I did report, and did block. And I got harrassed for reporting. But all good, after blocking and ignoring, I have moved on.

Great points. I’ve seen people on here say that reddit is too conservative for them. Ok, if they think reddit is conservative, yeah, they are freaking extreme. So I think you make really good points!

This is the answer!

I don’t have an answer for you, OP. I will say that Lemmy is the angriest social media platform I have ever been on. I have never seen so many angry people who will actually stalk people (across mulitple posts) they disagree with, as I have seen on Lemmy. I’ve seen people here advocate for murder and torture of people and/or politicians they don’t agree with. It’s crazy!

Where ya been? See: !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

thx

Meh, I consider .world to be reddit. The rest of Lemmy is cool tho! :)

You’re right. Staying quiet is not admitting anything, but it does leave a false accusation hanging.

Calling everything AI does not stop AI. It only makes real artists want to stop sharing. That hurts the art community, it hurts Lemmy, and IMHO, hurts the world a little too.

My step-by-step posts were not made for @dontsayaword@piefed.social . I made those posts earlier to show new artists that ya don’t need lotsa money to make comics. I use the cheapest Amazon pencils and pens, take photos with my phone, and finish everything with free software on an ancient desktop. Photopea, GIMP, Linux Mint, free fonts.

My girlfriend’s daughter is 10 yrs old. Draws constantly. Today we’re gonna sit down to draw together because I bought her a new sketchbook. The odds of her making a living with art are already low. They were low for me too, but I was able to do it. Different world today, tho.

So she’ll probably draw for fun, and share things for free. Now imagine her opening the comments and seeing “AI slop” and “clearly AI” on something she worked hard on.

If kids and beginners get falsely called AI over and over, a lot of them will just stop sharing. That’s why I defended. :)

Nevermind! lol Just today: https://piefed.social/comment/10024544

Even after pics of my process from a blank piece of paper to posting it on lemmy. There are just some people that are gonna see ai everywhere they look. Glad I’m retired, cuz having these conversations in the workplace would have driven me crazy. lol

Maybe you are mistaking computer being used for post design clean-up/layout as ai. Because I have detailed what I do, step-by-step with pictures of my process: https://reddthat.com/post/59476267

And even more examples of my step-by-step processes:

https://reddthat.com/post/58923858

https://reddthat.com/post/58650560

https://lemmy.world/comment/21579257

I’m older than your grandma, and I’ve been a professional artist and writer for over 25 years. Long before ai.

Are you an illustrator or cartoonist or graphic designer? Because everything I do is very common in the industry. In fact, most cartoonist use the computer more than I do, because they sketch on the computer w a tablet, whereas I still do my layout w sketchbook, pencils, and pens, before I convert to electronic file.

If seeing me draw an image, step-by-step, then seeing me layout out my stuff on computer, step-by-step, then me telling you the fonts I use, the computer software I use, and my computer desktop system, fails to convince you, then nothing will.

I’ve literally showed my entire process.

It’s a quick one-panel gag comic, that you’re supposed to glance at for 10 seconds, maybe chuckle, and move on. It ain’t that deep or serious. I write, draw, and post comics all day every day, to my comm, !cartoons@reddthat.com. I’m doing my best to add original content to Lemmy to help it grow.

There’s really nothing else I can do about you insisting something is ai. That’s on you, not me. I wish ya luck out there, and I appreciated ya giving me your thoughts.

Well, it’s mostly a non-issue now that I have plenty of posts of my work process with pics of every step. I haven’t been accused of being ai for a bit now. lol

Thank you! I’ll experiment with that today. :)

Yep, a drabble is exactly 100 words, which I wrote for this project. Though I changed up the ending a little for the final project in my other post to make it stronger ending.

I write a drabble every single day, and have been for several years.

And “ickglob” just popped into my head one day (as do most of my ideas), so I have no explanation for that. But I love that it means “I believe” in German. I had no idea and have never looked it up. But knowing that it means that makes it way cooler to me now! lol

I’m using this community to experiment with storytelling.

It does to me. But usually, all it says to me is, “Goodbye!”

Just in case, ya should throw $10,000 at me so I can go fuck myself too.

Thank you! I’m trying to create these as formats that work best for phone scrolling/reading, but my layout makes for the worst thumbnails for the comm. I can’t seem to control what the thumbnails look like, so thanks for taking the chance and reading it! ❤️

As long as I can get overnight shipping…

❤️

All great points. I’m sorry to hear of your molar drama. I don’t remember saying anything too controversial, but I’m glad you’re feeling better. I cracked a tooth last year, so I feel for ya. And the cost of dental stuff is so darn high in my area!

I wish you better health in the upcoming year!

Thank you! It’s pretty much: modern work life is Hell. So yeah, the zombie role fits :)