War and Peas 🧿Aug 23, 2025
Having 1 million followers is like throwing confetti into a hurricane: people cheer, platforms profit, and you're left sweeping your own glitter off the floor. Everyone loves the art, shares it, while we're over here perfecting the art of checking our bank balance with one eye closed.
Show threadWar and Peas 🧿Aug 23, 2025
Now AI companies are scraping our "worthless" art to train billion-dollar generators. Apparently our work was valuable enough to steal, just not valuable enough to pay for. It's like being robbed by someone who insists they're doing you a favor by "increasing your exposure."
Show threadThomas Cherryhomes
@warandpeas the same people who would always do things "on-spec" until you finally got some leverage over them and forced them to hire you.
Aug 25, 2025 at 5:37pmWeb