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classpectpokerap · 1 year

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testing the AUTOMATIC PESTERLOG FORMATTER FOR TUMBLR

Welcome to Homestuck 5+! Use the Help! button to learn more about this syntax.

TT: That help button would teach you more than you'd learn from just reading this example?

Uh oh. Hello, Rose.

TT: Hello, omniscient narrator. TT: Ahem. Allow me to demonstrate. JASPROSESPRITE^2: What are we demewnstrating? TT: The way this formatter works. JASPROSESPRITE^2: Phooey! This furmatter doesn't even have my cool new chumhandle, fluorescentFeline. JASPROSESPRITE^2: Look, if I try and type something with it: FF: Nothing! All black. TT: You have to add it to the formats, Jazz. Click "Edit Formats." JAZZ: Mrr... too lazy! At least they've got this name built-in. -- turntechGodhead [TG] joined tentacleTherapist [TT]'s awful tutorial -- TG: hey whats going on TT: Ugh.

Are you guys okay?

TT: Dandy. Here, let's start over.

tentacleTherapist [TT] invited turntechGodhead [TG] to a less awful tutorial. TG: wait why dave and not me TT: Oh my gods. TT: Why Roxy, and not me? UU: and why am i the defaUlt? UU: AND WHY DON'T I HAVE MY COOL GREEN COLOR THAT DOESN'T SuCK. CALIBORN: SERIOUSLY. WHERE IS IT.

Uh.

CALIBORN: GET IN HERE AND EXPLAIN YOuRSELF.

What? You can't do th--

--at! Oh, god. TT: "I'm not trapped in here with you! You're trapped in here with me!" Sounds familiar. Oh god, oh, god. What appears to be the problem? I'm trapped in a textbox with a bunch of bozos, that's what! CALIBORN: I FOUND MY GREEN. Well, I'm glad someone's having a good time!

YES. HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT? ROLES. REVERSED!!

You can't do this to me! I was about to remind everyone how to write in color outside of logs!

WHAT. LIKE THIS? I HAVE CAPTURED YOUR PUNY FONT! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Actually, you pretty much covered it! FF: I got my chumhandle working! TT: Well, I'm glad someone's having a good time. That's what I'VE been saying!!!

go visit @flaringk's NEW WEBSITE for nearly-fully-automated TUMBLR COMPATIBLE PESTERLOGGING!

#homestuck #homestuck fanfic #strilondes #caliborn #rose lalonde #doc scratch #tumblr formatting

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the-lonelybarricade · 1 year

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Hi lovely content creating friends!

I have noticed something weird going on when viewing posts in tumblr's mobile dark-mode. From experimenting on my own posts, it seems that unwanted formatting is carried over when copying and pasting from an external source (such as Google docs). It will look something like this in mobile dark mode, where regular text remains black and formatted text (such as itallics) becomes white:

Unfortunately, copying and pasting without formatting doesn't seem to be a quick fix since tumblr will treat this as one block of text (and it will likely exceed their 4,096 character limit per block).

So if you create content and want to make that content accessible to dark mode users, this is something you'll need to keep an eye out for. It goes without saying that if people can't read your content, it will impact your engagement.

If you want to avoid this happening with your posts, there are a few things you can look out for. If you switch the to the HTML editor for your post, you can usually find a tag that looks something like this: < span style = " color : # 000000 " >. This is carried over text formatting, and deleting any tags like this should solve the problem. Here's a short little tutorial on how to do this.

If you are posting something that's really long, like a story, then I would recommend translating your text into HTML and pasting it directly into the HTML Editor that I accessed in the video above. AO3 put together a beautiful Google Doc here that runs a script to convert all of your text into HTML. The instructions tell you exactly what to do, and since tumblr has made this change it has been life saving. You can find more about this doc and other neat tools from the @ao3org tumblr here.

Lastly, if you're a mobile dark mode user and you encounter a post that looks like this, rather than scroll past please consider switching to light mode or accessing the post from a computer. Please support content creators even if you have to go a little out of your way to do so 💕

#Disclaimer that I'm NOT an expert on HTML #I'm just a lil content creator that noticed this thing and happened to know a way to fix it #there might be better ways!#so please chime in if you know of one!#tumblr formatting #formatting tips #AO3 #writing advice #fanfic #fanfiction #acotar fanfiction #acotar #acotar fandom

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maela-the-menace · 4 months

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Pspspspspsps shorts wars fans come get ur food

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@Datchia

Sooo guess who just hacked Danno’s phone! Honestly it was ridiculously easy, he didn’t even have a security system active. C’mon dude, you have a YouTube channel. But that’s not the main reason I’m here. My investigation continues! It’s… got more evidence… here, this is a snippet of a convo I saw between him and Riggy.

