To call WT’s actions “antics” would be reducing the severity of what they’re doing to creators. This is unacceptable behavior and it should be all the more reason for creators to start exploring other career paths outside of WT. For years they’ve been meticulously crafting an environment where people believe that WT is the only path to success, where WT controls the degree of success creators can achieve, from the manipulation of the promotional system to the lack of tagging and proper search functions on the app. Now that they’ve boiled the frog to this point, they’re cashing out by flooding the platform with cheap imports, implementing AI tools, and of course, trying to use their contracts as a way to trap creators and keep them from owning their own IP’s and maximizing on their own success.
I said it before and I’ll say it again - Webtoons is planning to go public with their IPO this summer, so it would be a real shame if creators spoke up about the underhanded tactics used by WT to keep them from finding success in their own works. At the very least, it should serve as a reminder to all of us that companies like these can’t amass billions without exploiting people along the way.
We can’t even use “they’re creating jobs for comic creators” as a reason to want to see WT succeed in spite of their flaws anymore because they’re literally ruining people’s careers, cutting them off before they’ve even started. That’s not the platform being “flawed”, that’s the platform and the system it’s built on being broken, full stop.
remember when elomusk asked one of his rocketship employees to give him sex favors in exchange for a horse
I think this tidbit should be more famous than his exploding cars. It’s all I’ll ever need to know. A real human man tried and failed to barter with a flight attendant for third base by offering to buy her a horse (that’s what girls like, right?)
Belle has Stockholm syndrome because she falls in love with the Beast, her kidnapper.
Woke:
Stockholm syndrome was coined to slander a woman who had been in a hostage situation but openly criticized the poor police response which recklessly put her in more danger and escalated the violence. She was then belittled and discredited publically by the police for this.
So. Yeah. Maybe Belle does have Stockholm syndrome actually.
If anyone is curious here is the wikipedia section describing this.
[ID: Gif image from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast with Gaston leading a large group of villagers down the road holding a torch. The atmosphere is dark.
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According to accounts by Kristin Enmark, one of the hostages, the police however was acting incompetently, with little care for the hostages’ safety, which forced the hostages to negotiate for their life and release with the robbers on their own. In the process the hostages saw the robbers behaving more rationally than police negotiators and therefore developed a deep distrust towards the latter. Enmark had criticized Bejerot specifically for endangering their lives by behaving aggressively and agitating the captors. She had criticized the police for pointing guns at the convicts while the hostages were in the line of fire and she had told news outlets that one of the captors tried to protect the hostages from being caught in the crossfire. She was also critical of prime minister Olof Palme, as she had negotiated with the captors for freedom, but the prime minister told her that she would have to content herself to die at her post rather than give in to the captors’ demands. Ultimately, Enmark explained she was more afraid of the police whose attitude seemed to be a much larger, direct threat to her life than the robbers.]
Hope the ID helps, it’s my first time writing one.
Excerpts from “See What You Made Me Do: The Dangers of Domestic Abuse That We Ignore, Explain Away, or Refuse to See” by Jess Hill
Here are some other facts you should know about Nils Bejerot: He had a major influence (this involved founding the “Swedish National Association for a Drug-free Society”) on Sweden’s zero-tolerance approach to drug use.
Also be aware that a LOT of companies substitute cheaper ingredients in their food products. Which is obnoxious but fine, unless you’re allergic to the substitute ingredients.
Olive oil, tea, honey, cinnamon (not that lead is exactly “safe” to eat), vanilla, coffee, fish, blah blah blah. The list goes on. Any corners a company can cut to save .001%, they will. Usually the substitutes are mostly harmless, but it isn’t as if companies care about consumer safety when there’s profit to be made.
To clarify, the list linked is ALL hand sanitizer products officially recalled (and may have ongoing additions). It is NOT just the Aruba Aloe brand; there are many brands by various manufacturers on the list. So please check to see if you own anything on that list.
Surprisingly, this is not a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy reference, but an actual fact. From Burnout: Solve Your Stress Cycle, by Emily and Amelia Nagoski
What does it declare???
“It will grab you by the face, shove you to the ground, put its foot on your chest, and declare itself the victor.”
The really interesting thing (imo) about this chapter of the book, is how it defines rest. It’s not talking just about sleeping, but also things like social connection and physical movement. So the 42% of your day that is rest might involve:
Meaningful conversation with someone you have a connection with
Exercising
Paying attention to your food, whether that’s shopping for it, cooking it or eating it
Socialising
Daydreaming
Each of us will need a different balance of these things, and each of these individual things will be different from person to person. The socialising and the meaningful connections might be IRL or it might be online - one of the examples in the book of something that counts as rest is “live-tweet Games of Thrones with a thousand fellow fans”.
It’s a really interesting book - definitely worth reading :)
(And Douglas Adams was obviously right all along - 42 is the answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything;)
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