Overlooking the fact there are so many, from the ad creep, the ad creeping horizon of expectations. With the crawling sigma grind set and the crunch culture. That happens to be the case of the odds one out with courses.
Swimmers body all over again, instant results, before and afters, edits, get the she-bang in the flash, transform in the snap of the fingers.
Yep, too good to be true
Survivorship bias, like fallacies, are informal fallacies which can't be quantified and need credibility to back it up. I'm going through my own experience with this.
Aug 12, 2025
survivorship bias
Jul 25, 2025
Dead Horses and advertisers, Commercial Scientism
It never ends, it's what advertising does.
Like betterhelp, they don't want to end, they want to get attention with their campaigning. Covered it before.
Campaigns are not meant to go away with a debate, over any axis and distinction. You'll see them again. Commercial Campaigning is like Imperial Campaigning, except is a war of attribution.
The terminology matters less than the response here, David Oglich himself did not call himself an artist, he wanted it to be a informational exchange.
Everbody talks about brand marketerising, what about direct response/conversion rate marketerisation.
The conversion rate that's ruthless, and scientism..
Will the behaviourist tradition of putting lipstick on a pig will work? Even a shrewd advertiser like Herschel Gordon Lewis. I'm honest with my fictional entertainment. Yet, it's extended.
Indefinitely for hierarchy.
Jul 10, 2025
Anime burnout
Aokaimaidu got me these sources, thought I'd add my comments.
Kuroshi and licensors. Along with production committees, there's going to have to be a line somewhere where creative labour forces will have to stop jumping through hoops and licensing loopholes with that industry complex.
Death by overworking with comic 'professional' that being a euphemism here since there are overworked comicer that have this Stockholm syndrome with the profit motive. Like being rented mules with others like other rented mules, like the previous.
Or is the standard where love cannot persevere amongst hateful working conditions? Best to be separate from all that ruckus.
Sony has consolidated the licensing, to have to keep in mind.
Licensing politics, even entertainment can't especape form sone/disney/nintendo when it comes to that.
May 29, 2025
Passion Exploitation
They are writing about passion exploitation
Word, even though they may not change our thinking, there are malicious 'teachers' out there who'd think they can out-train sleep.
Beware of groups that become MLMs, Moneys into false promises, and swindles into a realm of creative industry.
Industry...
I could rant about it more and more, only to avenge by doing the more important thing, which is to learn to not work for exploiters.
Such a shame that our own manners of internal motivators can be taught bad patterns, It's only wise to not work for cruelty.
Pain as a generator of creativity, I don't think it's possible. Oh, it's a better as engagement bait and a race-to-the-bottom advice advertising.
Feb 21, 2025
Manage and own the effort
Since we only get so much effort in the day and the outsider of will only get its impression. A simplification of ockan's razor, to eliminate adjective reasoning, is required.
Best to make it with where the effort is distributed where, the inner effort and the outer impact are aligned accordingly.
Feb 1, 2025
Least exhausting way possible
There's a time when one feels the tiredness, the exhaustion, it's a skill that can be learnt, and it seems to be forgotten with what burnout society has left us.
It's merely entertainment, it's merely a distraction, go to have rest'n recovery with the sleep opportunity offered.
Jan 29, 2025
The dissappeared blogs, From monetised whispers.
There are "meta" blogs, trying to game the algorithm, or attempts for dominion and failures, like cheating and such.
Now it's gone, with writing things to be made into the robots, then there are gone, deleted. Files of information that are left into the wastes of lost-media.
Creativity for creativity's sake ain't celebrated, there are left to rot into the forgetfulness of our times, lead into a most profanely disservice that's made into emptiness.
Yet all of this time. That all this task to be made with a priceless intent, one that is to push forward and honour a desire to give our own selves to aid others.
So yes, do go and make an honest living, that living shall not enclosed with the little spindle of creativity that come forth here.
I'm not monetizing this.
