sylvan-glade
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me waiting to ever be tagged in a "fave simblrs" post, be mentioned on a simblr love blog, or even be tagged in a game/sent an ask train
#gif warning#modpost#delete later#i really hate complaining but its kinda hard to not feel left out when youve been dealing with it irl since you were a kid
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Rant: The early access model has kind of creatively bankrupted CC, actually.
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EMO/SCENE
Starring Caleb and Lilith Vatore
The lead singer of [insert generic pop-punk band here] and the scene queen who's borderline stalking him.
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simblr needs more things which bring the community together and allow everyone to join in if they want to regardless of how big or small of a blog they may be. everyone is a valid part of the community no matter how many followers you have, and i feel like everyone deserves to be involved in fun little things within the community
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To the storytelling simmer who is reading this...
you, your sims and your stories all inspire someone here and you won’t convince me otherwise
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CC creators, I beg of you: enable your long hair for men.
#pls the occults one#im so tired of wondering why my vamps cant wear smth and finding out thats why#gif warning#sylvanreblogs
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Reblog If You’re An Alternative Simblr
I’m always looking for new blogs to follow. While I do follow a pretty wide range of simblrs, sometimes I just want to see more edgy stuff on my dashboard, you know? Even though the picture is of Sims 4 sims, you can share this post if you are a simblr of any of the sims games!
Maybe you make some stylish cc from time to time or have a lot of dark characters in your story posts. Perhaps you yourself are alternative or maybe you just have an appreciation for the style. Whether it’s goth, punk, emo, metal, rock or something in-between, go ahead and share this post so I, and anyone else whose interested, can follow the people who share it!
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monthly url contribution
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#fucking love the divide between simblr and everyone else#simblr out here making emo love stories and cute cas challenges#reddit over there doing this#sylvanreblogs
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Welp... remember when they "fixed" the jewelry genetics bug?
New bug just dropped, unfortunately. Same exact problem, but now it happens when your sims use the "Keep style" feature on the styling chair from Get Famous. 🤦♀️
Here's the comparison photos from both tweets: before shots on the left and after shots on the right.
Just a PSA, you might want to avoid using the "keep style" function on the styling chairs for a little while. If you have the same issue, be sure to upvote/interact with the thread on EA Answers HQ.
Source Tweet 1, Source Tweet 2
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literally everytime I get the time to play the team breaks the game 😭😭😭 why
#modpost#and ive gotten some new followers too since i had to pause#so sorry for no new content guys#cries in pharmacy school + health issues + med withdrawals 😭😭😭
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Unicorn Mod
The Unicorn Mod is now available to early access patrons over on my Patreon! 😁🦄
Unicorns are now a full-fledged occult with powers and special abilities ranging from blessing or cursing plants and sims to teleporting to magical places!
DOWNLOAD
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God it really PAINS ME to unfollow talented creators on simblr, but if you're using AI – even if you say it's "just for fun" –, you're simply repeatedly telling me, an artist, that you don't care about me. Because at this point everyone knows what AI is, it IS stealing. You're on tumblr, you've seen artists complain about being stolen by jealous tech bros who didn't care to watch one single youtube video to learn how to draw so they made an entire genre of nightmare technology to imitate us. You are on tumblr, you've seen what has been going on with OpenAI and Automattic for the past couple of hours. You've seen your mutuals screaming "OPT OUT" and teaching you how to turn this thing off your profile. Yet, you still play around with this uncanny valley made real. So yes i will unfollow and sometimes even block people who are using AI, and i encourage you to do the same.
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Automattic will sign a contract with OpenAI for Midjourney to learn off of Tumblr and Wordpress
Hello! Automattic, Tumblr's parent company, will sign a contract with OpenAI and Midjourney so Midjourney can learn off of Tumblr's and WordPress' art and other user data. :) (The full text of this article is copy/pasted in the cut below). You can opt out! but I truly cannot imagine a more idiotic or out of touch decision on the part of Tumblr's CEO.
First thing's first: When/if this goes live, opt out of this immediately. Do this even if you're not an artist. The more people opt out, the less valuable this contract is to Midjourney. in an ideal world, literally all of the active users would opt out, but if we can even get to 50% that's pretty delicious.
Second: Contact Tumblr Support. It's vital that you do this politely. Tumblr staff is not responsible for this decision and the point of doing this is to show the userbase's unwillingness to be involved in this, not harangue Tumblr staff. (Seriously, stop haranguing Tumblr staff). Here's a script:
Hi, I'm writing in to express my disappointment in Automattic's pending contract with OpenAI to sell user data. Midjourney is already embroiled in copyright lawsuits, and it is not possible to train it without compromising copyright, including violating the IP of artists on this site. I strongly protest this contract and will opt out if it goes live. Depending on the privacy terms around what user data is sold to OpenAI and why, it is possible I will leave the platform entirely. Thank you for your time.
Third: Download Glaze and start poisoning them prompts, my friends
Fourth: Stare into the middle distance for a second with me because holy fucking shit? How stupid can one decision be?
Tumblr and Wordpress are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to a source with internal knowledge about the deals and internal documentation referring to the deals.
The exact types of data from each platform going to each company are not spelled out in documentation we’ve reviewed, but internal communications reviewed by 404 Media make clear that deals between Automattic, the platforms’ parent company, and OpenAI and Midjourney are imminent.
