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by lazyatom 969 days ago
Hey folks, the live stream of doodles is shut down for now.

While some of you created some really beautiful doodles, or silly doodles, or both doodles, some other folks decided it was a great place to spew racist and vile imagery, and it's not right that we broadcast that back into the world.

This is why we cannot have nice things.

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There's definitely some internet rule out there that states as soon as users can submit artwork to some publicly visible forum, racism and nsfw imagery will show up.

Thanks for this project though, it's pretty neat :)

Remember when the #Agile2013 conference told people their tweets at that hashtag would be displayed in public? and 4chan jumped to help? Internet Historian remembers: https://youtu.be/ROaj3bCpZEM

It was pretty recently in history, it really took a long time for everyone to establish settled rules of the internet.

penis graffitis date to thousand years ago, obviously as a species we haven't learned shit all.

If something is public and accessible, someone will draw something nasty on it, no exceptions

Internet just makes accessible part easier

With this sort of thing, there's a 100% chance of getting pictures of dicks
Those were nothing compared to some of the stuff people sent.
Well yeah, dicks aren't sufficiently shocking anymore. It's the same style of edgy trolling.
It was never edgy, but always stupid. Let's not elevate it.
Nope, definitely edgelord behavior
Drawing dicks has been around since cave paintings so it's as old as humans. Can't loose such a tradition.
Can confirm, recently saw all the dick etchings in the wall in Pompeii
If anything the surprising fact is people being surprised when someone does something like that on publicly accessible medium
Basically the same as the walls of any random public lavatory.
Probably less about the dicks and more about the n-bombs and Nazi symbols (Schwarze Sonne etc).
It's real rare for me to see people just casually drop the black sun in conversation, though I've heard it previously called the Sonnenrad
The first thing I thought when I saw the title was this. Very predictable
Came here to look for this comment. Sad, but predictable.
It would be interesting to feed the doodles to ChatGPT (or such) and ask it if they were offensive.
Aw I didn't get to see my crudely drawn space marine get printed out