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...this time, unexpectedly.

It's last week's episode, part 3, with the weirdest celebrity fanart.
ANd it's this one 
Rhett n Link in kiddy dresses by Chocoreaper

I was still at work, watching the video at 144p, and when they showed this one at first they censored everything but the faces, and at first I was like "those faces look familiar, it kinda looks like how I draw faces" and then the full reveal comes up and I was SHOCKED. Like WHAT'S MY PICTURE DOING UP THERE?

Now this was unexpected cuz the Powerpuff gif of them on a see-saw, they've got someone ask me for permission to put up there in Buddy System so I was informed earlier. But with this one, I think they just kinda randomly came across on the internet, and I wasn't expecting them to find this one at all.
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[originally posted on the art blog]

Okay so I made that gif 3 years ago, based on one of the endings of GMM where R&L played in the park, & I only took the see-saw scene.


Just recently, this month, someone in deviantART told me that this gif's featured in their Youtube Red show Buddy System, in season 2.

I couldn't be more proud, this was the first time something I made actually got featured in a TV show.
To clarify, a few months before this, one of the post-production crew contacted me via Ask.fm first, then email, asking for my permission to feature the gif on Buddy System cuz Link found it online & he liked it. I'm still thankful for him, for reaching out to me and being an overall chill guy, and the crew, too.

So when the episode is out I was like... FINALLY!
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[originally posted on the personal blog]
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Recently there's been a trend on instagram with copying celebrities' and models' photos for a week. It's sort of a challenge, seeing if one can make the copied photos as similar to the original ones as possible. First I thought, this, I gotta see.

I came accross some vids on Youtube, probably cuz I've been searching everywhere for copycat/imitation stories or news in some sites, so that automatically popped up on my Youtube recommendation.

Here are some of the best ones in terms of similarity: [X][X][X]
Tumblr pics this time

she's copying another Youtuber

and she's even copying her BFF's photos

On one side I mostly enjoy these cuz I love copycat challenges, being pro-copying and all. Seeing people recreate something and making their own versions of it gives out its own brand of satisfaction, that "if they can do it i can do it too!" positive impression. And, with these ordinary Youtubers (not even popular ones cuz I've never heard of them before) copying famous celebrities, they gave out that robin hood vibe; stealin' some attention from the attention-rich.

On the other hand, part of me felt dissatisfied, sorta like being treated unfairly. For several years when I copy other people's pictures I've always met negative remarks and sometimes even hate. Having spent time in deviantART in my teenage years, I was always told that copying and being a copycat limits my creativity, that people who get caught copying on the internet are bound to get roasted and made fun of, and that if someone copies others' creations cuz they think they can be just as successful, they're dead wrong.
But like, look at them, openly copying these celebs and models, and gaining positive encouraging comments from the viewers. Suddenly the internet thinks copying's alright? Suddenly they think copying is a challenge, much like how I view copying others' drawings whose levels are above mine?
I mean I'm really happy for them but at the same time I wanted to punch a wall. Not anymore though.

And another thing, these youtubers also mentioned after they copied celebrities' photos, their likes and follower count grew. I find this unbelievable cuz it's basically a copycat's mentality come true, by copying these famous people they gained a portion of the popularity. That sorta debunked that whole thing about copying someone's stuff does not equal copying their popularity, huh?

Okay okay I'm gonna stop there. Maybe there are reasons why their copying is alright and mine wasn't (at the time). It could be that:

1. They only copied photos while i copied drawings, and I ain't talking about professional photography. These are just random selfies and phone snapshots. Illustrations and comics are on the same level as proper photography and photomanipulation (like Joel Robison's works, and that one case he wrote about someone painstakingly recreating his photos, he was amazed at the copycat's effort but still bothered by why he did all that) , while these random instagram shapshots they're copying are... Idk probably equivalent to sketchbook doodles. If there ever was a doodle-copying challenge maybe people weren't gonna be as pissed about it as when someone copies a "proper illustration" posted on art sites.

2. These Youtubers posted the celebs' original photos alongside their copies on Instagram, so though they technically didnt ask for permission, the celebs are automatically credited so it's all good.
(with drawings it's best to do this too, put the original picture alongside your copy just in case youve asked the original artist for permission and they didn't respond).

Though everyone's pretty chill on this Instagram copycat challenge, some of these Youtubers admitted they've also received negative comments from the fans of the celebs whose photos they copied. Maybe they're just unaware of this trend, or maybe they're being copyright extremists. Idk.

With all that the conclusion's gotta be: the internet responds more to people copying drawings than people copying photos.

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[Originally posted in my personal blog]

In 2010 I made a 4koma comic strip series 'Meet R2' as a small segment of my Comic Dumps, meant to be a hilariously exaggerated version of myself and what I do. Some of them are humorous, however, in the earlier strips I portrayed this R2 character having several mental illnesses for the lulz, cuz back then it was vaguely ok to joke about conditions like OCD, ADHD, etc.
That's cute, 2010-me, but yer dead wrong.