Nov 16, 2024
Kelly Turnbulls favourite top burnout hits
If you start up on a production and every artist (particularly board artists) not in leadership positions like directors and supervisors are under 30 that’s a HUUUUUGE Red Flag🔺🔺🔺
Basically it says a) they’re specifically targeting young, hungry people who are less likely to push back if they’re being asked to do unreasonable things because they’re insecure about their careers and b) no one with commitments like kids and mortgages trusts their schedule
(Note: Unreasonable schedules and work-loads)
"The last time I worked on a board-driven show, the more artists bent to meet unreasonable demands, the more was demanded. I left burnt out, demoralized, and unsure of how I would ever work in animation again. I told my friends “I feel like cartoons don’t live in me anymore
The things expected of story artists, for no extra compensation, are atrocious. I keep seeing people even younger than me say things like “I’m 26, I can’t work fast enough to keep up with new kids these days”, any industry that makes people feel this is predatory, simple as that
It’s an industry taking advantage of being “a cool job” to bring in people full of enthusiasm and juice everything out of them with an industrial press, then throw the husks away. And the most marginalized groups will always be the ones with the most to lose in that system.
Anyway this is all to say please support #StoryCraftUnite and #NewDeal4Animation animation is producing the most-watched content on streaming services, we kept the wheels of the entertainment industry turning through the pandemic, our jobs shouldn’t run us like rented mules
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(response to the abuse practices of the spider-verse abuses)
"People in the comments are saying “well if treating a crew like this gets results this good, then we should celebrate it!” But I PROMISE you a crew is always going to give you the best version of what they’re capable of when they’re happy and feel like their work is being valued
Like however good something may have turned out despite the crew waiting for the eagle to come pick out their liver every day, it can be EVEN BETTER if your crew isn’t in constant anticipation that their sandcastle is about to be kicked over.
It’s not just crunch, there’s a great quote I heard once that was something like “people don’t burn out because of hard work, they burn out when they feel like their hard work doesn’t matter”. Endless reworks with no end in sight makes a job feel like a Sisyphean nightmare."
If the cool, high art projects treat their artists like garbage, those artists burn out and go to the jobs that treat them well. You don’t get better art from abused artists, you get the best, most experienced artists avoiding those projects after they’ve been burned
Cool projects aren’t made better by bad conditions. They have bad conditions because they know that by virtue of being cool and desirable, they won’t have a hard time finding more bodies to throw into the pulp mill when if they grind up all the ones they already have."
Nov 13, 2024
Vain glory oxymoron
There is the worst schedule in the world, within the libertarian dystopia, it could be one's own.
Still thinking about how vain-glory this Stockholm condition to capitalism is, Insecure status roles lead to lying about work-schedules that and the exploitation of passion an industry addicted to mass-market advertising.
What a way to indicate as little passion and to creative industries.
A pull the ladder behind oneself.
Greg Capullo has been... lying about his work schedule, and there are others who lie about their work-hours too. Only with my sensitivity with a physical coach and my own.
These syllabuses of others life will never translate into your own, regardless of the truth. Should not degrade into Tik-tok Clip farming, edited for SEO.
Professionalism is whatever they want it to mean for them, including getting dominion.
Since then, He may have back-peddled, yet this advice will all crop up again like the Bulgarian training split, it refuses to die because sex sells.
·4d
"to this day still cannot wrap my head around direct market comics pros and them not just being relentlessly exploited, but frequently being eager about that exploitation, proud of their exploitation, instead of once ever thinking "the way our bosses treat us is ****** up"
this Justice League America page by Kyle Baker came out in May, 1991. It is 33 years old and you still see comics pros enthusiastically acting like this
the only group of creators that i think ever act this ******* eager to get ****** over instead of acting in their own interest against their bosses and publishers is like. Y.A. fiction writers
*** still remembering when BOOM! only paying $50 a page for artists for awhile was *a publicly known thing* and plenty of comic artists were still going "yeah i'll take that job". you'd get better pay for far less work doing a handful of SFW fursona headshots on a twitch stream
comic pros are so frequently a very strange combo of being incredibly prideful but simultaneously having very little self-respect or ability to act in their self-interest"
Matt E. Reals @innerpartisan.bsky.social
"You'll find the exact same attitude with many people working in creative industries, like animators and video game devs. Stockholm syndrome for capitalism coupled with insecure narcissism for the own status, I'd say."