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#FckAIArt / Closing #daFantasy

Hello everyone! It has been a long time since I posted any journal entry. Some of you might be aware of the AI situation on deviantArt which has only gotten worse over the last months. I hoped the uproar and the ongoing legal actions would at least stop deviantArt from going down that AI spiral any further but I was wrong. Instead the team tries to silence those who try to oppose it. For me, the final straw was a post on the official deviantArt X account where they promoted an AI artist as one of their "top-selling artist" on dA. The backlash was immense and instead of listening to the comments they tried to hide them: https://twitter.com/DeviantArt/status/1769476314921148662 It is obvious that deviantArt has no or only very little interest in doing something good for actual artists now. It is a sad thing to experience since I have been using this site for 17 years at this point and considered it to be THE spot for both professional as well as hobby artists to share their work

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#FckAIArt / Closing #daFantasy

Hello everyone! It has been a long time since I posted any journal entry. Some of you might be aware of the AI situation on deviantArt which has only gotten worse over the last months. I hoped the uproar and the ongoing legal actions would at least stop deviantArt from going down that AI spiral any further but I was wrong. Instead the team tries to silence those who try to oppose it. For me, the final straw was a post on the official deviantArt X account where they promoted an AI artist as one of their "top-selling artist" on dA. The backlash was immense and instead of listening to the comments they tried to hide them: https://twitter.com/DeviantArt/status/1769476314921148662 It is obvious that deviantArt has no or only very little interest in doing something good for actual artists now. It is a sad thing to experience since I have been using this site for 17 years at this point and considered it to be THE spot for both professional as well as hobby artists to share their work

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Zira's appreciation post

(NOTE: I originally started writing this on my Twitter but decided to expand my thoughts here. As the title says, these are just my personal, jumbled thoughts about a villain that I find surprisingly interesting and wish she wasn't so overlooked just because she came from a Disney sequel. In other words: yes, I prefer Zira over Scar xd). (NOTE 2: I'm not taking into account anything stated about Zira in The Lion Guard, this journal is only about the film Simba's Pride and Zira's role in it). Imma be real with you, I think Zira is one of the most interesting Disney villains out there, but since she comes from a direct-to-video sequel she's extremely underrated. I just love how unhinged she is from the beginning and how in her demented mind she thinks she's "avenging" Scar. I love the ambiguity around her character. We never find out what her exact relationship with Scar was in-universe, yet she declares that Scar chose Kovu as his heir before he died. Is she telling the truth? Or is

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