At least with EDM which is my favorite music to make it is all pretty downstream from each other if you know what I mean.

Software developments lead to new soft synth developments. I quit using FL studio because now you can just have it write melodies, parts, mix and master, I don’t use any of that stuff but FL is in my meta tags now and it becomes impossible to prove. I was trying to record all of my sessions to validate my work but I’m too broke and homeless for that. It’s all just not worth it anymore.

I could just make songs for myself and that is fun but I can do that on any DAW so why not one where I can share my work with confidence it’s made from reading, conversations and practice? Right now I use KORG on the switch and while it’s a bit slower I can make awesome songs on it. And the people I usually share my work with are happy to hear I’m not using AI supporting companies.

This thread is depressing. I am always sad to find out how widespread AI usage is still even. You can live your life with so little AI usage and should. Programmers have put so many industries in these tiny, fragile little bubbles.

I’m a musician and it ruined music for me because a lot of musicians are also “just using a little to alleviate the crunch” or whatever. It’s all manufactured consent to fund companies that were all jockeying for Trump money the last two years.

But now it supports the Trump military AND it’s ruined the market for digital artists.

That’s complete bullshit lmao you heavily implied it. You’re such a tool.

No it isn’t, and that’s fascist as fuck to say. Fuck you

Nah actually people like you need to take a walk outside lmao in my opinion. These things suck for foot traffic and take jobs from people who often have no other means of survival at all. They are made by weird tech guys who design them for optimizing profit over everything else which should NOT be the case for what is a vehicle in a street

You’re just right. Most people are really weak and spineless, and on top of that a lot of people are just plain evil. We constantly make excuses for the people who cause the most harm through bigotry and we’re all pressured into punishing anyone who decides to take action against bigots into their own hands.

I say fuck it all and do what I want which is the opposite of that. No more coddling bigoted viewpoints.

I appreciate you listening. I do expect you to be able to be more accepting of other trans people and to be stronger in the face of bigotry.

I think you are able to overcome these feelings.

The thing I probably feel the most about being a trans person is that I feel like I’m constantly being proven right that people secretly hate us. That I should trust my gut instincts when I feel that energy and protect myself accordingly.

Every post lately on every platform has this air right now. Of “how can I fit in more and avoid being outcast” and the answer to that question is meet the needs of the status quo. And the status quo right now is and has been “try to remove trans people from society”.

I don’t think there are answers that work that aren’t “stop being afraid of being trans”

If I’m nice will you leave my comment up?

If you act bigoted towards trans people, because you’re trans and can’t come out due to internalized bigotry, then other trans people notice and it hurts. You’re being hurtful.

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Ew tell then to fuck off with that garbage

Everyone knows why and should call it out too. It’s bigotry towards trans people plain and simple. People expect us to be ok with being treated worse. That’s bullshit!

I mean they’re not entirely wrong but I hate that they think it takes blame off themselves. Like they were forced to do Trumps bidding or sign military contracts under the most evil military of all time. Nobody forced them at all though, they were fucking bidding for the contracts and gave half assed reasoning for why they MUST cooperate. Absolute henchmen goofball behavior

That is rough, I’m sorry you went through that.

I wish I had more to help except this but what I can offer is if you live near a Planet Fitness, I’m homeless and trans and shower there in the womens most days. It’s been worth it to push past that air of being watched and shower in the womens where I am comfortable. And they have an explicitly trans friendly policy and have historically stuck up for trans women under scrutiny.