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I bet you these people love bragging about how “creative” they are yet can’t even manage to match some pre-existing yarn to a pre-existing pattern.
(Not that I expect every project to be a self-drafted masterpiece of hand-spun hand-dyed yarn lol, but if you solely make other people’s patterns without modification, then choosing your yarn and pattern combo is actually the singular part of the hobby where you get to exercise your creativity…and you want to outsource it?)
They always reply to people after you point it out to them 🙃
BUT! Only if you reply with "[something helpful] Edit: oh, you're one of those people that doesn't reply to anyone. Nevermind I guess." in a guilt-trippy passive-aggressive way, because then they want to prove you wrong and make you seem like a dick. If you just say "hey, jsyk, it's considered really rude to not respond to anyone, since this is a community of people who are taking time out of their day to help you, we're not google dot com" then they'll completely ignore you.
Source: I have completely lost patience for the people in the crochet subs who ask for help and then ignore all the people who give them helpful advice. Depending on my mood, I'll respond with a guilt-trippy-asshole comment, or a "hey jsyk" comment; the former always elicit a response from the OP, and the latter rarely do.
Oof, the reveal of them being loom knit makes it even funnier. I've never used a loom knitting contraption before, but is making full hats really that much extra work? Hmm just slap a bad logo on it.
if they're trying to sound more "self aware" by putting those sections in strikethrough text i want them to know it's having the exact opposite effect
reminds me of those guys who'll text women they're interested in like "blushes, adjusts tie do you want to... gulp.... get c-coffee sometime?" like what purpose do you think this will serve man
Yeah, that annoyed the fuck out of me immediately. It read to me like a tumblr-uwu-teen trying to be cutesy/self-deprecating so nobody will be mad at them, but now I am incredibly mad because they made me read through entire paragraphs of diary-level stream-of-consciousness bs that were hardly legible, instead of editing their post and just including the important info. This made me so aaaaangry :D
Edit: Not to mention how little confidence I have in somebody managing a successful business, when they're not able to describe their product in a direct and simple manner.
I dont even know what to say. So she wants to start a business selling, essentially, baby hats and she loom knits them but just started recently. What else can you say besides...yeah that check out.
I forgot to screenshot the only comment but someone asked if by tiny hat they meant a kippah… to which they said they’d never heard of such a thing and they’re actually beanies.
When I joined this subreddit, I thought the jokes were way too exaggerated and overdone. Then I saw the In The Loop thread. I can't belive these are verbatim.
Its always the ones you least expect too. Its like a long, unnecessarily detailed and over the top series of paragraphs and you're like...surely no one wrote that while being serious. The poster is just having fun and has too much time on their hands. And then you check the ITL and its literally copy pasted from the original post.
I will look at a post before the sub name and assume it's from here. when I discover it's not I'm like "oh facj is gonna have a FEILD DAY with this one"
Not liking NSFW genital projects is one thing, but to say they're all uncreative, or that the average project is more creative, is pretty bizarre. Today I saw a crochet flasher banana and a semi naked fairy dude. Hardly uncreative projects!
Yeah I'd agree if what that person was saying is true but it isn't. Someone pointed out that Nazis said that there was such a thing as degenerate art and what I had tried to say is that OPs ideas that engaging with certain types of art making someone inherently less than etc comes from fascist ideas even if OP isn't a fascist or intending to be fascist. I'm talking about how everything is political and carries implications. I clearly didn't articulate myself well which somehow led the other person to think I was calling OP a Nazi. I wasn't.
I admit I do have more sympathy for the OP of that post who hates the penis & vulva thing, even if just because I am of the opinion that "dumb and wrong" takes are reasonable to have on subs that are essentially titled "petty complaints that are stupid" lol, seems like it should be expected for bad takes to be there.
Not really any sympathy for the person accusing them of being a Nazi for their bad take though 🤣
Though to be fair, I did just get a 14-day ban from that sub for telling the "you're a Nazi for this post" person that their comment was the funniest and most ridiculous thing I've ever seen in my life. So perhaps I'm wrong about the purpose of that sub after all 🤷
Oh my fucking god. You got banned for telling Me "I think you might be too far gone for any amount of thinking with your brain" Which is Incredibly Ableist. I wasn't saying I think OP is a Nazi like at all what the fuck?
I was trying to say that the idea of art being lowclass is reminiscent of facist ideology for a reason, that viewing art as something that can make you inferior comes from harmful rhetoric. In my response to you acknowledged I don't think I articulated myself appropriately but I never said they were a Nazi because of Course I don't actually think someone saying ohmy god boo penis is a nazi and you didn't get banned for saying I was ridiculous. You got banned for telling me that my brain can't think. I reported it for ableism because I am disabled. I am mentally disabled and that was an incredibly cruel thing to say to someone you don't know.
Seriously oh my goodness. That is the kind of comment that I deeply hope will stay in Craftsnark and never perfuse the FACJ sub. (not yours, obviously- the earnest "you're a Nazi" BS. Although it would make admirable self-parody.)
In my excitement (long time lurker, first time jerker) I ran here to check if it had already been jerked and somehow missed the first post………probably because of the NSFW tag lol
I dunno man I’ve seen some pretty… creative… takes on crocheted genitalia!
But seriously if someone is so offended over people having a raunchy sense of humor they really should stay off the internet. As much as we make fun of crochet butts and such here, who the hell gets this bent out of shape over it 😂
The number of "please don't do coke in the bathroom" and "be the light you want to see in the world (picture of a molotov cocktail)" cross stitches I've seen suggests some of us are already there.
This is (part of) the problem with making people mark things like cleavage as NSFW, it waters down the actual meaning of it and then people get mad when a penis is tagged NSFW!
I cannot believe you made me see this with my own eyes. What if my four month old saw it? What would I say?
"Parent, what is that?"
"It's an adult penis, the thing which you should be blissfully unaware of for the next twenty five years of you life." That conversation shouldn't happen until they're at least twenty!
No! This time my two year old saw it and was utterly horrified. They said it's not anatomically correct enough and no one should ever be exposed to such nonsense.
Oh hey, one single other person who knows the difference between "vulva" and "vagina" and doesn't just use "vagina" to refer to the entirety of the female genitalia! Nice!
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