you know I like Lorde but this one album cover crakcs me up every time it comes up on my playlist. oh godsent ass? alrighty
you weak-hearted fools, do you not understand? i cannot die! not forever! for what if the writers run out of things to do in the latest timeline and need me again? who else to make them their millions in the coming dark hours if not me? i could return, wrested from my ghost wife’s loving ghostly arms, at any moment. billions of possibilities stand before you. of course, this means that i will never be truly happy or at peace, but neither will you! enjoy looking at that statue every time your vaunted heroes step outdoors while you can, because it is but a dark reminder of the purgatory i have dragged all of us into. oh, yes. behold its white-hot metal ass and weep.
Posted on twitter but somehow forgot about here…
Gorls cause i love them and wish they had more varying haircuts

[ID: greyscale full-body drawings of four girls from Mob Psycho 100. from left to right is Emi, Tome, Mezato, and Tsubomi. Emi holds an envelope with a heart on it in her hands. she looks to the right, nervous. Tome stands with her arms at her side, her head tilted slightly to the left, frowning. there are small doodles of stars and a planet around her head. Mezato is angled to the right, smiling. she waves with one hand, her camera hangs from a strap on her arm. her other hand is behind her back. Tsubomi is angled to the left, her hands together in front of her chest as she smiles. /End ID.]
If you need context, earlier this year, CorridorDigital put out an "AI-made anime," where an AI filter was used to convert live action footage into "animation" (for the record, this is NOT animation. Animation is not a look, it's a process. By this logic, anyone using that Pixar Snapchat face filter is a Pixar animator). They touted themselves as "revolutionizing animation."
They were met with considerable backlash and criticism from the animation community. For one, they were taking frames from the real anime Vampire Hunter D to feed the AI. For another, the video was essentially a proof-of-concept for how "easy" and "inexpensive" it is to reduce animation to an automate-able process.
Well, Corridor did not learn anything, because they released a sequel... In the middle of a strike against the use of AI to replace/exploit/profit off of the labor of workers in the film industry. Corridor assured they hired their own artist to train the AI, but remember that industry discourse like this is interconnected. They may not be stealing art, but any studio that sees this and goes 'wow, it's that easy' will. Corridor's also boasting about AI democratizing animation-making. Now anyone can make animation in their bedroom with nothing but a camera and a free software! Except, anyone could already make animation in their bedroom with nothing but a camera and a free software. I made animation in my bedroom with nothing but a camera and a free stop-motion software when I was 10 years old.
Anyways, work like this is exactly what studios hellbent on exploiting workers want to see. It doesn't matter if it's cool or fun. Remember that AI discourse is currently the frontlines of the labor crisis in the film industry. Corridor putting out this video as "fun education" in the middle of an strike is so incredibly irresponsible and disrespectful.

*microwaves ramen with sink water*
Did we just revolutionize COOKING..... AGAIN?!?!?! 😱🤯
"please just order, I don't need to hear the backstory of your cactus allergy"