[screenshot start]

Sewer Rat: Why did you send that to Cdot?

Danno: because it’s funny, obviously

Sewer rat: yea I know but why a console and a finger??? Where did you even get the finger!

Danno: the console has a pikmin game downloaded onto it, and you don’t need to know where I got the finger.

Sewer Rat: alr. The blood wasn’t yours though right?

Danno: no don’t worry

Sewer rat: alr good

[screenshot end]

My guys did you see that? Danno sent what to cdot?? What???

#wtf #Danno cal drawings #Riggy the Runky #excuse me but what the fuck #where did he get the finger #where did he get the blood #I really hope he doesn’t see this

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@Fucker-of-mothers

There's no way this is real

@hotdog-cop

Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if this was real. Riggy is a horrible influence

@EntWithAHoodie

Dude if Danno has tumblr you’re probably fucked.

Reblog

@Datchia

Here’s a follow up with the Cdot situation…

[Screenshot start]

Pikmin Bro: DUDE WTF

Danno: what?

Pikmin Bro: YOU SENT ME A FINGER! AND A BLOOD COVERED CONSOLE!

Danno: The console has Pikmin downloaded onto it! :)

Pikmin Bro: BUT WHY THE FINGER???

Danno: Just because.

Pikmin Bro: WHERE DID YOU EVEN GET THE FINGER? OR THE BLOOD?

Danno: Secret

Pikmin Bro: WHAT DO YOU MEAN SECRET?

[Screenshot end]

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@Datchia

So. It turns out that Danno isn’t the only criminal of the group. I uh… oops?

[Screenshot start]

Danno: Pear

Danno: Dude

Danno: Where are you

Gun Giver: Dawg what

Gun Giver: I was with Melon

Danno: I need weapons.

Gun Giver: Dawg I just gave you a shipment

Danno: That was today?

Gun Giver: I’m not gonna respond anymore.

[Screenshot end]

So yeah. Pear is apparently a weapons dealer.

RoyalPear #Danno cal drawings #RoyalMelon #I think #i’m scared

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@fruity-felon

What were Pear and Melon doing tho 🧐🧐🧐

@WenchOfTime

@fruity-felon I don’t think that’s what you’re supposed to me focusing on here

@BungoBob

What did I just discover here???

@Time-For-Soup

@WenchOfTime but seriously what were they doing tho???

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@Datchia

I’M SCARED I’M TERRIFIED I’M MORTIFIED I’M SCREAMING-

[Screenshot start]

Unknown Number: Hello? You’re Danno right?

Danno: Yes??? Who is this?

Unknown Number: Melon.

Danno: Oh ok

[Unknown Number changed to Materwelon]

Materwelon: Hey fuck you for that

Danno: ?

[Materwelon changed to The Melon Man]

Danno: WHAT.

The Melon Man: I taught myself how to code! And hack. It’s really fun!

Danno: I’m scared

The Melon Man: You should be :)

[Screenshot end]

That smiley face will haunt me forever and I think he’s about to start hunting me down.

#RoyalMelon #Danno cal drawings #I live in fear

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@OrbleTheGreat

Datchia I recommend RUNNING.

@Man-Of-Cheeseballs

Drop off the face of the internet and I think you’ll probably be fine… maybe… probably…

@Jiblits-vorp

I really doubt this is real but please make more

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@Datchia

I don’t know how Danno hasn’t noticed this yet considering how many people have seen it, but it’s probably a good thing. I’ll keep going until I’m noticed by someone relevant to the situation… here’s more. A lot more.

[screenshots start]

Danno: Pear your boyfriend is scaring me

Gun Giver: Danno Melon is not my boyfriend.

Danno: I never mentioned it was Melon though

Gun Giver: Dawg, you act like I wasn’t the one to give him your contact

Danno: But I still could’ve been referring to someone else

Gun Giver: Dawg Melon is fucking terrifying

Gun Giver: Also he told me about hacking your phone earlier

Gun Giver: He said that, and I quote, “anyone with a sliver of coding knowledge could hack into it if they tried.” He thinks you need a better security system

Danno: nahh it’ll be fine

—————

Danno: Hey Jonny you’re interested in code right?

Kirby man: Uhhhh yea I guess?

Danno: Talk to Melon about it

Kirby man: Out of all the things you’ve said to me, why is that the most ominous?

