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if all works out well, on january 18th i'll have something to show you when mitmh 2024 becomes declassified.

👀

why does it automatically become huge NKFCDHGNLKMFDLKMNH

#thanks tumblr

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only like 5 of my friends are on tumblr and none of them are cookie run people, so it's really wacky for me to revive what used to be my CR tumblr and then they follow me and it's like "well shit. now do i make content for my 500 cookie run followers or my 5 friends"

i'll keep doing the former at least for now, but know that these days i mainly only think about the game bc i have a yt channel around it. over time i'll start expanding my interests and find more kinds of content to make and my posts & videos will finally start being coherent to everyone else

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NEW VIDEO!

this time i'm joined by cherrow, groiny and dreakt (top 100 arena player) to help me figure out how to play cookie run in a world where everything has 1 HP...

#cookie run kingdom #cookie run #yes i'm posting my videos here now #what are you gonna do about it

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it's about that time again (also i think i'm gonna become more active here bc fuck twitter)

getting this out of the way before it's too late

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comic studio: one year in

so, wow! comic studio is officially one year old as of last week. in that year, i've learned a lot about running websites, and i feel like it'd be fun to write a post going over how i feel about it, as well as showcasing my plans for the future of the site

the original concept

as you probably already know, comic studio is the sequel to cookie comic creator, with the aim of bringing easy sprite comic making to every fandom instead of just cookie run. so, how'd that go?

cookie run is still on top

i guess i can't say i'm surprised that cookie run continues to be the most popular comic maker, especially since i now even have a community of cookie run fans outside of the comic creator - see: my youtube channel - but i will say that i expected one of two things to happen when i released the site: (A.) the site would blow up and everybody would be talking about it (which happened in the cookie run fandom in late 2021), or (B.) the site would flop and literally nobody would use it...

interestingly, i was wrong - for the past 7 or 8 months, comic studio has been floating in this weird in-between, where a bunch of fandoms have small, thriving comic creator communities, but almost none of them as well-known as cookie run comic studio. exceeeeeept...

alphabet lore actually gets more visitors

i'm gonna be real with you, i didn't watch alphabet lore until about a month after the studio for it blew up. i had heard about the series from various random viral tweets, but the studio was almost entirely the doing of some 16 year old british kid named Jackmoo101...

i don't know how or why it happened, but in october of 2022, the alphabet lore comic studio started getting tens of thousands of users, and at this point (as far as i can tell) is the biggest alphabet lore fan community on the internet. believe me, i checked - the amino is dead, the subreddit has like 12 active users - and yet, comic studio sees thousands of alphabet lore comics per week

interestingly, despite getting less views, cookie run comic studio is still far ahead when it comes to the amount of comics posted to the site; this is because a lot of the users of alphabet lore comic studio are under 13, so they're not actually allowed to make an account. in the future, i plan to add a Youtube Kids-style mode where users under 13 can make an account and post comics, just without features like comments and messages that could be used to harm them

what about other fandoms?

while a couple other comic studios have seen moderate success (Friday Night Funkin Comic Studio is #8 and was retweeted by a huge FNF news account when it came out; My Singing Monsters Comic Studio has captured a solid 20% of the fandom for that game; Pizza Tower Comic Studio has been slowly rising up the ranks), i'm sorta starting to notice a pattern: most fandoms that are mostly run by adults don't really see the point of comic studio. all my non-cookie run friends have said at some point "your site is cool but i don't use it because i don't have any ideas", or "meh, the danganronpa studio you made is just OK, i'd rather use photoshop." and why shouldn't they? they're old enough, they know how to work an actual good image editor... the only major benefit comic studio provides to them is easy access to sprites, which doesn't come up on google - if you want PNGs of the south park characters, you'll go to the south park wiki, not the south park comic studio. and again, i totally understand that, i just feel like that's something i should work on

the genshin impact tiktok incident

in june of last year, some random tiktok account made a video about the genshin impact comic studio that got several hundred thousand views, 50k+ likes, and a metric ton of bookmarks. thousands of genshin fans flocked to the site, and for 3 days the genshin fandom on comic studio was lively... until, all of them left at once. why? well, this goes into why i run cookie run comic studio/creator in such a specific and perfectionist manner: people care a lot about how good it feels to use something, and if you don't have both quality and quantity of sprites, they're not gonna stick around

the problem with the genshin comic studio is that there's no good assets to be found - the only official 2d art of the characters emoting are the chibi LINE sticker packs that they occasionally release, and there's only like 4 expressions for like half the characters. other than that, the only other tab is the one with expressionless cutouts of all the models - who can really tell a story with that?

so, it's not a surprise that comic studio failed in the genshin fandom at large. unlike cookie run where i was able to both provide easy access to sprites that previously weren't cut out and also provide a compelling storytelling/guide-making/question-answering/etc. platform, a lot of other fandoms just... don't have anything nearly as useful or interesting to provide. so, what can i do?

