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24 year old geek with a passion for Video Games, fanfiction, and all things animated!
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Hey has tumblr heard about the Chase “Infinite Money glitch” debacle from tiktok yet because

I cannot believe

I cannot believe that people actually tried this

And even less can I believe that they’re going full Karen to Chase customer service workers. Like you did check fraud. You did a crime. You don’t get to complain about the consequences.

Wait like some people don’t know

So there was a glitch in Chase’s check deposit system. Usually when you cash a check, only a fraction of the full amount is available to you immediately until the check clears. The glitch made it so you could cash a checks full amount right away no matter how big.

So. People were writing themselves massive checks and immediately withdrawing cash they technically didn’t have and then closing their bank account. They were calling it an “infinite money glitch” like it’s the Sims or something.

But it’s not like a cheat code that was suddenly discovered. It’s just check fraud. It’s just straight up a felony. And a good chunk of them filmed themselves doing it.

So people are waking up finding they’re in the negative however many thousands of dollars they pulled.

What BAFFLES me is that people are calling Chase demanding their accounts be reopened, demanding their money back. Work from home Chase agents have shared the calls they’ve been getting from people angry they’re in the red. Like it’s not your money anymore, love, you STOLE it and they took whatever you had originally to try to pay the balance back!! That’s not yours anymore!

People are being SNIPPY on tiktok when people tell them that they did a CRIME. This one lady was like “you don’t know the law, my lawyer knows the law” and it’s like honey! Your lawyer is going to do his fuckin best but you did a crime and then you FILMED YOURSELF. You’re going to jail! Now is the time to start practicing what my therapist calls radical acceptance!

So that’s the tea on the money glitch. Most banks are giving them 30 days to pay the amount back but some people I’ve heard are already being arrested.

You wanna see an actual infinite money glitch, just look at the story of Dan Saunders.

He accidentally stumbled upon a glitch in the atm’s coding of a major Australian banking company that effectively allowed him to turn any atm run by said company into a money printer by using a tactic specifically designed to exploit that glitch.

Dude not only managed to steal $1.6 million from the bank, but the bank didn’t even go after him for it because they were worried about a loss of reputation. Dan basically had to go on live tv and beg the bank to press charges because he felt so guilty about it; if it wasn’t for that, he likely would have TOTALLY gotten away with it with nary a scratch on him.

This video covers the saga more in depth: https://youtu.be/m4Fi_a9QATM?si=7RhRARWePSWx_Z7G

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y'know I'd really like to see what a Warhammer 40k show made by Vivziepop/Spindlehorse would look like.

The 40k setting is so over the top and ridiculous that it lends itself way more to comedy than some would think. We know Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel for being extremely crude and violent, which Warhammer also has in spades.

Plus, could you imagine the designs? Space Marines, Necrons, Tyranids, Chaos Demons, and more, in THAT art style!? Gorgeous.

Just as long as they'd be willing to deviate from the stone-cold serious tone that you usually see in 40k stories, I imagine it would be a great time.

Actually there’s one series of stories in the war hammer 40K universe that would be perfect for Viv’s style:

CI- CI- CIAPHAS CAIN! HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!

This bastard’s adventurers are the perfect blend of silly chaos, tongue in cheek humor, with a decent helping of drama that would play to all of Viv’s strengths!

NO WAY I JUST WATCHED A VIDEO ABOUT HIM TODAY FROM PANCREASNOWORK!

I’d also recommend looking up Bruva Alfabusa’s take on him.

It’s short but it’s hilarious.

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Less than a day after this came out and I’m already writing a fanfic about it:

Newlyweds Lilith (a beautiful human princess) and Nurvir (a frost dragon the size of a small house) are in the market for a new home, feeling as though they’ve outgrown their current abode (a damp cave dug into the side of a mountain)

Luckily the dungeon flippers are here to help! Assuming they can get the odd couple to agree on anything…

Also if anyone wants to watch this show:

I HIGHLY recommend you do so.

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Played a new game called 'content warning'.

Go into abandoned factories, do funny dances in front of monsters while filming it, and post the footage online for cheap internet fame. All while trying not to die in the process.

It's fun! It's even got a built in video download feature to easily extract footage to your computer!

(also see that guy that got thrown at the 40 second mark? That's me...)

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How Viviziepop kickstarted the third wave of indie animation.

Okay, I've been seeing a lot of people talk about the tweet below and how Viv doesn't deserve to take credit for the success of other indie animation projects online but the fact of the matter is...she does, in an indirect way at least.

First, let's start off with a brief history of indie animation:

everything started out on a site called newgrounds, I'm sure you've all heard of it. Created by Tom Fulp in the 90s to show case some of his half baked game ideas. Which eventually evolved into a place where indie creators could post anything they wanted without fear of censorship; the rating system that automatically removed any posts that dropped too low being the only source of quality control.

This gave indie animation it's initial foothold online but without any way of obtaining a revenue stream it never really moved beyond a fun hobby done to practice one's art/coding skills or just screw around with friends online.

