SJW Art and Extremes

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Yeah because Inktober was made by an abuser or something. Its all total performative bs to make you feel bad for doing something completely harmless.

I think it was because he got a copyright on the phrase "inktober" or something

 

[Jolyne THICCujoh]

I found some Homestuck shit because I'm a masochist. Enjoy.

Spoiler: Homestuck 2: The Electric Blackaloo

Spoiler: Frog eyes Jade

Spoiler: Bitch get some skincare

There was a whole set with the trolls but you've probably seen enough to guess what those look like.

Spoiler: Jewish nose or Black nose?

Spoiler: R-Roxy?

Spoiler: Toes, how do those work?

Spoiler: And the icing on the cake

 

[Saffronette]

Uwu soft gay transbois Shinji and Kaworu.

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Even though they are both Asian and if memory serves me right, Shinji kills Kaworu.

Even other black people don't like this shit what are they trying to prove?

 

[Marissa Moira]

erasing Asians to own the ‘racists‘.

We tried hard back in August of 1945.

 

[One Man Bland]

Yeah because Inktober was made by an abuser or something. Its all total performative bs to make you feel bad for doing something completely harmless.

I think it was because he got a copyright on the phrase "inktober" or something

I’m just gonna shamelessly quote my own posts from the Inktober thread:

God, I’ve seen so much misinformation about this my eyes just roll into the back in my head.

He didn’t try to copyright Inktober: he trademarked the logo he designed that has been used for official Inktober events for years so that there’d be a means to differentiate between official, sponsored Inktober merch and events that he’s in charge of and unofficial events and bootlegged material trying to pass itself off as the real thing. The only - and I mean ONLY - people who were hurt by this were people who literally copy-pasted Jake Parker’s logo onto a cheap PDF cover to try their sell their shitty art at a ridiculous markup. All of them being danger-haired Tumblrinas who had a history of over-blowing perceived slights to start up witch hunts, might I add.

As for the plagiarism allegations - I was skeptical so I did some digging and it looks like it’s all a big nothingburger from someone who’s either ignorant & narcissistic or just a straight up grifter. Not only is Dunn, the accuser, trying to claim that he can hold the copyright to a fucking book layout, but he’s basically claiming he invented concepts like line variation and gradients and how dare Parker, an art instructor with decades more experience than him, cover basic inking concepts in a book that’s specifically about covering the basics of inking. It’s like the art education equivalent of claiming you hold exclusive creative rights for "A is for Apple." And how convenient that by going after Parker, Dunn can just-so-happen to get a ton of publicity for his own (Black owned! for all you socially conscious folx out there) book that‘s on the market when Parker’s book isn’t even out yet.

Seriously, everyone with a hate boner for the Inktober guy are way bigger lolcows.

If you want a really thorough, in-depth look at how fucking stupid all of the Inktober non-troversies have been, this breakdown here is an excellent one.

And don't get me started on how infuriating it is that so many "professional" Twitter artists have little to no legal literacy. I know some schools that teach the business side of art as an elective, but that shit should be mandatory. The most frustrating thing about that debacle was that Parker gave a thorough breakdown on how everyone can make money off their Inktober art without any issues, all of it basically coming down to not using Inktober as the main title & not using his logo - which he absolutely shouldn't have to do because any faggot with common sense could look up "trademark fair use" - and he's still treated like this money grubbing villain. And like the post I linked mentions, it seems really insidious that a bunch of Twitter artists want to erode the legal rights of a still-living artist and divorce the amount of time, effort, and money he puts into Inktober every year from the event itself - and all for wholly self-serving reasons.

