A lot of people are dunking on this narrative for good reason, so I'll just add the same thing last time we had this conversation: the outsourced localizers alone that are credited is 101 people, the vast majority actual translators, etc. Your game made with "75" didn't go global without them.

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That said, the Japanese attention economy is different. I get the impression what a lot of western AI recomp, mod, or TL guys are chasing isn't even the existence of the actual thing, its the high of getting to make a reddit post about it.

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Namely, doujins don't make for quick, easy money. In the vast majority of cases, people do it expecting to lose money or, at best, break even between the time and labor required to produce it, as well as the cost of actually publishing them. Very, very few artists make a living off of them.

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It's cold comfort to any devs dealing with it in the here and now, but this does already have precedent: doujinshi. In Japan there were concerns early on that the scene would be flooded with AI releases, but that pretty much hasn't been the case from what I've observed for these exact reasons.

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here’s what’s chihachibi has been up to during the csp break tomorrow is uh. um… i honestly don’t know what to expect. for now, i really do want to go back and draw too. things to continue, things to try… (mumbles)

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