This problem got more significant as time went on and many of the teenage artists that gave newgrounds it's inital success, such as RicePirate and Tom Fulp, grew into young adults who needed a revenue stream. Luckily they found one in the form of youtube.

With these monetization policies, many indie animators were actually able to go into animation practically full time. Their pre-existing income bolstered by that of youtube and what followed was a golden era of animation, just an explosion of content across the board. You had stuff like Eddsworld, Salad Fingers, ASDF movie, and tons of other creators bursting onto the scene.

all putting their content out there on Youtube for the world to see. All bolstered by revenue coming in from Youtube...but the good times never last

See, back then youtube's monetization policies were pretty simple: the more views your channel got, the more money you'd make. Great for short form animators and also great for clickbait youtubers who abused the system with deceiving thumbnails and titles!

To combat this, Youtube changed it's monetization policies in March of 2012: instead of being rewarded on view count, monetization would instead reward the time watched during a video. Which created a system where longer videos with frequent uploads were rewarded

In theory this was supposed to stop clickbait videos as people would just watch for a few seconds and leave. But in practice? It meant that animators were put at a heavy disadvantage as now they'd have to put in significantly more work for the same result.

This caused a complete and total crash of indie animation online. Between an unfair algorithm and the rise of gaming channels, most indie animators couldn't gather the same level of funding they could before and had to either quit or scale back.

Only the big name animators who could coast by on brand recognition such as Harry Partridge and TomSka among several others, or larger channels with dedicated teams similar to tv studios such as Mondo Media and Rooster Teeth. Were able to keep going.

This started a brief dark age for online animation until the advent of story time animators. People like Jaiden Animations, Swoozie, and TheOdd1sOut who relied on simplistic art styles with minimalist animation that focused on content reminiscent of old vlogs where the animators simply share stories from their everyday lives that allowed them to put out longer videos faster; thus working around the monetization system that had put so many animators out in the cold.

While they didn't solve the problem, in some ways they made it worse by starting a trend that attracted countless copycats, they did help sustain an interest in indie animation online and ensure there was a consistent audience for such a medium.

Now it wasn't a total wasteland mind you, as I said there were still plenty of animators who survived the purge. There were even a few channels such as Shut Up Cartoons and Mondo Media, again, that helped produce dozens of animated series from indie creators.

But even at it's best, these series were still very amateurish. The passion was obviously there but these were still very simplistic flash or stop motion animations with low budgets and small teams, focusing more on episodic skits than any sort of overarching plot

This environment of amateur passion projects, where animated series were usually very small scale and never really escaped from the limited sphere of youtube, went on for several years and kept the animation community alive. Until Viv posted Hazbin Hotel and brought about the third wave of indie animation.

Unlike the previous examples, Hazbin Hotel was a VERY different beast from most indie animation. Not only did it have an extremely distinct visual style but the animation was so fluid, so professionally made, it felt like something you'd see out of a mainstream studio. It felt leagues above the average indie project in terms of quality.

Now Viv had already a decent audience from her Zoophobia webcomic, her speed draws, and the die young video. So it wasn't like she was starting from nothing. But there was no denying that this new form of animation caught people's attention and caught it FAST.

You all can probably recall the explosion of discussion that surrounded the original pilot and how it was all the internet was talking about for awhile. Viv road that wave and used the momentum to launch 'Helluva Boss' another indie production with a similar style.

This made her even more popular, especially when she started cranking out new episodes of the latter series with the same high quality as before, and soon her fanbase swelled to millions. A fanbase that was more than happy to crowdfund Viv's work through patreon and merch sales. Then other animators saw this and realized that there was a sizable audience for animated content; one that could not only sustain professional level animation, but was desperate for more content of this scale. Soon several other series started cropping up like MurderDrones, Lackadaisy, Monkey Wrench, and the Amazing Digital Circus. All of which followed Viv's lead of producing high quality, fluid animation with overarching plots that drew funding entirely from legions of online fans.

For the first time in a long time, indie animation was breaking out of it's original platform and reaching far more mainstream audiences than it ever has in the past on a scale never before seen and it's all because Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss kicked off this new animation renaissance!

Now I'm not gonna say Viv was solely responsible, the series we enjoy now have thrived primarily on their own merits and the creative minds behind them.

But as it stands, her work played a big role in setting the stage for other indie animation projects and creating the perfect conditions for them to thrive amidst the current digital landscape. Like it or not, Viv is the catalyst for modern indie animation. To deny Viv her rightful place in history out of spite is nothing short of historical revisionism.

Give the gal her due, she's done some amazing things for this crazy world we live in.

Here's the videos I got most of my info from, it's important to cite one's sources after all!

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So apparently the Helluva Boss pilot is no longer considered canon, Viv announced it herself in a live panel a few days ago.

Said that originally Stolas and Blitzo weren’t supposed to get together but changed her mind after a conversation with Brandon Rogers and basically changed the entire plot the pilot was going to go with so it centered around them as a couple.

The panel’s right here, look at 33:40 for this information: https://youtu.be/D98RsruEUCw?si=n1vgE3dyGbJDq_VX

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