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Death is not your destiny today, little sparrow.

[fettuccine alfreako @giveyouvision]

There’s no “I” in “team,” but there’s “con” in “economy.”

[reyna cervantes @Jfcdoomblade]

“You’re gonna punch me?”
“Yeah”
“Then you’re gonna in trouble for that”
“Okay”

Followed by this frame is one of the hardest things I’ve seen on the internet this week.

[Arin Hanson @egoraptor]

Having been a user of this software for more than half my life, seeing this announcement is shocking but completely unsurprising. I've never seen such blatant disdain for a product's userbase in my life, and this feels like the point it was almost destined to come to.

There are so many new applications for creating digital animation, but this one from the very beginning just had the juice. The irony of this all is that it wasn't built as an animation software, but for making interactive websites... ads, company portals, corporate shit. Multimedia projects created in this format were displayed using Flash Player, a browser supported plug-in.

Through Flash's entire lifetime, it felt as if Adobe was dragged kicking and screaming... never truly accepting the functionality it had organically developed as an artistic tool. From Adobe's perspective, it was the FORMAT that was the value; that is, they wanted Flash Player to be THE way to display multimedia across the web.

Adobe DID fight for Flash, but the fight was for dominance over web multimedia... in the oughts, it was THE way to display multimedia on your website. But little losses here and there, like Apple refusing to support the format for smart phones, lead to a steady decline. An adaptive shift to HTML5 support was added to Flash in order to maintain relevance, but the clear goal of total multimedia dominance was shattered. This shift marked the name change to "Animate"... a name that serves as a hollow non-acknowledgement of its consistently strong and loyal userbase of artists, but belies the gross truth of their true intentions: to continue to claw for dominance in the field of web-based multimedia.

Through all this, Flash/Animate continued to be an industry standard for digital 2D animation. Both independent and professional cartoonists utilized it to create beloved projects... even today. The corporate politics involved in the jockey for control of web-multimedia kept Adobe consistently blind to the voices of its most loyal users. One famous example is that Flash was notoriously terrible at exporting and rendering video from its proprietary vector-based format, so open-source software Swivel was developed by Mike Welsh to do it better. It may be difficult to understand this, but Flash was SO good, that even though it was consistently and profoundly broken, it was still often the tool of choice for animation.

The reason all this is important for me to convey is... There was a feeling this company gave animators through the lifetime of their product that we were not a priority. Even as it became a standard in the professional animation industry, we often felt like an afterthought in favor of the ultimate goal of corporate dominance. The fact that Flash/Animate happened to be a fantastic program for making cartoons was a complete accident... and Adobe only ever saw that as a cute little bonus.

So as we are getting more clarity around this decision to discontinue Animate... that Adobe sees this program as incompatible with their AI-based future goals... I think of how they've always operated: Staunchly anti-artist, anti-creative, and anti-human. This generative AI bullshit is nothing new, it is the next flavor of the same pathetic jockeying for corporate dominance. Artistic voices will continue to be ignored, while the artists they belong to will continue to be exploited. And that takes a mental toll on a creative mind. This announcement, to me, stands as a blatant admittance of this cycle. They do not care. And they never will.

We should care. Art is humanity. I am so grateful for this new renaissance of indie animation, and am doubly grateful and honored to be a part of it. It is so easy for corporations like Adobe and even just normal people to discount the value of art, both for its own sake and for its influence on the world. But it IS important. Your art is important and YOU are important. Please continue to create. Even if for no other reason than just to spite these motherfuckers.

[Arin Hanson @egoraptor]

10 years ago if I needed to find an individual who provided a specific or niche service, I could just Google it and find someone's dopey little personal website and I'd give them a call.

