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(Like markiplier fnaf) FUNNIEST SEASON IN YEARS
I will never be accepted into the greater artist community until I learn to love the acrylic charm. Yes master the American social media artist selling mass produced acrylic charms with their own digital design printed upon it is the most exploited proletariat in the world. No master I will never ever learn about the exploitation of global south workers. Yes master the acrylic charm was spontaneously generated as soon as the Artist paid a completely arbitrary fee. No master the Artist is the only person who matters
A mid-sized western art youtuber can hire a team to design a plushie, have that plushie manufactured in a South Asian country, get it shipped to America, and sell it for 30 dollars. And this is just some arbitrary number with no geopolitical context and if you, the Consumer, think it's too expensive. Then you are Starving The Artist, the poor poor prole who can't afford to eat but can, somehow, afford to use the labor of 400 Bengali women to make a plushie of a frog wearing stockings.
I have THOUGHTS that were too big for tags.
OP brings up a great topic. When you walk the rows of North American conventions (I speak to furry cons mostly), artist table after artist table seems to lean hard on the acrylic standeez, the keychains, the pins, the tags, the printed tees, the lanyards, the tapestries, the puzzles, the throw blankets... Someone is making those, and it isn't the artist. The "print on demand" market has exploded as technology has improved, so it's easier than ever to find an overseas factory to make you 1,000 acrylic keychains for cents each. And it sucks. It starts to feel that if you were to start a similar art business, you'd need to make that type of stuff to sell to succeed. "Oh, I guess being an artist means I'm a keychain monger now. Cool."
And I'm here to tell you that nahhhhh you don't gotta do that, actually!
I don't blame individual artists for falling into the "acrylic charm made overseas" trap described above, because capitalism forces us all to betray our values on the daily just to survive. We all do what's in our means. Digital artists especially have few options for merchandise that isn't mass-produced. It simply isn't financially feasible due to the capitalist system we're trapped in. Self-employed artists fall under the petite-bourgeois class and are still functionally a proletariat: a victim of the capitalist class. Even though we aren't a victim of wage theft from the ruling class, we're still dictated by their systems. Unless you, reader, uh, happen to own the factory and employ the workers that make those frog plushies, I guess.
BUT. Artists!! There is hope! There is a path away from acrylic-charm-hell. It is possible.
I have been a self-employed artist since 2020 and I do not manufacture anything overseas for my and my partner's art business*. Everything I sell either is made by me or by a company in the states, as local as I can. I'm a traditional artist, my only "merch" items are linoblock prints and patches (handmade, secondhand materials), pin buttons (made w/ my own secondhand machine), digital downloads, and printed things I pay other companies to make like prints and stickers. I don't need to sell pins, acrylic charms, lanyards, or whatthefuckever, if I don't want to. This is because the bulk of my income comes from selling original paintings and drawings. I'm an artist, not a merch designer. I want to spend my time drawing, not talking to an underpaid factory worker forced to write in their non-native language about meme keychains.
IT IS POSSIBLE to be an independent artist and not sell pounds of merch made in sweatshops. Hyperbole or not, "I will never be accepted into the greater artist community until I learn to love the acrylic charm," is false. (Most people I speak to are sick to death of acrylic charms, anyway.) It is so frustrating when consumers don't know where the stuff they buy comes from. I hate seeing mass-manufacturing practices seep into small art communities, too.
We can enact change in our small artist communities by being it.
*of course, we still are subject to relying on manufacturers from overseas, because half the shit we use is made is made by outsourced labor, so, y'know, no escape there
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Request from a friend: sans farming. Growing tomatoes in his backyard for Papyrus spaghetti sauce
Do you think he’s really lazy or just depressed and in need of a hobby. Maybe both?
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Please be aware that the "opt-out" choice is just a way to try to appease people. But Tumblr has not been transparent about when has data been sold and shared with AI companies, and there are sources that confirm that data has already been shared before the toggle was even provided to users.
Also, it seems to include data they should not have been able to give under any circumstance, including that of deactivated blogs, private messages and conversations, stuff from private blogs, and so on.
Do not believe that "AI companies will honor the "opt-out request retroactively". Once they've got their hands on your data (and they have), they won't be "honoring" an opt-out option retroactively. There is no way to confirm or deny what data do they have: The fact they are completely opaque on what do they currently "own" and have, means that they can do whatever they want with it. How can you prove they have your data if they don't give everyone free access to see what they've stolen already?
So, yeah, opt out of data sharing, but be aware that this isn't stopping anyone from taking your data. They already have been taking it, before you were given that option. Go and go to Tumblr's Suppport and leave your Feedback on this (politely, but firmly- not everyone in the company is responsible for this.)
Finally: Opt out is not good under any circumstance. Deactivated people can't opt out. People who have lost their passwords can't opt out. People who can't access internet or computers can't opt out. People who had their content reposted can't opt out. Dead people can't opt out. When DeviantArt released their AI image generator, saying that it wasn't trained on people who didn't consent to it, it was proven it could easily replicate the styles of people who had passed away, as seen here. So, yeah. AI companies cannot be trusted to have any sort of respect for people's data and content, because this entire thing is just a data laundering scheme.
Please do reblog for awareness.
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There's one charity that I haven't seen shared here personally, and that's Care for Gaza.
They're shared a lot on twitter as a reputable on-the-ground relief source. You can donate to their gofundme to help their efforts here.
They’re a grassroot organisation that regularly supply Palestinians with fresh food!
Once again recommending donations to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund. Not only is it a credible organization, you can donate any amount, so even if you don’t have much money, you can still contribute what you can towards humanitarian aid in Gaza. It takes donations via credit, PayPal, and mailed checks.
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