If this post reaches your dash after Jan 1st- YOU'RE NOT LATE to the party!!!
It's never too late to practice selective consumerism, and when companies try to pull bullshit it's up to us to say we won't stand for it by not continuing to use their product until they roll back the change. If we don't push back that's seen as consent, and more sites will follow in YouTube's (and Spotify's) footsteps.
And if this post reaches you before Jan 1st- GREAT! Please reblog (or even repost this on other socials- no need to credit!) to help get the word out as quick and as far as possible!
And if you have more questions on the hows and why's they're under the cut:
For those unaware, people started boycotting Youtube and Spotify earlier this year because of internet privacy and data safety concerns after they started implementing the ID age verification, as well to push back at this push towards mass surveillance poorly veiled as "we need to protect the kids!"
However, the first attempt made the mistake of giving a three day deadline - which resulted in poor turnout and high drop off.
We won't make that same mistake again. We'll "start" the boycott on Jan 1st, but keep pushing out the word even after it's started because it's never too late to join. (Yes, there have been those of us already boycotting for a minute now- but having looked around it seems like a relatively sparse group with little attention. Only reason we're calling for this "start date" is to hopefully get A LOT more people on the wagon)
No deadline. We're going to keep going until they roll the policy back, checking in at each financial quarter (every 3 months) to see how well they're listening. (Got this idea from the Kelloggs boycott)
I recommend also making your own posts and memes to spread the word. We need to make more noise.
Boycotts work if done effectively. This isn't just about YouTube, or Spotify. This is about precedent. If we don't push back that's seen as consent, and more sites will follow in YouTube/Spotify's footsteps.
Remember that we're boycotting YouTube/Spotify- NOT the creators on those platforms.
Your favorite creator is bound to have another way to support them, and I suggest you find out what that is. (i.e: do they have Patreon/Kofi? Something else? A different platform perhaps?)
This way they're not caught in the crossfire and can't be used as leverage to guilt you into abandoning the boycott. ("Oh a company wouldn't do that-" YES they would!)
I showed Nil to my parents who play Minecraft and they adore them. They like to take over villages and make them into massive hubs but tend to get rid of the nitwits for efficiency. Except sometimes they leave one or two because they have a personal headcanon that if you leave them long enough they should turn into artists/musicians or something so Nil kind of fits that space for them.
Nil frantically carving pumpkins like "yeah this is my.... art. it represents... like... art stuff. emotions. very deep. like. a vent guard. (avant-garde)" so that your parents don't put them in the villager grinder-
I may have missed it- but wouldnāt that arrow have killed the piglin kid andā¦ set the totem off?
No cuz it's not charged:
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crazy how every time a female character gets cliche misogynistic writing we have to explain to people again that fictional characters are not real and do not choose things for themselves.
So there's an interesting loophole to zombified piglin hostility mechanics. When you hit a zombified piglin, it becomes hostile to you and calls out to nearby zombified piglins to become hostile as well. However, if you kill one of them in a single hit, they aren't able to call to the other zombified piglins in the area, and so all of them remain passive. So the questions I want to ask you are:
Do the zombified piglins work in this way in your au?
And if so
What are the lore implications of this?
Yeah it'd work the same... i guess because the target is dead, the zombie piglins dont register one of their own being 'harmed'... because they're all already dead, technically.
If one dies... nothing changes. But if one is being actively hurt, then some base instinct to 'protect the group' triggers within them, in the most rudimentary sense.
This one is targeting posts with ao3 links, and itās creating AI-generated comments to pose as someone whos read your fic and totally wants to draw something for it
I went to this blog, and their actual blog is empty but their likes are public, and theyāre leaving near-identical comments at break-neck speeds on any other posts with ao3 links where
~2 minutes between each of the comments above, and an endless slew of them, all extremely ChatGPT-intoned.
If you see this or any other puppet account show up doing this, block and report.
