Dear Fediverse, thank you for being a safe haven from AI slop.

[andycarolan@social.lol]

@_elena Yes... how sick and disturbing is that?!

Every day I question why I'm giving this company money to use their apps. Sadly, I'm stuck with them as my work depends on it.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@andycarolan ouf I feel your pain.

When I had to make the Fedi promo video I absolutely had to use AfterEffects (there's no real competitor in the motion graphics sphere, plus I had over a hundred ready-made templates I could use to save time).

I only purchased an Adobe subscription for a month (AE). And canceled it as soon as the video was done.

For editing I learned DaVinci Resolve as I didn't want to give extra $ to Adobe.

It's so sad to see how far down they've fallen, values-wise 😭