…Anyway, I created a Userscript for the Chrome/Firefox Stylus Extension that reverts the new dashboard to the old format. This took a lot of tweaking and it’s not perfect at all, but if anyone wants it I’ll be uploading it soonish now!
Style will open a tag with it and in the left side you’ll have a button that says “install style”, click there. (Step-by-step copied from the lovely dorothyoz39 who wrote this in a reply!)
If you don’t want the sticky header you can remove the labelled script at the top of the css below /* Sticky Header*/
Be sure to check for updates, I’m fixing things as I go! To update click the Manage button on Stylus and click the check for update button below! If you experience any bugs let me know - feel free to edit it yourself as well!P.S. Works just fine alongside Xkit!
Check under the cut for the changelog and known issues!
People seem to have a lot of varied interpretations of it. Which is fine, because they’re all correct, you take what you like from it. Here are some thought I wrote about it when I was drawing this back in April of last year:
it’s about a lot of things. it’s about imposter syndrome, yes, but it’s also about gender dysphoria. its about women loving women. its about not seeing oneself from the outside, its about comparing oneself to others best versions of themselves. it’s about one particular woman i met on an internet forum fifteen years ago and its about women i have yet to meet but still feel like a silly little creature beside. i drew pansies because they’re my favorite flower before i learned they meant only friendship
If you need context, earlier this year, CorridorDigital put out an “AI-made anime,” where an AI filter was used to convert live action footage into “animation” (for the record, this is NOT animation. Animation is not a look, it’s a process. By this logic, anyone using that Pixar Snapchat face filter is a Pixar animator). They touted themselves as “revolutionizing animation.”
They were met with considerable backlash and criticism from the animation community. For one, they were taking frames from the real anime Vampire Hunter D to feed the AI. For another, the video was essentially a proof-of-concept for how “easy” and “inexpensive” it is to reduce animation to an automate-able process.
Well, Corridor did not learn anything, because they released a sequel… In the middle of a strike against the use of AI to replace/exploit/profit off of the labor of workers in the film industry. Corridor assured they hired their own artist to train the AI, but remember that industry discourse like this is interconnected. They may not be stealing art, but any studio that sees this and goes ‘wow, it’s that easy’ will. Corridor’s also boasting about AI democratizing animation-making. Now anyone can make animation in their bedroom with nothing but a camera and a free software! Except, anyone could already make animation in their bedroom with nothing but a camera and a free software. I made animation in my bedroom with nothing but a camera and a free stop-motion software when I was 10 years old.
Anyways, work like this is exactly what studios hellbent on exploiting workers want to see. It doesn’t matter if it’s cool or fun. Remember that AI discourse is currently the frontlines of the labor crisis in the film industry. Corridor putting out this video as “fun education” in the middle of an strike is so incredibly irresponsible and disrespectful.