Danno: I could send you one of the packages to be more ominous

Kirby man: Ok nevermind that’s the most ominous thing you’ve ever said to me…

Danno: Ok I’ll just send another to Cdot

Kirby man: What in the fuck are you sending to Cdot?

Danno: :)

Kirby man: I’m scared

—————

Pikmin Bro: WHERE DID YOU GET A DEAD BLOODY RAT AND WHY IN THE HELL DID YOU SEND IT TO ME.

Danno: Riggy gave it to me

Pikmin Bro: Please don’t send more blood-covered objects

Danno: I will continue sending you blood covered objects

Pikmin Bro: Seriously don’t I don’t need bloodstains on my carpet

Danno: If it gets stained I’ll help you clean it up!

Pikmin Bro: The fact that you’re confident you can clean up a bloodstain is scary. One time I cut my finger cutting vegetables and the blood got on my couch. It’s still there and I’ve tried everything…

Danno: You just don’t know the process yet

Pikmin Bro: What the hell is “the process”

Danno: The process of cleaning blood.

Pikmin Bro: …

Pikmin Bro: I think it’s time to end this conversation.

—————

Kirby Man: YOU GOT ME WRAPPED UP IN A GANG.

Danno: Wait Pear didn’t tell you about it???

Kirby Man: YOU KNEW?

Kirby Man: Is that why Pear was always dealing with “stuff?”

Danno: Oh definitely.

Kirby Man: Why didn’t you tell me though?

Danno: I thought you knew!

Kirby Man: Please don’t tell me you’re also doing something illegal…

Danno: …

Kirby Man: Danno what did you do.

Kirby Man: Danno. What did you do.

Danno: Murder!

Kirby Man: WHAT THE FUCK.

[screenshots end]

Y'know I feel like Melon’s comment about hacking Danno’s phone might be directed at me but I might be going crazy from this

#Danno cal drawings #Jonny razer #Cdot #RoyalPear #RoyalMelon

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@Fruity-felon

Hmmmmmmmmm Danno implied Pear and Melon are dating? Are they? Possibly?

@Greatergingivitis

Holy shit

@Jabe-mota

Sooooooo Melon definitely knows about you right?

Some stuff is supposed to be bolded and italicized and some stuff is supposed to be a smaller font but it got lost through the Googledocs-to-Tumblr journey and I’m too lazy to fix all this sooooooooooo deal with it lol

#danno cal drawings #riggy the rabbit monkey #riggy the runkey #royalmelon #royalpear #cdot #jonny razer #tumblr formatting #random tumblr users #if you actually have any of these usernames than oops lol #also some fruitsalad #just a few crumbs #specifically for Aki lol #also because i ship it too #hehe

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unionize-aromantically · 8 months

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ok actually I don't like the big links

these:

I prefer these: aze journal. because on those I can actually read the links by long pressing

but on the big ones (the first) you can only press it. (at least on mobile (android))

#ink.post #tumblr formatting

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autumnalwalker · 7 months

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I might not be always getting notifications

This morning I found at least one example where I was tagged in a post and I never got a notification about it and it doesn't show up in my "Activity" log.

If anyone's been tagging me and I haven't been replying, I apologize for that.

#writeblr #writers on tumblr #tumblr formatting #tags not working

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lifeonhaven · 2 years

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Has anyone else’s ability to put images into a grid/side by side in a post just... completely broken as of late? Because mine definitely is and I have no idea why or when it’ll be fixed lmao

#I have been trying to queue new posts for a WEEK #but MOST of my posts are grids and I just. CANNOT MAKE THEM #i'm suffering here #tumblr updates #tumblr formatting #tumblr image posting #tumblr images #tumblr #tumblr editor #tumblr post editor #tumblr image grid #image grids #tumblr posting #tumblr image updates #zera speaks

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meadow-hearthfire · 2 months

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Made a possible fic sideblog...

...but I hate that sideblogs can only be viewed from the dashboard! It's not fair!

I wanna make it look like a fanfic site, and I found a theme close enough for it, but this hellsite makes it so it can only be viewed from the goddamn dashboard!!

SEE THAT?!

That's the problem here!!

In any case, I'm keeping it up as a backup host for any fics I might publish.

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starspilli · 10 days

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dc cowboy doodles & wips !

