this site has just become a shitshow of poor to basically non-existent moderation. like, there's only admins here now because for some reason, all the moderators just end up leaving. and the admins are adults with jobs and things they are rarely online.

the site itself keeps having new bugs and glitches that make the site barely usable, features that broke due to glitches like post reactions have been gone months (or maybe they were removed because we as a community were naughty and misusing them, I don't really know) and i'm frankly quite disappointed by that, though once again I understand the few admin here are too busy to add back or fix broken features but months of having to bypass a censor to say sentences like "Dan from the show dan VS wears a black tee-shirt with white text reading jerk" is quite annoying.

the community itself is just not very pleasant in of itself, there's people here I enjoy seeing posts from but I think the forum's moderation issues feed into a poor community. like i'm sure a lot of people here are familiar with a user that's been DMing people weird shit and will type things like "mhmph!" and "meooow" after every sentence and and sending stuff that's genuinely not allowed but there's no moderation right now so all you can really do is block them and warn other users to do the same, and posts that contain topics we aren't allowed to discuss on here stay up for a long time or just never get taken down, like I can think of posts over a week old that shouldn't be here.

and I don't blame moderators for leaving, I really don't, this site needs a lot of work I myself am not willing to put in. and the adults paying to keep the site running need to get the money to do so, and the teenagers like me who are unemployed and in theory have more free time, end up leaving and there's not enough of them to fix the issues on the site when there is a moderator or two.

looking back at old posts, this site seemed to mostly be a tech enthusiasts forum with an older community, now it's a more generic forum with a younger user base (i'd say most users seem to be 15 and under) which isn't a bad thing, more of a netural observation. I think the site needs more staff and such than it did when it first was released though due to the demographic and general posting direction changing over the years, but as i've said pereviously, there's not enough people to keep the site running, mods leave, and admin are far too busy to handle the day to day moderation and upkeep with the site itself.

so-
hands down, I think this has likely been the absolute worst year in this forum's history. I offer no real sort of definite fix, I'm just listing the biggest issues i personally see with the site itself.

i've noticed a lot of people have become very volitile and will call and accuse you of being anything under the sun for seemingly small things, like if I told a woman I shave my legs they might call me a mysogenist for it or i'm looking for male attention. I think people have become a lot more aggressive with these terms and use them a lot more freely, I don't hate women, I shave my legs for my own personal comfort, I don't like how leg hair and fishnets feel for example.

like, I also feel like it can make these words feel like their meanings are more mild, like they downplay the meaning quite a bit and it feels less serious.

I think people also forget that acting like this can make them seem uh, how do I put this? not right in the head, like if a woman was screaming at me calling me a mysoginistic pick-me for shaving my body hair I would assume they are very mentally ill and possibly psychotic to some degree or something else like that.

and also, screaming at people (literally, like irl or online in words, doesn't matter)

will make them NOT want to listen to you.

not only might they think you are batshit insane, they will likely also feel attacked. if someone was telling you that you were a horrible person, you will likely feel personally attacked and you won't want to listen to what they have to say.

i've had a homophobic experience selling jewelry, there was an older woman at the event making rude comments to people with rainbows and things like that. I had pride flag jewelry and the woman couldn't tell whether I was male or female which upset her too, she wanted to call me uh not safe browsedns words but she couldn't tell what word to use and her granddaughter was with her. I had to give her a free bracelet to get her to leave me alone. i'd say she was legitimately homophobic, the event was an event for everyone, and not just for straight people so i don't fucking know what the woman was expecting.

now, some gay guy preferring to wear a rainbow flag instead of the blue white and green gay man's flag I doubt is actually homophobic. if the guy likes that flag more because of the color or he feels more represented by said flag, I don't see why people should dogpile on him for not using the "correct" flag.

I feel like getting aggressive and telling the gay guy to "use the right flag" and calling him homophobic is just rude and not a proper use of the word and makes it seem less serious. the woman I mentioned would fit the word homophobic well.

sometimes you can have a good point, but go about it all wrong. like let's say your parent(s) are honestly wanting to know about and support you through something but they mess up, like they say something without realizing it's offensive, you should explain why the thing is offensive/wrong and not get aggressive and push them away from understanding you.

obviously, sometimes people are assholes and being nice won't get through to them but I doubt being rude will ether, I feel like stooping down to their level and arguing with them is touching the poo and might feel good in the moment, but is a waste of time and can get you in trouble.

I think people are hella divided online and people are becoming even more extreme in their opinions/beliefs to the point it feels like a race to the bottom, regardless of age, government opinions, gender ect. I see this behavior with every single group of people imaginable basically, irl and online.

in conclusion,

don't become like that. touch grass, steap outside echo chambers, talk to people online or in person, and don't use words like transphobe, mysogenist, ect. for every little thing and try to explain your point of view instead of screaming and seeming like you are in need of a shrink.

