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tbgkaru-woh

Reminder that I have my danmei pre-orders going!

If you can, please consider sharing, it'd be a great help with reach ♥

>> https://tbgkaru.bigcartel.com/

#mdzs #i want to get the covers!!!!

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pretty-dianxia

justleaveacommentfest

THIS COULD BE US BUT YOU AIN'T LEAVIN' COMMENTS

#XD

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crithir

prinzsorgenfrei

I'm back on my bullshit! Have another tender Xiyao drawing from my sketchbook!

Romantic statues are great sources of inspiration for tender fanart. The OG for this is "Hero & Leander" by Karl Steinhäuser, on display in Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin (I took about 50 pictures, i might use it for reference again).

#jin guangyao #lan xichen #xiyao #mdzs #they are so pretty!#i love the way a-Yao looks #up at the viewer like #this Zewu-jun is gorgeous I know #and he's mine

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cilil

So today I got a rather unkind comment on AO3 (one could call it hate), but I believe it to be a bot for several reasons:

Guest account, but username attached
Said username exists but person is unlikely to be reading Tolkien fic (according to their Tumblr and AO3, they are in other fandoms)
Two grammatically correct sentences
Super generic text that could apply to any fic:

"I've seen better fanfiction written by a toddler. Get it together!"

I'm curious, did anyone else get comments like this? Let me know.

And to those who have gotten rude comments and are now worried/upset: Maybe it was just a bot too. Either way: You're awesome for putting your writing out there for others to enjoy and you don't deserve to get rude comments for it. If you want feel free to message me to compare cases and discuss details :)

cilil

For comparison, this is the one I received.

Here are some more examples fellow writers allowed me to share:

As you can see, these comments all the match the description above. Also they seem to be weirdly obsessed with AI and this entire operation may be an attempt to promote writing AI - which, if true, is disgusting on several levels.

(If any of the people with the AO3 usernames in question happen to see this: Don't worry, we're all sure it wasn't you, no hard feelings and sorry that a bot stole your name for hate comments. The names are only shown as proof that they are indeed stolen)

eccentricmya

Oh I was just wondering why I got a weird comment today!

This is mine. Looking at the pattern, it is definitely a bot. Stealing usernames and posting as guests under that.

I was upset for a hot minute, replied asking what did they mean... Turns out I shouldn't have bothered.

cilil

Thank you for the addition! This certainly paints a picture - they're claiming that the work of actual human authors is subpar (the toddler comment on mine and the human comment on yours) and/or bring up AI.

Sorry this happened and I hope you're feeling better now💕 personally, I do believe this work was written by a human being and a lovely too!🫂💗

moosemonstrous

I don't think they're so much trying to get people to use AI to write fics - there seems to be some sort of a scam where the bots encourage commenters to put a fic through their 'AI scanner' to check if it was written by a robot.

They're literally trying to get readers to do the work of scraping fics for them.

cacodaemonia

I'm sure other folks have added this already in different reblog chains, but AO3 has disabled guest comments for now.

Just in case, I would recommend not going to any of the AI writing sites these comments mention since it's possible they have malware on them. Or maybe the comments are just intended to get people searching for the terms and then that might make them pop up in google search's autofill?? I have no idea 😑