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  • Chief Correlation Officer

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  • Is this losses?

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  • The neverending study

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    The neverending study

  • Artificial stupidity

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    Artificial stupidity

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    Decline and fall

  • The world if Harambe lived

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  • But I was told by reliable sources that Clinton was a communist trying to turn the USA into the USSR 2.0…

    The same excellent sources that also told me COVID originated in a Chinese lab, they would never lie!

  • The world if Harambe lived

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    The world if Harambe lived

  • Anti-homeless architecture

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    Anti-homeless architecture

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    Localwashing

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  • Localwashing

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    Localwashing

  • Backseat pressure

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  • Thanks 🥰

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    Backseat pressure

  • Disproven

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    Disproven

  • A note from the mod on AI-generated comics

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  • I wouldn't say it's exclusively an effort issue, there's pretty legitimate reasons why people don't draw: fear of judgement, lack of belief in self, anxiety…

    In my case the last time I had fun drawing was in school, until my art teacher repeatedly told me I drew like shit and I just gave up drawing. Thought I'd never be able to draw. Took me 20 years until I tried again. People's words can have unexpected effects, that's why I try to be extra encouraging to new artists.

    I can relate to the frustration of really wanting to draw but thinking you can't do it. I understand why they use the AI drawing generators instead of doing it themselves. I just wish they could believe in themselves the way I did. It's not easy, but it's absolutely worth it.

  • A note from the mod on AI-generated comics

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  • I started by making comics with horribly drawn stickmen in Paint, black and white, no colors, yet they got a positive reaction due to the writing (example of my work 2 years ago).

    Unless you suffer from a severe physical disability, there's no excuse, you can draw your own comics.

    The best part is while drawing your shitty stickmen, you'll get better at drawing, learn to represent emotions and actions, develop a style, start to have a visual identity, maybe even get good at it who knows.

    I learned to draw from scratch in my late 30s, two years later I'm doing illustrations for my own games - there's still a lot of room for improvement, but it proves practice pays off even without tryharding and you don't need AI to draw your comics for you. You just need to get over your fears of judgement, try your best with the skills you've got, and keep doing it on a regular schedule. Slowly, over time, you'll get better. I promise. It'll be fruitless and frustrating sometimes, but you'll get big visible leaps in your skills every now and then.

    That's why I'm always upvoting and complimenting those who are just getting started and can't draw much yet, but have good ideas and a vision. I'd encourage everyone else to do the same. A lot of people tend to stop if they don't get positive feedback.

    If you're considering making AI comics, try drawing them instead. Who cares if it's ugly, give it your best and share it with the world. You might not get many upvotes, but if your ideas are good enough you'll get a few comments and the motivation to keep trying, and that's a lot already. Don't fret over having no "talent", I don't have any either, still can't draw anything decent with a pen and paper :-)

  • Dogwhistle

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  • I like colors.

    I color things in my own ways because it makes me happier than using normal colors.

    Don't overthink it there's no message (except the orange skinned fascists, that's a tradition in my comics).

  • Dogwhistle

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  • Can a bro not do an innocent roman salute or two anymore in this day and age?!

  • Dogwhistle

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  • Bonus panel for no good reason

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    Dogwhistle

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    Stop resisting

  • Infighting

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  • It's a specific type of leftist we have in my country, french communists are a… special breed, let's say.

    In the 1980s our communist party bulldozed a migrant worker dormitory because they hated migrants that much. Red MAGA or something. The party recovered from that era, but french communists are still chauvinistic, xenophobic, and strangely not that much into anti-imperialism (which is meant to be the redeeming quality of tankies). They do however share with tankies the traits of applying "class first" logic to a lot of conversations, which makes them deathly allergic to intersectionality, and being terminally online and way into infighting. Thus they usually end up booted from actual activist groups, since they tend to hold us back and prevent us from actually getting shit done in the streets.

    Hence me calling them pseudo-tankies because it's hard to label them. We just call them tankies here: they're members of a party that supported the crushing of the hungarian uprising with soviet tanks, and is ambiguous about tienanmen (no denying it happened but very alt-history about it), so pro-tanks they are.

    I have an easier time getting along with the average online american tankie than with our local communist party's members.

  • Infighting

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  • It's the factory preset look for these pseudo-tankies that show up in my local activism group every now and then.

    Always the big earring, unkempt beard, this specific shape of glasses, and the cheap aliexpress t-shirt with a political message on it.

    Not my fault Vaush stole the look!

  • Infighting

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  • Hell yea I would love to vote for the people I actually want to vote for

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    Infighting

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    Happy meal (suicide food)

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    Protest vote

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    Bourgeois art (starving artists not welcome)

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    Logical conclusion

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    Terms and conditions

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    Terms and conditions