Buskin

Sock from drawn to life is the most creature ever

(Also ik raposas don't have tails I just think they should 😈)

wikia is a hypercapitalist monopoly that's crushing independent wikis and it's an adware-infested hellscape that sucks ass and has a horrible user interface.

wikia is a for-profit corporation that does not care at all about fandom, stole and trademarked the fucking word "fandom", and is actively monopolizing the fanwiki world while either buying out or outcompeting actual legitimate independent wikis.

they manipulate google results to drive searches toward their much shittier wikis rather than towards the actually helpful and worthwhile independent wikis.

if you google the word "fandom", the top result AND the wikipedia page they suggest are both wikia.

their user interface is horrifyingly terrible for a wiki and they allow almost no customization at all to the wikis who have to use their platform. you cannot run a wiki on wikia without forcing people to see a huge, obnoxiously bright yellow WIKIA!!! banner along one side, a huge header filling up the top of the page, a massive useless sidebar, and often a fucking video above the article, not to mention the literally endless wall of completely fucking unrelated ads that scroll up under every article, and instead of talk pages they have fucking comments sections.

this is an actual wiki:

and this is the equivalent page on a fucking wikia wiki:

neither of those screenshots are edited.

you cannot see the information on the wikia page upon opening it.

but you know what you can see?

fucking ads.

have you ever heard of NIWA? it's the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance, a group of independent wikis that are each around a specific Nintendo fandom (Super Mario Wiki, Bulbapedia, etc). a couple years ago there was a huge controversy because ZeldaWiki, one of the founding members, shifted to Gamepedia, a wiki farm and possibly Wikia's biggest competitor. people were annoyed, and were occasionally making jokes like "what next? are we going to start including Wikia wikis?"

then gamepedia got bought and merged with wikia.

this is what zelda wiki used to look like:

and this is what zelda wiki looks like now:

terraria recently changed their official wiki to an independent one since Gamepedia got bought out by Wikia, which is good, but it's drowned out by the literal thousands of crappy, hard-to-navigate wikia-owned wikis. I've seen wikia wikis that have to append each article with a tag at the top saying "we're sorry about that huge video ad above the article, we can't do anything about it, wikia's in charge."

and wikia gets away with it because site hosting is expensive and difficult so many people, especially younger people, have no choice.

and nobody cares.

I fixed it!

In the first meme, the thin book is labeled “the character”; the thicker book is labeled “shit i literally made up about them”

The second meme is an edit of the first. The thin book is labeled “the character (who is understandably limited in depth due to whatever story canon was telling)” and the thicker book is labeled “shit I extrapolated from canon characterization or made up about them in order to flesh them out from the limitations of canon (and sometimes for fun)”

The first time I played DTL2, I was really looking forward to seeing the village “Sock” originally came from. Obviously, we don’t get to see this happen. :V

Jowee: No.

Sock: You can tell me.

Jowee: I’m not.

Sock: It’s okay. I’m gay, Salem is gay.

Salem: Bye.

Sock: Oh, sorry. He’s bi.

it's an email address. sign them up for every goddamn newsletter and advertising list you can possibly find. sign them up for club penguin. throw this email into every website you can think of.

email automatically filters out potential spam - try to spell words correctly and avoid leetspeak, using too many symbols, using symbols instead of letters, and links.

i doubt they have any specific content filtering set up right now, but they probably will if enough people do this. try to avoid any meme-y words, or vocabulary that primarily leftists use. depending on how sophisticated they make their filter, if you can use terminology that a "concerned parent" would use, it might whitelist you.

I'd highly recommend using a burner email for this, and not your real email address. not only for anonymity's sake, but also because if they block your address, you can just open a new one. just try not to make it a string of numbers, anything resembling spambot-speak, etc, just like the body of your messages.

If anyone wants to join in, here's a link to the discord! We're talking in #dtl-chat:  https://discord.gg/ADDH37SUuQ

Oh! And be sure to ask for the temporary r/place role if you want to be notified about this!