smol bat say fuck thanksgiving @extinct@redroo.ml

@Mottie picarto does private streams... if you pay for premium, same as piczel. and afaik picarto still allows nsfw, so yeah i'm not sure how piczel is still going, unless it's just people who got banned from picarto or something?

@xenophora it's not even an organization

piczel is a streaming site, lol

it's sunday again!

time for another animal in a sweater; this time a red river hog in a smart-looking nordic cardigan. with tiny spectacles added to emphasize the professor aesthetic

#AnimalSweaterSunday #mastoart

don't get me wrong -- i understand the allure. i've entered similar contests thinking oh, i might win! people will see my work! it might expand my audience!

i get it. trust me, i do.

but don't fall for it.

these sites and companies can afford to pay people to design shit for them

the fact they'd rather trick naive and desperate small-time creators out of their labor for the possibility of a prize is disgusting

this is why you don't enter these contests

even if you don't win, they retain all rights to your submission, essentially giving them free art to profit off of

oh look, piczel's trying to exploit artists for free spec material -- i mean holding a mascot design contest

@gr did you take it?

i won't tell anyone