On the flip side: putting the blame on kids memeing with ChatGPT and Bing Image Generator for personal use is like blaming your local community for the pacific garbage patch. Private, personal use generation is not taking away people’s jobs and we need to stop conflating it with for-profit AI use.

As a cartoonist I sometimes end up in mixed age spaces (for my clean art at least) and I see a lot more fanart of book series nowadays. When I was growing up you might find that for comics, but almost never novels. The variety of teen oriented books is much bigger too. It’s AWESOME.

WAY more kids are reading books now than they did during my teen years. Up until Twilight (of all things) normalized reading for teenagers, classmates called me the r-slur because they thought reading was only for crazy people. Used to be all alone in the school library at lunch!

Spwyne

I wish I could do that but animal friends are no substitute for my human friends so in suburbia I will stay.

Dodging the filter is not the flex you think it is. It’s not just nazis and racists blocking these words. It’s neurodivergent people—people with GAD, OCD, Autism, the list goes on—and all you’re doing is causing them undue stress. Not just me, but thousands. TAG YOUR DAMN POSTS.

What’s this image from? Looks to be mid to late 70s.

I hate how much I relate to this.

Thanks. I’ve gotten rid of a lot of it by muting keywords but it doesn’t block the posts that dodge keywords just to make sure everyone’s forced to see the post :/

Are we sharing tame swearing jokes? Here’s one from my childhood:

An elephant married a rhino
The kids were the strangest that I know
When people saw em
They’d say “Whatcha call em?”
I had to reply: ELEFINO!

(Mom was very mad when she heard this on my preschool sing along tape in ‘96)