Lupi

I love that Elon wants to charge $1/year for Twitter, because of the petty satisfaction I will derive from not paying even that much

for hundreds of years the internet ran thus: free websites let you post, but showed you ads and sold your aggregated personal data to anyone who wanted it for any reason, while paid websites charged you directly and didn't show you ads. over time, this distinction became murkier, as the lines between paid software, subscription services, apps, and websites blurred, and the cash-starved venture capitalists huddled in the dark, asking questions like well what's 'personal data' anyway and what even is an 'ad'.

THEN THE GREAT DISRUPTOR, ELON MUSK, APPEARED, and spake:

what if we charged people AND made them look at shitty ads?

and the remaining shareholders rejoiced! and X, THE EVERYTHING APP, hatched from the ashes of twitter and achieved its final form: a wasteland of bots selling bot-generated crypto t-shirts and assorted scams to other bots, forever.

The word "wholesome" leaves negative space around it that defines "degenerate" without naming it. It's purpose it to exclude, to build a fence around "good" and keep the riff-raff out. It's the concept of "purity" with an air freshener hanging off.

damn, this really put a name to why "wholesome" makes me so uncomfortable, other than the fact it's a mormon lexical staple

edit: you know, thinking about it a little more, i guess context is everything. i know there's a good lot of indie devs out there who use "wholesome" as a signifier that a game is just, like, chill and cute and cozy. i know there are people out there who look for that as a sign that a given piece of media isn't going to surprise them with slurs or bigotry. is my discomfort with the word probably tinted by religious trauma? yeah, probably. aware now of my bias, do i think it's a word that is particularly useful? not really. i enjoy games that would be called "wholesome", but i don't think it's very meaningful or descriptive of things i look for in games.

edit: huge thanks to everyone who shared and donated! if you still want a doodle you can still donate but i'm no longer horrifically stressed about finances. original post below the line, putting in a read-more isn't working for some reason?? i'm doing it how the markdown guide thing says but no luck. but whatever anyway

thanks again!!

Had some bills pop up that I wasn't expecting and could use some financial help. If you would like to donate, I'll draw a low-effort sketch/doodle of your fursona or character or whatever.

Details, examples, ko-fi link, etc:

• Porn account
• General art account

My goal is $200 but anything helps honestly. Shares appreciated!

goaty rules and you should give her money to draw your favorite guy!!!