Alioth Fox (but you can call me Daddy~) on Nostr: I wish Twitter/X would shut down altogether. It's so awful and people are so stuck to ...
I wish Twitter/X would shut down altogether. It's so awful and people are so stuck to it, and I wish it would just... stop working, so the people who keep making excuses to stay in the nazi bar would no longer have a nazi bar to stay in.
That's selfish of me to say, I know - a lot of artists would get really fucked over by that - but I'm having a harder and harder time having sympathy for people who stubbornly refuse to divest from it. It's not like they don't have alternatives at this point. But they excuse it by saying "This is where everyone is" - all while most of them have BlueSky and Mastodon accounts that have been sitting abandoned since they signed up months ago "just in case." It's infuriating.
I know there's "no ethical consumption" yadda yadda, but ye gods, furries are so fucking bad at making even *token* efforts at it. A line all the way down the hall for Chick-fil-A at FWA every fucking year. People going apeshit drooling over FNAF despite its creator being one of the biggest pieces of shit imaginable (all while condemning JK Rowling even though Scott Cawthon is *literally exactly as bad*). The list is endless, and there is ALWAYS some excuse. "You can't expect us to give up all joy" or "I don't have the bandwidth to keep up with all the outrage" or "I don't give them any money, but [I literally cannot live without it so] I just pirate it" or something along those lines. Did you think The Revolution™ was going to come without any personal sacrifice? Was all that talk just for the sake of performance?
There's so much *complacency* - you won't switch from Adobe because it's too time-consuming to learn new software. You won't get off of Twitter because you don't want to spend time building an audience somewhere else. That's complacency. Doing the right thing sometimes requires *actual effort*, not just stringing the right combination of words together in an "awareness" post or getting angry about all the right things.
That's selfish of me to say, I know - a lot of artists would get really fucked over by that - but I'm having a harder and harder time having sympathy for people who stubbornly refuse to divest from it. It's not like they don't have alternatives at this point. But they excuse it by saying "This is where everyone is" - all while most of them have BlueSky and Mastodon accounts that have been sitting abandoned since they signed up months ago "just in case." It's infuriating.
I know there's "no ethical consumption" yadda yadda, but ye gods, furries are so fucking bad at making even *token* efforts at it. A line all the way down the hall for Chick-fil-A at FWA every fucking year. People going apeshit drooling over FNAF despite its creator being one of the biggest pieces of shit imaginable (all while condemning JK Rowling even though Scott Cawthon is *literally exactly as bad*). The list is endless, and there is ALWAYS some excuse. "You can't expect us to give up all joy" or "I don't have the bandwidth to keep up with all the outrage" or "I don't give them any money, but [I literally cannot live without it so] I just pirate it" or something along those lines. Did you think The Revolution™ was going to come without any personal sacrifice? Was all that talk just for the sake of performance?
There's so much *complacency* - you won't switch from Adobe because it's too time-consuming to learn new software. You won't get off of Twitter because you don't want to spend time building an audience somewhere else. That's complacency. Doing the right thing sometimes requires *actual effort*, not just stringing the right combination of words together in an "awareness" post or getting angry about all the right things.