Willing to break my hiatus to pay tribute to one of the unsung heroes of the animation world - Ted Turner.
Founder of Cartoon Network (among dozens of other iconic cable T.V. networks) and co-creator of the widely-polarizing yet influential Captain Planet.
May he rest in peace.
Users on Twitter/X are voicing frustration over ads on Tubi, despite the platform being a free, ad-supported streaming service.
The complaints come just a day after Tubi added several Cartoon Network and Warner Bros. titles to its library.
Honestly, the fact that this year, NBC/Comcast has more dignity than the IOC when usually it's the other way around. At least the Minions are human animated.
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Okay, let's be real. Been out of the loop from the Internet but I still keep seeing those AI Coca-Cola ads over and over. There's no excusing. AI isn't the future, AI is now, and until the bubble bursts, no complaining will work.
Anyway, Merry Christmas, logging out (once more).
Well... with all that's happening, the good, the bad, the ugly, I'm completely exhausted. I feel like I need to take a break from it all.
Things will continue to get bad before they get good, and it's just bad for my mental health to continue doomscrolling.
Logging off for now.
Look here... here's the thing. It's only going to get much, MUCH worse before it gets better. They'll probably heavily restrict what the characters can even do because people have dirty minds. Hopefully the unions can step up.
Disney is reportedly investing $1 BILLION on OpenAI, giving licensing for over 200 of the their iconic characters for ChatGPT and Sora.
Meanwhile, they are accusing Google of copyright infringement on a “massive scale”, saying the company used its AI models and services to commercially exploit unauthorized images and videos.
Lawyers of Disney have delivered a cease-and-desist letter to Google on Wednesday evening, hours before the investment.
It already made back half its budget in a DAY.
Remember kids, sequels are a society problem, not a greed problem.
Happy Thanksgiving to all you toonsters.
@arcidiacono_mic ENGLISH SINCE X SOMEHOW DOESN'T HAVE AN AUTOTRANSLATE BUTTON HERE
"“It’s not a human world. It’s a very different style than we usually do.” It’s either an Arcane-Spiderverse style or they take a suicidal turn and go all in with AI."