And I hate the modern era of algorithm-driven half-assed self-censorship, so this should be great for both of us

Aye, my favorite of the Founding Fathers - BLACKBEARD!

And why do I need 27 guns? That’s right, for my 27 hands. Betcha feel real silly now, huh buster?

Just try to tell me he’s not the spitting image of an especially large underripe mango that’s been sitting in formaldehyde since 1968.

Though that would explain why he’s gone out of his way to make himself look like a giant mango…

Fortunately several thousand other people made that same point long before he did, so we can always just agree with one of them instead.

Texas Officials ‘Hurl’ NWS off Hell in a Cell, Trump Admin Plummets 15 Feet Through Announcer’s Table

and welcome to the jam

Much better for the environment than your typical coal-powered cat.

I feel like there’s gotta be a separate chart entirely for the late-'80s/mid-'90s sitcoms. Friends, Frasier, Seinfeld, Roseanne, Home Improvement, Wings - that’s an argument in and of itself.

But they’re definitely not in any box with “Good” under it.

For heaven’s sake, this is plain white text. Are we, as a people, so far gone that we cannot even take the extra step to add the plain white text with 10px drop shadow to the image after it’s generated? Surely a human must be involved at some point of this process - even if only to collect the ill-gotten gains - that can identify whether or not their nefarious trap is baited with brazen gibberish. Surely.

kinda disappointed it’s not a strandbeest with one of those litter-picker-upper sticks taped to the front

Man, fuck this horseshit.

This is a Bat-Terry!

So that in 20 years you don’t get a sudden epidemic of disaffected young Gojiras and Katamaris decking their parents with a shovel?

Tell you what, I betcha my cousin Aniken^(sic) Skywalker Goldteeth woulda really appreciated having something like that over here back in '04.

It used to be serious. It still is, but it used to be, too.

Man, that “was” really got my hopes up for a minute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-9v7ecdOsg

Search Engine Optimization. Basically gaming search engine indexing algorithms so that your content appears more “relevant” (read: crammed full of as many keywords as possible) and thus higher up on search results, usually at the expense of having, you know, actual content worth reading.

I use uBlacklist with this filter and that generally keeps the repeat offenders at least out of image search, but clearing out every SEO-spam print-on-demand mimc-site was already a game of whack-a-mole before consumer LLMs became a thing; I imagine now it’d be like playing whack-a-mole with a hydra. Still, it does at least help.