It's funny you should say "just do Inktober in all but name" though. Because ever since people threw a tantrum over Parker saying Inktober is supposed to be for ink work a few years ago, I would always ask people whenever the issue why they just had to do Inktober specifically when there's so many other October art challenges that aren't medium-specific like Artober, Drawtober, Drawlloween, Monstober, Goretober, Kinktober, 31 Witches/Witchyween, to name a few. Hell, all these people could be participating in Sketchtember right now. If it's just about improving your art and sharing your accomplishments, it shouldn't matter what the actual challenge is named right? Well, predictably, they'd all give me the same whiny "b-b-but what if I don't get as many LIKES? I have to tag it Inktober!" because what really pissed them off was not the limitation of the medium or their cries of "ableism" or "classism" ow whatever, but because they interpreted Parker's statement as him calling them out as the leeching posers that they are.

The only thing I'm still not clear on is Dunn's sincerity. On the one hand one thing he brags about is that he's 100% self-taught and never read anyone else's art books before this (even though he supposedly got an MFA... seems legit.) And reading some of those choice quotes from his plagiarism video, I could buy that he is genuinely that pretentious and believes that the fucking spirit quests he went on to decide which basic art terms he should use were novel and revolutionary. But on the other hand, it's hard not to see how much incentive there is to make such an accusation when the video serves as free advertising for his own book, and the timing is certainly suspicious. His video also seems to be targeted towards people who will be less knowledgable than him, and being an hour long of unfocused sperging it seems almost designed to be given the TL;DW treatment so people assume they know what's in the video without actually analyzing it themselves.

If this happened during a less polarized year, I'd be inclined to think this is just another case of delusion and ego, but as it stands I'm down to two theories:

1. Dunn saw the teaser pages to Parker's book and saw that some of the content looked similar - though the presentation differs quite a bit. Being entirely self-taught with no point of reference for other art education material on the market, instead of thinking "man I guess I picked a pretty saturated market to write a book on" instead thought "he LITERALLY stole my book!!!"
2. Parker, in good faith, shared Dunn's book on his Instagram one time. Dunn probably saw an increase in sales from this, but it probably pittered off rather quickly. Dunn saw Parker promoting his own book, got dollar signs in his eyes, and drummed up a video full of nonsense accusations shrouded in Hipster Artist Speak, comforted by the fact that if anyone even a little knowledgeable in the field expresses skeptism the Twitter White Knight Brigade will come down with a flurry of "are you suggesting a BLACK man is uneducated???" as they proudly post screencaps of their Amazon purchases of Dunn's book.

Either way, I think this will blow over by the time October comes around. It's going to be stupidly easy for Parker to prove to his publishers that Dunn's full of shit since all he has to do is break out his copy of Rendering in Pen and Ink to prove that the terminology and examples he used are well over 60 years old. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if his publisher's statement "we're looking into it" was mostly just a formality and they're just waiting for some of the heat to die down - which will mostly suck just because the plan was clearly to release it alongside Inktober, but that likely can't happen now. And even though Amazon pulled its listing, Barnes and Noble still has its listing up and evidently not that many people care enough to review bomb it compared to other witch hunts. Plus, none of Parker's other sponsors have announced that they're pulling funding, and at least one I saw advertising their Inktober supplies had a sold out a lot of their stock. As for DeviantArt, I think that will hurt them more than Parker in the long run because Inktober was one of the few things keeping up the illusion that DA had any sort of dignity. Plus I'm pretty sure the respected professional hubs ArtStation are still planning on hosting Inktober events, though we won't know for certain until late September/early October, so I don't think Parker will sweat losing the fetish hub's support.

My biggest guess on what'll happen? The people who bought Dunn's book as a virtue signal will flip through it exactly once before it goes to collect dust on the shelf or into a used books bargain bin. Dunn will later be revealed as either an embarrassing boob who didn't know gradient boxes and line weight varitations were a thing outside of his YouTube channel, or a flat out con artist. This will quickly be memory-holed soon after everyone finishes making their obligatory "Inktober Plagiarism Controversy Was A Scam???" videos. Parker's book will be published with some grumbling, but since the content is pretty standard the anger won't last long. And from here on out, every Inktober there will be some Twatter user who makes a "friendly reminder the Inktober guy is a racist who copies black men's work" that will be countered with a bunch of "no you fucking idiot that was debunked ages ago right here [insert YouTube commentator video]" before the OP makes a defensive "Well I was just repeating what I heard" before dropping the matter.