The internal documentation details a messy and controversial process within Tumblr itself. One internal post made by Cyle Gage, a product manager at Tumblr, states that a query made to prepare data for OpenAI and Midjourney compiled a huge number of user posts that it wasn’t supposed to. It is not clear from Gage’s post whether this data has already been sent to OpenAI and Midjourney, or whether Gage was detailing a process for scrubbing the data before it was to be sent.
Gage wrote:
“the way the data was queried for the initial data dump to Midjourney/OpenAI means we compiled a list of all tumblr’s public post content between 2014 and 2023, but also unfortunately it included, and should not have included:
private posts on public blogs
posts on deleted or suspended blogs
unanswered asks (normally these are not public until they’re answered)
private answers (these only show up to the receiver and are not public)
posts that are marked ‘explicit’ / NSFW / ‘mature’ by our more modern standards (this may not be a big deal, I don’t know)
content from premium partner blogs (special brand blogs like Apple’s former music blog, for example, who spent money with us on an ad campaign) that may have creative that doesn’t belong to us, and we don’t have the rights to share with this-parties; this one is kinda unknown to me, what deals are in place historically and what they should prevent us from doing.”
Gage’s post makes clear that engineers are working on compiling a list of post IDs that should not have been included, and that password-protected posts, DMs, and media flagged as CSAM and other community guidelines violations were not included.
Automattic plans to launch a new setting on Wednesday that will allow users to opt-out of data sharing with third parties, including AI companies, according to the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, and internal documents. A new FAQ section we reviewed is titled “What happens when you opt out?” states that “If you opt out from the start, we will block crawlers from accessing your content by adding your site on a disallowed list. If you change your mind later, we also plan to update any partners about people who newly opt-out and ask that their content be removed from past sources and future training.”
404 Media has asked Automattic how it accidentally compiled data that it shouldn’t share, and whether any of that content was shared with OpenAI, but did not immediately hear back from the company. 404 Media asked Automattic about an imminent deal with Midjourney last week but did not hear back then, either.
Another internal document shows that, on February 23, an employee asked in a staff-only thread, “Do we have assurances that if a user opts out of their data being shared with third parties that our existing data partners will be notified of such a change and remove their data?”
Andrew Spittle, Automattic’s head of AI replied: “We will notify existing partners on a regular basis about anyone who's opted out since the last time we provided a list. I want this to be an ongoing process where we regularly advocate for past content to be excluded based on current preferences. We will ask that content be deleted and removed from any future training runs. I believe partners will honor this based on our conversations with them to this point. I don't think they gain much overall by retaining it.” Automattic did not respond to a question from 404 Media about whether it could guarantee that people who opt out will have their data deleted retroactively.
News about a deal between Tumblr and Midjourney has been rumored and speculated about on Tumblr for the last week. Someone claiming to be a former Tumblr employee announced in a Tumblr blog post that the platform was working on a deal with Midjourney, and the rumor made it onto Blind, an app for verified employees of companies to anonymously discuss their jobs. 404 Media has seen the Blind posts, in which what seems like an Automattic employee says, “I'm not sure why some of you are getting worked up or worried about this. It's totally legal, and sharing it publicly is perfectly fine since it's right there in the terms & conditions. So, go ahead and spread the word as much as you can with your friends and tech journalists, it's totally fine.”
Separately, 404 Media viewed a public, now-deleted post by Gage, the product manager, where he said that he was deleting all of his images off of Tumblr, and would be putting them on his personal website. A still-live post says, “i've deleted my photography from tumblr and will be moving it slowly but surely over to cylegage.com, which i'm building into a photography portfolio that i can control end-to-end.” At one point last week, his personal website had a specific note stating that he did not consent to AI scraping of his images. Gage’s original post has been deleted, and his website is now a blank page that just reads “Cyle.” Gage did not respond to a request for comment from 404 Media.
Several online platforms have made similar deals with AI companies recently, including Reddit, which entered into an AI content licensing deal with Google and said in its SEC filing last week that it’s “in the early stages of monetizing [its] user base” by training AI on users’ posts. Last year, Shutterstock signed a six year deal with OpenAI to provide training data.
OpenAI and Midjourney did not respond to requests for comment.
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I've noticed a trend of creators uploading custom content to curseforge, and either not linking it here on tumblr, or hiding those links. If you go to a download link and "rightclick -> copy link" and see that the link includes "forgecdn", that is a curseforge link. But bypasses the page and downloads the content immediately. Before you can even tell its a curseforge link.
A lot of creators are trying to use curseforge to host their content, and then hide this from their blogs or download posts, hoping you wont notice when the link takes you to a direct download from curseforge.
stop using curseforge
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The amount of people that say appreciate reblogs but never reblog anything other than their own stuff for tzr, are the most puzzling people in existence. Clearly Tumblr has a problem with engagement, clearly nobody gives a fuck about it and not only that but mostly when you complain about it people will tell to be grateful for the likes. Sure. Yes. But I want to see content on my fucking dash, I want to see posts. I don't have any word flagged I don't care about tw so everything pops up on my dash or should. What the fuck Is everyone so afraid of? Ruining their aesthetic? Are they afraid to reblog content that is better than theirs and so their followers will discover that their shit? I mean I don't understand.
And since I am on the topic, can every simblr stop with the "I don't care about notes, I am happy even if people see my stuff and appreciate it but don't put a like or reblog"? I don't give a shit if you appreciate it or not. I want to see things on my dash and this is a social media, not a gatekeeping website where the good stuff I find is only for me. My precious content, mine only.
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