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Keep anything you submit to the Animanga RPC (Jcink, Proboards, etc)

I'll get to things when I get to things.

Use AI idgaf // i agree. but keep it to yourself

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Use AI idgaf

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OP was just falsely equating p2's ban on AI as a type of creative censorship when it's not lol. The question for OP is why do they care? If you want to use AI just don't post ads on p2. // bcs waaaahhhhh, they won't let me post my AI site anymore wahhhh.

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The fact is jcink and the community at large is a open idea where the consistent point is to have many members and that requires more open and more freeform business minded pr and bs and stuff. Even if you are thinking artistically with your higher brain - essentially it is slop content for the lowest denominator.

Coupled with the hyperpoliticalization of most - it essentially is regurgitating whatever talking point that is more accepted by the wider audience. Your lived experience of being x doesn't matter to the collective. The collective wants everyone to do the thing and shut up with any things that can cause friction from social, political, and personal issues.

Because we can't stand gatekeeping and everything has to be for that x person who complains from accessibility for a desktop on mobile, or having AMAB people play women characters, to the fact the admin talks funny - it matters not because we essentially make slop for the lowest denominator so that we can have dividends in the source of members and activity.

The fact is the more accepting we are the more isolating we feel because we're putting up with x for our art and we feel entitled about it. Your lived experience in your life means jacksquat because we play fake people, we use anime avatars for our discord profiles, and sit shoulder to shoulder with groomers, sexpests, and traumadumpers. Either everyone's individual feelings and sensibility are valued or they are not and we can see here on this blog in specific, that is not the case.

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OP was just falsely equating p2's ban on AI as a type of creative censorship when it's not lol. The question for OP is why do they care? If you want to use AI just don't post ads on p2.

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thinking about the time a yt lady here nagged a black woman in sassy snappy aave because she made a little joke about tiktok. this place is bent dude

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A lot of the stuff you're talking about (policing who can RP what, who is “allowed” to portray certain identities, policing language, deciding what people are or aren't allowed to enjoy, publicly shaming people over perceived insensitivity, etc.) definitely became way more prominent in online spaces over the past decade or so. But we've seen those conversations happening way outside of RPC too. Universities, social media, fandom spaces, etc. It's a much broader cultural thing than just “white people ruined it.”

I think reducing it to race kind of weakens the point you're trying to make. If the actual issue is that a particular social culture encouraged people to become hyperfocused on identity, representation, language, and policing each other's behavior, then criticize that. You don't really need “white people” to be the explanation. / Different anon but there is something so inherently insensitive about telling a person of color that they’re “reducing the argument to race.” You don’t have their lived experience, so you aren’t necessarily in a position to decide that race is a weaker way to interpret a situation. You can disagree with their conclusion, but framing their perspective as an irrational fixation on race rather than engaging with why they see race as relevant can come across as dismissive of experiences you obviously don’t have. Mostly because it is very much a common rebuttal to people of color, especially online, and all it does is look callous. Sure they could have written it much more poignantly, but this is not a great response either. I do agree that the RPC is majority white-centric, and there are layers to this, nuance to be had, but if you cheapen someone else’s experience, it makes your own argument fall flat. Just saying.

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from AAVE to something predominately white overperformers (and let's not pretend the english-using side of the rpc isn't majority white) use to feel superior on an rp site. you can't use cis fcs to roleplay a character with a gender you identify with, you can't rp women as a AMAB rper, you can't say the n-word as a black person because a white person's fear is seeing it being said and they can't say it /

A lot of the stuff you're talking about (policing who can RP what, who is “allowed” to portray certain identities, policing language, deciding what people are or aren't allowed to enjoy, publicly shaming people over perceived insensitivity, etc.) definitely became way more prominent in online spaces over the past decade or so. But we've seen those conversations happening way outside of RPC too. Universities, social media, fandom spaces, etc. It's a much broader cultural thing than just “white people ruined it.”

I think reducing it to race kind of weakens the point you're trying to make. If the actual issue is that a particular social culture encouraged people to become hyperfocused on identity, representation, language, and policing each other's behavior, then criticize that. You don't really need “white people” to be the explanation.

