Another silly, non-sense journal about how YT can be quite non-sense/silly or plain stupid when recommending videos. I was watching some cool animations about Pico and BF and I saw this video among others:

This is basically what people think about Pico without knowing about him XD

I also read comments labeling him "oh, that videogame school shooter"

BRUH...

Oh well, this is why relying on algorithms is not always a best idea since for now A.I. lacks the ability to understand pragamtics (how context contributes to meaning) and many times YT removed comments of people who simply replied to others, they didn't contain any link or threats. Probably some set of words triggered the algorithm to cancel them and again another proof of A.I.'s inability to read the air.

In a long distant future I will finish this:

If you know Sardinian folklore you already know the creature depicted here but for now I won't say much. This will be the first of some posts about Italian folklore (I plan talking about other countries folklore too) inspired by the YT channel Paranormal Zone. I originally made these journals when I had my DA account but now that's gone I want to migrate them here.

Today I discovered Friday Night Funkin', I already love it but I suck at this types of games because I can't properly follow the music rhythm XD I love how catchy songs are, the fluid animation and characters design. Really cool game, but I didn't expect to see this once I lose against my rival:

Oh man XD I wonder why highlighting deez (I am pretty new to the lore of the game and its characters, hence my surprise). I laughed my ass off when I saw it.

On a side note Happy Robot Day to everyone, I didn't participate to the collab simply because robots are not my things in terms of art and for now I don't feel ready to experiment with them yet. Maybe in future, who knows but for now I have other artistic priorities and weaknesses to work on. I also love how they changed the colour of content rating during this day:

Despite this I still want to contribute to the Dragon Ball collab BUT not in terms of animation though because I know nothing about, I don't plan to work on animation. I will contribute with a fanart, still thinking about a parody though. I potentially have something in mind and this would be the second time I put one of my OCs in another fandom.

Sorry for the silly journal, have a serene and happy Robot Day. See you, bye!

These days, despite the stuff I have to do irl, I am having so much fun with the collabs I am participating and while I continue with the great Homer collab (one of my favourite) I also need to take a break from it by sketching some drawings for future works that will appear here. One of them is a tribute to Manas (I love Central Asia culture and more in general all Asian cultures along with many other cultures across the world) the 10th century legendary hero of the Kyrgyz people. He is said to be based on Bars Bek, the first khagan of the Kyrgyz Khaganate. The plot of Manas revolves around a series of events that coincide with the history of the region, primarily the interaction of the Kyrgyz people with other Turkic, Mongolic and Chinese peoples. The mythic poem has evolved over many centuries, being kept alive by bards called manaschy or manaschi. The oral epic have been included on the UNESCO Cultural Heritage list on 2013.

To make a tribute to this epic figure (literally and non) I am doodling a sketch:

Recently I am learning to use different colours when sketching multiples characters and different elements in the composition thanks to a work I saw here, more specifically Sonic World Adventure made by leroyalmess. As you can notice I use a lot the triangle composition to guide me during the sketch phase, in the next image you can see it better:

The horse's body has been built on a simple triangle, the arrows you keep seeing in my animated WIPs I post on my works help me to guide my mental creation of the overall structure of the drawing. Manas himself is built on a triangle:

extremely rough lines that allow to build the more polished sketch of the armour:

When sketching I always suggest people not to be precise and neat, the polishing phase will start with cleaned linearts (sometimes even a rough lineart may be necessary if one then wants to change something. As you can notice in the purple sketch phase (let's call this way) there was no sword but just a hand pointing to a specific direction but then I changed idea and I used the sword held by Manas statue in Ala-Too Square (central square in Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan) to better represent his warrior nature and brave character.

Fun fact: the statue of Lenin, which was placed in the square's center, was moved in 2003 to a smaller square in the city, and a new statue called Erkindik (Freedom) was installed in its place. Later in 2011 it was replaced by a statue of Manas, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Kyrgyzstan's independence.

