Nobody on Bluesky is even talking about the AI thing tbh
People locked themselves up so tight in their ultra curated spaces that it's really only a handful of people being like ???
This is why fear mongering and trend hopping is genuinely a bad thing lol
I’m all against AI art. But acting like you’d escape it just because you hopped to another website is just living in some unrealistic fantasy.
We just lost a legendary animator today 😔
Some animators bring characters to life. Loyd Price helped shape entire worlds that generations grew up loving. 🕊️
Aardman animations has announced the passing of Loyd Price, a gifted animator, mentor and longtime creative force who dedicated more than 30 years to the studio. Over the decades, Price rose to become Aardman’s Head of Animation, helping guide both the performances audiences saw on screen and the generations of animators who followed him.
His career stretched across some of stop-motion animation’s most beloved films, including:
- Chicken Run — Supervising animator
- Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit — Supervising animator
- The Nightmare Before Christmas — Animator
- Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave — Animator
- Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Contraptions — Co-director and writer
- Shaun the Sheep Movie — Animation supervisor
- A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon — Animation supervisor
- The Pirates! Band of Misfits — Animation supervisor
- Early Man — Animation supervisor
- Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death — Animator
- Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget — Animation supervisor
On The Curse of the Were-Rabbit alone, Price led a team of 30 animators, helping bring Wallace, Gromit and an entire cast of characters to life frame by painstaking frame.
His work as supervising animator also helped shape Chicken Run, while his career connected Aardman’s classic shorts to its modern feature-film era.
Stop-motion is built one tiny movement at a time. Loyd Price spent decades making those movements feel alive, and teaching others how to do the same.
The characters will keep moving. His influence will keep moving with them.
Rest in paradise, Loyd Price. 🤍
The world lost an absolute legend yesterday. I owe everything I have to him molding me to the man I am today. He taught me how to be a gentleman man a father and a best friend at the same time. He taught me how to love with out condition. He took me to every arcade. R.I.P Dad
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Here is some of the behaviour I have witnessed from the wider mostly left-leaning Sonic community:
- Racial slurs against my black peers.
- A prominent figureheard being exposed as an actual pedophile (LunaNova), with their friends still in this community attempting to cover it up.
- Ian Flynn harrassed for trying to defuse shipping arguements and deconfirming Tangle/Whisper being lesbians.
- An IDW staff member having to personally and publicly apologise to Krack after realising they were egging on users who were threatening her, not the other way around.
- Every single woman I've seen distance herself from the left has ended up being called a whore. Some of my female friends who have never been in any drama don't post on here at all anymore because they don't feel comfortable or happy being here.
- False accusations of Doxxing (that some users like Harley have only recently admitted were baseless), only for some accusers to be exposed as ACTUAL doxxers.
- Users who complain about Rouge's censorship, but in the same breath have oddly been getting very angry lately about ABT drawing breasts on female characters; One user in particular (Lien) who has previously confessed to torturing small animals and I can't for the life of my understand how he hasn't been chased off this platform. I guess Vtubers are more important, huh.
- Hacking attempts, one of which has been successful on a POC friend.
- Months-long stalking with some users making HUNDREDS posts about individuals in a matter of weeks. I dont think I have ever seen Captain Daybreak actually talk about SONIC.
- DMs from left-leaning individuals who admit to me they believe much of the community has become far too aggressive and obsessive with politics and drama of individuals, but feel pressured to never be seen "sympathising with the enemy".
- Coordinated efforts from discords to spread misinformation that the wider community happily laps up and spreads if it means "owning the chuds".
So, why am I posting this?
Because Sonictwt has decided this week is the monthly "virtue signal about how much the right doesnt belong here" struggle session.
But I never, EVER see the aforementioned behaviour condemned. Sometimes its even actively encouraged. Strange, isn't it?
Spare me the moral grandstanding.
Yeah, I find some of the right wing lashing out distasteful. But do any of you left wing fans have the balls to admit this didn't just manifest out of nowhere?
I've seen you turn on friends over the most minor disagreements and topics, and let it snowball to the point you now treat them like the damn boogeyman.
Maybe one day people will grow up and we can actually just talk about Sonic in the so-called Sonic community.