An action being “punishable by a fine” basically means “legal for rich people”.
Oh wow. That’s…
I once dated a rich guy and if I said “Hey it’s illegal to drink on the street” he’d respond with “Nah, it just costs £150″, or “You can’t park here!” “Yeh I can it costs £35″ like… literally… that’s how he saw fines, it was just how much you paid to do the thing.
Reminds me of the double red lines in London. They exist because rich people kept parking on double yellow lines (which mean “no parking” in the UK) and then just paying the fines. So London started putting double red lines on major roads. If you park on double red lines, they don’t give you a ticket. They tow your car away and crush it.
I don’t usually soap-box, but I’m going to for a hot sec since this has been on my mind:
Cults are getting better branding, prettier leaders, hipper-sounding cosmologies, and wider reaches due to social media. They’re not all deity-focused. Thoughtful, intelligent people can get sucked into them. Just…stay safe out there, guys. Do your research, look at all your options, and trust your gut, not your guru.
I’m glad this is resonating with people.
I do want to emphasize, again, that cults (and toxic groups with cult-like attributes, I’m using this term pretty loosely) don’t usually look like what you’d expect. A lot of toxic and dangerous religious movements are tiny and you won’t find much about them via Google. Cultish non-religious movements are the same way.
Start-ups, multi-level marketing companies, activist groups, fan groups, political groups, and internet gurus who run retreats can all be cult-like and dangerous. Tune your BS detector, ask family, friends, and experts for advice.
Here are some warning signs:
Pressure – pressure to make quick decisions, to give (or pledge) considerable amounts of money, to move in with a group, to abandon family or cut off friends. Elevated Leaders – anyone claiming special insight, special powers, or that they aren’t human. Demanding special treatment (compared to other followers). Misuse of funds or money collecting at the top. physical, emotional, and/or sexual abuse. Lack of accountability or oversight. Isolation – encouraging (or requiring) members to cut off family relationships, friendships with those outside of the group, leaving jobs, moving to isolated areas, taking away communication methods. Strong “us-vs-them” mentality. Vilification of ex-members. Love-bombing. Altered states of consciousness – long work hours, sleep deprivation, lack of access to adequate food or water. Otherwise unproblematic activities like meditation/prayer/chanting, but done for hours. Discouraging doubt – discouraging or punishing doubt and critical thinking.
If these send up red flags for you or loved ones, here are some collected resources: one, two.
-a lot of people in the cult have been told “this isn’t a cult”, and they are used to it, so when they invite other people to functions they don’t even fully realize how deep it is
not enough tick hate on this website. everyone hates wasps or spiders but I rarely see issue with tiny undetectable blood sucking demons who hang out in beautiful plant-filled places and spread deadly disease with a single bite. wasps might punch you in the face occasionally but ticks will steal your lunch money and total your car and poison your food and use all the hot water and as the planet warms up these little devil suckpods are hitching rides anywhere their horrible little feet can plop themselves down and camp out for the next victim of their terrible curses.
Looks like someone’s been tracing my art and posting it to Google Plus.
Their Google Plus accounts can be found [here] and [here]. (Be careful, there’s some censored nsfw there.) I’ve already filed a report with Google Plus, and I would have filed a report with Tumblr but it seems as if there’s none of this artwork on their tumblr account (which can be found [here]).
I’m really upset and disappointed about this but I’ve dealt with this person before in terms of copying character design and it seems like they just don’t stop. So I was hoping to bring some light to it.
If there’s any sort of help anyone can give me, that’d be really appreciated.
An Update on the Situation
Things have not gotten better and in fact I would say that they’re beginning to get worse. Here are two more “new” pieces that have been brought to my attention.
This makes for a total of eight so far.
I’ve also learned that this person is doing commissions on an Objects Head Amino and I fear the worse: they may be tracing my art or the art of others, and making money off of it.
This has to come to an end, now.
Developments
Ironic, huh?
They traced an art I made about the fact they’ve been tracing my art.
I’m not going to stop adding to this post and the longer it gets just further proves my point. It’s ridiculous that this continues to happen and I’m doing everything I can to look into getting it shut down and stopped for good.
I’d like to thank every message that’s currently sitting in my inbox about suggestions on how to handle this situation and everyone who’s standing by me and helping me with it. It means so much to me that you’re supporting me in this.
Things like this can destroy artists and nobody deserves this kind of disrespect.
Provided to me by a source through discord, I’m going to help out and tag the tracer’s current active tumblr.
that-one-darkness-dad is the current url of the tracer. They’ve made it so access to their blog is limited to the dashboard so permalinks to their blog may not work.
With this said, I am all for giving someone the benefit of the doubt if styles do happen to look similar. However, when there’s empirical evidence to the contrary when there’s far too much in common where it looks like an exact copy- line for line- then there is no doubt to be had. Something has to be done to stop it.
An apology does little when one denies the allegations to these obvious actions of plagiarism which can ruin professional repertoire on both sides which can cause catastrophic damage if either artist depends on their works for a living, be it through professional works or through free-lance independent professionalism through patreon support. These aren’t the sorts of things that go away over time either, the effects of this can last for much longer, even linger for years after.
It needs to be said how much that something like this can damage both the person responsible for the tracing as well as the original source. It had to be said so that appropriate action can be taken. And no, I will not speak for things that do little to aid in stopping plagiarism, but instead only lead to more problems: bullying, hate-mail, and hurtful call outs will only cause more harm than good.
Don’t be a jerk, don’t be that person, report the art and act like a civil human being concerned for the original content creator. Don’t be another problem, be someone that resolves it.
I’ll also provide other links that direct to sites that host the copies.
Guys, if you’re a K-Pop Stan, you may have heard of an app called Mydol, right? The premise is you input a call name and choose a K-Pop star to chat with, who is ‘AI’
This app is run by human traffickers
They will begin to ask you oddly specific questions, back into your camera and mic, and mask what they’re really doing by saying ‘the AI get smarter the more you talk!’
This isn’t true. You aren’t talking to AI, you’re talking to REAL PEOPLE!!
It makes you create an account, preferably by linking your twitter, google, or Facebook. If you have linked any of these social media platforms to a Mydol account, deactivate them right now
If you don’t trust me, just look a little more into the app online. Look at the screenshots. Tell me I’m wrong.
Spread. This. Please. I know you may not be into K-Pop, but I’m sure someone following may be, or know somebody who is. Even if you aren’t, you may have downloaded the app. This app is dangerous
TLDR; Mydol is an app run by human traffickers who pretend to be AI
(Reposting with more info and tagging more fandoms)
Not into k-pop but please don’t get trafficked
@infinityuserboxes I feel like you,should be aware of this for some reason…
I know this is a markiplier blog but any kpop fans please be safe!
i know this is a
markiplier blog but any
kpop fans please be safe
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dunno how current this is but hey better safe than sorry
I know a few of my followers are k-pop fans. Better safe than sorry.
Any of my loves out following me who are kpop lovers, do NOT DOWNLOAD MYDOL!!!!
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