Some Recent Updates…

Longtime follower(s) of this blog may have noticed that there have been *some* changes around here recently. Mainly the fact that every image used to give context to my reviews have been completely removed and replaced with a terrible original drawings of little faces that I think encapsulates my current inner turmoil. Not to mention how all of my Aesthetic Hour posts have been taken down, as well as some of my old posts.

Why? Well, I’m a big weenie, and even though any use of images are for the purposes of review – not to mention I’m not even sure if the copyright holders even have registered copyright in my jurisdiction, I wasn’t sure if any overzealous algorithms might strike down my blog because of the inclusion of such images.

Well, you know what they say – better safe than embroiled in (costly) legal trouble, so this blog should be safe from any copyright robocops now. And whilst I was neck deep in the archives editing things, a deep, stomach-churning feeling of cringe overtook me, and I decided to fix things up a little bit whilst I was there. So yeah, some of my old posts have been edited a little, and I’ll be re-uploading some posts with better writing.

To be honest, I don’t know what to do in the meantime. I’ve drawn up my own little original artwork to represent the full spectrum of my limited emotional expression just so the search page layout looks a little less terrible, and every review will link to the actual YouTube channel with something related to the thing I’m talking about to help readers visualize my subject, but I know it looks kind of…empty now.

I’ve changed the layout and am looking into public domain resources. I’ll try to keep everyone updated.

2 responses to “Some Recent Updates…”

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    Anonymous

    Love the face drawings, they are so expressive, like for real! Love them. See your layout changed again, I think this one is pretty good too, reminds me a bit of the one I saw when I first knew your blog. Well, honestly, I don’t think using album art on a personal blog is going to get any legal team on your back. Certainly they have the right to exercise whatever legal action they have, but I doubt it, especially when 0 money flow is going around here, but hey the face drawings are lovely too.

    Maybe it’s because my taskbar is on the right (yes, thats how I prefer it) but the blog main text now seems too far left, maybe add a bit more margins from the left edge? Or maybe I’m just not used to it. Look forward to ur future stuffs tho! And I don’t know if it’s ur setting, or if it’s my window scaling, but fonts seem bigger? I’m ok with it, but main text words seem a bit too big for me.

    Anywhos, in the meantime im going to come back when I have free time and the mood for new musical adventures, so take ur timeeee.

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      pillbugm

      HIII sorry for late reply I’ve been swamped with work lately and I think having to change everything just made me so drained. You’re definitely right that I have ZERO money that record execs could benefit from (lol!) but if anything I think this was sort of like a point of pride for me – like I wanted to test the limits of how far I could take my creativity if I did everything ‘right’. I think I also just have A LOT of issues with the current copyright system, and this is my way of showing how limiting it can be in its current state if a creator wants to ensure they stay relatively free from costly legal stuff.

      I’ll look into the issues you mentioned and try to adjust the margins a little before my WordPress premium runs out haha. Not that computer savvy though so let’s hope I’m finished by the time you come back from embarking on musical adventures!

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