3D will change EVERYTHING

(early development screenshot)

currently, there's no good one-size-fits-all solution to pose and take pictures of character models. source filmmaker/blender/etc. are way too hard to learn, mikumikudance usually requires you to go through and translate random japanese sites to download models, and vrchat requires you to get together a bunch of friends to act it out

this is where comic studio will come in (once i finish the feature): every studio will now be able to upload 3d models, hopefully in most popular formats, and have them converted to work with comic studio out of the box - creating an entirely new kind of 3D comic that has never been nearly as doable. and because there is no competition in that market, i genuinely believe that this update will someday 10x the size of comic studio - once people find out about it, everyone's gonna want to mess around with the studio for their favorite game or series, at least once - and at that point, all i gotta do is keep as many of those people around as i can

speaking of people sticking around, the other big problem with comic studio is that a lot of people just don't have ideas. especially older users just, don't know what to do with it - i'm even guilty of this, in that a majority of the update comics i used to make for cookie comic creator were ripoffs of various old, forgotten meme comics. so, what's my plan to solve this? well, i hate to say it, but...

yeah, it's AI

(design mockup example)

2024 update: i no longer plan to go through with this idea. the original text is provided below, but know that i have since changed my mind

i plan to add an optional feature where you can type in a prompt for a comic, like "Write a comic with GingerBrave and Cream Unicorn Cookie where they get ice cream together" and the machine will just... do it for you i have experimented with this in the past, and now that ChatGPT has made a lot of accessible LLMs pop up i plan to take advantage of that. with that said: i will never involve ai-generated art, ai voices, etc. because those are inherently harmful and are not worth supporting i won't add the feature until i can ensure that user input is NOT being used to train any models without their consent, and i will make sure all AI-generated comics are tagged properly so that anyone who doesn't want to interact can just block it out i personally see AI as a tool to help humans and little else, at least in its current state - and adding AI prompting to comic studio is an extension of that. it's just a way to quickly get an idea out; either to get a quick laugh out of you or your friends, or to set down a starting line for you to make your own comic out of. i think this will be a good thing if i do it right; if you have any feedback or questions, feel free to send them my way! i try to listen to everyone, even if i don't always take their suggestions

more help needed

the last thing i can do to help improve comic studio right now is to announce that i'm looking for moderators! if you're an active user on the site, have a discord account and want to help keep the streets of Comic Studio safe, apply here!

as of today, i've also finally finished the site translations into Spanish and Korean (!) i've been putting off asking for new translations until the whole site was translated so that i wouldn't have to immediately ask anyone for more later, but now that it's done i'm finally accepting help - if you know any other languages and want to see comic studio translated into them, send me a message - either on discord, or on here, or comic studio if you don't have any of that. together, i hope we can make the site accessible to everybody

closing thoughts

i still can't believe it's been a whole year already... what is my life? thank you to everyone who's supported me and my creation, and i hope to keep serving you well into the future. if you haven't seen already, the anniversary update is out now, which adds a bunch of social features that people have been requesting for a long time - tagging for comics and user-submitted sprites, comic reposting, and the ability to organize your comics into series. i hope you'll check it out!

-syrupyy

#comic studio #cookie comic creator

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merry unicorn week and a happy newnicorn week...

#cookie run #cookie run kingdom #cookie run fanart #cream unicorn cookie #unicorn week

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unicorn soup cream of soupicorn unicorn cream soup cream i hamv a qudrstion are you just,, not gonna add centipede? id understand if you dont

they'll be up at some point i just... don't really care about cookie run anymore? i have the files on my computer i just haven't uploaded them lol. i've been hyperfocused on coding and making youtube content bc that's what brings me joy

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#cookie run kingdom #cookie run #cookie run memes #affogato cookie #he'll figure it out. give him a second

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YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

some cookies

#gender

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Christmas has come early :D

Red Velvet's puzzle set, The Crimson General, is now available for beta testsolving!

10 puzzles plus a metapuzzle, including a pair of tough 4-star puzzles featuring the sour siblings!

Link to set (PDF)

As always, my asks and DMs are open for hinting and comments!

Credit to @syrupyy for the cookie run comics creator (streamlines my graphics work for max efficiency)

Happy solving!

Meanwhile, croissant's set is still available, now in PDF form :D

Link to set (PDF)

Link to previous post

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HELP I CANT UPLOAD MY COMICS HOW DO I DO IT

click share then a post button shows up

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it's about that time of year

cookie comic creator 1.2: now with NPCs!

just a small update: i added in all the NPCs i could find from ovenbreak and kingdom. enjoy! let me know if anything's missing or doesn't work right

cookiecomiccreator.co

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all the new cookie sprites have been added to cookie simulator and the comic makers (although i forgot to add any new costumes to cookie run comic studio lol oops. i'll fix it in the morning)

cookierun.comic.studio

#cookie comic creator #cookie run #comic studio

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#licorice cookie #cookie run #cookie run kingdom

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I can't log into my account from any device but the one I originally used. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING is working.

God.

the website never takes into account what device you're on. there's a 99% chance you're spelling your username or password wrong (probably your username), check the autofill on whatever device is working

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is he going to do it

#blink and you'll miss it...

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full list of cookies that can interact in the new crk update! now i just wish they gave cream unicorn some 🥲

#cookie run kingdom #cookie run #cookie run spoilers #cr spoilers