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diornies · 5 months

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Suddenly, it's December by margaux paul

#tubbo #tubbo fanart #qsmp #dsmp #not lore related! this quote just resonated with me and by proxy I will project that to my favourite characters :D #my art #something I've noticed is that my comic-style format has MUCH better flow here on tumblr than on twitter #much to think about #my comics

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demonicseries · 8 months

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We got a category 4 tumblr event today

#I apologize for using this meme format #do not think I endorse her or the franchise #Destiel #Putin #trump #spn #tumblr #meme #donald trump

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canisalbus · 7 months

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✦ Milk and Honey ✦

#I've been going through some of the pieces from the past few months #the oldest of these are from... late may early july I think? felt like making a little compilation to get a better overall picture #fixation has been strong this is just a fraction of them all #gay catholic dog era #own art #own characters #CanisAlbus #art #artists on tumblr #Vasco #Machete #anthro #sighthound #dogs #canine #animals #I think my personal favorites this far are the body heat piece and the bathtub scene #but their composition didn't work with this format so I left them out

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autumnalwalker · 2 years

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Something I noticed about formatting...

I recently realized that adding the "Keep reading" divider to a post adds an line break on the mobile app that it doesn't in the web browser. For example:

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Example of text before "Keep reading" divider on web.

Example of text after "Keep reading" divider on web.

-------------------- vs. --------------------

Example of text before "Keep reading" divider in-app.

Example of text after "Keep reading" divider in-app.

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This is a little bit of a problem for @thearchivistsjournal since I've been using line breaks/skips to indicate jumps in time between entries within the same day. I might need to go back and insert some other more distinct form of formatting indicator instead.

#writeblr #author's note #my writing #writers on tumblr #wip #tumblr formatting #mobile versus web

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5ummit · 11 months

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New Mature Content Warning Overlay (And How to Get Rid of It)

More fun community label "features"! Unlike the new mandatory label for #NSFW, this one is a bigger deal to me because it affects my entire blog and it can't be avoided by just using a different tag.

Apparently on custom blog layouts, if you happen to post or reblog even a SINGLE post that's been flagged with the mature content community label, a full-page warning overlay will appear blurring out your entire blog that must be manually clicked through every single time the page is refreshed. At first I thought this was just a bug due to my older layout but I've come to realize it's not. It's a feature (as confirmed by this recent changes post) that affects all custom themes. The formatting will vary based on your own theme but here's what it looks like on my blog:

I don't know about you but I find this is stupid and annoying. If it could be dismissed once and never seen again that might be one thing, but that's not the case. The vast majority of my blog is not "mature" enough to warrant such an aggressive and invasive warning. I also think pop-ups are obnoxious in general and I'll be damned if tumblr's going to force me to have one on MY blog.

After some desperate googling for a known workaround and being unable to find even a single mention of it, I decided to take on the challenge myself. I'm not a theme coder, so apologies if there's a better way to do this, but luckily it only took me like 10 minutes to figure out a simple fix, which I'm now sharing with anyone else who may want it:

.community-label-cover__wrapper {display: none}

Just copypaste that somewhere in your CSS and goodbye pop-up!

If you're not sure how to access your theme code, check out this help article. You can also add the code via the Advanced Options menu, which is actually even better (if you can get it to work, it depends on how your theme was coded), because it will then automatically be reapplied to a lot of themes without having to remember to manually add it every time if you change your theme in the future.

Obviously this will only remove it from your own blog for anyone who may visit it. If you never want to see this warning again on other people's blogs you can also add this custom filter to your ad block:

tumblr.com##.community-label-cover__wrapper

Unfortunately I do not have an easy tutorial on hand for this one as the method will depend on your specific ad block app or extension.

Some additional notes:

After adding the theme code and saving the changes, give it a minute to update as it sometimes takes a little while for the page to refresh.

The warning overlay only seems to appear if a "mature" post is on the FIRST page of your blog, which is still annoying and makes the whole thing even more pointless and stupid because what if someone visits any other page of your blog, and oh no, happens to see "mature" content they weren't warned about?!

The warning also appears on direct links to "mature" posts.

This hack has NOTHING to do with entire blogs that have been flagged as NSFW. It only works for non-flagged blogs with custom themes that happen to have individual "mature" posts.

#I'm not letting my entire blog be penalized for a couple rare singular posts that may or may not even be 'mature' enough to warrant it #tumblr may force us to use community labels #and they may have full control over the new blogview #but MY custom blog layout has always been and always will be MINE to format and present however I want #that's the whole point #tumblr #psa #tutorial #my words #tumblr themes #wendy's help desk

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underthetree845 · 9 months

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I do really need help with formatting because I have absolutely nooo idea what I'm doing with that

arminsumi is another wonderful creator on here! I am obsessed with their writing style and their headcannons on Armin, so I'll definitely look out for any advice they put out about formatting :D

thank you so much for the support you're super kind!

