#anti algorithm

We don’t swipe. We match.

I want everyone that can and want to see this post to make an exercise with me.

Go to tiktok, youtube shorts or the equivalents on Instagram and Facebook and scroll.

Scroll until you see an anti woke, anti feminist, anti trans, etc. For me it was just 6 videos before a video with the same format called like "Man shuts up woke female leftist" or the girl that looks like she's Ben Shapiro's daughter overreacting to something stupid or those alpha male dudes with their podcast surround of women.

Besides of the fact that just six videos to see that is a really small number, I haven't found a single way to stop that to show to me.

In a completely different thing but similar for the same problem is that I am not a fan of Taylor Swift, I respect her music and her fans but I don't really care about her. But since she announce that she's coming to Canada my instagram has been swallow by posts about her and her concerts. It keeps showing me even posts of people I don't follow about her. And I have blocked her name and everything else in there but she is still the 100% of stuff showing in my instagram. Which is weird because I only use instagram to see posts of my family, which none of them are fans of her.

The algorithm is a problem. It doesn't care about personal interests only in one tracks more numbers and that is what shows.

Even in how we recognize how broken tumblr is; tumblr is the only place where we still can curate our own content.

That's why every tumblr user keeps going against your changes @staff about going to an algorithm.

We are our own algorithm. And is the only social media that allows that(that I am aware for now)

Right wing and conservatism content are things that are popular, that's something we have to recognize, but we have the opportunity to control that so we don't see it.

And every change you guys does like the layout just tell us you are gonna broke the systems to allow things like that.

I am pretty sure there's right wing content on tumblr, but I can control and prevent myself to see it.

Not sure in a place where the majority of the users are queers or people affected by right wing and conservative propaganda the idea of implement algorithm structure that allows that rhetoric to show up is a well decision.

I have gotten to a point where I can immediately recognize an AI generated photo, drawing, or fanfic, because something about it is inherently repetitive, it feels so randomized and calculated all at the same time. It literally feels like how plastic tastes and smells.

Manufactured.

But I feel like we should all collectively not use most of our energy on addressing the problem among us freelance and small creators. 

why?

because like I am so fucking scared to just have to sit through any movie that was made from ai.

I am so fucking scared to have to walk through an art exhibit and it’s only filled with AI generated paintings.

I am so fucking scared to look online to only see a I generated drawings.

I’m so fucking scared that the only thing that we will ever get ever again is just blended up original creative work processed and shaped into looking like something new.

I’m afraid that everything we will ever consume again is going to never be new.

I understand that this probably won’t happen but at the same time it is so discouraging as a creative to just go online and see more ai generated shit be more gratifying to people and our consumerist structured algorithms. 

This is why I just want to quit any other social media except Tumblr is because their algorithm is so demanding of creative as it is. I’m not here to sell my art to you, i’m not here to fucking conform my art to what gets me the most likes, I fall in and out of things and with the help of friends I can make more consistent projects happen.  if I am here to sell my art, I will tell people that I’m here to sell my art, and that’s it.

but that’s different than being controlled by an algorithm that demands me to burn myself out for its profit. 

I get it, I really do. It’s gratifying to get big numbers from a lot of people on social media for your creative work, but it’s even more gratifying to be able to create something that other people can interact with that is graspable in concepts and meanings and emotions, because I made it.

I put time into my art.

that’s the best part.

And that’s what is at risk with ai generated creative works. 

It is about keeping creatives in jobs, but it also so much more than that. It’s about losing anything original that comes from someone’s deepest depths.

Hey maybe I’ll change my mind one day.

But before that day please please boycott any big corporation creative works that had used ai.

Keep protesting for creatives to keep their jobs.

and keep being patient and educating people who don’t understand how harmful ai generated creative work can be.

cause of the whole web2.0 is dying thing?