Normally I err on the side of 'art' being separated from actual pictures/recordings of abuse. It falls under the "I don't like what you have to say, but I will defend your right to say it" idea.
Photorealistic images of CP? I think that crosses the line, and needs to be treated as if it was actual CP as it essentially enables real CP to proliferate.
I wish I knew what to tell you. I am on Chrome with uBlock Origin, and I don't see YouTube ads. I'm logged into both Chrome and Google/YouTube
Doing Okay. I've gotten through my hyperfocus on leveling a new-to-me class in Final Fantasy XIV, so I am able to pull my brain back to writing more. I want to get two more chapters up on my Patreon before my next public chapter is released on Thursday.
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Well, we have a horror movie intro right in the article.
Mi first realized that the experiment had been successful when he saw the silkworm’s eyes turning red under the microscope.
If it wasn't usually running something and was idling, it would be more so. But generally speaking, I have something occupying it.
Bingo, you've described my experience exactly. My computer is almost never off.
Being an ally doesn't need to be about showing it aggressively. I'm also cishet, and consider myself an ally, but I generally don't have any flags or such, because I don't do flags for anything. However, when I was streaming a lot, I specifically labeled my channel as being a safe space, I police my discord (or would, but there's been no need so far, so just a watchful presence. :) ), and in the serial I am writing, societies are very friendly to non-cishet individuals and partnerships. The only time gender in a couple has been an issue was in a conversation regarding a potential heir, and that was resolved simply by having the title pass through a sibling instead. There were some magic options available as well, but neither partner wanted to deal with the other issues there.
I'm a reasonably online person myself, I think it just depends on how deep in specific areas one delves. :)
Instead of diving into the Fediverse, last year I was exploring Royal Road as a place to write and self-publish a serial. While it's getting better known, if you aren't in the writing communities it's less likely that you know about it.
I think most of them just don't even know about Mastadon. I didn't until after Reddit announced it's API changes and people started talking about Lemmy and the fediverse.
I just simply had heard about none of this.
shrug I play mostly single-player RPGs and similarly story-heavy games, so while the mechanics are different and the graphics much prettier, the structure is the same as it's been for the past 30+ years: Follow the story to get anywhere, or just wander around in your current area if you want to grind.
Well, that's all the more reason to not try to monetize through Amazon. But Patreons seem to only be about 0.5% of the people who Follow a story on Royal Road. Well, I'll have to keep working on more incentives I guess.
The issue here is that it enables those who would make the actual CP to hide their work easier in the flood of generated content.
Animesque art is one thing, photorealistic is another. Neither actually harms an underaged person by existing, but photorealistic enables actual abusers to hide themselves easily. So IMO, photorealistic 'art' of this sort needs to be criminalized so that it can not be used as a mask for actual CP.