ON ONE HAND--cool, more of a chance for new artists to try their hand at AX!

ON THE OTHER HAND isn't AX like known for it's massive high quality AA????

like it's a big draw for it

some people go to AX just to go to the AA for the whole weekend, yea

my cynical brain is like “this is one way to replace vet artists with AI-“

^ I MEAN SAME

YEAH LIKE

that was my first thought. "oh it's gonna get flooded with AI"

AI USERS CAN ALSO SPAM BOTS FOR THE LOTTERY?

celifairy: YEAH LOL

how much vetting are they doing with a lottery...

probably zero

I would be very curious to know what prompted the change but cynically i would guess it's a money-saving tactic so they don't have to review AA registrations and just lotto them out

celifairy: THIS WAS LITERALLY THE PATH MY MIND TOOK LOLOL

I imagine they'll also use this as an excuse to raise the table prices as well since. lol. AX.

YIKES

HMM

yeeeaaahhhhh I'm having the same thoughts as you: yay new artists but yeah the quality is gonna drop REAL LOW

plus ax chibi sure was the first con I saw that had a booth selling blatantly ai merch, so I don't trust their vetting process at fucking all

get ready for dropshippers IN YOUR AA

Yeah I def did ax just for the artist alley and there is some stuff there that made it worth the suffering

I WANDERED AWAY but yeah I'm like. p-psyduck psyduck

also to my knowlege, all artists at AX are NOT oldbies, they let lots of new ppl in every year??

they just have a seperate app for ppl who have been there before

lol this is no way they community will take this well

make them regret

rainpuddles: yea a bunch of artists are already emailing them

also some ppl are saying that older artists are gatekeeping and like

no???

AX is NOT for newbies lmao

it costs so much and the will lose so much wheeze

there's a difference between new artists (artists that have been doing it a while but never done the show) and baby artists. SOME OF YALL NOT READY,

lmao imagine

plz kids being at AX does not just guarantee you dollars

also i think some international artists only come for AX???

gawd I HAVEN'T BEEN TO AX SINCE 2005 AND STILL I'M LIKE

this seems bad. THIS SEEMS BAD

since if i ever went to AX myself it'd be solely for the AA too

'ash don't you wanna sell there' fuck no i have a full time job i ain't built for that,

they're even talking about it on the eu artists server

the general opinion there is maybe new artists have a chance too, that veteran system is stupid

personally? I'd also include a judging system

playdespacito: iirc that was part of the old system, judging i mean

I COULD BE WRONG CUZ I DON'T AX but they had 3 tiers i think

Vets (artists that have been there 10+ years in a row), rebooks (artist that were there last year but it's a fcfs, not all of them get to rebook) and then 100-200 new, never tabled at AX before artists that are juried

but now...free for all....

can't say i like it lol

and again AX is not for the faint of heart. I've seen some lucky newbies get into it and then be baffled when they don't make profit wheeze

if they screen and jury behind the scenes, awesome, good to g!! if not. well i will be popcorning on the 4th next year lol

imagine waiting in line to get into AX for 2-6 hours and it's full of middling art, people who were way under prepared, and AI.

People go to AX because of the extremely high quality of the events and offerings (or. they did. 2019 was pretty bad tbh and then covid. who knows what it's like now not me that is for sure)

lol they will not screen it out, I have friends who worked for AX and that's an organizational nightmare on top of the barely held together catastrophes happening in the background

now u have your own dokomi 🫣🥲

gaisce: welp. ganbatte AX artists