“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: […] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.” —Jonathan Swift
And just because OP feels like being an extra obnoxious little bitch (maybe intentionally inviting the Streisand effect? maybe not clever enough for that and just a dipshit?):
(I’ve intentionally refrained from linking his TikTok, subreddit, Instagram, and Twitter for ethical concerns, but these exist if you can stomach those platforms.)
I’m saying that the logical end point of your idea is to either take this post down or remove Adam’s recognizable art style by running it through an AI. Because this post is an advertisement for anyone like me who recognizes his work.
But then I’m starting™ to think you don’t actually care; you just enjoy being a petty, insufferable bitch and don’t actually think Ellis’ credit at the bottom was harmful in any meaningful way.
It still wouldn’t make it consistent given you’re still advertising Adam in the post body. Anti-advertisement ethics aren’t the problem; your lens for evaluating them clearly is, and I’m not here to bodge together the garbage it’s feeding you.
I’m pointing out that your reductionist, black-and-white attitude is so convoluted and so unhelpful that it’s not even practicable for you to follow while complying with your belief that – to the author and the reader – it’s wrong to erase credit. And I can tell that’s your ethical stance because you re-added credit despite no rule and despite sponging up public ridicule like you practically enjoy it.
Edit: I will tell you just to drive this point even further that your post is an advertisement for Ellis’ work for anyone (like me) who recognizes his distinctive art style. So be sure to take it down or run it through a slop filter to genericize it.
This is an advertisement for Reddit, Inc. that most people won’t even realize they’re being served until they click the link. I’m not contending the link is a big deal in a vacuum; I’m contending you’ve actively substituted a completely benign – even quite helpful – advertisement with a slightly yet definitely worse advertisement and are claiming this is rooted in staunch anti-advertisement ethics.
Giving credit to the original author – which I understand you did in the post body – is advertising only in the most benign sense. It is not intrusive; it is not misleading; it is not manipulative; it is not malicious; it is not meaningfully harmful in any way.
I understand hating watermarks. But this isn’t someone slapping an iFunny or whatever bullshit brand onto an image completely unearned like a barnacle; the artist created a work for you to have for free (as in beer, and given memes, mostly as in freedom too), and the only thing they’re asking is that you preserve this small bit of credit. No, it’s not charity, but – speaking as someone who does volunteer work nobody will ever materially compensate me for – whoooo cares?
In an Internet awash with faceless, generic slop that nobody and everybody created at the same time, an artist’s watermark is one of the few ways people can attach an identity to their work. You definitely realize that removing credit from the image and transferring it to the post body isn’t identical – else you wouldn’t do it. Yet you’re still advertising for them, just in an intentionally kneecapped way that profits a known-malignant, multibillion-dollar corporation. What you’re doing as a substitute is somehow worse – transferring part of the advertisement to RDDT (136.18).
No rational way of looking at this makes sense.
Man, Adam Ellis’ work isn’t, like, mind-blowing to me, but I would’ve never believed how good he actually is if you told me before he escaped from BuzzFeed. This was my only glimmer of hope at the time:
Wow, ACE in SMB1 is already doing some crazy stuff.
Tried in 2021, but the corrupt admin cabal only deleted the observable Universe, undermining the community’s wishes. Their pro-Universe influence has gotten so bad in five years that, in 2026, there’s a discussion trying to get rid of the heat death of the Universe.
Maybe there is a Hell, OP. (Reminded me to wishlist it on GOG, though.)
I can’t tell if this legit or more Trump meddling
Over this piddly shit? Really, you actually can’t tell if this wasn’t Trump meddling? Nintendo got the patent last September under Trump’s acting USPTO director Coke Morgan Stewart. Two months later, the new director John A. Squires ordered it reviewed (bad patents fall through the cracks all the time; IP attorneys have described patent lawsuits as a “minefield” for both parties). Now, in a non-final decision for which Nintendo has two months to respond, it has been revoked. Nintendo didn’t even respond to the patent reexamination. I suggest reading the Games Fray article referenced by the linked content mill article poorly regurgitating it.
Not related to the LLM thing: “I don’t use social media, as it conflicts with my FOSS and privacy principles.” but then linking a Mastodon account on the website, having a “Share this post” bar with Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, and Bluesky, and posting this here is chef’s kiss.
The location of the base and prison for those curious why so many inmates were injured.
We shouldn’t let them control the vocabulary of our digital freedom.
You’re apparently taking an LLM controlling your vocabulary just fine, though, given both this comment and post were transparently written by one.
(some of it has been sorted into the floordrobe if I probably wasn’t going to wear it anyway but like maybe around the house)
… You know what, I. You know what. Just. I, you know what.
I don’t care how long this infantile fad goes on for; anyone who does this is fucking pathetic. Either talk about furry porn or don’t, you sniveling coward; it’s your fucking comic. Any “censor” that can OCR the word “porn” will know what “furry p*rn” means; this isn’t even groveling self-preservation.
Huge props for that logo. They saw the slam dunk and took it.
Well no shit your order isn’t processing. You’re trying to order a holy pizza on an unholy operating system. Here’s your fix.
I was skeptical because this is a picture with minimal context:
So on. For context, the Daily Mirror is a dubiously trustworthy British tabloid. I think this screenshot is lousy evidence for CPAC’s attendance. I watched the Mirror’s video too, and it was still a bit hard to gauge the context.
However, I found probably a better representation of this from NPR, whose thumbnail image for CPAC 2026 shows Greg Abbott actively speaking (the event was in Dallas), yet huge swaths of the relatively small conference room are empty.
(Edit: The article also notes that Trump skipped CPAC this year.)
Patient zero for cordyceps.