musicians from new jersey but also i'd miss my other faves

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oh shit, it's 3/21/23, 32123, palindrome day

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you have to stay alive. you're going to be such a beautiful middle aged freak. young freaks will see you in the street and know that things can be okay.

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still thinking about the watcher move as more comes out about steven lim, and i thought of something funny.

he wants to do his 'worth it' show and eat expensive food and travel around the world, and do so on the viewers' dime. if he wanted that, they should have budgeted for it.

keith from the try guys does like a weekly 'eat the menu' and some of these choices have been pricey. i mean, eating the whole menu of any place can get pricey, no doubt. they just uploaded a 'eat the menu, expensive french food' video TODAY.

difference is, they probably budgeted for it, planned it in advance, and made sure they could afford the place they chose. they made smart business decisions over the course of probably months.

#watcher #the try guys #steven lim #keith habersberger #sam speaks

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truly is insane how a night of trauma can bring siblings together

#sam speaks #really just spent like 30 minutes talking with my brother about fuck all and it was the best time #like hot damn he's a funky lil dude #he should be my best friend

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sure I have "problems" but a bagel would help. a bagel would help.

#reminds me of that vine #the one where the guy is possessed and wants a bagel while the demon wants souls

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The dehumanization of Palestinians goes BEYOND the things we usually see, such as racism and Islamophobia.

It’s also the tokenization, treating Palestinian bloggers as “inspiration” for an OC, the parasocial relationships people are starting to form with more well-known Palestinian bloggers, and NOW polls on who the “worst” Palestinian is. Even people who’re supposedly ally’s to the freedom for Palestine movement are voting because of quote on quote “curiosity”.

You don’t have to be outwardly racist to dehumanize someone. Dehumanization involves stripping a person of their humanity and turning them into whatever caricature you think fits them best, whether it’s to sell an agenda or treat them as a source of entertainment.

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saw a tiktok of a mother taking her very tiny daughter to an art museum and she’s just walking around going “whoooa” “woooaah” to everything but then they got to a marble statue of a nude woman lying on her back and the girl points and goes “mommy🫵” and i just immediately welled up with tears and all the comments are just laughing about it and of course it’s funny but how are you not insanely moved by the way art connects everyone on earth from a centuries-old sculptor to a toddler in 2023

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the watcher move is so disappointing bc if you're like me and only watched one series, maybe two, you're not gonna cough up $5-6 a month.

and someone made a really good point that some of their content is released bi-monthly, so instead of a new episode every week, it's once every two weeks. two episodes a month. which is a youtube upload schedule.

they won't survive unless they push to make a new episode of a series every week, or have something to put up when a series goes on a break or wraps a season up.

i think they really shot themselves in the foot with this one

#sam speaks #watcher

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watcher leaving youtube, moving to their own subscription based platform, AND deleting all of their current uploads from youtube. i really don't like that. that feels kinda scummy to me. at least keep the past uploads on youtube. is that wrong of me to say?

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#a dresser