do you believe you can walk on water?

Eneaswriting (Registered User) left the following comment on broken crayons still colour:
Thank you for writing this. Although this is a stardew valley fanfic asjkdashkhdj i was having a really bad day, bc i trully relate to Farmer´s experience with her mother. You may have written this fic for comfort, fun, or even for catarsyc reasons. I want to let you know you have given all of that and so much relief to another person across the internet. Thank you :´)

Which of course I responded to:
I'm happy this fic helped comfort you and bring you relief! Thank you for reading it and leaving a comment. You have no idea how much reading something like this means to me, knowing that this fic I wrote for my own comfort helped someone else. Please take care <3

It was because I was going through my comments and replying to the ones I hadn't done so before that I found out the comment I talked about in this entry no longer existed. I don't know what happened, if it was the original commenter who deleted it or...what happened. But that kind of made me Press [X] to Doubt on whether it was a real comment or not. I don't know. Considering I've gotten hit with comments about AI and whatever multiple times before and my Gundam Wing fics seem to be big targets... Yeah. I dunno.

"What do you mean by 'comments about AI'?" I mean shit like this:
KoboldAI should stick to whatever it was originally programmed for because writing clearly isn't its strong suit.

ChatGPT's output is about as inspiring as watching paint dry. Step up your game.

And if you look at r/AO3 there's always like five posts a day where someone goes "omg a hate comment" and people go "no that's just someone shilling AI (like ChatGPT) in the strangest way possible." Because that's what they're doing, drawing attention to AI services like KoboldAI and ChatGPT. There was another comment that didn't advertise anything but was obviously written by AI and was so generic it could've been geared towards anything.

And this isn't an Archive of Our Own specific thing either... It happens on FFN as well. It doesn't accuse you of being AI or using AI for your writing but it's more "hey I would love to make some (AI) art of your writing"...as can be exhibited here (using PMs I actually got):

Subject: A valuable opportunity

Hey Hikaru,
I'm a concept artist inspired by your story and would love to bring it to life through art. I'd be thrilled to discuss how I can work up on your ideas.

and

Subject: Story compliments

Hello! I hope everything is going well for you. I recently read your story and was really impressed by your choice of words. I enjoyed it a lot! I'm a concept artist focusing on book covers and characters. Would you be interested to collaboration?

and

Subject: Reader honest thoughts

Hello Hikaru Yuy!
As a fellow reader I really admire your work! Your storytelling has truly inspired me. I'd love the chance to bring your stories to life with my art, and I'd be happy to work with a light touch of slighter amount. Is there a social media platform you prefer for connecting?

and finally

Subject: Merging our creative forces

Howdy,

As a fellow reader I really loved your work. Im inspired by your storytelling. I'd be honored to bring your characters to life through my art skills. Do you have a preferred social media platform for connecting if you're interested?

Notice they pretty much all say the same thing more or less just worded slightly different and they all talk about ~combining forces~ so that you, as a writer, can have art for your writing! But notice that they don't mention any particular work, it's just a general "I really like your work/writing!"

("But Karu, there are people who still use FFN??? When things like AO3 and even Wattpad are right there?"
Yes. FFN has been on life support for many, many years at this point and now it's more a haven for spambots and people trying to shill whatever AI than, you know, a place to showcase your fanfiction. AO3 at least attempts to take care of the problem and things are moderated; there is no moderation of FFN and I don't think there really ever was if I'm honest with you.)

so yeah. any time I get comments on my GW stuff I side-eye the shit out of it because...I get a lot of AI comments (either "accusing" me of using it for my writing or the comments are written by ChatGPT or whatever). I don't experience this in literally any other fandom I write for. Which is nuts. I've seen people who write in big fandoms like BNHA/MHA and OPM and whatever anime fandom get hit by this which makes sense. Those are big, active fandoms.

But Gundam Wing? A fandom for an almost 30 year old anime series?? Why?

I hate the internet.

Hoookay so. As far as fandom involvement goes... I am still technically part of Gundam Wing fandom (I refuse to leave it at this point, I've been in here for too long and invested so much time, money, etc. to really do so) though my participation has been...not much. I do still write things and I've been redoing older fics but I haven't really been posting much since I'm kind of like. what's the point?) but it's more or less dead nowadays. Shit was booming during Lockdown of course and then as things returned to "normal" so did participation so I've decided to spend my fandom free time...involved with Stardew Valley.

Where I simp so fucking hard for Sebastian.

I have a type, clearly.

I write SebastianxFarmer fic that also tends to be SebastianxReader and I p much get kudos on all my SDV fics every day and I've garnered a very small fanbase because of people loving how I write Seb lol so yeah that's kind of my main thing now, which I've been enjoying since it's a huge change in pace and scenery.

I want to explore other fandoms that I maybe visited a few times and then never again... idk! I guess we shall see!