Back then Gamergate was still stuck in a lolbertarian mindset and thought they could win points by pointing out the left's hypocrisy on race by calling them the 'real racists', so minorities who weren't retards were used in the "Not Your Shield" campaign. Ian, being asian, took advantage and made a name for himself as a 'based asian'.
He also leaned heavily on the "reformed SJW" thing to win people over in GG. Since places like KIA were big on still being "sane Leftists" that was a huge hopebringer that they could bring other Lefties from the extremism to prove their Leftism wasn't the problem, only the radicals.
Last time that I had checked his account, he was shilling all sorts of things, pretending to use them personally. He's using his 1.2 million followers to rake in cash.
I began this post writing that it was plagiarism, but then I realized that not every "AI retracing" is that. Then I considered whether it was his malice that made it wrong, but satire, parody and criticism can often be just as searing.
Then it dawned on me. It is the fact that the "retrace" is posted without any mention to the original work. That's what makes it wrong. It's not plagiarism, but erasure. A denial of authorship. It is a wrong thing to do regardless of malice, intellectual property or copyright.
The guy says he did it to piss off the original artist. I believe this is a worse thing to do than a mere insult. He would be singing a different tune if his writings were rephrased by AI and reposted by someone else.
i dont know anyone who likes IMC. i have no idea why he even has followers
He only got big "redeeming" himself during GamerGate. He's had plenty of anti-progressive stances since then, but who knows how genuine he ever was.
Never was I'd bet
Back then Gamergate was still stuck in a lolbertarian mindset and thought they could win points by pointing out the left's hypocrisy on race by calling them the 'real racists', so minorities who weren't retards were used in the "Not Your Shield" campaign. Ian, being asian, took advantage and made a name for himself as a 'based asian'.
He also leaned heavily on the "reformed SJW" thing to win people over in GG. Since places like KIA were big on still being "sane Leftists" that was a huge hopebringer that they could bring other Lefties from the extremism to prove their Leftism wasn't the problem, only the radicals.
Thankfully it got community noted- https://archive.is/pKGuI
Last time that I had checked his account, he was shilling all sorts of things, pretending to use them personally. He's using his 1.2 million followers to rake in cash.
AI steal his face and run it through chat GPT. What's he gonna do? He set the precedent after all.
IMC is hideous and produces nothing of value, he can only win in this exchange.
Any AI trying to steal his face will suffer a fatal error - there are limits to God's creations and IMC sorely tests those.
IMC is a fish faced Malay faggot who has never set foot inside the US.
Art imitates life.
This is wrong.
I began this post writing that it was plagiarism, but then I realized that not every "AI retracing" is that. Then I considered whether it was his malice that made it wrong, but satire, parody and criticism can often be just as searing.
Then it dawned on me. It is the fact that the "retrace" is posted without any mention to the original work. That's what makes it wrong. It's not plagiarism, but erasure. A denial of authorship. It is a wrong thing to do regardless of malice, intellectual property or copyright.
The guy says he did it to piss off the original artist. I believe this is a worse thing to do than a mere insult. He would be singing a different tune if his writings were rephrased by AI and reposted by someone else.