@voiddebris.bsky.social Sorry for not properly ating in the actual flap itself.

I'll once again boost the collection of scripts and resources that Void put together here: anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co

Mention the hypocrisy, needle them on what is protecting other forms of expression, demand to know what else might be at risk.

More people need to be mad, more people need to be speaking out - and more media needs to be covering this. This isn't just about some niche group, it is about our fundamental ability to produce and share art. We were right when we said they'd expand their scope before - they will do so again.

Paypros, banks, and yes even politicians have more than proven that this faux moralism is a soulless attempt to simply empower 'ai' - they prattle on about moralism while turning around and cutting deals with openai and musk who are now producing porn based on our work (and real-life photos too!).

Age verification, the paypro censorship, and the move towards using llms to produce content instead of people not only threatens my future - but makes all the effort I've put into everything at risk. I didn't have the reach I got handed to me, and I know a lot of other artists that didn't either.

Again I'm not just some 'newbie' - my actual art account on the site I've been using since 2011 has quite a bit more followers than here and even my itch does (been averse to using social media like bluesky or twitter). A pretty cozy following that I worked very hard to earn through effort.

It really does feel like we are entering an age of not just censorship - but of a broad move towards full corporate artificiality in terms of artwork; not just the usual stuff churned out by companies who barely pay people, overwork teams, and the like - but ones that don't even hire teams.

I am not sure about others experience, but I've definitely been trying to look for other ways to make money. However it isn't like a lot of things with my field of expertise are looking for people - and I somehow feel like that is also to do with 'ai'.

As I said in my flap-thread, I can only speculate as to why that is the case. However, I'm not going to stop talking about this and trying to raise awareness to it.

It is at the point where an account I made to advertise my games and share my content - this account - has almost exclusively flapped about this issue. I've replaced advertisements of my commissions on my uploads with calls to action. I've done more than some journalists to raise awareness.

For those curious, though I've reached out to more since - and only included the ones on bluesky in this.

bsky.app/profile/laps...