#twitter crop

[raiidens]

No Twitter Crop for Desktop

Twitter's been slacking on removing their awful image crop so I made a Chrome/Firefox extension to make images display at their full height.

Chrome link / Firefox link

[annypuff]

me rn bc these days im on my computer more than my phone lol

[godahlpresentslizziesmithson]

one of my theories is that part of the reason the Twitter art community circa 2017-2022 got to be so legendarily toxic was because Twitter was an absolutely horrible site for posting and looking at art--up until fairly recently, Twitter would crop any image you posted if it wasn't exactly the right size and you had to click through if you wanted to see the uncropped version (quite famously the crop was such that black people would consistently get cropped out of the image if Twitter could figure out a way to do so--less racistly, if one part of the image was particularly text heavy, the crop would focus in on that, which obliterated what i was going for with a lot of my crowd scenes in the early 2020s), and that was on top of twitter's algorithm frequently burying art posts for no reason anyone could discern.

This led to a virulent community of people who would tear down anyone who managed to amass a following despite these circumstances, and there was a lot of misery in the Twitter art world at the time.

Tiktok is also a terrible platform for posting and sharing art (straightforwardly, its a VIDEO site, not an image site) and also has developed an absolutely horrible art community, albeit in different ways that im not as familiar with. The best solution imo is to not post your art on platforms that openly hate artists, but everyone says they have to go where the people are, even if ultimately the impulse is destructive. But what do I know, I'm a hobbyist for life.