warning: if you dont feel comfortable discussing about mental health, or serious shit, please leave and go somewhere nice. enjoy this cat photo.

ok here’s the serious part.

this post is dedicated to @sackydz and @jthrash. i read their posts and felt motivation to write this. if you dont want the credit i’ll delete. :3

i am no longer struggling with compassion fatigue, but i still want to help people. i love humanity and feel like i should take a stand.

i have been seeing some of the artists i care for here (and a friend) of mine struggle with staying on social media that has been stressing them out. i have struggled with it too. the feels of wanting to browse it, for the memes and the cool images you can find in google or other areas.

i understand the world is not a happy, or cheerful place. i am not saying you should deny the bad things. i am also trying to say that ai and celebrities can be a major stressor. theres also a lot of really bad people out there.

but hear me. delete the sites that are stressing you out a lot. please. it will be addicting and filled with withdrawl, but it’s worth it. i have never had to leave a social media site, but i gotten somewhat addicted to a subreddit i will not say for privacy and harassment reasons. it was filled with distressing stuff (not nsfw, but stuff like venting and fear of the future to the max.) i left adter 3 months, but for another month i had lots of urges to use it. how did i combat it? reminding myself that that subreddit was more of an uneeded anchor off my back, and focusing on work and friends, plus art and stupid memes :)

also, im not saying all the bad stuff is an illusion,run by some secret society/ the illuminati 🔺 but the constant fear you gain from those sites benefits not you, not who you care for, but the majority of posters of stuff like ai news, drama,political crap and celeb scandals just wanna get views, reaction, and sometimes money. (this doesnt apply to vents or life stories) they try to make people feel bad to get them algorithim boosts, and also for more attention.

we must try to inspire change and hope by spreading awareness, creating stuff to help people, and not use or conform to the stuff that tries/exists to make us too hopeless to fight, as people can be indoctrinated into evil if they dont try to fight when they can.

even if we dont bring much effect or it doesnt get much views, what matters is that you spoke out and someone found out and found a spark of confidence.

also, even if things may look completely depressing, there is still beauty in small pockets of community. i want to be a small pocket of hope in an ocean of chaos. i view the web as a huge ocean, and us users are basically fish and other ocean animals. there are huge areas of rough waves and vicious animals, but there are also smaller areas of calmer waves and nicer animals.

speaking about ai and stuff, i get its not a very fun topic to discuss especially about the future, but hear me out. your art will always be better and filled with more soul and imaginstion than ai. even if ur artstyle is ms painty, at least you put your thought in it.

thx for reading. if u have any constructive critique tell me.

rip akira toriyama

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O8F8y8rzP-U&pp=ygUZdGh1cnNkYXkgYXQgdGhlIGJsdWUgbm90ZQ%3D%3D

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QfY54m3eeMM&pp=ygUZbGVtb25hZGUgcGV0IGluc3VyYW5jZSBhZA%3D%3D

slow down speed to 0.5 or lower to read the images

B i g S u r p r i s e :D

(not a promotion, i was just sending this link for the lolz)

ik tomoko is there but idc

i've been struggling with painful thoughts about the past and old flash animations. i was looking at some old flashes and old games on newgrounds and old social sites like myspace and sheezyart from the wayback machine, and wish that i was able to post fun stuff at the time. i know i would be insulted but i can handle it, there were always trolls. but i honestly wish i could enjoy the web around 2003-2014. seeing all the creativity, the silliness, the edginess, and the humor... i don't know how i should feel.

hell, i get pretty angry when people say they miss the creativity of the past. it's more of a catharsis than any hatred. i wish i could accept how reality is. i honestly have issues with the concept of media aging well as well.

plus, regarding ai, i feel upset when people discuss it, mainly as like a catharsis as well, but also because i feel like it's just not going to do anything useful

awesome! thank you all!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KmyTG5Yi3i0&pp=ygUZYXBhcnRtZW50IDI2IGdpdmUgbWUgbW9yZQ%3D%3D