F#$! Yeah, Advertising Icons!

Tumblr itself has been a waste of energy for over a year, and early in 2021 when the copyright directive kicks in, it frankly won’t be alone. Trying to manage it in 2020 seems almost pointless when everything you post is at risk of being wrongly filtered to protect an audience that probably doesn’t even use this site. But the thing is, just look at us. Look at us.

There are times when I’m dying to get back to business providing you all with abandoned animation history (even while the fine folks moderating Art of Lost and Cancelled Media are keeping the tradition alive over on Twitter), as I’ve discovered a plethora of rejected animation history that deserves a place on a blog I just couldn’t bear to run for 16 months, giving creators and their projects without a future some well-deserved exposure (this is especially a bummer following the passing of Chris Reccardi (IMP, Inc. | The Modifyers | Meddlen Meddows)), but the very fact that we’re a month into quarantine because of a major, heightening health/economic crisis - under an authority based on fascism and laziness no less - feels like my breaking point coupled with the fact that a Tumblr alternative where you control what young audiences will somehow stumble into can’t even keep this archive afloat. And so, I feel like it’s time to treat all you patient, cautious folks with the official return of F Yeah, Failed Cartoon Pilots. On Tumblr.

This will be the only blog I’ll be running here, as unless my short-lived F#$! Yeah, Advertising Icons finds a future hidden within this clutter somehow, it feels like the most accessible blog I’ve ever had the courtesy of moderating. So while this blog’s activity may be outpaced by my constant daily viewings of obscure cinema, the new Animal Crossing routine (SW-0417-3040-6344) and anything else I’ve been doing to keep myself busy during this………..this, expect more fascinating film/TV projects that could never make it past pitch/pilot stage to be showcased for as long as we the free internet survives.

It’s good to be me again.

Because what else can you do when deep down, you’re a perv among others whose “failed animation” blog isn’t particularly U-rated either?

If you’re interested, the safest link I can share is a YouTube channel of mine dedicated to uploading advertising from the past and present:

https://www.youtube.com/user/HallOfAdvertising/

But if you want to see me s***post about cinema beyond animation, then click here:

The Piehole Whiskey girls

You may have heard about the efforts in Europe to reform copyright law. The debate has been ongoing in the European Parliament for months. If approved next week, these new regulations would require us to automatically filter and block content that you upload without meaningful consideration of your right to free expression. 

We respect the copyrights and trademarks of others, and we take all reports seriously to ensure that your creative expression is protected. We make this clear in our Community Guidelines. There’s already a legal framework that works and is fair: Today we take down posts and media that contain allegedly infringing content when we receive a valid DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown request. We also provide clear-cut ways for people to fight back if they believe their removed content was not a true violation. These instances are monitored and reported and live in our biannual transparency report. 

The suggestion to use automated filters for issues of copyright is short-sighted at best and harmful at worst. Automated filters are unable to determine whether a use should be considered “fair use” under the law and are unable to determine whether a use is authorized by a license agreement. They are unable to distinguish legitimate parody, satire, or even your own personal pictures that could be matched with similar photographs that have been protected by someone else. We don’t believe that technology should replace human judgment. Tumblr is and always has been a place for creative expression, and these new regulations would only make it harder for you to express yourself with the freedom and clarity you do so now. 

If Article 13 is approved, European People might be basically banned from uploading any fan content. 

You won’t get new fanfics from people in Europe.

You won’t get new gifs from people in Europe.

You won’t get new fanart from people in Europe.

Because they’ll be automatically filtered and blocked!

We might leave Tumblr and other fandom pages.

And if we’re getting all our content blocked? 

You might lose some of your favourite followers/mutuals.

You might not get to read the rest of that fic you’re dying to read - simply because the writer lives in the wrong country.

So do whatever you can to help us stop this.

Reblog this.

Article 13 is going into it’s final stages of voting. 

If this gets through, it will allow many, many companies to abuse and misuse this article to take down as many memes, fan works, and even other independent creators on sites like YouTube, Facebook, and other websites INCLUDING Tumblr. 

THE FAIR USE LAW AND SAFEHARBOR LAW WILL NO LONGER APPLY IN THE U.S OR IN OTHER COUNTRIES. 

IT HAS ALREADY PASSED IN SEVERAL OTHER COUNTRIES. 

WE CANNOT ALLOW THEM TO TAKE AWAY WHAT WE BUILT FOR THE INTERNET SO FAR. 

So here is what you need to do to drag this article down. 

1. Spread the word 

I can’t stress this enough. The more attention this gets the more people we can get to take this down. 

2. Make your own content 

Make your own content on the matter and make sure it is clear to others that Article 13 is bad for every internet user involved. 

3. If you live anywhere in Europe, contact your MEPs 

Ask them if they approve of the article and why. If they do approve of it, try to convince them in a clear, reasonable, and most sensible way possible that this law is BAD. 

The article itself is way to vague about what it’s conveying to its people. 

Saying that as long as the use of said internet memes or content is good as long as it’s in “good faith.” 

We cannot let some shoddy government tell us what we can and cannot post. 

FREE SPEECH IS A HUMAN RIGHT. NOT A PRIVILEGE. 

Here’s a video on Article 13 that Film Theory made on the matter. It will explain things better than I can.