I find this choice very fitting. The natural asymmetry of triangular arrangement makes the composition quite appealing on a visual level hence I tend to use as main base for my more recent drawings. I like it. Hope you enjoyed this silly journal, have a nice day/evening^^

Hello guys! I hope you are doing great, as the title says I would like to ask you guys (both who follows me and mere visitors) to suggest me 6 characters from different series as long as it's not sexual NSFW. This challenge was created by Melissa Capriglione and on March 18, 2020, she posted on her Twitter a template with the question of what characters she should draw.

This is the template:

You can download it here

Don't feel obliged to do this, do only if you want. I am curious to see what NG has to offer me but keep in mind that after I get the characters I won't start immediately because I am still doing a collab here and study always keep me busy so I will go at my own pace.

UPDATE:

Since all suggestions have been made I will make in future a second part because one of the characters that has been suggested will be featured in the first panel of second part. Thank you for suggestions. The characters of second parts, minus Hitori Goto, will be asked in other socials too to see the variance I can get. Again thank you all.

So I will put here the list of characters that have been suggested to me:

first part

Niko, OC created by NikoN1nja  and suggested by NikoN1nja 

Milim Nava from That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Milim Nava, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime [Tensei Shitara Suraimu Datta Ken] suggested by Yatsufusa

Nene Romanova, Bubblegum Crisis (1987 to 1991) [Baburugamu Kuraishisu]

Utena Tenjou, Revolutionary Girl Utena [Shōjo Kakumei Utena]

Madoka Kaname, Puella Magi Madoka Magica [Mahō Shōjo Madoka Magika]

"Watashi" (The Protagonist. She has no canonical name.), Humanity Has Declined [Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita]

second part

Hitori Gotō ("Bocchi"), Bocchi the Rock! [Bocchi za Rokku!] all these characters are suggested by Yatsufusa

AM from I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream suggested by D1MMED0098 

Italy Veneziano from Hetalia suggested by LasagnaLegacy 

Nny from Johnny the homicidal maniac suggested by my friend Citrineburm

Jeremy Crow from The Secret of NIMH

Nijimaru from Demon Slayer these last two suggested by Dilong

UPDATE 18/08/2024:

Suggestions are closed now, thank you so much for these characters^^ I enjoyed so much hearing from everyone's different characters.

Well, even though I still don't know what Clock Day is since I am new in the site, I wish a happy and serene Clock Day to all people who celebrate it. But I admit I like the strawberry character design XD

I don't know if drawing something related to this event or not but in the meantime I decide what to do, again: Happy Clock Day. Currently watching The Clock Tower and I love it^^

EDIT: I decided I will draw something related to this day, but tomorrow since now I am tired and I need to sleep.

Hii guys, how are you doing? I hope everything is alright. Today I would like to talk about the origins of the term "brainrot" that I am encountering more and more across the Internet and because I am a person who loves to investigate things for the sake of knowledge and will to share said knowledge, in this post I am going to talk about it, hoping not to be too tedious.

Brainrot: meaning

Anyway, brainrot is an internet slang term used to describe jokes about an individual's mental decline from consuming mindless or low-quality content online. It's also a humorous way to criticize trivial, nonsensical or not-so-smart memes. The term was popularized in 2020s but it's very likely that it originated in the early to mid-2010s, amid growing concerns about the impact of internet culture on the minds of netizens.

Possible origins

One of the earliest usage of the term about content that is perceived to "rot the brain" was posted to X by users IzzyNeis and carrissa on June 25th and August 23rd, 2007, the former describing reality dating shows as brain rot and the latter describing being online in general as brain rot.

Online growth

The term saw an increase in search interest in late 2011 for its use in the game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, in which the player can contract a disease called brain rot, however, only throughout the 2020s that 'brain rot' memes became a viral topic on the internet. For example, on February 27th, 2022, Instagram user realjoemema posted a today I offer you meme using the term, garnering over 5,000 likes in a year. "Brain rot" got so popular online that some news outlets have written articles about the impacts of the meme on netizens, including the story of a netizen who felt so chronically online that it spotted the origin of the 1,000 Yard Stare meme while in a library. This is the article about it:

https://www.businessinsider.com/internet-brain-rot-memes-explained-2024-1

Examples of Brain Rot memes

The most notable example is the Skibidi Toilet and all memes derived from it. The lack of context, meaning and formatting of the content spread about the series makes it more "rotten" to digest while you consume it on social media. Another example of this type of meme happened on February 6th, 2024, TikTok user pre5leyyeah posted a comedy skit video of a man offering kids a "sigma meal skibidi slicer" food. None of those words are meant to be combined, but they do sound funny in the context of the video. A common 'brain rot' meme format is the mix of several other internet slangs paired with AI voiceover added to the context of a memorable scene or dialogue from a TV show, film or song. For instance, on April 2nd, 2024, TikTok user sunnnylol recreated the ""Avatar: The Last Airbender", using only 'brainrot' slangs.

To Sum Up

So it's basically used to describe the state of a person losing touch with the real world as a result of the consumption of meaningless, chronically online, hyperstimulating content, or as a negative term to describe seemingly meaningless buzzwords most associated with members of Gen Alpha.

I suggest this article that delves more in depth about this phenomenon outside the mere meme culture: https://www.newportinstitute.com/resources/co-occurring-disorders/brain-rot/

It's interesting how the article mentions zombie scrolling as a brain rot behaviour because this reminds me of an episode from The Amazing World of Gumball where this behaviour is shown in a comedic way.

Academic Nerdy Stuff

This term has many interesting elements even from a linguistic point of view and more specifically the impact of Internet slang and Computer-mediated communication (CMC) on Standard English and standard languages in general. It's interesting how the primary motivation for using a slang unique to the Internet is to ease communication and so it saves time for the writer, but at the same time it takes two times as long for the reader to understand it. On the other hand, similar to the use of slang in traditional face-to-face speech or written language, slang on the Internet is often a way of indicating group membership. Internet slang provides a channel which facilitates and constrains the ability to communicate in ways that are fundamentally different from those found in other semiotic situations. Many of the expectations and practices which we associate with spoken and written language are no longer applicable. The Internet itself is ideal for new slang to emerge because of the richness of the medium and the availability of information. Slang is also thus motivated for the "creation and sustenance of online communities". These communities, in turn, play a role in solidarity or identification (1) (2) or an exclusive or common cause.

There is still a huge debate if Internet slang has a positive or negative effect on language and linguistic cognitive skills and we have two main positions: prescriptivists and descriptivists.

The former tend to have the widespread belief that the Internet has a negative influence on the future of language, and that it could lead to a degradation of standard. Some would even attribute any decline of standard formal English to the increase in usage of electronic communication. It has also been suggested that the linguistic differences between Standard English and CMC can have implications for literacy education.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120422130830/http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/science-updates/internets-effect-on-language-debated

The latter have counter-argued that the Internet allows better expressions of a language. Rather than established linguistic conventions, linguistic choices sometimes reflect personal taste. It has also been suggested that as opposed to intentionally flouting language conventions, Internet slang is a result of a lack of motivation to monitor speech online. Hale and Scanlon describe language in emails as being derived from "writing the way people talk" (this is what I've studied during Linguistics and Translation Studies courses), and that there is no need to insist on 'Standard' English. English users, in particular, have an extensive tradition of etiquette guides, instead of traditional prescriptive treatises, that offer pointers on linguistic appropriateness. Using and spreading Internet slang also adds onto the cultural currency of a language

Hale, C. and Scanlon, J (1999). Wired Style: Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age. New York: Broadway Books

I find extremely interesting linking the effect of the use of Internet slang in ethnography, and more importantly to how conversational relationships online change structurally because slang is used (3).

Although Internet slang began as a means of "opposition" to mainstream language, its popularity with today's globalized digitally literate population has shifted it into a part of everyday language, where it also leaves a profound impact (you have to request a copy directly from the authors to read the full-text). I myself used it when I took notes during classes (especially during German literature and Translation Studies classes) and I am frankly happy to have learned some of it because I see it as a cultural enrichment and while I wouldn't use it in more formal contexts I wouldn't mind it in a more comedic way. If I were a teacher I would use it to make subjects more easy and fun to digest.