-sunny

Ooh okay! It took me a while to come up with a formatting style that I liked, so here’s a general template: (I hope this is what you mean!)

The Title In Big Text

Chapter One: Chapter Title (if it’s multi chapter) (I love doing chapter names instead of just numbering them)

Previous Chapter Link (I prefer to put this at the bottom, but some people link the previous or next chapter at the top) Chapter Index (link, if it’s multi chapter)

Person 1/Person 2 (the pairing)

Cws: (this means content warnings) I usually put whether Reader is gn or not, anything that could be triggering, specifics people may be looking for, essentially just what you would want to know before getting into a fic

About XXX words

Summary: Spoilers-free summary of the events

- - - I like to put these little things here to mark where the writing begins.

Story story story story story story story story story story story story words. “Make sure to start a new line whenever a new person starts speaking,” person X said. It’s a general formatting thing and makes dialogue easier to understand without keeping tabs on which name was used last. “Yup!” person Y agreed.

When the topic changes, I like to leave a space between lines like this.

-

When time passes, like a day or a week or even a few hours, I put a little dash like this. I also use this when it changes to show characters at a different location.

Story story story story story story story story story story story story words.

- or - - -

I put more dashes to mark the end of the story!

Link to next chapter (if it’s multi chapter) I prefer to put the link to the next part at the bottom, but it’s whatever you prefer! You could also put a link to the chapter index here. If the next chapter isn’t out yet, I usually leave a “Next chapter coming soon, thank you for reading!” Message.

Then you know, all the appropriate tags at the bottom to make sure your fic is discovered :)

Note: Everyone does things differently, so I encourage playing around with formatting in a way that makes sense for you and helps you run your page better!

I think that’s about it, good luck with your fic! I know it’s going to be amazing <3

P.S. I like arminsumi a lot too, their blog would be good to look at for organization with requests and categories and stuff like that!

#answered #tumblr writers #tumblr authors #tumblr formatting #writer things #writing formatting template #general guide #golden-clouds

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marcelshorjian · 2 years

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the impossible return

#comic #digital art #illustration #artists on tumblr #poetry #very happy to be able to come back to this shorter poetic format just for me and my followers

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pearwaldorf · 5 months

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I hate that you can't see a tweet thread anymore if you're not logged into Twitter (as a gesture of disrespect I refuse to call it by its rebranded name). Here is a copypasta of a thread from Dan Olson, a Canadian documentary filmmaker, expanding upon camera quality, the guilt trips Somerton used to goose his Patreon subscriptions, and how the best tools will never make up for lack of dedication or patience. I have added clarifications in [[double brackets]] where I feel it is necessary.

START OF THREAD

Okay, so, back in April I snapped at James in reply to a tweet that was linking to this video (which James has since delisted but not deleted) and I want to talk about the full context of that but I don't want to make a video, put your beatdown memes away. [[The video has since been deleted. I can see the title of the video is "Maybe the end (not an April Fool's Day thing".]]

The first bit of context is that I initially got keyed into James to fact-check his claims about indie filmmaking in Canada. As a filmmaker the entire Telos venture was immediately obvious as a juvenile fantasy dreamed up by someone with no idea how to make a movie.

Just wild claims about their plans that weren't worth debunking because they bordered Not Even Wrong. But in watching one of these pitch videos I noticed that he had a $4000 current-gen camera in the background as a prop, and that seemed both pretentious and weird.

You don't use your best camera as a prop, you use your second best camera as a prop. So being an obsessive weirdo I needed to know, and I watched his BTS stuff until I spotted his main rig, a $6000 camera with about $1000 in accessories.

Now, these in isolation are unremarkable because his Patreon at the time was bringing in ~$8000 per month, his channel was a full on Business business, and so investing in some professional equipment of that level is maybe a bit indulgent but justifiable.

What was weird is that he doesn't shoot multi-cam, doesn't shoot outdoors, doesn't shoot on location, and in a studio the two cameras kinda really step on each others' toes. Basically if you already have one and don't need a B cam there's no reason to get the other.

Again, on its own, this says nothing, it's just indicative of poor financial decisions, maybe impulsive purchasing, Gear Acquisition Syndrome. Biblical sins, but not crimes.

Paired with the constantly inflating fantasy scope of the Telos films it was clearly an expression of a very, very common bad filmmaker habit of "if I just get the right gear then my movie will basically make itself" Buying stuff because it feels like progress.

