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art is not a skill

and for all of yall that are still figuring it out or aren't getting the support you deserve:

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

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"Hey, we’re thieves, man, and we’re good at what we do, but this is way, way out of our league. And you expect us to go catch some psycho with a city killer? A country killer?"

Per a few messages and, like, “messages” we have received in the past few months as well as like, general ways i sometimes get talked to, there is a frequent sorta.. current that a lot of people seem to think that A.N.I.M. is a much larger company/studio than it is. This warped perception of who they’re talking to when interacting with anything A.N.I.M.-related tends to cause people to hold us to a level of scrutiny, “”professionalism,”” and like general contempt that isn’t particularly pleasant or deserved.

Obviously, to those who have already decided to view us with this contempt, this will probably be seen as more “unprofessionalism” or just not be seen at all (probably for the best), but hopefully it might prevent more people from coming to such conclusions in the future.

I get the impression from quite a lot of interactions that people think they’re talking to like, either a cigar-smoking CEO in a fancy office, or an unfeeling machine of bureaucracy that only reacts to as much force as a single customer can muster.

I must stress, there’s like four of us and more than half of anything we do is handled by one single person, including all correspondence, and we are very open and transparent about communication. You really don’t need to come out swinging to get us to hear you out, we have an email address ([email protected]), an open tumblr inbox, and two Discord servers. Like for instance, if you believe one of our projects needs a trigger warning for something that wasn’t included, a 1-star rating on a the store page is not a necessary or appropriate way to inform us of this. In fact it’s pretty likely we won’t even see it, and pretty un-likely that you’ll be checking back to un-do the rating if your issue ever gets fixed.

I know the pretty standard practice for conversing with business is “attack their wallet,” but that’s like, Walmart. A.N.I.M. pulls in about $25,000 a year. Split between four people + freelancers, that’s not a lot, and not all of us are financially stable enough for this to just be unnecessary supplementary income. Especially when it comes to trying as hard as some people do to cut off revenue (as opposed to just not buying themselves) because they have a complaint about the project or a personal gripe with a team member is a lot more like trying to get a minimum wage service worker fired by repeatedly calling place of work than protesting a billion-dollar corporation.