"I don’t care about Newgrounds dying specifically, because I never go there. I do care about communities on the internet dying in general, because, well, there are communities I like."
Don't take this the wrong way, but you literally just said what I said. Newgrounds wasn't the point, it was just an example. I can literally swap words out in your statement without effecting the integrity:
"I don’t care about communities on the internet dying specifically, because I never go to them. I do care about Newgrounds dying in general, because, well, Newgrounds I like."
I hope you see what I mean there, no offense meant. Especially because literally everything else you said was golden. 100% agree. And that being said, I operate under that very belief. I wasn't posting AI slop. I needed 2 videos, approx 60 seconds each, with non-AI editing of shapes and patterns throughout the whole thing to create a cypher. Then, the 2 videos need to be watched in tandem to see the cypher. It was months of work, after months of research, to demonstrate a principle for education.
But that's what I'm pointing at. Not the rage in general, because I can understand it. I'm pointing at the crappy knee-jerk behavior and trying to warn people I thought were friendly neighbors like, "hey, this is only making things worse".