Tommy Vercetti

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I’m a human 3D artist. My Attack on Titan fan-made short film is a project I started in 2022 and released in June 2024. I redesigned all of the Titans myself. I didn’t use any AI, and I never made any money from this short film.

To be honest, I originally didn’t want to talk about this. In order to discuss it, I actually had to subscribe to X Premium.

Throughout 2025 and 2026, I started seeing more and more comments like this on my YouTube channel:

“Your one and a half years of work? I can make that with AI in 30 seconds.”
“I can do it in one minute.”
“I can do it in 90 seconds.”
So I started looking into it. The first AI short film I found was actually made by modifying footage from my original film, while being presented as an AI-generated work.
I felt pretty disappointed.

If you think AI can make something better than what I made, then please create something better from scratch.

I’ve always found it difficult to accept being mocked while my work is also being taken and reused.

Since 2018, I’ve been focused on creating the things I genuinely love. I’ve done it simply because I love creating, and I’ve never made a single cent from these works.

As a result, my financial situation has actually been quite difficult. For a while, I was really struggling with the thought that maybe I should have spent the past few years trying to make as much money as possible.

Was trying to make a living by creating the things I love just a foolish fantasy?

Then I watch Orb: On the Movements of the Earth. There’s one line in the series that really stayed with me:

“Being wrong doesn’t mean it was meaningless.”

So recently, I’ve slowly started to accept something.

If I don’t make the things I love, I don’t think I would be happy even if I had a job.

I’ll keep looking for a way forward. Whether that means working harder, finding ways to make money so I can continue making short films, or finding some other way, I still want to keep creating the things I love.

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@thebesttaco S/o Spawntaneous. I hope Ubi does more to discourage this.

[Young Thug ひ @youngthug]

Wtf this gotta do with me?

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@4ltedits He's threatened by her aura

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@fr0gan the NAILS !

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@TheeNelDog @TalentedKamarty Lame rap beef ? an important aspect of the beef is the fact that Kendrick and a lot of rap fans oppose having an artist who refuses to speak up about these kinds of subjects as the flagship of the genre.
So yeah, denouncing a politically mute/alleged abuser is kind of relevant.

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@AriDrennen Up Next: Woman with Ugly Personality Disorder Wonders if Likeable Teenager Cheated at Popularity Contest

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@ARMarTy_ @therealleanbeef

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@Frenzie @opinonhaver 1: It's only to control the cameras on the masts

2: the lost billionaires' submarine uses a cheap off-brand controller

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@LanternJS @GavThenotable Visually, the movie looks scuffed in some regards, especially for the key feature of the franchise (any scene involving slow motion).

But its narrative is a litmus test separating people who still love the Watchowskis and those who love The Matrix superficially.

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@LanternJS @GavThenotable For two decades, The Matrix existed in pop culture as a blank canvas for people who want to insert themselves and their dumbest ideas into.

Then Ressurections comes out, saying in the loudest way possible: "A lot of y'all don't have a clue of what these movies were about."

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@CrystalWitchy1 @ZBrag101 @UpToTASK He's an actor. But he has zero star power unfortunately, so there was no way he would get it.

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@RashadShabazzz @FilmUpdates No one is confused about her origin. It's about the fact that they blatantly took a fair-skin/white passing skinny actress to play a character that was the opposite of that and stood out among the vast majority of female Disney characters because of that.

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@nervesquidpilot @theserfstv That's the first time I read anything bad/controversial about him but after quickly looking around... I don't know why a sane person, aside from political commentators maybe, would follow Steven Crowder.

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@UnpaintedHuffh1 @theserfstv No, I really think they meant "dudes who have sex with women but fail to conform to every other rule of stereotypical/toxic masculinity".

I hope this is the last time we're "analyzing" their work. These guys are not even entertaining at promoting evil !

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@Eiki_X Le 5 est pas loin derrière pour moi mais sinon je suis totalement d'accord. La structure JV, comme tu dis (briefing de mission> lancement du niveau> satournemal), est une merveille qui rapporte encore des dividendes sur tous les trucs de Cruise depuis. Y compris Top Gun Maverick.

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@djmuel_ I don't think that it's an efficient way of recuperating our language as much as it's a litmus test for anyone who's able to observe power dynamics.
No one in their right mind would side with Tate bc it's not even about Greta. The issue is about Tate vs abused/exploited women.

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@djmuel_ Dave Chappelle in recent years have been a great example of this.

"Kevin Hart (450m) is not criticized for homophobic jokes. JK Rowling (1 billion) is not criticized for transphobic opinions. They're just attacked by the omnipotent rainbow cabal for being a black man/a woman."

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@MFEndless Without entirely questioning the value of his work, remember how this man treated people like Professor Flowers and Kat Blaque. When black/trans people tell him something, he would rather misconstrue their words and send his mob at them rather than listening.