Now for every niche service there's 5 different aggregate websites with accompanying app I have to sign up for and log-in to and verify my e-mail with and receive a text code and fill out a 10 minute form about what I'm looking for specifically and I have to use their cursed little in-app chat to contact anyone and the demonic website/app ends up taking 25% commission every time I book someone and all the top matches are not individuals anyway but organizations where THEY have their own fucking system for soullessly matching me with one of their employees and they'll endlessly text me trying to convince me that they're the perfect fit for me if I'm looking for a DIFFERENT service I didn't ask for in the fucking 10 minute form THEY asked me to fill out! And all I get out of this whole tired ordeal is more spam in my inbox.

Even if I find names of people I want to contact on these sinful websites and then I Google them to reach out personally I end up finding nothing but their 17 OTHER listings on competing aggregate apps and/or their linkedin which I have to fucking personally deliver a vial of my DNA to some OTHER data company in order to verify my identity to and I'm just... so over all this.

I used to keep track of all of my log-ins and services I gave my personal data to and I simply cannot anymore. It's a deluge, a blight! I feel so stripped bare of my humanity and anytime I forget where I put my wallet when I'm leaving the house I think about how many hard drives in the world contain the supposedly private information I have so innocently and absentmindedly misplaced.

My body, my mind, and my spirit were not built for this! The days where technology was a tool with which to create for and connect to other humans are slipping away from me! For every phone call that is answered by a machine and every simple tool or device or appliance that I have to "register" to my phone app I lose precious, beautiful seconds of my one and only fleeting life! For every pin number, code, and login I must retain in my mind, a wisp of my soul is displaced to make room!

Humanity is so wonderful, so rich and so pure, it is no wonder that these things which lack it so desperately and aggressively try to steal it!

[Is This Real Art ? @IsThisRealArt_]

Be louder! Be bolder!

[Sophia Benoit @1followernodad]

I’m going to throw up from grief. what the fuck are we doing

[Karla Ortiz @kortizart]

Imagine having more money than you can use in a lifetime and being worried of having to pay a measly 1% per year so that your starving neighbors can eat, so that education improves, so that our society improves.

This a level of greed that creates psychopaths.

[sebastian castillo @bartlebytaco]

yes.. yes!!!

[dollar store kirk hammett @olivesagan]

an entire species of orangutan may have been wiped out as a direct result of the flooding this deforestation caused. if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this unforgivable crime would be executed by firing squad.

[abdullah @odynheimer]

a masterpiece in every sense, love this movie so much

[project hail rusty 🍉 @alittlevillainy]

“oh but ai polluted just as much as cars did this year” and car dependency is also a systemic issue we should work towards solving. what’s your point

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

Hard to believe this is happening right in front of our eyes to widespread indifference.

[shrille 🎃 @flurryfrenzy]

This is my mantra for 2026

[Sophia Benoit @1followernodad]

finding out people fed this picture to AI to see what it would look like as a painting has been heartbreaking. Grok should not get to know about my dog. ChatGPT should not get to see her!!!

[Race @RaceFromOnline]

I miss let’s plays, man. I miss long incremental series of a game that has a lot of player agency. I miss seeing challenges and tens or hundreds of episodes. I miss being excited for it.
Did the algorithm kill them or did they all turn into Minecraft exclusively

[Jonathan @Kartbro48]

If you haven't done so already

[alpha @omarsbigsister]

mozilla firefox getting destroyed by AI. 4 gb RAM phones and 8 gb RAM computers only next year. data centers giving people airborne cancer because of how poisonous they are. i am tired. i am tired!!!!!!

[onion person @CantEverDie]

@LarAtLarian all and any use of generative ai for artistic ventures is repulsive to consumers, and bad for artists and creatives. any company that embraces gen ai practices loses my support immediately

[☠️ Lilith Lovett ☠️ same @ on 💙☁️🦋 @LilithLovett]

Quite simply, you do not hate AI enough.

You think you do, but you don't.

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

if ai is supposed to cure cancer and save the environment then why is every implementation of it fucking useless and robbing us of our human spirit

[p @yangcuddygf]

this line of thinking is why most modern romcoms suck people are allergic to normal looking (obviously very attractive) actors