#ipocalypse

Once upon a time, fan art was rebellion—a quiet shout between frames that turned into a full-throated roar. Now? Welcome to the new era, where angels wear legally safe vests and demons have gone green, square-jawed, and are called Kraklya.

📜 When IP Control Arrived

After massive lawsuits from Disney, Universal, and other IP guardians, platforms started enforcing automatic filtering systems. Every image uploaded to Tumblr, DeviantArt, or even in a messaging app passed through a Character Recognition Model™. The databases stored thousands of protected faces, outfits, colors, and poses.

One curl like Aziraphale’s golden locks? ❌

Sunglasses vaguely Crowley-ish? ❌

A single line of “ineffable husbands”? The algorithm reports you.

👩‍🎨 The Birth of “Original” Characters

Artists didn’t surrender. They simply… adapted.

Behold the birth of “fictional” characters:

• Kraklya — a demon with a square jaw, lime-green hair, and designer sunglasses.

• Aziz — a slim, angelic youth with soft blue curls, a delicate build, and pastel-feathered wings.

Nope, they’re definitely not Crowley and Aziraphale. Just… coincidentally similar. They drink tea. And drive a chic, electric car. But not that car. A different one.

🛠️ How IP-Safe Fan Art Works

• Face & body: keep resemblance to a minimum—change angles of every expression by at least 15°.

• Color palette: demons lose red—lime only.

• Names: tweak at least three letters—create something entirely invented.

• Context: no “heaven,” “hell,” or “divine love,” but you can use “upper realms” and “corporate underworld.”

🛡️ Welcome to the Era of Legal Fan Art™

Artists are no longer drawing with passion—they’re following manuals. Instead of inspiration, they work with instructions. Instead of fandom, they follow a legal-style guide.

🤖 The Finale

So if you thought Disney suing Midjourney meant total liberation from AI restrictions—think again. Algorithms have learned to distinguish Crowley from Kraklya. It’s only a matter of time before your original blond character with vintage style gets flagged, too.

Get ready. IP winter is coming—and it smells like fresh cease & desist.

✍️ Design Note (a.k.a. “The Practical Hack”)

I’m speaking now as a designer, not a doom-prophet:

if you want to keep playing in public without waking the copyright Kraken, formalize your inside joke.

1. Agree on the visual spec.

• New code-names (“Kraklya” & “Aziz”).

• Mandatory palette swap (lime–green hair, ice-blue curls).

• Tweaked silhouettes & props.

• Zero direct canon references in titles, tags, filenames.

2. Publish a mini-style-guide.

“If your demon’s hair is orange—❌.

If you hashtag Crowley or Good Omens—❌.

Welcome to the legal-distinct multiverse; please mind the NDA-level silence.”

3. Treat it like cosplay rules at a corporate convention.

You’re not “hiding”—you’re redesigning for survival.

The fun stays, the lawyers sleep, the algorithms can’t flag what they don’t recognize.

Think of it as open-source camouflage: the fandom collectively decides what stays recognizable to us yet unreadable to the scanners.

Play smart, stay weird—keep the party going. 🐍🦋

So apparently, something long forseen since the 90's has now finally come to pass...and with it, the dawn of something that would've made much more sense to have widespread implementation already so that we wouldn't have this little problem. The last of the IPv4 addresses (from a hierarchical standpoint from the very top) has been assigned. What does this mean to you or I? Not much actually.

While we will still have ours (presuming nothing goes horribly wrong), this means that a growing population in desire of these addresses will be left out to dry until IPv6, something that has actually been around since the late nineties, gets its time in the spotlight. Mark your calenders for June 8th, as many of the web giants such as Google, Facebook, and the W3C will be participating in a worldwide test of this protocol (don't be surprised if you won't be able to connect). No doubt the switch over won't happen overnight, that'd be more chaotic than necessary.