i just think marginalized creators should also be given the grace to make stuff they like without the pressure of it having to be a masterpiece or the pressures of being a voice for their entire community
Yet if they just said they had a crush on a boy it would be fine and you would assume they were hetero-sexual...just because these terms end with 'sexual' doesn't mean people are sexualizing children
Fanfiction is not "grooming the children."
Ao3 is not a children's site, and fic writers are not your babysitter. We have NO obligation to write kid-safe works.
Stop minimizing ACTUAL grooming & abuse just bc you want the entire internet to become a padded toddler's playpen.
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HAPPY PRIDE MONTH !! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🧡
a reminder that the world of story of seasons will forever be a safe space for anyone and everyone.
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Stan Lee died in 2018. A tech company just bought the rights to his voice and face, so it can make him read new books and appear in new comics, years after his death. Fans are upset. Follow the money, though, and you see why this is coming for everyone, dead or alive.
Start with the cash that is already on the table. Dead celebrities are a giant business. Michael Jackson has been gone since 2009, and last year his estate, meaning the people who run his name and money now, still made $105 million. Add up the top earners who have passed away and you get around $541 million in a single year.
Until now, that money came from a fixed pile of work: their old songs, films and photos, a stack that never grows. Once the person is gone, nothing new gets made.
AI breaks that rule. The fake Stan Lee was built from his old recordings, but it can now read fresh books out loud and appear in brand-new artwork, instantly. ElevenLabs, the company behind it, dropped his voice into an online shop of celebrity voices that anyone can rent, parked right next to Michael Caine, Judy Garland and Albert Einstein. A dead star used to be a shrinking stack of old work. Now he is a machine that keeps making new work whenever someone pays.
Look at who is buying. ElevenLabs is now worth $11 billion, more than triple what it was a year ago, and it already pulls in about $330 million a year from customers. Renting out famous faces and voices is a quick way to push that number higher.
The law is sprinting to keep up. A US bill called the NO FAKES Act would turn your voice and face into something you legally own, a bit like a house. You could hand it down to your kids, who could then rent it out, for up to ten years per deal. The blunt version: your face becomes an inheritance.
Strip away the nostalgia and this is a land grab. One research firm puts the market for AI copies of real people at about $48 billion right now, and sees it passing $250 billion by 2030. That number is why an $11 billion company went and signed a man who has been dead since 2018.
The Stan Lee deal is the blueprint for what comes next. Any famous person, living or dead, is now a product you can sell over and over. And every movie studio just got its dream actor: one who never ages and never argues about the paycheck.
Before pride month starts im just gonna say this:
-men’s mental health month is in November
-straight pride isn’t a thing. Nobody has ever been oppressed or killed for being straight
-veterans get 2 months. May and November
So do some research before complaining :)
@BelzebAnimation While I will not elaborate. We have all of these points figured out and you'll have to wait. There are quite a few things that will naturally be explained over time!
You'll never guess who voices Bart Simpson, Naruto, Goku, Samurai Jack etc. You guessed it, people who are qualified for the job but don't look like their characters! Because it is voice acting!
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The way fandom spaces are hell for black people oh my god 😭😭😭😭😭like I knew it was bad to some degree but OH MY GOD YOU WONT LET US ENJOY ANYTHING???? WE JUST WANT TO EXIST WITHOUT PEOPLE CALLING INCLUSION WOKE!!! WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS WANTING TO ENJOY STUFF LIKE EVERYONE ELSE
but niggas swear we’re overreacting whenever we say people are weird abt the poc in this community. first it’s cloak being an accessory to dagger instead of being his own person, then stormpanther not being on the same level as reedsue/rogambit, and then the wanda skin and
kinda sucks how overwatch’s public perception is so heavily influenced by ppl with <5 hours on the game or havent played since 2018. like why do YOU care about anran’s face model or what her va has to say?? glad devs listened to their community at least 😭
Grifters entering OW cause some balding twitch streamer yapped out of his ass lol. Mind you, the devs have always been woke lol. Also they did this during 2016 homophobia era where it wasn't even profitable and people were genuinely hateful not for check mark farming. Stay mad
Despite how good the mercy mythic is i cannot BELIEVE some characters are getting TWO MYTHICS while zarya hasnt gotten a new highlight intro in almost NINE YEARS