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Troll Call, Lowblood Edition. 

This is something that is very important to pay attention to, and if you are an American I implore you to do everything that you can! Contact your representatives, research your ISPs, and keep a vigilant eye on this! The FCC is likely to make this ruling close to Thanksgiving in an attempt to squeak it by without anyone noticing.

Net neutrality is the reason why you can visit any website confidently. It’s why you don’t have to pay a premium to be able to access YouTube. It’s why you don’t have the internet bundled into different packages like TV is.

If they remove net neutrality protections, then there is no benefit to the consumer. Put simply, your ISP could choose to charge you more in order to visit specific sites, and not every town in the United States has the option to switch to a new ISP because some ISPs hold a monopoly in some areas.

This is what the internet looks like without net neutrality:

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Financially

They can get sued. If they work for a company or studio, their artwork is usually copyrighted. Japan has strict laws about that. If their employer or the company finds one of their works floating around, they can get in trouble, and face lawsuits.

Many artists participate in doujinshi groups, or cons. To ‘advertise’ their future prints, they sometimes show samples, sometimes even full ones, that can be stolen. And when they try to sell their artwork prints, they get very little revenue, because it’s ALREADY FLOATING AROUND THE INTERNET, so why spend money for it?

Again, Artists also rely on commissions to support themselves and their loved ones. For those who are seeking jobs in the industry, having one of their drawings floating around can be very detrimental to their chances of landing a job. If their employer has already seen it on the internet, it looses it’s ‘effect’ once they see it from the artist themselves. 

Basically, a LOT MORE.

Emotionally & Psychologically

It can make them LOSE THEIR CONFIDENCE to draw more artwork, because people keep claiming them as ‘theirs’

It can make them DEPRESSED AS HELL, and their family and friends will notice.

It can make them feel PARANOID about putting ANY of their works ONLINE.

It can make them lose SLEEP, APPETITE, MOTIVATION and INTEREST in doing what they USED TO LOVE TO DO.

Socially 

Makes them lose their TRUST in letting foreigners see their art

Makes them UNCOMFORTABLE sharing their artwork AT ALL

Makes them feel so INSECURE that they make their accounts PRIVATE

Makes them feel that the best thing to do to stop the problem is to DELETE THEIR ARTWORKS or LEAVE ART SITES like Pixiv

You didn’t think it would have this much of an effect, did you? Of course, many people do not even think about these things. Posting an artwork is as easy as right-click save and paste. But the people who suffer for it are the artists. 

This is why it is SO IMPORTANT to ASK PERMISSION. They NEED TO KNOW where their art is going, WHO is allowed to reprint from them, so they can keep track, and WHICH ARTWORK it is. Because some are OK, while others are not. Communication is the KEY to bridging gaps, and fostering TRUST, and building a positive relationship with ANYONE.

Btw, if anyone wants to add a point on there, feel free to message me, and let me know. I’m just putting this here, because many times, we do not even think about how our actions effect other people. 

For a while now, my friend RieSonomura/Rie (in which you can find her on DeviantArt , Fanfiction.net , Twitter , Twitch) has been struggling financially for the past several months.

She’s a talented artist, writer, graphic designer, video editor, and streamer on Twitch. In March this year, her two year job contract has come to an end, and it has been extremely, extremely difficult for her to find a job. She either has to wait months to be picked for an interview for a handful of jobs she applied to as far back as April or May, or she gets almost immediately rejected despite meeting the qualifications. She was unable to apply for unemployment benefits because her state forbids applying for unemployment if the job was a contract. She also still lives with her parents, as well as her aunt and uncle staying under the same roof, and expenses keep piling up, from her mom’s car bills to her monthly health plan whose prices go up every month. 

In fact, Rie has only around $250 left in her bank account, and unless she gets a job soon or her parents take money from her stocks (which is far from a permanent solution) then things will become very difficult for her and her family. Rie will need at least $2500 to survive for the next few months. She is offering many avenues for help, such as a PayPal donation drive, writing commissions on DeviantArt and Ko-fi, a YouCaring to help her replace her dying desktop, and even a Patreon. She really needs the help as soon as possible, so spread the word if you can’t personally help her out.  Please help my friend!

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Y'all take things too far!

You don’t like a tv show? You overanalyze every episode of it to try to make the creators seem racist/homophobic

You don’t like a ship? You harass people who ship it, using faulty logic that they are pedophiles

You don’t like a comic artist/celebrity etc.? You doxx/harass/send death threats to them until they’re run off the internet!

Tumblr has taken it to a point where I find myself defending ships/tv shows/celebrities that I don’t like simply because Tumblr goes too far in its hatred of it.

It is ok to dislike something, you don’t need to have a noble reason to dislike something. Not everything you dislike is pedophilia, or whatever. You can sometimes dislike something for no reason and that’s ok! But you do not have the right to force people to dislike something also and you certainly don’t have the right to harm those who do.