Bees are coming!

Come for the juggas, stay for the jigga waggas.

[depsidase]

[calypsolemon]

people need to stop advising each other on how to spot AI images/ videos based on increasingly unreliable minuscule details and start advising each other on how to find fucking sources. Not only because 9 times out of 10 your most reliable "tell" that an image or video is AI is finding the source account literally tells you in the bio, but because this is also applicable to spotting when somebody is Lying On The Internet. Something people increasingly seem to forget absolutely can and will happen without the use of AI.

[calypsolemon]

right click > copy image link > paste link into google lens > exact matches will almost always yield you more reliable results than the bbc sherlock levels of divination the average tumblr user will advise you to perform to determine whether the funny cat picture is real or made by a computer

[fellator]

this fetish stuff is getting out of hand what the fuck is word play

[camerahoax]

men got a taste of women's beauty standards and immediately started bashing their facial bones with hammers

[adultswim-nostalgia]

[paperandpencilsandskips]

FACT: bunnies can be friends and eat together with other strange and small many limbed bunnies

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

There are lots of reasons why fandom is "quieter" now than it used to be. Some theories are more compelling to me than others, and they all have a different scale of impact. We'll never know for sure, of course, but I like to think about it. Thus, this poll.

Of the list below, which reason do you find most compelling or do you think had the biggest impact?

New entrants to fandom don't know the old ways

fandom olds didn't teach the newcomers how to fandom

covid/surge in fandom due to quarantine and lockdowns

"antis" and other harassment campaigns against creators

creators posting complaints about comments (people worry about commenting wrong)

rise of discord popularity - fandom is walled off from each other

tumblr porn ban and other reasons people left the site

capitalism turning fandom into a passive "view and move on" commodity

rules from social media impacting fan culture (eg. don't comment on old posts)

general state of the world / burnout

social anxieties in an increasingly complex online culture

"surveillance state" worries and not wanting to be perceived

Remaining time: 6 days 13 hours

This is an incomplete list, so if your most compelling reason isn't listed, feel free to add it in the notes.

[some-say-this-is-a-blog]

[important-cat-pics]

[batshit-auspol]

Kids today will never know the joy of the Australian government-funded free-to-air porn hour on the "Special Broadcasting Service" TV network.

[cosmicretreat]

State of Wyoming Hereford - CF Payne (2025)

[maladroitpunk]

@bovineblogger

[22psyduck]

is he… yknow (yes)

[makaeru]

Constantly torn at work between "it's nice to be needed" and "holy shit I cannot be a single point of failure"

[senorpugbean]

All roads lead to solitude

[bruzum]

[lastvalyrian]

This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.

This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).

Combine this with the mass of people inclined to believe (and being encouraged to believe) that if AI says and does something it must be correct

[throathole]

[brainstreams]