"EvEryOnE CaN HaVE thEiR oWN vErSIoN!"
AI will destroy you, and I can't fucking wait.
This is exactly why and where AI is going to end up leading. “Everyone can have their own version.”
The layers of irony here are thicker than egg nog.
Yeah, so I may never stop posting this video. Sorry not sorry.
Jerks that don’t respect source material or quite literally the perfect actor to play a certain role are deciding to give the middle finger to the fans and do what they want for their curated audience because “everyone can have their own version.” If they can sneer at the grotesque, unpalatable fandom of the material, all the better for their power trip.
Hysterical.
Let me remind you, that you now have Liam Hemsworth and this …
And you HAD this:
An actor that loved the source material, knew it like the back of his hand, was passionate about bringing it to the screen, and had fellow actors that fit.
What does AI have to do with this?
It won’t be long before you can have AI work up an episode of a show that’s perfect for your tastes. Music that’s perfect for your mood. And yeah, it’ll look like, feel like, and taste like your sweet, sweet favorite IP because it’ll be designed to give you what you want on a deeply personal level.
“Oh BuT i wOuLD nEvER uSe AI to...” *angry grunting noises*
Then don’t. Move on. Nobody’s forcing you.
You will be left behind picking through the scraps of destroyed IP like a vagrant picking through a dumpster for something half-eaten and not entirely mold-covered. Enjoy all of your childhood classics remade and rehashed for “modern audiences.” Oh! Better yet! Another mind-numbingly idiotic superhero movie made by pedo-infested studios that quite literally despise everything about you with the only exception being the cash in your bank account.
You are in an abusive relationship with the gatekeepers. Wake up.
By the way, there’s no boogeyman here. A need is discovered, a need is being filled. Product design 101. It’s not mythical “AI OVERLORDS” that are making this happen. And it ain’t “bored tech bros,” either.
It’s the vacuum left after disrespectful people repeatedly trashed your favorite content for decades, insulting you in the process. People are STARVED for an escape they can enjoy free of garbage. Give them the tools to make it themselves, and they’re going to do so. It ain’t rocket surgery, folks.
But these high-horse showrunners?
The squirming has already started.
Be Prepared For The Guilt Trip
They’re going to be the ones sitting around in the well-earned aftermath, mouthful of disingenuous shock and emotional manipulation, pulling the “BUT WHAT ABOUT THE ARTISTS!” card during their slide into irrelevancy. You’re going to be gaslit and manipulated in a grand mass-media psy-op because they want to save their paycheck and they despise not having control over what you consume, spend money on, and think.
Are you an AI hater? Welcome! I’m glad you’re here …
Don’t go pointing your grubby holier-than-thou finger at people using AI to create what they want to see or hear. Point it squarely at the people that initiated this environment, insulted fans, dishonored source material, and made their millions smearing their ass on your content like a gastro-intestinally distressed puppy on your favorite carpet.
I listen to my own music made with Suno, where I write the lyrics, and do all the track arrangements and mastering, more than I listen to anything else.
Why?
Because I like what I like, and I’ve run super thin on what I like to listen to. It’s not being created anymore. So I’m a creative that leaned into creation, wrote lyrics like storytelling for something that *I* wanted to listen to, got to tell epic stories, hone my lyric skill, learn tons of new skills in terms of audio engineering, and it’s awesome and makes me supremely happy.
I have removed myself from the cultural ecosystem and I’ve stopped paying people that despise me as a result.
Undone is an awesome creative work, and I’m immensely proud of it:
You know what else is awesome?
Taking modern music, and enjoying it again with a new spin, like this Motown DMX track I worked up that ended up taking off on my tiny little YouTube music artist channel:
Modern music has been trash for decades (with rare notable exceptions in specific genres). Television is dead. With rare exceptions movies are boring yawn-fests of recirculated and repackaged garbage remakes. You are literally being force-fed trash by people that despise you and hope you die.
What about authors!?
The only media industry that has a SHOT at making it beyond all of this - also with a nod toward irony, mind you - is indie authors. Because AI can’t write for shit, has the cringiest sense of humor imaginable, and authors are already in the habit of creating the stories they want to read as opposed to being force-fed trash in every “major” bookstore by trad publishing.
Why?
Because trad publishing went down the road that these insufferable twats are strolling down while they whistle gleefully, not realizing that they are fostering an environment that will accelerate their irrelevancy.
And I am *SO* here for it.
Suck it, gatekeepers, you deserve what’s coming.
If I never see the eggnog bath again, it will be too soon. Just as I lead Team Homemade Hot Air Balloon, I dedicate to giving the antinog movement a strong backbone as well. Not to make Noggers the enemy, but to keep an open and healthy dialogue.
Why? Because even though a drink that requires whiskey to be even close to palatable may divide us, we are bound in the hatred of arrogant movie producers and bombastic gatekeepers. I may not die side by side with a nogger submariner, but I will make my last stand beside a friend in the war against bad entertainment.
Ride on brother, to Death and Glory. I will stand beside you the whole way, even when you're taste buds are wrong.
Amazingly well argued. I may not like AI or fully understand how to use it but removing oneself from the current cultural ecosystem is to be applauded.
That said I'm glad you're supporting us Indie authors. Can I ask what sort of fiction you like?