I'm not going to beat a dead horse and talk too much about one person nor beat around the bush and avoid being offensive, AI generated content isn't art nor should it be posted into this catagory for that reason. while I personally find the AI gulping water thing to be redundent because we use things like plastic and electricity and gasoline every day for example, what isn't talked about nearly enough is the principle of it, AI is fed content from unconsenting artists to create those shitty pictures with 3 arms, weird fingers, and much more. by using AI, you are more or less getting a shitty version of someone else's work that was stolen from them with zero compensation and I frankly find it to be the most direspectful thing you could do to or as an artist. like seriously, how can you call yourself an artist if all you're doing is stealing someone else's art? a horrid amalgamation of other people's content made by a soulless machine?

is not fucking art.

you can use stock photos (free to use images from real people who've consented to have their content used by others) or ask for someone to draw it for you if they do free commissions, or if you have the money, pay an actual artist like 10, 15$ to draw you something or just draw it yourself if you're a real artist.

another thing is art theft, like if you screenshot someone else's work and clame it as your own. if it's not yours and you're not like, posting for a friend with their permission, don't post it. like seriously? why are you resorting to just stealing someone else's stuff for clout? you're literally one reverse image search away from everyone losing all respect for you.

like, genuinely, why post stolen content or AI generated imagery here? can we as a community not do that?

anyways, I should give you a treat for reading this, I know someone was gonna make a more in depth thing on AI, but they think none would read it. here's a human verison of an AI generated oc and me explaining what I did with their design

there was a lot of inconsistancys with the design from image to image, and there was inconsistancys with hands for example so I just gave her chubby, 4 fingered hands because I just was low-key not using all my brain power to decifer how many fingures she had.

I wanted her design to feel a bit more... organic I guess? I gave her a band aid on her knee with a lil bruise, and a partially tucked-in shirt to fit the nonchalant vide she had, I also think this OC was supposed to look emo but AI and gotcha club is limiting??? so I just added onto her design a bit to make it more emo I guess, like a skull shirt and tattered shorts with a belt chain.

I wasn't too sure what her hair clip was intended to be, I think a flower? I just did a little ribbon with "rip" in the center and I could see in the image that I think the AI tried to give her a gotcha life face so I gave a face simmaler. fpe isn't as detailed as this, I was just going off of the AI generated image and trying to refine the design.
also, I ask we not continue to beat a dead horse with like, spesfic people and can we talk broudly about art theft and AI generated content as a subject of discussion?

recently, there's been lots of drama on here. its beyond stupid. just bc someone loves someone else than, makes a satirical joke you didn't understand was a joke bc you rush to comment b4 you actually fully understand it, you heard a evidenceless rumor that someone was a "bad person", they have different religious views ect.

UNDER NO UNCERTAIN TERMS; YOU DONTGET TO START SHIT.

if someone genuinely did something you think is wrong, tell a mod in a private dm. don't humiliate yourself publicly by making a cringe call out post. you look stupid when doing that, like your asking for attention. you'll look especially stupid if it turns out your wrong. plus, ask yourself how this will hurt the other person, like if its complete dog shit your spouting and it damages others reputation. be the bigger person and just don't do it. being high and mighty doesn't get ya anywhere good. is it worth your time to instagate random people on a dead forum designed for switch users? honestly, you need to be at least 13 to use this site, so act like it everyone. lets be better to eachother.

let's say someone tells you men are objectively more intelligent then women, and to prove their point they grab two random people off the street, we'll call them chadifer and burtha, burtha and chadifer take an IQ test and chadifer has an IQ of 110, while burtha has an IQ of 70.

the person who told you that men are objectively more intelligent uses that as objective proof that men are more intelligent as a whole and women are objectively all not intelligent.

the issue with this person's conclusion (not taking into account the mysogynistic undertones) is that everyone is different, sure some men might be more intelligent than some women. chadifer and burtha are parts to a very large and diverse group of people, chadifer has a higher IQ than burtha but that doesn't mean all men are smarter than women and burtha has a lower IQ than chadifer, but that doesn't mean that women are stupid.

this is an issue I see sometimes when someone is trying to prove a point or in some studies, having literal 50/50 odds aren't going to give you useful insight.

if you were trying to prove chadifer was more intelligent than burtha then you would've succeeded but using these two random people to prove such a large, vauge thing as "one gender is smarter than the other!!!" is ridiculous because these two random people don't represent their group.

