PLUT0NIA

Yes, indeed. I haven't said anything here in almost a decade now. Never did I suspect that things could get this dark. Fortunately, the dark is not something I've ever been averse to. I can't be the only one for whom this rise of Skynet's incompetent uncle has been a personal boon, and not in the way one might cynically suspect. Many artists here and elsewhere are struggling with their own motivation due to their craft being infinitely devalued by supply vastly outpacing demand. Hours-old accounts with 5-10 times the number of deviations that you've submitted in ten years. They're burying you alive, and don't even have the courtesy of suffocating you while they're at it. Like drowning in a children's ball pit. (And the balls aren't even round because the AI doesn't know how to draw circles.) Then there are those with a righteous moral crusade against this machine taking what they've made and making it all its own. I remember how I used to mock all those young, aspiring artists