iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

This is a reminder that you're justified demanding honesty from creators & companies pushing AI slop on children and calling out their manipulative attempts at damage control. If someone lies about the actual art in their work, there's always something else they're lying about.

072

The past is crystallized into memories, but there's solace when you reconnect with someone and can at least rest in confirming how severely messed up the years of lies, manipulation, and abuse that ruled your life were while finding a shared passion for the future.

050

*stares in a relaxing cup of cafe con leche in Plaza Mayor*

030

Michael A. Zekas @michaelazekas.com · 27/09/2026

Protip: Even if you run an all virtual business, get a private mailbox: UPS Store, mom & pop shop, etc. Business records are easily searchable, and there's many reasons why you don't want to risk doxxing yourself by putting your home address in the public record.

071

Say it louder for those in the back. This is especially important in entertainment where predators can abuse parasocial behavior and harass others behind closed doors and often end up getting away with it if someone protecting them choses to "make it all go away" for business.

117957

Michael A. Zekas @michaelazekas.com · 27/09/2026

Yeah, you'll be fine. I've got an Asus X570 with flashback, and I'm fairly certain Asus does that with all their boards of our generation.

020

Michael A. Zekas @michaelazekas.com · 27/09/2026

Check your model but as long as you're not rocking something a decade old or older, most have a backup BIOS or a flashback function for that freak chance where something goes wrong to prevent your mobo from becoming a doorstop.

130

Michael A. Zekas @michaelazekas.com · 26/09/2026

Children above all deserve quality media because what they experience shapes the dreams & passion they'll chase for the rest of their lives. Creators & companies that shamelessly push AI slop on kids show they'll lie about anything. They deserve no sympathy when they're caught.

0101

Michael A. Zekas @michaelazekas.com · 25/09/2026

Knights of Guinevere is still based AF for jabbing at slop-pushers in entertainment.

1172

Reposted by Michael A. Zekas

Lanali visual arts @lanalivisualarts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#FarFetchedShow @farfetched.bsky.social And another parody album. This one is too a remake but of the one I did last year as I didn't make one back in 2021. It's better than the original when you compare it. There's still more to come from these album parody's based off parody posters.

This is actually a direct parody off of the Chuck E Cheese album award poster you'd see in the showroom in the 90's

061

Reposted by Michael A. Zekas

NiBello @nibello.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here is some old art I found with Fauna’s other two step-brothers, Jonah and Jaxon. - ( #FarFetchedShow #FarFetchedOC )

061

Reposted by Michael A. Zekas

NiBello @nibello.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sibling post-jam session!🐺🎶 Comm made by @quesofresco.bsky.social ( #FarFetchedOC #FarFetchedShow )

0102

Michael A. Zekas @michaelazekas.com · 25/09/2026

We live in a time where apparenty the only pressing issue in the US is Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Furries.

060

Using an AI voice is a deliberate choice to not pay an actor like how a genAI image is a business's choice to not pay an artist or graphic designer. It's a mark that a business has no problem cutting corners and hoping their customers don't notice as they pocket the difference. (3/3)

05416

There's usually no residuals, and that audio is there for any cheap client who wants an excuse to not pay an actor a market rate. It's been a major hit to a lot of unsexy but lucrative work that allows many independent actors to survive with their business. (2/3)

16310

Thread: I saw some discourse from people who treated genAI voices as "just TTS." It can be a tool for things where unique VO is impossible (i.e. Siri), but an AI voice voice is recorded once. It's usually at a low rate with crap in-perpetuity usage terms in the contract. (1/3)

18126

Yeah, that's a negative mark. Can't win 'em all, even with the most customer-friendly of the bunch.

060

Which to my understanding generally came out to things like Intellisense for completing lines of code and QA automation, things that are long-established dev tools way before genAI, the cult of Claude Code, and similar slop shat out through a prompt.

150

As far as I know, it's still active. Companies can choose to lie and not post them, but then the door's wide open to give customers a refund when they're caught.

1140

Michael A. Zekas @michaelazekas.com · 21/09/2026

I appreciate things like Steam mandating AI slop disclosures because I've learned that some people are about as trustworthy owning up to pushing slop as predators are with consent. Funny how those two things seem to fit together.

2416100

Reposted by Michael A. Zekas

The power of creation is that even if the people/thing that once inspired you betray you or break your heart, you've still got the spark that lit your flame. Turn that fanwork in AUs. Let it blossom into something original. You can grow it and spark the passion for someone else.

0162

Reposted by Michael A. Zekas

LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"It's safe now" is chilling and damning Chilling because I know the feeling when it's finally safe to speak an ugly truth without fear of the abuser's influence rising up to overshadow it. Damning because this is common enough in VO that some abusers don't even need to actively threaten it.

225853

And, I cite Kiba because he was a spiteful prick. I knew him. It's safe now but he'd threaten anyone he hated with blacklisting. His grooming case was damning, but it could've played out different if he or someone protecting him abused legal threats to silence facts. The fear is real.

014331

I summoned the stans on Twitter, but an important lesson in SH, grooming, and even toxic work cases: "Perfect" proof is impossible unless you can record everything. Most abusers work in subtle ways to protect their public image. You have to catch their mistakes to put together facts.

210817

He was a spiteful Regina George. Petty as hell. What's "funny" is remembering someone who call him their bestie and later turned out to play nice with other abusers when it was convenient. You can tell someone's true colors by how they act when they think people can't see.

031

Oh, I know sadly. There's a lot of predators big and small who've avoided repercussions for their actions in entertainment.

020

LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The one time I'd ask for grace is if it's not the abuser they're worried about, it's someone protecting them. Vic got outed, and it was years in court to shut him down. It might've been a much grosser story if a client used legal intimidation to protect someone like a Vic.

010

Reposted by Michael A. Zekas

It makes me sad to know that if some of the awful people who’ve been called out and ostracized were working in casting they woulda never been called out and ostracized because most folks won’t dare speak up against someone who can offer them work. I’m proud of those who did speak out, regardless.

6532112

Can I get away with Cash Bandiloot plz

120

Almost as bad as the predators themselves are the people who know their actions and choose to keep quiet or protect them for convenience. No one is too important to recast to get away with grooming or abuse.

37711