they want me to tell you we're going to mcdonalds

regardless of a myriad of other AI discourse talking points i'm not touching with a 10 ft pole, i think it should always be disclosed when i'm looking at something AI generated. like that's a basic level of societal courtesy, right. AI images more than any new technology that has changed the course of humanity seem to be inseparable from a purposeful obfuscation of their origin. the gimmick is to deceive human perception, their entire purpose is to make you believe you are looking at something created by sentience. AI is at its core a tool for deception and i mean that as a neutral statement. it's a mimic, a pantomime. impersonation. and that is, ethics aside, annoying as all fuck

being good friends with evelyn and george but barely knowing alex is so funny. like bro i didnt call for you put your grandparents on the phone i have a recipe to swap with granny and a news broadcast to complain about with peepaw

THEY ROLLED IT BACK THEIR CONTENT IS STILL FREE AND ON YOUTUBE WATCHERTV IS LITERALLY JUST PATREON NOW I REPEAT THEY ROLLED IT BACK

advice i think we should tell children is that when adults say stuff like ‘now that i’m an adult i get really excited about stuff like coffee tables and bathrooms and rugs etc’ they don’t mean ‘and now i don’t care about blorbo and squimbus from my childhood tv shows anymore’ bc your average adult still loves all the same pop culture stuff they always did; they just have a greater appreciation for the mundane as well. growing up just means you can enjoy life twice as much now. you can get really excited about a new stuffed animal AND about a new kitchen sponge. peace and love

You get bigger so you can store even MORE love and appreciation for the world inside of you

It means you'll be at the antique mall looking at a coffee table and thinking "blorbo and Squimbus would LOVE this coffee table"

they will be releasing videos a month early on their site but otherwise it will be put on youtube for free (link)

Miles is ONCE AGAIN here with the jokes

the watcher undoing it lmaoooo. glad they listened and I am proud of them for owning up to the terrible tone-deafness of it and doing exactly what everyone thought was a much better idea overall

i think that was one of the only apology videos i've ever seen that felt heartfelt and really dealt with the concerns in a mature and useful way. it's sad to see a community i've felt so home in be so at odds. i hope the watcher family recovers from this. it's everyone's first time being alive and the watcher boys first time running a company. it is genuinely heartwarming to see that despite the oversight, this community is still valued by the people it is based around. (and just because i care to put my two cents in about audience reactions, remember that doing what you have to do to stay alive in the capitalist world we live in is not inherently pro-capitalism. and i would rather pay for independently produced art that is made with genuine care and passion than anything made by a conglomerate just to capitalize on our boredom. this is not to excuse the way this announcement was handled or the poor planning, just to remind us all to stay compassionate.)

learning that self depreciation isnt cool and just makes the people around you uncomfortable unironically improved my mental health a lot. like if you just stop saying negative shit about yourself you will genuinely like yourself more and other people wont be repulsed by your attitude and you will have more friends. it's true.

snoopys! by fruitillu

every time i call my mutuals by name im like god what if that was just some random person's name in their description. christ

media you can't touch because you interacted with it during a really bad and dark time in your life and the entire media is coated in gross drippy bad-touch depression gunk vs media you can't touch because you interacted with it during a really good time in your life and trying to touch it zaps your brain with pangs of longing and grief for what you no longer have, fight

Not "It's a product of it's time" as a way to excuse its problematic undertones but rather "it's a product of it's time" to say that the issues it tackles were relevant then and its stances that now seem milquetoast were radical then, and that heavy handed, cheesy driving home of those viewpoints was sometimes necessary, and our acceptance and normalization of those viewpoints is in large part because of media like it normalizing those viewpoints and imagery, and watching it in the modern day turns into a loving study of history of the masses and public opinion

Yes this is about the original star trek

broke: it's a product of its time

Bespoke: Our Time Is A Product Of It