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staying on twitter just long enough to keep on top of ao3 updates (glad I was here now to see this and change my ao3 usage accordingly) and then going back on a fuckinโ cortisol cleanse and redeleting this app and leaving this rot to the maggots again
THIS.
Iโve been working on my latest fic for well over a year, and itโs hardly the first time.
If anyone could write fanfic, then everyone would have done that instead of hoarding and disseminating the work of others without a second thought.
โmaking an ao3 block list for anti-drive writersโ BROTHA you couldnโt go one single day without binging fic at the expense of writersโ autonomy, do you expect me to believe youโre going to make the effort to not mindlessly click on whatever fic wrings dopamine from your brain?
Honourable Goober the Ween || they/them ๐ retweeted
truly and unequivocally weโre all just living through this meme lmaooooooo
starting to get to the point that itโs funny.
like holy shit there are thousands of people out there who clicked an updoot button on the most illogical, self-serving opinions, and it is 100% because they consume all their media spiritually mouth open, lips dry. ๐ embarrassinggg
being a fan writer rn feels very much like being an actor in a popular IP. super fun at first, but then the fan base gets huge and the toxicity starts running rampant, and now you canโt say shit without a stunning percentage of โfansโ being like โFUCK YOU, YOUโRE RUINING ITโ
at this point, all I see is the equivalent of like โnot MY captain americaโ or โwhy did they hire her, sheโs uglyโ like just arguments that are such a cope and so rooted in chronically online insecurity that you just have to go โ๐คฆ๐ฝwell, thereโs still a kind minority of normalcy.โ
I make a rambling thread of ideas first to outline, then go back and start writing a real draft while deleting the thread as I finish those plot points. I find it helps ease the block to be able to read ahead and go โoh yeah, itโs almost THAT scene, canโt wait to get there!โ
Honourable Goober the Ween || they/them ๐ retweeted
77k links, of which 1.7k are google docs, 12.8k are drive folders, and the rest are epubs. For the docs and drive folders, the uploaders email IDs are visible, many with what appears to be their real names. I'm sure many people are unaware their data has been compromised.
Honourable Goober the Ween || they/them ๐ retweeted
i agree that there's definitely a repository of ai scraped data somewhere at the very least. but i believe a huge reason all these sites are popping up NOW is bc they're seeing the 'need' as these drive links are getting massive viewership, likes, saves.
Very first quote I see: โthis is what you should b upset about, not downloaded epubsโ
THAT IS THE POINT. WE WERE MEVER MAD ABOUT THE EPUBS, WE WERE MAD ABOUT REUPLOADS BECAUSE IT HAS LED DIRECTLY TO THIS
I was making silly jokes but HOLY FUCK these people truly canโt read/think
Honourable Goober the Ween || they/them ๐ retweeted
People charging money for the work you did for free for fans, and these fans themselves collating google drives against your will, practically handing it over to these bad actors, and calling you selfish and entitled when you ask them not to repost your work on google drive...
It will be interesting to see what ao3โs response will be, if anything.
Personally, I think broad attitudes toward writers and the immediate leap from โwe share EVERYTHING, TOO BADโ to โthere are AI slop sites SELLING scraped ficโ should at least garner SOMETHING from daddy OTW.
Honourable Goober the Ween || they/them ๐ retweeted
not to be a dick but this is VERBATIM what hoardes of fic writers say when anything (usually untargeted writing advice) makes them feel insecure about their writing. it sucks but we are the architects of this mindset. stop doing this. writing's hard. take pride in your shit.
Honourable Goober the Ween || they/them ๐ retweeted
day 5 of no ao3
there are at least 4 different ao3 clones made by AI with scraped data; people are compiling lists of authors who don't want their works to be published outside of ao3 to block them after; somebody had just called writers greedy capitalists again
it's tuesday
Honourable Goober the Ween || they/them ๐ retweeted
English/Spanish posts: Writers are petite bourgeois stealing from IP owners
Chinese posts: I am grateful to farmers who put food on my table, and labourers for maintaining the infrastructure, and cleaners for keeping the streets tidy, and writers who bring me enjoyment for free
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