 

[Kuchipatchi]

We have had enough human social justice, now we need fish social justice
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I’m just gonna shamelessly quote my own posts from the Inktober thread:

Ha ha! I'm on the thread right now! The art community are some of the most volatile people in existence, they know that they can't enforce their rules under the law so they use social pressure to gang up on artists for whatever tiny reason without talking to them first. Like a vibe check to your career.

 

[Saffronette]

I saw this on twitter earlier today. I don't know what it is about Miku that makes all the SJW artists latch onto her and use her as a mouthpiece.

 

[Brit Crust]

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I saw this on twitter earlier today. I don't know what it is about Miku that makes all the SJW artists latch onto her and use her as a mouthpiece.

Probably because Miku has no canonical personality whatsoever.

 

[Corn Flakes]

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I saw this on twitter earlier today. I don't know what it is about Miku that makes all the SJW artists latch onto her and use her as a mouthpiece.

She's popular.

If (somehow) a bleached blonde Nazi Dominatrix character became an incredibly popular character all over the world, you can bet SJWs would be drawing her as a transbian Muslim.

 

[Marissa Moira]

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I saw this on twitter earlier today. I don't know what it is about Miku that makes all the SJW artists latch onto her and use her as a mouthpiece.

Some hate group should adopt the transgender flag as a symbol. I mean if you wave it's colors it allows you moral justification to do anything.

 

[NoReturn]

We have had enough human social justice, now we need fish social justice
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So basically

Spoiler

Spoiler: Made In Abyss Spoilers

Blobfish =

She's popular.

If (somehow) a bleached blonde Nazi Dominatrix character became an incredibly popular character all over the world, you can bet SJWs would be drawing her as a transbian Muslim.

Spoiler

 

[Corn Flakes]

Man, turning her into a popular character would be the most amazing gayop in the history of gayops.

 

[HangEight]

Jesus Christ this woman will not shut up.
Also note how she claims that the original artist thought all the people attacking them were right and changed the skin color on their own accord, as opposed to what probably happened which was them caving in to all the pressure after getting dogpiled.

Spoiler: Annoying shit

Y’know I used to give her benefit of the doubt since she’s a genuinely good artist, but at this point I think all this race changing art and essay long explanations on why “le blackwashing ain’t bad at all” shit is just to rile people up and get them angry on purpose.

All of this so she can get up on her little soapbox and act like she’s some sort of social hero for doing the brave and daring act of drawing Peach with brown skin, it’s fucking annoying.

 

[Naidyonov]

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I saw this on twitter earlier today. I don't know what it is about Miku that makes all the SJW artists latch onto her and use her as a mouthpiece.

I don't know why I was compelled to do this. E: Fixed it

 

[Jolyne THICCujoh]

I don't know why I was compelled to do this. E: Fixed it
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WE ARE



THE MIKU SYSTEM.

 

[Madako-Tako]

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OH MY GOD HAHAHAHA

 

[Chromeo]

So basically

Spoiler

Spoiler: Made In Abyss Spoilers

Blobfish =

Jesus absolute fuckin' christ, I wish I hadn't watched that video.

 

[Plant Eater]

Trans bodies are DISGUSTING

As a troon, I concur. No amount of effort I put into looking the way I want will make me look cis, and I think it's unfair for these people to pretend that isn't true.

 

[{o}P II]

As a troon, I concur. No amount of effort I put into looking the way I want will make me look cis, and I think it's unfair for these people to pretend that isn't true.

lol don't care

 

[Plant Eater]

lol don't care

Okay, cool. Just trying to agree with you.