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So the problem the original person has isn't AI writing but wokeness? / I mean lowkenuinely once wokeness hit the forum animanga scene, most of the people in it did become unbearable and exhausting - and I don't mean that in an anti-woke state, I respect the attempt to make people aware - I mean it in the way that a lot of people just seem overperforming in their "inclusivity" and "awareness" to social/political issues. There's a difference between being a good person and convincing a room that you're a good person by highlighting what a good person you are. / I'm ngl this post (https://www.tumblr.com/animangafiles/800244745193553920/the-second-catalyst-for-the-scene-dying-is-imo) really highlights the conversation being had here. and as a poc rper who watched in real time the word "woke" be bastardized into the cheap copy it is today, it very much rings true. from AAVE to something predominately white overperformers (and let's not pretend the english-using side of the rpc isn't majority white) use to feel superior on an rp site. you can't use cis fcs to roleplay a character with a gender you identify with, you can't rp women as a AMAB rper, you can't say the n-word as a black person because a white person's fear is seeing it being said and they can't say it, you can't enjoy smut or you need to be put down like a sick dog, you bitches (general) won't let anybody do anything!

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So the problem the original person has isn't AI writing but wokeness? / I mean lowkenuinely once wokeness hit the forum animanga scene, most of the people in it did become unbearable and exhausting - and I don't mean that in an anti-woke state, I respect the attempt to make people aware - I mean it in the way that a lot of people just seem overperforming in their "inclusivity" and "awareness" to social/political issues. There's a difference between being a good person and convincing a room that you're a good person by highlighting what a good person you are.

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if AI writing isn't that much of a thing, shouldn't Pixel's stance on AI... be a non-issue? But that person was saying that Pixel being like that is why the whole community is dying? Because of.. a very common stance?

Because too woke?

So the problem the original person has isn't AI writing but wokeness? What's their problem actually?? Bc AI writing isn't why the community is dead, it's randoms like them trying to tear down people who actually try to build a community

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but there is 0 point in talking to any of you because you'll never get it. // this is hilarious coming from the person who called most of the community "20th century nazi's" a few posts ago. This performative accepting bs never gets us anywhere. Either talk to these points and put your words on the page from your own head or get off the stage. You're right, the animanga scene in other forums are probably less caustic. You're right AI isn't the only reason that people aren't fleeing with their hair in fire from our delicate ecosystem of americans. What is the issue is the community and how insular it is and how it is a net negative that most of them will absolutely not lower their standards when we're in a zeitgeist of main character behavior and little empathy. However what baffles me is you think this is a community problem. It's a symptom of half or more of the voices here and we have no control over that. I know the unofficial motto of this blog is "lower your expectations" or simply have none - but you cannot be that dense it actually is a personal problem that's become a community wide symptom. The only change in this that makes a "community" survive, is being better people. Considering you are literally calling us horrible murderers and war crimers (words have weight!) I don't think you would want to be here. Even better yet, no one's stopping you from writing with AI or other shit, just do it and not host an ad on Pixel. Shocking I know but resources do in fact not care. If other languages are thriving, go there. Have fun. Stop focusing on this that you obviously don't care about, b-baka.

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i don't use chatgpt for posts but. you guys are bullies all of you, so of course you'll gang up on the only thing you can think of. you are all like brainless seagulls all saying the same thing driving out anyone who even remotely doesn't fit into your tiny box of existence. this community has become such a joke. you are all killing animanga, all of you who think that you have to police/bully people into your mentality. like i said other language speaking animanga forum communities are THRIVING. only the English one is dying and its 1000% because of all of you people and your creative killing toxic puke that you are making everyone else swallow. the whole ai thing isn't even remotely the only issue. there are many. but there is 0 point in talking to any of you because you'll never get it. you're all too far gone.

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ain't nobody out here using ai to write. // u sure?

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people have a right to desire human writing in the human writing space, if you want to rp with ai just go to that one ai rp site. char ai // let's be real here for a sec guys. the animanga jcink comm is down to like 20 members. 30 if we're being generous. ain't nobody out here using ai to write. but you know what has been showing up in our space? ai ads. ai generated prompts. ai graphics. ai character art. so i don't really get why y'all crying about writing with robots when it's not even a thing.

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im ngl now that the ai ban is official im gonna miss seeing the elyasia ads. farewell sweet dragon princesses with uke/seme designations / it's giving perpetually trapped in the 2000's and feels weird to be based on a fanfic that only the creator knows about, and i get this vibe that the head admin does not want to steer away from that vision and can't accept it doesn't appeal to modern day roleplayers, it's kind of sad really

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