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Featured on Nov 29, 2024 by Null: Community-ran Secret Santa 2024
EDIT: Sign-ups are now closed. All assignments have now gone out. If you signed up by the deadline and have not received your assignment, contact one of the listed helpers below asap.
Yes, gather round Kiwi brethren and sistren, It is once more that time of year. When we celebrate the birth of the Baby Null and how the three wise lolcows visited him to bestow gifts of cheese, hamsters and a large bucket of stubbornness. This noble tradition stretches back over half a decade - ancient in Internet terms.! It spreads joy and happiness and helps keep this odd community of ours together. You don't have to be talented to participate, you just have to have the Kiwifarms spirit in your heart and know the true meaning of autism! So have a read of the rules and sign up below.
Rules are largely the same as previous years with a special note about AI generated art (short version: don't):
The Rules
How it works: Sign up below and you will get a lovely gift from an anonymous user. But even better - you will be assigned a random other participant that you get to make a gift for in turn. Then when gifts are exchanged via the magic of Santa's Helpers, we post them in a gift thread for all to see!
1. The gift must be something you made yourself.
It must be something you created, and something transferable via PM
Examples of Acceptable Gifts:
Examples of Unacceptable Gifts:
Almost Certainly Unacceptable:
In summary, this is something from the heart and must be something that you did not pay for. This also includes anything purchasable that you received for free, so if you have an extra game key, that is still unacceptable. This must be something you made yourself.
2. The gift must be appropriate
Photoshops of shock images, gore, etc. are not appropriate. Kiwifarms may be different to most of the Internet but remember that the gift is meant to make your recipient feel good or laugh or be entertained. So keep your gift acceptable.
3. Please turn it in on time.
Sign-ups will last until 6th of December. You will receive your assignment shortly thereafter. You might even receive it before once there are enough people in the pool so signing up early is good. From there you have until December 19th to turn in your gift which is the Thursday before Christmas. We'll try and accommodate gifts up to the Friday but understand you're making other people's lives harder - please aim for the Thursday. If you cannot create your gift in time, you have until December 13th to drop out without punishment. That is intended to give us some time to make arrangements so that someone isn't left without a gift. If you fail to turn in a gift and do not give an explanation, you may not be allowed to participate in future Secret Santa events.
4. Sign up requirements.
In order to participate you must:
To sign up, just post in this thread with the following:
Do not DM your info to a helper. Post it in this thread. But you can DM questions if you have them.
What is a SPIRIT BOT? The X-mas spirit bots are noble heroes who step in at the last minute to make sure someone gets a present when their assigned giver flakes out at the last moment. They don't have to do this but they do because they're better than ordinary people. Understand that if you volunteer this means you'll probably get a frantic PM in the last week before Christmas asking you to produce something. But without you, someone could get nothing. If you'd be able to do a quick gift on short notice, we thank you.
We are not currently looking for more Helpers as we have enough still from last time. But if you want to help with organising this, answering questions and handing out gifts, just PM myself or @TheCuntler. and we'll add you as back up. If called up, you'll be assigned a list of participants and expected to send and receive messages with questions and gifts for sending out.
5. This is a SECRET Santa.
Don't reveal who your recipient is when you get them. If for some reason you need to get clarification on something from them reach out to a helper, NOT your recipient.
The list of helpers and participants is in the post below this one. If you don't appear on the list immediately, don't worry. We're working our way down the list.
Yes, gather round Kiwi brethren and sistren, It is once more that time of year. When we celebrate the birth of the Baby Null and how the three wise lolcows visited him to bestow gifts of cheese, hamsters and a large bucket of stubbornness. This noble tradition stretches back over half a decade - ancient in Internet terms.! It spreads joy and happiness and helps keep this odd community of ours together. You don't have to be talented to participate, you just have to have the Kiwifarms spirit in your heart and know the true meaning of autism! So have a read of the rules and sign up below.
Rules are largely the same as previous years with a special note about AI generated art (short version: don't):
The Rules
How it works: Sign up below and you will get a lovely gift from an anonymous user. But even better - you will be assigned a random other participant that you get to make a gift for in turn. Then when gifts are exchanged via the magic of Santa's Helpers, we post them in a gift thread for all to see!
1. The gift must be something you made yourself.
It must be something you created, and something transferable via PM
Examples of Acceptable Gifts:
- Art you made
- A photo you took
- A story you wrote
- A game you made
- Music you wrote yourself
- Any media you yourself have created.
Examples of Unacceptable Gifts:
- Electronic Gift Cards
- Purchased Digital Content
- Any media you did not make yourself.
- Anything purchased with cash.
Almost Certainly Unacceptable:
- Auto-generated AI art.