let's use another example, let's say you pull 2 names out of a hat, and you work in a prison. both the people you pull just so happen to be gay so you use this as evidence that gay people are all criminals since both the people you pulled just so happened to be gay, you aren't taking into account other factors like the prison is small and mostly filled with gen z or something like in this hypothetical scenerio something like kissing in public as a queer couple is illegal so a lot of people got thrown in prison for that or maybe it was completely random and a coincidence.

like, does anyone see what i'm getting at? trying to generalize a large group of people based on a small group of said people isn't effective and is stupid.
now, some groups are very bad (obviously) but doing things like generalizing a gender, country, ect. isn't a good idea at getting a good picture of what's going on.

i have access to Internet but i just don't feel like post much. just super boring on here now, idk if that much is different about this site, i doubt it. but im just growing bored and annoyed of this site. i've been thinking about quitting this site recently too, i won't bc 1. i work here and it adds some meaning to my worthless, empty life. and 2. i have friends here. i honestly won't ever recommend this site to anyone i meet at this point bc of that and the stupid drama this site has, its so small but yet its full of it and sometimes it feels like a cesspool of it. this is just a stupid rant ik, and ik the only "engagement" it'll likely get is just some upvotes and nothing else bc thats just how things are now on here but i just wanted to be a [censored] and complain online like everyone else, im currently partisapating in this "problem" but im just too burnt out to care about my image online rn.

I just now got my account limited for something that supposedly happened 86 days ago. back in May, I got a strike message a week after the supposed incodent and I was punished for it, but it decided to limit my account just now until tomorrow, 86 days later. from what I understand, if discord randomly decides to strike me again for this inncodent my account will be perma banned bc 3 strikes. I guess keep in mind that your account can and will be banned for stuff you supposedly did ages ago and you were already punished for. now I need to be ready for whenever discord decides to strike me again for this and my account is banned. if you know anything about discord it's you cannot ban-appeal =-= your account is just gone. and that's it. i'll likey need to write down the usernames of everyone i've friended so when discord decides to strike me yet again I'll have them ready so I can use a VPN and make an alt account.

fυck you discord.

yeah I also added a random symbol I drew for a friend he wants to get as a tattoo at some point, idk, i'm just posting random shit, it's not exactly new amazing content

I put a razor in the lollipop charm from her knife in refrence to the old wives tales about tanted candy and I drew her in a new outfit and gave a more classic chibi at the bottom of the page next to her.
I did edit some of the photo's contrast and the like as a bit of an experiment.

i'll prolly keep posting older art for a bit.

@w1ckedsticky1983

disability sucks. boom I said it.
but in all honesty, I hear people say being disabled isn't good or bad, it's neutral and it annoys me greatly, no, disabled people aren't bad or annoying, but being disabled in of itself can suck.

did people forget what disabled means? I think a good thing to remember is that different disabilitys affect people differently and it's not always "socity's oppression and ablesum is why living with a disability sucks" I live with seizures right? unfortunatly i'm unmedicated right now since my body doesn't like the meds for it .

society could be nicer and doctors could actually try to figure out the root cause of my issues but that won't make it 1005 % better. it won't stop it completely and I find seizures to suck, i'm lucky enough for mine to be more of a painful inconvenience in my life and I have support and accessability tools but it's still unplesent.

my fellow autistics can likely relate to autism being unpleasant but it's not always someone's fault, like you might find the sun overwhelming even with sunglasses but no, that's not an issue directly caused by someone being a bigot, it's literally nature, like birds being loud.

and things like mental illness can be disabling, I have MMD (major depressive disorder) and that shit can be hard man. I think a lot of people on here- if not everyone, lives with mental illness and it's hard, looking at someone who struggles to leave their bed every day and telling them that their demons aren't bad, they are just netural can feel insulting and patronizing as hell even if that wasn't their intention.

and then there's another irritating side to this, let's call it

autism is my super power!

those people who will say that [insert disability] is a super power or an atvantage somehow, completely missing the point of what the word "disabled" means.

it's usually people tryna be nice, like telling a depressed person that their depression makes them more "smart".

or telling someone they look too good to be disabled, like if they see someone with autism dressed up and not in "autistic" clothes (comfy hoodies, pajamas, oversized tees, sweat pants, ect)

like, why is it that if I, as someone who is handicapped says that being disabled is unpleasant, and it sucks I ether get some random person telling me "uh, no, you're a bigoted abelist. disability isn't bad OR good, it's a neutral thing you privileged swine" or some random southern mother of three telling me I have a super power or I don't seem disabled since I present myself very well or I seem too "smart" to have autism? why am I not allowed to say that having a disability is not a good thing and it can suck? why does that make me a biggoted monster for having that opinion?

