@dennys why are you calling me at nearly 3am

2 hang

mutuals please hmu if you change ya url’s. yall be goin from rainbows-and-muffins to traphousehomicide i cant keep up with this shit

Normalize apologizing to children.

WE LOVE AND RESPECT

淘宝的东西来了耶 (ig: _daisyys)

Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Rooms

1. Infinity Mirrored Room - The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, 2013

2. Chandelier of Grief, 2016

3. All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, 2016

4. Infinity Mirror Room (Phalli’s Field), 1965

5. Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity, 2009

6. Infinity Mirrored Room - Love Forever, 1996

Heavenly pit, world’s deepest sinkhole in China

Something that’s almost never covered in fantasy mediums is common names.

Like we all know fantasy names are unusual, but any name to a foreign culture is considered unusual English names to Indian people are very unusual for example. But naturally, given that it’s an entire culture, there will be some common names, it’d be refreshing to at one point here this exchange.

“So I was talking to Vicnae and-”

“Wait which Vicnae? You can’t just say Vicnae. There are ten Vicnae’s in my village alone.”

This has 100 notes yesterday and 300 this morning what the fuck happened.

People understand the truly important things.

DSA (a German fantasy P&P RPG) actually has the name Alrik, which is hugely popular in the universe. Everyone is Alrik.

This is also a great excuse to use “X the Y” or “X of Y” type names without being pretentious. Calling someone “Thognor The Stout” goes from pomposity to practicality if he lives down the road from Thognor The Small.

Not-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock Jock.

~~*~surnames~*~~

my family is from a town in Ireland where everyone has the last name Ryan.  literally like everyone.  so they differentiated families by calling them by their professions, right?

anyway we’re the Horse Thief Ryans

Here’s a tool to create gradients with the new text feature

Here it is on a static page with a few visual fixes!

People have been asking how to use the generated code on Tumblr so I’ve added a gif to the static page and here it is again below:

If you like this tool or my other tools like https://y23.tech you should hit up my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ssn or my Venmo: https://venmo.com/eseal to support my work!

what have we done

:*)

This website really is turning into Geocities circa 1998

OH FUCK THIS IS SICK

https://www.instagram.com/p/BidyARghVfW/

Well… the rains gotta stop somewhere

Oh my god, someone has footage of it! I remember one time my dad, lil brother, and I were leaving a Ryan’s. We were waiting for a chance to hop onto the road and in the distance we just saw everything turn grey. We saw it come closer and closer and come to find out it was rain! It was just a wall of rain - the end of the rain, really. I’ve never seen it again, but it’s so cool to see footage of the edge of rain!

https://instagram.com/p/BhLzV3BlcvQ/

I looked further into johnny johnny yes papa

They’e created by a channel called “BillionSurpriseToys”. They have an official twitter

3 things: 1) They have their location set as the UAE, so we know what country these are coming from

2) They joined in October 2015, which means they’ve been around for a while, even before the “elsagate” thing was big 

3) they have a website 

When I loaded up the website, google immediately let me know that the connection was not secure 

and….. my adblock blocked 84 popups/ads 

what the hell. so there’s obviously something fishy with this page 

they have a shop….. okay 

where you can buy… “merchandize”…. which is six of the identical t-shirt

They also have an about page… filled with… more grammatical/spelling errors

“technology dominates ou kids’ lives” 

“inculate”?????? 

They also have a blog…. with generic parenting-related topics

most of these articles are posted multiple times with different titles 

These posts seem suspiciously too competent for the usual phrasing on this website, and are from the pespective of parents. careful googling reveals that they’re actually from a mommy blog, here , whose content was just wholesale stolen. 

…..okay 

on another note, they have a character page with… this guy 

…… i hate it 

anyways, at the bottom of the page, there’s a link to the hosting company they use. 

This redirects to what looks like a normal webhosting/media management company... but after reading it…. it has the same text as the billion surpise toys company. its some kind of shell. 

I looked up the company…

They’re a 3d animation company in India pretending to be a media/web hosting company for a youtube channel based in the UAE? ?? what is happening??? also btw they’re hiring!

This website also has a privacy policy page

An note. 

The website also has the same layout as the first website… but with a buuunch of broken links. 

….except for these, which all link to the main website instead of their profile. okay 

In conclusion: What the fuck ? 

So, I’ve been dealing with these videos for years now at work, and the simple answer is that they’re ad revenue generators.

Make enough of them that are similar enough and pass kid-safe standards (which they all do because they’re brightly colored and nonviolent, two of the major standards), and you can get the YouTube autoplay algorithm to put your videos on basically infinitely, until someone actually changes the channel. The next recommended video, based on content and audience similarity, will just be another one of your “lullaby educational kids song 3 hours” monstrosities, indefinitely.

A kid, babysitter, or exhausted parent clicks on one of them. It plays. Ads appear every 7 minutes (the maximum amount before additional screening for spam kicks in). The kid wanders off without turning off the console or computer, just the screen. Now you get ad revenue every 7 minutes until that machine turns off or gets used again, probably overnight or maybe even a full day, because every next autoplay is another of your videos. And every video that plays further locks in the autoplay.

Channels set up these nested shell companies so their channel can become verified as an official business channel, which automatically reduces the amount of screening you undergo, too.

They tend to be based in India because there’s a sufficiently skilled talent base and resource base to produce the hundreds of hours of just distinct enough visuals. In many cases, titles are generated algorithmically based on what pulled the most revenue the week before and to search terms for the last few days. Videos are then created to match the algorithmic titles, hence the bizarre combinations of topics.

This helps get these videos to the top of search results for popular kids searches, increasing the chance that the infinite recommendation loop gets started by the largest possible number of people.

I admit, if you haven’t been wading through this shitshow professionally for a few years, it probably looks pretty creepy.

But it’s not a cult or a conspiracy.

It’s just capitalism.

Capitalism is really a huge, creepy, cultish conspiracy, though. The instinct to say what the fuck is right on the…money.

Can’t argue with that.

a small cat

a baby

that’s the purriest meow I’ve ever heard

welcome back to my blog small baby

Oh my god i was watching this with my cat laying on me in bed and his head popped up and he started looking for the cat. It was so cute he was peaking over all the sides of the bed.