Look, we know it's a big thing, We know that a list of Likes and Dislikes is almost tailor made to be spat into a piece of software as positive and negative prompts. BUT, we're asking you not to do it. It's not in the spirit of making something yourself for your fellow man. We know that there can be a lot of talent and creativity involved in AI art. But we also know that if we open the lid on that just the tiniest crack we're going to get a LOT of AI art submissions that *don't* meet that criteria. Which then puts us in the position of either creating ill-feeling by not passing on someone's gift or else letting through something that was just the recipient's Likes and Dislikes shoved into ChatGPT. And worse, that choice will be last minute creating more pressure on the already generous SPIRIT BOTs who fill in for missing presents. So we hope AI enthusiasts understand but this year we will *not* be welcoming our robot overlords. We will be making crappy and not-crappy gifts as our ancestors did - with MS Paint, Photoshop and sharpies. Etc. This isn't some Reddit-tier philosophical thing about whether AI art is "real" art or not. Nor will lawyering your way through work. It's just pragmatic that for the most part, people get more joy from receiving something some idiot has scribbled out over an hour with crayons than they do some perfect AI creation. It's about the giving.
Now, this is still grudgingly listed as "Probably Unacceptable" because there are SOME people out there who MIGHT do something weird and super creative that involves AI and wants to use their own judgement on this. Maybe they made a song and want to just throw in some AI generated illustrations in the mp4. I don't know. But you're going to have to sell us on it hard because the default answer is "No". Photoshopping a bunch of AI generated characters together or pasting someone's face into AI art doesn't make it not an AI submission. We're going to be strict on this.
Now, this is still grudgingly listed as "Probably Unacceptable" because there are SOME people out there who MIGHT do something weird and super creative that involves AI and wants to use their own judgement on this. Maybe they made a song and want to just throw in some AI generated illustrations in the mp4. I don't know. But you're going to have to sell us on it hard because the default answer is "No". Photoshopping a bunch of AI generated characters together or pasting someone's face into AI art doesn't make it not an AI submission. We're going to be strict on this.
In summary, this is something from the heart and must be something that you did not pay for. This also includes anything purchasable that you received for free, so if you have an extra game key, that is still unacceptable. This must be something you made yourself.
2. The gift must be appropriate
Photoshops of shock images, gore, etc. are not appropriate. Kiwifarms may be different to most of the Internet but remember that the gift is meant to make your recipient feel good or laugh or be entertained. So keep your gift acceptable.
3. Please turn it in on time.
Sign-ups will last until 6th of December. You will receive your assignment shortly thereafter. You might even receive it before once there are enough people in the pool so signing up early is good. From there you have until December 19th to turn in your gift which is the Thursday before Christmas. We'll try and accommodate gifts up to the Friday but understand you're making other people's lives harder - please aim for the Thursday. If you cannot create your gift in time, you have until December 13th to drop out without punishment. That is intended to give us some time to make arrangements so that someone isn't left without a gift. If you fail to turn in a gift and do not give an explanation, you may not be allowed to participate in future Secret Santa events.
4. Sign up requirements.
In order to participate you must:
- Be in good standing (general catch-all to exclude someone who we know will be a fuckhead)
- Have not been banned from Previous Secret Santas (we have one person so bad we had to. Don't be the second).
- Have DMs open. Most people do except those two motherfuckers last year that we had no way to contact and I had to start @'ing them in conversations. You can close DMs again afterwards you antisocial gits!
To sign up, just post in this thread with the following:
- Account name (yes - we know it's in the post, it helps with the copy-pasting mass replies)
- Your Likes
- Your Dislikes
- A Fun Fact About You
- Able to be a SPIRIT BOT? [Yes / No]
Do not DM your info to a helper. Post it in this thread. But you can DM questions if you have them.
What is a SPIRIT BOT? The X-mas spirit bots are noble heroes who step in at the last minute to make sure someone gets a present when their assigned giver flakes out at the last moment. They don't have to do this but they do because they're better than ordinary people. Understand that if you volunteer this means you'll probably get a frantic PM in the last week before Christmas asking you to produce something. But without you, someone could get nothing. If you'd be able to do a quick gift on short notice, we thank you.
We are not currently looking for more Helpers as we have enough still from last time. But if you want to help with organising this, answering questions and handing out gifts, just PM myself or @TheCuntler. and we'll add you as back up. If called up, you'll be assigned a list of participants and expected to send and receive messages with questions and gifts for sending out.
5. This is a SECRET Santa.
Don't reveal who your recipient is when you get them. If for some reason you need to get clarification on something from them reach out to a helper, NOT your recipient.
The list of helpers and participants is in the post below this one. If you don't appear on the list immediately, don't worry. We're working our way down the list.
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