At the end of February he tweets "I want to start shooting anamorphic" and then three weeks later in March he posts the worst, out of focus, under-exposed "I just got a new lens!" video I've ever seen, showing off his trash-covered bedroom.

Based on what's available for his cameras and the lead time, that's enough time to get a Laowa Nanomorph or Sirui Saturn from B&H but not enough time to get a Great Joy from the UK or a Vazen from China. And with the flaring blah blah blah, $1300 lens.

Again, [gear acquisition syndrome] is not a crime and these lenses are budget options. Bit of a pointless impulse purchase since he only used it for the Showgirls video. But this is what he was doing just a few weeks before that above video came out: effortlessly impulse purchasing lenses.

James has (had?) a habit of regularly, aggressively driving viewers to Patreon by claiming that videos were getting demonetized. While tacky, it is something a lot of queer YouTubers have dealt with, so there's precedent there. But people were noticing he did it a lot.

Mid-March he humble brags about needing to work so hard to make 6 videos in April because he has over-booked sponsorships.

Then March 29th James posts this whole incel screed on Twitter about how sex work should be "subsidized as a mental health service."

[two image descriptions.

1. "For the majority of people sex (and human contact) can be imperative to a healthy state of mind. A kind and talented sex worker can make someone feel wanted for the first time in their life. I know sex workers who have pulled people back from suicide just by being there for them." 2. "Not only should (sex work) be legal, but it should be subsidized as a mental health service."]

He spends several days getting absolutely *roasted* for this, just dragged across the pavement and read for filth, and doubles down in the replies the whole way.

So this is the context immediately surrounding James waking up on Friday, and posts the above video and the below tweet.

[image description: "We just got the lowest Patreon payout we've gotten in well over a year. Like, a "maybe we need to rethink things" kind of amount... NOT an April Fools Day thing btw. But I don't know if we'll be making videos much longer."]

Now, this unfolds in kinda two directions. The first is that I'm convinced he was just lying about this income shock in the first place.

There's a million theoretical edge cases about what maybe happened and if maybe he just misunderstood the data or saw a glitch and panicked, maybe one of those happened, I don't believe it, I think he just lied because he was salty about getting dragged and felt owed a win.

A big tell to me is that he doesn't blame Patreon. He says he doesn't know what happened, but let's be real, Patreon screws up all the time, they're the first people anyone blames if anything confusing happens, just as a reflex action, even if it's completely not their fault.

The only reason to not blame Patreon is if you already know that it's not their fault and that any investigation on their part might reveal embarrassing details.

Instead he indirectly blames his viewers for not watching enough, not sharing enough, and not turning on auto-renew.

So regardless of the unknowable truth, this segues into the second, far more offensive direction of the messaging itself. "I don't know if we'll be making videos much longer." "Maybe the end" He explicitly framed this as an immediate existential threat to his channel.

In the video he is vague about everything, leaves a ton of hazy room for plausible deniability on how long the channel can keep going, but the messaging is "I need more patrons right this minute or my YouTube channel is over."

He repeatedly evokes all the "fun stuff" they had planned that would never see the light of day if this didn't turn around right away.

And his audience received this message loud and clear. Tons of people making far, far, far less than him left very heartfelt messages about digging a little deeper to subscribe or up their pledge or unsubscribe from other channels to move their pledge to his.

1200 new patrons in one day.

Since I simply don't believe the income shock was real in the first place that would put his post-"Maybe the end" Patreon income at around $10,000 per month. US. Add YouTube income, he's spent the last seven months making around $18,000 per month.

I have seen creators scale back their capabilities to the bone purely to keep making videos for the love of just, like, making stuff even as their funding evaporated and they needed to go back to a desk job to cover their bills.

You'd have to be so outstandingly reckless with your finances as a channel that a one month spook leads immediately to "channel over, sorry about all the fun stuff we won't get to do with you, our patrons, specifically because you, our patrons, aren't giving us enough money"

And not a spook where you then spend a couple weeks crunching numbers. Oh no. A shock so violent where less than two hours later you're weeping on camera about the channel being over.

Three weeks later he brought a brand new Sony FX6v for $8000 CAD to add to his pile of cinema cameras despite the fact that he was, but scant moments earlier, in such a precarious position that a single bad month would kill his channel.

He stole your money, and for that I'm profoundly sad and angry. That's why I snapped at him in April. I'm sorry I couldn't give you the full context then, and I'm sorry if that anger upset you.

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