Dr. Now of "My 600 Pound Life" fame was born in Iran
I learned something new, thank you for sharing <3
<3 I appreciate you
Wasn't sure where you were coming from bc of how other ppl were responding;-;
Those examples are great!
People don't get that the result of putting these weird structures on what art they consider valid or which artists are doing it "right" is how we end up oppressing people
Can you clarify what you mean by that
Why does anyone get to try decide when is enough is enough for another person?
That's why this whole way of looking at it is gatekeeping and wrong, imo, and advice should focus on encouraging good things instead.
The reason I say reading the "right" things is because- obviously anyone capable of reading at all has read enough to be able to read and engage with the medium of written communication, and perhaps form opinions on what they'd want to create in that medium. When is enough enough?
How 'successful' you are is just a matter of time and said effort.
Success itself means a lot of different things to a lot of different people.
Never say never except if you're saying to never say never xD
You'll only ever never be something if you dont start doing that thing
Not because you don't have a favorite creator in that medium by the time you're a senior in college, or because you didn't read the "right" things. Youll get better the more you try and the more you care, how you try is up to you
The mark for some, so I take responsibility for that.
End of the day-
Go make things and have fun. Don't be discouraged and do your best.
Take inspiration from whatever inspires you. Break the rules to learn the rules, do it your way, it's fine. You can do it.
I feel like discouraging people by telling them they'll never be a writer or whatever type of creator they want to be is fucked up, kind of regardless of why it's being said. The thought process of that kind of feedback is what I'm attempting to compare and critique. Clearly that message has missed
I'm locking this thread down- I feel my actual point is being missed and it's escaped containment. I'm sorry if I upset anyone, I just hate the idea of discouraging people from creating or invalidating people based on external factors from the work itself
create, enjoy it, don't get discouraged
People say I'm fighting a straw man, then straw man me
I shrug
I wish everyone a good pursuit of happiness and a very not getting discouraged in said pursuits š¤·āāļø
Telling people they'll be better the more they read is very different than what I'm arguing against
I am sorry my point isn't clear enough
My only gate for art is that humans make it
AI can make visuals, it can make images, it can't make art
Nobody's rights are being violated by this gate because AI isn't a person and doesn't have rights
AI isnāt art~
Itās not GOATed, itās a theft machine that also veritably steals your ability to think for yourself.
AI is fascist.
At this moment yeah, I was going to bed when I commented based on the post at face value itself, mb šš»
I was mentally comparing the thumbnail to SOGās thumbnail for the video on Kffls
I didnāt take the words as fact, more as relevant to why they made a video (and not direct accusations)
Yeah, again thatās not what Iām reacting to. I agree with reading more being good always
Assumptions about how much somebody has read/seen based on the quality of their work is erroneous and can easily result in problems for newbies when the belief is held by people in authority.
Have a nice day~
They also didnāt use a grotesque caricature in the thumbnail either, nice
I was compelled to respond because youāre making assumptions about what he said and about what I said, I needed to clarify that and pointed out. And that is why Iām no longer responding after this point.
Once again, have a good night.
Thatās a charitable assumption, and literally not what he said in the screenshot.
He could have said, as a literary professor, āwhat is your favorite bookā or work of fiction, etc.
He was specifically asking about authors and novelists, not about works.
Thatās clear in his statement.
Good and bad comes after youāre already the thing.
I think we just have different opinions and thatās fine. I hope you have a good day, Iāve said all I have to say.
I wish we could find common ground, but I donāt think that youāre accurately representing me when you try to repeat what Iāve said.
He says he wonāt be a novelist. Itās a unilateral statement.
He didnāt say youāre not going to be a good novelist , he didnāt say youāre not going to be as good as you could be as a novelist. He said youāre not going to be one.
This is why I donāt wanna dive too deep into the statement because thereās so much we donāt know about an anecdote like this. We only know what heās communicating now out of it. (Which includes not knowing what manga is or invalidating it entirely lol)š
There was a book I really enjoyed that I remember about shapeshifting dragons, the one about some political assassin ninja in a futuristic society with a plague and stuff
I also donāt tend to rank things based on my favorite, there is just a list of things that Iāve enjoyed and why.
Iāve read a lot of fiction books, if you asked me what my favorite novelist is I could not name an author, thatās just not how my brain works. Iām terrible with names and titles.
Itās not a lack of love itās literally just that I cannot remember stuff like that.
I think the assumption that devalues the other issues is based in the opinion that this isnāt important.
That might not be what youāre saying, but thatās the way I see it and why I chose to use the word.
Under authoritarianism and fascism.
Trying to limit who can and who canāt express themselves is very serious to me
Itās purposes to raise the importance of this issue, not to devalue a different issue
Youāre entitled to your opinion. I see the root cause of a lot of right wing ideology and authoritarianism and control as the same root.
I think exclusion should be taken very seriously, regardless of where it is, and because I see art as an invaluable human, right, which also tends to get denied
Iām not interested in debating everything in his statement. My issue is with the overall idea of invalidating and saying people cannot or wonāt be what they want to be based on something as simple as not being able to name a novelist on demand when they express interest in being one at 23-24 yrs old
And why I was thinking about it along those lines.
If it makes more sense to you based on what Iām describing, you can replace fascism with authoritarianism or any other better fitting word to a better understand my intent in a way that makes sense to you.
I didnāt include the original when I posted about it because I didnāt think it was important to the core of my issue with the idea and would lead to getting lost in the weeds
It coming from a professor in a position of authority and having these opinions probably influenced my use of āfascismā
