Data collection is really fun because you notice really fascinating trends

I'm playing SandLand at the moment, and it has some really nice anti-war messaging

I'm seeing alot of youtubers complain about views and while I get it (Cough cough, watch our new video) I think it can come across quite badly if your worse performing videos are still getting hundreds of thousands of views. Also the algorithm guessing game is a mess

Ive been seeing other sfw artists say "the solution isnt to post unflagged nsfw in protest!" and im like. im sorry but if u dont wanna see unflagged nsfw then advocate for nsfw artists to have the filtering tools they need to be able to filter their stuff safely.

I got LAST in a Dr Who quiz. That's the third last place I've gotten at this specific quiz place. Am... am I bad at quiz knowledge

I love that even bluesky is joining the mass censorship of the Internet.

I desire using a text-based app for my normal scroll, but the chokehold videos have on me is immeasurable

an artistic rendition of what happened to me that i will now inflict on my lalafell. #goglore

As expected Youtube has decided to not show our new video to anyone. So new plan is to change the name and hope for the best XD

Disgust, Safety and "Bad" art! Check out our new video!! #youtube #anime #merrikiwi youtu.be/oxzzBr1nwP0?...

I'm super excited to post the new video tomorrow!!! It's been ages!

My biggest hot take is that gatekeeping or having a gate to your fandom is often a good thing. But I have no idea how to develop that idea without being stabbed by 20 thousand daggers

Our new video is live on Patreon!! In this video we dive into the fucked up art of Shintaro Kago and its relationship with the new wave of Internet censorship. Speaking of censorship, this video is the uncensored version. YouTube gets what YouTube will allow. #manga www.patreon.com/posts/138978...

This art is too pretty not to share!

I forgot to post it on here, but I've been having fun commissioning artists. youtube.com/shorts/PoC5F...

Food so good

I can't believe we got fan art!!!!!! So hyped #fanart #merrikiwi

Reminder that Collective Shout is backed by Christian fundamentalist groups who want to ban all pornography, and have used vague trafficking laws to pressure Visa and Mastercard to drop online platforms under threat of lawsuit

Today was a good example of why you shouldn't do nice things for your employer. Jesus christ

Nobody told me they put MIMICS in Minecraft. Nearly had a heart attack

I might be slightly addicted to Minecraft at the moment

Alright, not a whole lotta videosgame influencing I can do while sick, so how about this? Indie devs, do you have an upcoming game you'd like to get some more eyeballs on? Reply here with a little elevator pitch for your game, and make sure to include a link to the store page. (No genAI)

The duality of Tiktok comments

Yay I got paid so we can pay for the comic con table. Money comes in and money goes out

After putting off getting a haircut for literal years I got one. I was so anxious for no reason. My body hates me XD

Hate this, I don't want youtube training ai off our voices and then pretend it's good for us. Also, if we do have the dubbing turned on. How will we know it's not censoring our words or making us say what's in youtubrs best interest? It just seems super sketchy #youtube

It genuinely just sounds like you need a rest. Do nothing until your body tells you it's time to create again. For me, I was feeling g super burnt out, then slept for 14 hours and wrote a whole script.

VIZ Media quietly added an AI-translated manga to their app and hoped no one would notice. We did. Manga deserves better than cheap, soulless automation. This is a betrayal of translators, fans, and the art form. We don't want your AI translations!

Oh no I'm eepy

"Yeah, that's nice and all. But what about you got a real job soon?" #manga #drawing #artwork #beach #helpme

By the way, signal boosts are hugely appreciated as always, it's a huge help for visibility

This was legit my experience when I looked up the game. It's a bog standard porn visual novel. If this kind of thing is scary to you definitely don't look up Guro

New Blog post over on Patreon! It's free to read so check it out! #Merrikiwi www.patreon.com/posts/what-w...

I'm enjoying sleeping all day today 😴

It's my birthday!!!! Yipeeeee

Fantastic 4 was a solid ok! I enjoyed it, but I wasn't blown away. It felt like an american 1960s vision of the future. Where a small group of people are so special and amazing, they basically rule the world. It was very idealistic, basically. But it worked tonally. I enjoyed the attention to detail

I'm so tiredddddd. Any time off I get I'm using it to prep for Doujin con

I have too many things to work on I'm overwhelmed 🙃

Finished Kaiju nunber 8 yesterday, and I'm glad it's not falling into the Jujutsu kaiser trap of the world feeling super tiny

Some jellyfish I saw today!

I don't understand why people in my office play their music out loud

MerriKiwi is going to the first ever Doujin con London. We're going to make exclusive Doujuns of our some of our videos for the event! I'm super excited! #Doujinconlondon #Merrikiwi

I hurt my arm now everything sucks. I can't put any weight on it

I like Bluesky as a way to build community more than Discord. I'm too tired to join any more discord servers

@penpenvtuber.bsky.social Got me interested in Umamusume and now I'm here making memes

I feel like I'm the only person who genuinely thinks that MaoMao has exactly 0 feelings for Jinshi in the apothicary diaries

Our new monthly blog post is live on our patreon! You can enjoy it for free! www.patreon.com/posts/what-w...

If the apothicary diaries had 20% more balls, it would be so much better!

With some of the Benin Bronzes getting returned. It would be a good time to learn their history. As well as why so many museums are reluctant to return even the most stole of artefacts. Luckily, we made a video on this topic! youtu.be/7g0Lts-ZaKs?...

Legit though! We're trying to go full time with Merrikiwi, but it just takes time! And in that time we need to be able to make the money to live. "Just go indie" is a really nice idea but hard to execute.