This Website and The Future

Just a classic Tyrannosaurus. Couldn't find a better image. By Charles R. Knight.

For me, life is not simple. I’m a teenager who still can’t do everything, living in the infamous, grey city of Birmingham, where the sun unfittingly blisters down for most of the year, the paves are littered, noisy ice cream vans terrorise around my house, and every day is not without an annoying siren. Both these horrid sounds, alongside elephant trumpets, rooster crows, and alarm/telephone bells, form a list of my misophonia that even more I now feel unrelatable of, with wholesome stories of firefighters from their horrible (to me) fire engines pouring down on wildfires making me look like an idiot, what bad in them is there arguably to anyone else? I’m also a bit lazy at school, especially with the incredibly boring English paragraph inference GCSEs, and being exposed to the casual essence of Birmingham. Long after my escape from "21st century humour", as recent as this summer was my brain still being rotted by from "silly" meme reels of zoomers on Instagram and elsewhere with the same blaring songs like by Serani Poji (don’t get me wrong I love fun and cute animals but this is not how it goes for me), to speculative scary dystopian future scenarios, like from WALL-E (the last scene of an astral view of an unfamiliar, dull Earth is especially gut-twisting) and Wayne Barlowe’s Expedition, not even just about nature conservation, but also other world issues like uninteresting politics, which is why I’ve quit watching NewsRound at school. God I have not had this mindset even just a year ago, I would so love to quit from all this. I’m feeling strange this old.

Another thing worth mentioning about this first, I am no longer what some people may still think I am. I was always into animals and wanted to become a zoologist one day. I was especially getting into the dinosaurs, this undeniable epitome clade of majestic reptiles that have sadly long gone (at least not the birds). Who couldn’t love them? They have far more variety than a ludicrous emergency siren. Unfortunately, as I was growing more developed and ever wanting to learn more about these cool animals (which I now know an unfathomable lot about even at this age), the palaeontology community was not as I was picturing. I got lured in. On places like Twitter roam tyrannical adolescents into controversial topics of their community, squabbling over each other, and some I regret meeting and don’t want to meet again, yet still heart-shockingly see a lot with no prediction while researching about palaeontology and for my artworks. They almost treat the dinosaurs like MCU characters instead of animals, and I have made a community post once on YouTube explaining the matter. If you’ve ever seen "silly" animations and memes of a "future" reconstruction of Spinosaurus or the term "palaeo-Twitter," then congratulations. Yet even worse is a more obscure side of the community, where they don’t even talk a bit about anything of the animals (if not from Jurassic Park or any palaeo-media) except for their physical stats for fights, and have even made a traditional culture of vulgarly arguing and arm-racing about who kills who in a bloody battle to the death. You may have seen those blaring Phonk-track, "WIS" edits/"debates" on YouTube, this is much what I’m talking about. Rotting my brain two years ago, my knowledge of palaeontology got worse, in favour of "Animal VS Animal," and I was even making my own edits myself, with an embarrassing one (now private) being my most popular video ever. As I meant by "vulgarly", these people have very sketchy and rampant behaviours. Slurring and bigotry are a normal part of these people’s vocabulary, and they will often throw these to each other in their abysmal Discord server’s voice chats, all over about what Jurassic Park GMO would win in a fight. These people have also unfortunately been exploiting big palaeontology servers and poor skeletal artists like Dan Folkes just for the sizes (as calculated by Graphic Double Integration and 3D models) of their favourite animals. On the same AVA servers and related to them are some of the saddest cases of "animal experts and skeletal artists" I’ve ever seen, particularly often into crocodilians. They too are open to questionable, antagonistic stuff like bullying, doxxing and bigotry, including to me at some points, even trying to manipulate a naive young me. It is unfortunate, because these people are very knowledgable and rigorous at their job in places like Twitter, DeviantArt and the Dinopedia Fandom Wiki (even in a video of Saurophaganax by The Vividen). yet did none of that when they came to my Discord server, only spamming the most ludicrously off-topic and wild stuff there. The only big palaeontology server I reside in now is The Vividen’s, but unfortunately, even that has had its threats. Back to the main point of that bold note, my old megatheropod video and Bright Side exposé were great, but they are still a making a different picture of me, as more AVA debaters come to my server, either for nothing at all, or just to ask about a dinosaur’s size, or be fricked-up there. Other people also constantly ask me to make more videos. Turns out my announcement video may not have worked, as we’ll see further here. I full stop, am not Mikail The Komodo Dragon anymore. He was awful and unwelcoming. I am the Mikailodon, with actual passion and a better mindset. I just want to love dinosaurs, like a did as a kid. Do these people even ask about others’ favourite dinosaurs anymore? Do they pick up a good old textbook? Do they eat dinosaur nuggets? That’s what I intend to be. I want to accomplish what I’ll say in the next paragraph by Halloween or at least Christmas.

Now, this is where I do the true announcement. My announcement video from a few months back is now a bit out of date, though still somewhat truthful. The videos will probably still have a VHS style, but I’m now on a completely different approach not only to update my image on social media, but to simplify life. Content creating will no longer be my main hobby on the internet, now as an artist and wannabe zoologist/palaeontologist am on this new website, that shall grow into my new hideout, with a blog, portfolio and more dedicated all to me. It is particularly inspired by old palaeontology blogs like Tetrapod Zoology, Manospondylus, Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week, and Love In The Time of Chasmosaurs. This definitely does not mean I will end my YouTube channel, the videos will now be dedicated to whatever I do, like my art. I now have a series in plans called "The Bestiary", named after my art series of animal size comparisons, and consist of profile videos educating about the animals drawn, from the Deinotherium to the Triceratops, I will aim to make these videos simple, yet straight and cool. I now have a far better microphone than in the announcement video, where I sounded truly terrible. I am now teaching myself to speak at a normal level, not a whinybox. The problem with this site is, where will I get my upkeep again if I’m now mainly on it? YouTube is a very easy app to search and interact across. On the web do my artworks barley show at the top. My Discord server will also be revamped once again about this website, and I shall be active less often, probably only once every few days. There is a lot to my life after all. This website might still be in progress, since there is a lot of stuff I’ve planned and tried, but yet to work. In the mean time, all of you can give me advice on how I should make a living of this new website, expand it, make it more popular, make me more easy to interact myself. Thank you, I will take your suggestions, they are crucial. This was a bit rushy, and I don’t think I’ve typed in everything I’ve thought about this and planned to announce, so expect more from this new site.

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