ever after (1998) vs cinderella (2021)

lord of the rings (2001-2003) vs the rings of power (2022)

Oh, and if you submit an entry, whether you win or not, you give them the right to use your work.

Contests like this are a scam. They’re exploitative. Always. They’re a way to get people to do work for free, and only pay the “winner”.

Billie Eilish makes music. She is a creative professional herself who makes money, a lot of money, with her art. She can afford to pay an artist to design her tour shirt. Adobe can afford to pay artists to do design work.

If she wants to give fans the opportunity to work for her - just invite portfolio submissions. Let artists send you work they’ve already done, pick one whose style you like, and hire them to make a design for you. Easy.

This, though? This is trying to use her fame to get people to work for her for free. This is trying to exploit her fans. Note how the key selling point they picked for the tweet isn’t the cash prize, it’s the exposure. This entire thing is based on the hope that people will be so excited to have their work officially featured by Billie Eilish that they’ll work for free just for the chance.

The trucker convoy is indeed a protest against the vaccine mandates. But the idea that it's only being supported by the alt-right and their sympathizers shows a lack of information about the subject. Of course, there's a lot of news coverage running with that narrative because coporate media has a message to send (note: this is done on both sides of the aisle, not just left-leaning news outlets).

I want to make it clear: the main point of the protest is not about being anti-vaccination, anti-masking, or any of that nonsense. The Freedom Convoy is one protest among many around the world that are fighting back against governments mandating masks and vaccines. Most people joining these protests are vaccinated themselves but don't think it should be a forced medical procedure. The size of the convoy is unclear given the amount of information and misinformation (again, from both sides), with some sources claiming 38,000 Canadian truckers (along with some American pals) are headed to Ottawa to make their point clear and other sources claiming it's only a fringe movement. I can't find any consensus on just how big it is but given the left-leaning bias of the sources claiming that the size is exaggerated, I'm willing to bet it's on the bigger side.

I also want to reiterate that this is not only happening in Canada. People in France, Australia, and other countries around the world are coming out in protest against insane government mandates. When I say "insane", I'm refering to mandates that demand people show vaccination records to enter restaurants, grocery stores, and other places of business. Personally, I would have less of an issue with these requirements if they came from the businesses themselves. But the businesses aren't making these decisions; the governments are. Take the current situation in big grocery stores such as Walmart in Canada that now require vaccine passes to shop due to government regulations. Regardless of my own opinions on the vaccine, government mandates like this are a big overreach. And the last living signatory of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has the same idea

TLDR;

“Anti-vax athlete dies of covid” is the trumpeted headline.

But…

He was mother fucking vaxxed and died anyway.

the bar is like this and drives me up a wall