becoming jokerfied at the realization a ton of people everywhere have no idea what alt text should be used for when it comes to describing images posted online. it's for accessibility!! it's not for "easter eggs" or secret messages.
I get why many artists wouldn't wanna spend the time doing that but c'mon it takes so little effort to write a basic description of your art, you don't even have to be hyper thorough. I remember one artist saying once that they should write nonsense in the alt text box so AI scrapers would get screwed over not realizing that they'd also be screwing over everyone who makes use of image descriptions, then they got lost arguing that art is a visual medium and they couldn't describe it to people anyways and it was a mess. I think they became less of a shithead but this "why bother" mentality people have online sucks. it's nice to try and make the world more accessible for everyone, especially art.
