Hey there, you're probably wondering what happened to this subreddit.

This spring, Reddit admins started making changes to its service in terms of its API pricing, the mobile app, and the Reddit award system. The admins assured the user base that these changes would be reasonable and fair. This was not the case and Reddit forced almost every 3rd party app to shut down. Further, the Reddit admins, and in particular Reddit CEO Steve '/u/spez' Huffman, met the community with nothing but hostility, slander, and disrespect.

Rather than detailing these events, I'll direct you to the following sources:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/14b8i62/reddit_protest_and_the_next_steps/
• https://www.theverge.com/23768252/reddit-blackout-moderation-lessons-elon-musk
• https://www.theverge.com/23779477/reddit-protest-blackouts-crushed
• https://www.npr.org/2023/06/13/1182001429/the-reddit-blackout-explained
• https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits
• https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/14nb5qs/today_is_apollo_for_reddits_last_day_and_i_just/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_the_community_about_changes_to_our_api/

On June 12th, almost 8000 subreddits went private in protest. The admins met this with more hostility and strike-breaking tactics towards all Reddit moderators. /r/OneTrueBiriBiri joined this blackout, and were met with threats by the Reddit admins via modmail. The mod team unanimously decided that we would not reopen unless the admins met the mod community with a compromise.

Today, we are announcing that this subreddit will remain closed indefinitely, in an archival state. We will let users see the subreddit as it was on June 12th, but no longer will posts be made on this subreddit.

For Railgun-related content, check out /r/Railgun which has reopened fully.

Thank you all for your understanding.

It’s been a while since I’ve drawn Mikoto Misaka in her bridal dress from imaginary fest which is one of my favorite outfits she wears I normally don’t try it because as you can tell, there’s a detail in it. But it Looks incredible seeing Mikoto so beautiful in wedding dress like this.

Kuroko likes what she sees 👍

Honestly every day I wake up and gaze upon her eyes and ask myself why is she so god darn cute. Perfect height, perfect boob size, perfect body, perfect character hoooooly fuck me

Our current stance as a mod team is to allow AI Art posts. This is because AI art does not violate any of our rules, and all of the AI art posts on this subreddit are highly upvoted.

However, it's clear that there is a very vocal minority that think otherwise. Lately, 95% of our reports and mod actions are related to AI art. Most of our mod time has been spent dealing with false reports, complaining in the comment sections, harassing OP, etc... Frankly, it's getting exhausting. If you don't like AI art, this is not the way to protest it.

So instead, let's talk about it.

##Tell us how you feel about allowing/disallowing AI Art in our community, and why.

We will read all the comments in this post, and will decide if AI Art is beneficial or harmful for our community.

In the meantime, we need a few things to stop:

• Please don't complain in the comment sections of AI Art posts. We are removing all such comments.
• Do not falsely report AI Art posts. We are "snoozing" such reports (so we will not see any reports from your account) and also we will now start submitting these to the admins under "abusing the report button". This could result in your account being suspended.
• Under no circumstances should the OPs of these posts be harassed. As always, we ban users that harass others under rule 5.

We've added a flair specifically for AI art so it can be filtered out of your feeds if you wish.

Also, I found this 3min video, AI art - automation. A working artist's take by Zee Bashew to be incredibly insightful.