Now, having been educated with mental illnesses and conditions due to randomly researching, reading these comics again made me look as if I'm mocking people who suffer from these actual illnesses, or if not, trying to be relatable to them by pretending to know what one supposedly suffer from these illnesses, which is a complete jerk move. This is serious matter not worth being joked about. I've got a couple of friends with depression, one friend with bipolar disorder, and another one with DID. They've told their stories to me and at first they sounded way different from what I imagined. Parts of what they say I find relatable, but not to the extreme.They're suffering the extremeties cuz they can't help it. I don't.
I never thought of myself as having any kind of mental illness or disorder. Sure I'm a proud self-proclaimed weirdo since high school and I tend to act & react differently compared to my friends, which made them wonder if I have some sort of mental condition. Sometimes I wonder about that too, but for now I'm still undiagnosed, and I don't really like to think of myself as having any mental conditions.

For starters, i've got anxiety like a lot of people in this world, but not up to the point of it being a disorder. Sure there's the constant overthinking, and it disrupts my work process when I'm suddenly hyperventilating and twitching and my fingers feel numb and I had to stop for a few minutes to calm down, but that's only disturbing, not debilitating. It's still at a normal level.

Sadness and momentary mood loss does NOT equal depression. I've been with friends who were once passionate about something but left their passion months later cuz everything overturned for them, or they don't have the will to keep it up anymore, unable to feel satisfied. Being with depressed close friends I noticed a pattern of them disappearing from my life completely and then suddenly reappearing, which kept on for several years before completely vanishing, as if they've given up on friendships in fear of them boring/hurting us, or us hurting them. Or, like their passion & hobbies, they've lost the will to keep friendships.

Having a lot of thoughts in my head due to overthinking makes me unable to concentrate on something I'm currently doing. Sometimes I can't pay attention to what someone's talking but focusing on parts of their faces instead, sometimes my thoughts keep me away from following the storyline in the book I read. It doesn't have to mean ADD/ADHD. It's all normal if it's only momentarily. People with ADHD are still unable to even focus on the things they do as much as they want to, despite having plenty of willpower and having done a lot of effort to help them concentrate like changing the environment, etc.

It's not OCD if I keep repeating certain phrases or doing weird gestures to keep embarrassing memories or irrational thoughts away whenever they come back. Everybody does that. People with OCD can't stop doing and repeating certain physical things to relieve their burning anxiety or scary/deadly thoughts eventhough they're aware it's hurting them.

Being extremely moody doesn't have to mean bipolar disorder or borderline personality disorder. I've had a friend with BPD documenting her days and what seemed like the start of a normal day for her would be filled with sudden outbreaks and episodes, and she has no power over it, or how she's gonna act or feel towards the people in her lives. I could say the same thing with my bipolar friend though those two are different conditions. Her tweets have really distinct moods and when she's pissed, she's pissed af, when she's excited, she's super excited and there's no in-between for her. After years I finally learnt that when she says she deeply hates someone she might not really mean it, and eventually her spending money on lots of cute things and her previous self-harm made sense.

Though sometimes I see and hear things, and feel as if I'm transported somewhere momentarily, they're just imagination-induced hallucinations. It's not schizophrenia if I'm aware that the voices I constantly hear are inside my head eventhough sometimes I can't control them. Talking to myself out loud like there's 2-3 of me doesn't make me schizophrenic. Everyone has voices in their heads, sometimes with different pitches, personalities and often times conflicting opinions. All the voices I hear sound like me, and I'd like to think of them as me from different timelines with different ages, all living together and sharing a body. And yep, this is definitely NOT dissociative identity disorder, cuz my collective selves are conscious at the same time, constantly having conversations and roasting each other. From what my friend with DID told me, she couldn't recall any memories whenever her other personality wakes up. They don't "activate" at the same time, pretty much like the depiction in movies. But at one point she was aware of a third inactive personality, watching the other two in the back like a movie. I interpreted how she felt like a computer having two or more CPUs, and how I felt like only one CPU with multiple storage devices attached.

And lastly, I get twitches and sometimes react violently to awful or embarrassing past flashbacks, but it's not PTSD. From what I remember I never suffered traumatic events such as abuse, the death of someone close, witnessing a murder and the likes.

If anyone were to use any of these illnesses & conditons as insults to me, someone who doesn't have any of these, it'll be offensive to my friends and others who DO have them.

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Oh wait what am I doing. Maybe I'll continue Meet R2 again if I have ideas, I'll just discard the strips that make fun of mental illnesses, or if the jokes are worth keeping I'll just change the words.

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I was reblogging Steven Universe stuff & found these two
Steven Universe: Peridot Joined Your Party by Neodusk
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Diiives: I couldn't resist XD


I guess the intro was a common idea & everyone sees it that way.
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