I think this is something @xenth could relate to, tbh

please don't send gifs/gif flood my DMs on here, doing so could trigger a seizure for me and those are unpleasant and i'd like to avoid having them as much as possible. on discord, I have a setting turned on from the accesablitly settings option to turn gifs into just a still frame so you could flood my DMs with the most violent, aggressive, flashing light filled gifs you want and I'll be perfectly fine, also, it helps my laptop not lag out like crazy so i'd recommend turning it on if you're in servers where gif flooding is common place. but also, if you choose to flood my DMs with gifs to try to avoid a ban, not only would that be a shitty thing to do, another mod can still DM you and you're still gonna get introuble. yeah, uh in summery, you can DM me gifs on discord but please not on here.

thank you so much for being considorate of this^^^

my guess to why women are rejecting feminism is because its now associated with women being frucking assholes to men as a whole and basically treating them how how women used to be treated. feminism means equal rights for everybody! its ok if you want to be a stay at home mom or like traditionally femmenie things, that doesn't make you not a feminist, you can be a dude and be a feminist too, feminism is just wanting things to be fair to everybody and you're not an asshole sexist woman for that. i think most people would be feminist actually if they knew what it is supposed to mean

basically, it's like a BNS with a mod and more catiogories but it's filled with people who got banned from here which could mean someone who said a no-no word, or spammed or something annoying but not really that serious, or someone who got banned for the most icky reasons imaginable so it's kinda a mixed bag. the icky users part does kinda make me wanna delete my account right off the bat, like seriously, %100000 genuinely considering that because while I can and did block, I just feel like it's not gonna pan out well like I feel like one person in particular is gonna get into my direct messages through an alt or try to find a way into something

the site looks visually extremely similar to this one, to the point i'm guessing a lot of forum sites use the same UI and sprites, while it seems to have been a music forum originally, it seemingly got the same treatment as this site did with it becoming a general forum and not a specific neiche topic based forum.

still, it seems nice and I can understand why people will leave BNS to join it or just migrate over there after being banned from here.

blood warning

Spoiler

@NeverLetMeDown @NeverLetMeDown-Fanclub

my camera deapfried and warped the shit outta dis
i'll prolly start posting old art while i'm busy with jewlery production
fun fact! this image has red in it but the red looks oddly pale and pinkish due to color distortion in my photos

@sweetpuddin this is for you.
artist's notes:
it's almost 3am and i'm pretty tired lol, my shitty Chromebook camera wasn't wanting to behave and the photos are extra chopped and yes, that is a mini tung tung tung sahour on her hand and her bat says "*TRIPPLE T" because ik how much puddin' loves him🥰 and idk, there's a strawberry in her mouth lol? idk, i'm tired lol

maybe we just leave it as typing quirks are fine, BUT if you're in DMs and someone asks you to stop typing like that (obviously if your keyboard is broken or something you don't have to do so) you just type normally, doesn't have to be enforced, it can just be something you do to be a decent person, like, there's no rule against flooding my DMs with the most flashy, bright, strobe light GIFS you can find; you'd just not so you don't give me a seizure.

I persenally don't mind, but if i'm trying to talk to you in DMs about something staff related, please don't type like this, I can read it but it's a pain in the [censored] and not nesscery to be doing unless for some reason your keyboard is busted. you can do whatever you'd like in posts though imo.

We are not allowed to post about [censored] or self harm, it's a triggering topic for a lot of people and it could be abused by people who are trying to farm upvotes or something similar. Despite me locking and posting a reply to those types of topics, recently people still have been posting about it. If you or someone you know needs help, please use one of these links provided in this post, and refrain from posting about such topics in the future. I understand getting help conventionally (I.e. therapist) might be unacsessable to you and I apologize for that. These links should all load on switch alright and I do hope they help anyone struggling.

apa.org/topics/crisis-hotlines

• A list of various different hotlines for different struggles and should have some for various different countrys.

pflag.org

• For people struggling with LGBT related topics.

mentalhealthresourcesmasterlist.carr.co/

• Resources for those struggling with their mental health.

1in6.org

• SA resorces for men as it can be more difficult for them to find help.

rainn.org

• SA victim resources.

https://alsana.com

• 24/7 Eating disorder support with a free chat with a therapist, you can also seek out treatment if you have access to that sort of thing.

601-348-5683

• Text only I believe, but an eating disorder help line.

I hope you are doing alright whomever might be reading this, if there's nothing for your country, please let me know.

please, if you choose to date keep it in dms. don't advertise yourself like a product, that is how very bad people take advantage of you. i'm not saying dating bad, but just stop advertising yourself. this is

not

ok, and will likely get you in trouble. just don't do it. plus tinder is 18+ in the usa, so that should tell you something.