Frequently used slang also have become conventionalised into memetic "unit[s] of cultural information". These memes in turn are further spread through their use on the Internet, prominently through websites. The Internet as an "information superhighway" is also catalysed through slang.[34] The evolution of slang has also created a 'slang union' as part of a unique, specialised subculture (4). Such impacts are, however, limited and requires further discussion especially from the non-English world. This is because Internet slang is prevalent in languages more actively used on the Internet, like English, which is the Internet's lingua franca (this opens another huge anthropological discussion about necessity or not to make other languages more included in the academic world, think about the extremely interesting Japanese anthropological studies on Ainu people written more in Japanese than English due to difficulty at mastering English by a good portion of Japanese population, but this is another topic I can't and won't discuss here due to the length of this article).

fun fact: as of January 2020, only approximately 25.9% of the online population is made up of English speakers.

Oh well it was a nice and loooong reflection, see you and 770880 or 親親你抱抱你!

References and footnotes:

https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/whats-the-brain-rot-meme-about-the-internet-slang-term-for-the-chronically-online-and-its-memes-explained

https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar?q=cache:D28k7Tswv5wJ:scholar.google.com/+internet+slang+meme&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5

(1) Yin Yan (2006) World Wide Web and the Formation of the Chinese and English "Internet Slang Union". Computer-Assisted Foreign Language Education. Vol. 1. ISSN 1001-5795

(2) Wei Miao Miao (2010) "Internet slang used by online Japanese anime fans." 3PM Journal of Digital Researching and Publishing. Session 2 2010 pp 91–98

https://web.archive.org/web/20120422130830/http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/science-updates/internets-effect-on-language-debated

Hale, C. and Scanlon, J (1999). Wired Style: Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age. New York: Broadway Books

(3) Garcia, Angela Cora, Standlee, Alecea I., Beckhoff, Jennifer and Yan Cui. Ethnographic Approaches to the Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. Vol. 38 No. 1 pp 52–84

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267419817_Instant_Message_Communication_and_its_Impact_upon_Written_Language

https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar?q=cache:D28k7Tswv5wJ:scholar.google.com/+internet+slang+meme&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5

(4) Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne Marie (2008) Deciphering L33t5p34k: Internet Slang on Message Boards. Thesis paper. Ghent University Faculty of Arts and Philosophy

https://jkorpela.fi/lingua-franca.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20332763

https://www.statista.com/statistics/262946/most-common-languages-on-the-internet/#:~:text=Most%20common%20languages%20used%20on%20the%20internet%202020&text=As%20of%20January%202020%2C%20English,percent%20of%20global%20internet%20users.

Hello everyone! How it's going? I hope you are doing great^^

First I want to thank those people who decided to follow me despite my inactivity these months, thank you! I really appreciate it. I had a very busy period with courses and exams, and I am still busy during this summer exams session but the worst is about to end. This September I still have some exams but they won't be this stressful like the ones I am preparing now.

Besides from this I've seen some cool art collab I would like to participate but I now I have to wait due to exams. In the meanwhile I keep exploring the site and post some old art here as I missed this place. See you next time and again thank you to all people who wanted to follow me, have a great day! Bye.

I'm so finally glad that University second semester will start today because I was sick to stay at home only studying and helping my mother. Don't get me wrong, I love studying and helping but I also missed lessons, teachers and my irl friends. Today we will start with English Literature, sadly German Literature lesson was cancelled so first lesson will start tomorrow, but I am excited to start nonetheless. English Literature programme is full of cool stuff, books, poems, novels and essays to read and I love the theme it will talk about: Englishness and Britishness through centuries (from Shakespeare to present times).

This also means I will be less active here in terms of posts but you already know that here I prefer quality over quantity. So see you later and have fun everyone^^

Yeeeee, another art collab I discovered last week and decided to participate: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Collab by BlastoiseNetworkYT

If you want to participate the deadline has been extended to 23rd February, size of canvas should be around 1280x720 pixels or higher, only SFW works and you can use any kind of art style. I have already finished mine and I am going to post it now, in meantime have fun^^

I like how I am participating in so many collabs, even on FA I am doing a collab with a friend I met there about extinct animals. This is so much fun!