This is just my personal experience and not a universal statement in any way
why is this picrew thingy so popular?..
you can make custom characters from preset options by different artists. you get to make a cute avatar uwu
i mean - i kno---- but like .-.- huh? like - dressup games have existed for quite some time, and especially picrew kinda seems cooperate which is not fun at all…
like - i feel more comf using some weird game platform or fan project where i cn play around with some avatars, instead of some cooperate seeming platform which seems to have the monopoly of creators in that space.
the outputs seem to be nice, it’s just - it feels weird somehow. it feels like peoples genuine art is being put into some proprietary, for-profit site - which like - makes me super uncomfy. They also have unreasonable long loading times for… loading some pngs and “finishing up the image”, even though that should not take any proccessing power at all… I don’t like how it has to declare “scope of use” before u cn even start editing ;( (yes it’s permissive, but it still feels— unreasonably cooperate)
EDIT (right after sending comment): Now I kinda wanna make my own version of it – -cuz like - i dun wan moni, i jus wan peeps to be able to make cool characters and have fun with it <3
ysysyes… but it probably hard to get peeps to actually make art for it, which is fair. i just boughtsmorty.dev
andsmorty.de
domains, so i could host some cool editor there which lets peeps upload cool stuff and have fun with it. maybe i put it underchars.smorty.dev
, idk yet… im jus kinda unreasonably mad at this picrew thingy… and i mostly dun even know why. maybe because it’s apparently from china, but im also not angry at deepseek, so idunno…
:3