You know we’re on the internet and you can just look stuff up instead of making it up.

I am aware of at least one real instance of this happening. Not the hat burning, but my wife is Facebook friends with an old coworker of hers who is self-identified MAGA. This is his latest post, under the Trump/Jesus picture:

Always been a fan of the guy, but the last 3-4 months I’ve lost all respect for him. Has turned into Israel’s puppet with this war, turned the entire world against us by joining a side that is quite literally murdering thousands of innocents left and right in Gaza and Lebanon, and now posting this blasphemous shit, on the day of Orthodox Easter, no less. Fuck him.

I don’t know if this is happening in numbers significant enough for it to matter, but it’s one real case.

Thumbnail looks like a bloodhound.

Just in case anyone hadn’t heard this one before: Abcde is pronounced “Absidy”, which is more of a real name.

Did you not understand that I was talking about immigration? Which is one of the ways we solve that. All of that.

Besides which we’re actually talking about keeping the population stable. A declining population is bad for everyone economically. Luckily population growth naturally slows down in modernized societies, which is why allowing people to immigrate is good for everyone.

The replacement rate is down to 1.56, meaning every couple is having, on average, 1.56 children in the United States. We need two or above to keep the population at the same amount.

There’s actually another way to keep the population up, and it’s great for America economically and culturally, and it makes the world a better place at the same time.

Military coups usually don’t install a democracy.

Which AI? I asked Google AI about a webcomic, and it offered to find the artist for me. I said sure.

First it made something up completely out of thin air. Then it picked a random user who had commented on the comic. It had already identified the OC post of the comic, so all it had to do was check the username, and it couldn’t even do that.

Exactly. The threads are not the point. The art is the point. Most of the comments were about what kind of asshole would remove attribution anyway.

It comes down to what we want this community to be. Is this just some third tier meme group, sharing the reposts of the reposts from other communities? Or is it a place that’s respectful to artists, that could eventually be where content creators post their original stuff?

Some other things will have to go our way to make the latter happen, but it’ll never happen if we’re positioned for the former.

But if I’m understanding the situation correctly, I don’t think beep is even banned. Which would make sense why the new mod is so reticent about nuking his content.

I’m all for second chances, but as long as a single beeped comic still exists in this community, he and every one of his alts needs to be banned. Anything less is hostile to artists and makes this a meme factory instead of a place to share and celebrate comics.

You guys are making me want to try karaoke again, which is not something I’ve ever felt before.

Can you clarify something else for me? Is the offender in this case not being banned? Because he is way, way past third chances, and I don’t think the community is ok with that.

Ok, but you can just remove the vandalized comics. Otherwise they’ll continue to do damage. Taking them down doesn’t hurt anyone.

The efforts in the comment sections were towards this end - to try to stop the harm he was doing.

You’re missing my point. If I drew a comic and signed my name on it, and some jerk removed my signature, it doesn’t matter if I get credit in the comments. Because that image is going to get reposted elsewhere, and my name is no longer with it.

In some cases he even used AI to “upscale” comics, and it made changes to the art. All of his posts need to be nuked. They’re poisoning the well.

Very glad to see this. Obviously this whole thing is happening because of that one troll who was removing attributions from comics. So my question for you is: can you go ahead and remove everything he ever posted here?

Because as long as the unattributed versions are sitting out there, they’re liable to be reposted elsewhere, making it harder to find the real versions. It should be stopped at the source as soon as possible.

Other than that, I see that everyone else is already on you about the PG thing.

My origin story on Lemmy is that the first thing I ever posted here was an original comic that I hadn’t put anywhere else. It was a Lemmy exclusive, which obviously is not a thing people really do. It got removed because it had the word “balls” in it.

So I posted it to reddit. It hit the front page immediately, and it’s been reposted tens of thousands of times across the internet since then. Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I think that means it was some premium content, which seems like something the largest webcomic community on Lemmy would want.

Anyway, I’m actually fine with not allowing full-blown nsfw content here, but “balls” should be allowed.

Except that one time my original comic got removed for having the word “balls” in it.

I get that this is how politics works, that a certain amount of disassociation is part of the package, but holy shit how ghoulish is this.

If in the course of my job I inadvertently or intentionally caused the deaths of hundreds of schoolchildren, I’d like to think I wouldn’t then complain about the possibility of losing that job.

Imagine having so little regard for human life. I know there are a disproportionate number of sociopaths in government, but they can’t all be sociopaths, right? Some of them must just be racists, and some of them must be able to delude themselves that much, but still. What the fuck.

Don’t forget his other alt:

https://lemmy.world/u/UnderpantsWeevil

I think UBI would give us a lot more artists.

More than that. He accidentally replied with another account once: https://lemmy.world/u/UnderpantsWeevil

(He has also used that meme as a reply from his other Beep account, so that’s definitely him.)

My Minecraft survival world is awesome, but I think in this context “productive” is usually referring to, you know, farming and stuff.