EDIT: MY IMMEDIATE RELEASES ARE NOT DEAD TO BE CLEAR
FOREWORD: Do NOT use this as justification to harass ANYONE in Moderation and more to the point DO NOT DO IT REGARDLESS. Do NOT use this as a justification to raid or protest in my name, that is wrong and futile. MY BAN IS JUSTIFIED. If any future projects occur you will be barred unequivocally and permanently for that behavior. I only wish to clear things up a little.
Things have happened behind the scenes and within the community itself that have lead to the way things have resolved themselves in FPCord, constituting my likely permanent ban from the wider community
I think this ban is justified for a wide variety of reasons, I haven't been a great person and a lot has contributed to this. That being said, I have a couple key points to make on the three reasons CTFP moderation has specifically chose to mention publicly, as they read as cherrypicked and are arguably the weakest reasons:
-'Excessive self promotion & overwhelming the announcements' was almost entirely limited limited to ongoing jokes, such as the relatively frequent 'buy/stream [x] on [x]' jokes in FPCord, the rest were usually larger announcements with embeds that could take up most of the announcement window.
-'Frequent flexes of profits from fan projects' is not based in reality. Those posts primarily came up in discussions of Bandcamp statistics with other creators (the only time I recall a flex was when I hit $1k in Bandcamp sales, which I am allowed to celebrate a little).
-'Skewing of contests' is based, within the last year, and to my memory, entirely on my decision to vouch for wiki.gg in the CTFP Wiki move decision. In the interest of transparency, I did vouch for it publicly in announcements but that message was either self-deleted or deleted within an hour, and vouching for decisions on a platform outside of FPCord is allowed.
Choosing to cherrypick these reasons and use them as a reason to justify specifically not supporting these projects and especially to call upon others to do the same to audience of thousands, feels disingenuous and wrong despite the claim there-in of this not being a character assassination, even though the ban is very much justified. Twisting the knife, in a sense, unnecessarily and unneedingly.
IOBNS MD and MSA will release at a later date if all goes well - the rest of IOBNS' future is uncertain right now, but it will take some time - same with MPExtras and vCJDExtras - those servers have been archived for the meantime.
AS MENTIONED: Do NOT use this as justification to harass ANYONE in Moderation. Do NOT use this as a justification to raid or protest in my name, that is wrong and futile. MY BAN IS JUSTIFIED. If any future projects occur you will be barred unequivocally and permanently for that behavior. I only wished to clear the narrative a little.
See you on the other side!
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Make sure to vote for the Caretaker Fan Projects wiki to move to wiki.gg in the CTFP Discord poll in announcements! I think it’ll be more stable long term.
discord.gg/GNS4Dv9Y
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Surprise! MCD releases tomorrow at 8PM EST!
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opossums are wonderful creatures
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New MCD single out tomorrow!
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IOBNS is not happening October 31st owing to catastrophic circumstances. I'll let you know a release date when I can.
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vCJD, the blocks of Memoryfest 2024 and many other projects and uploads are currently unavailable owing to a failure of YouTube to renew their agreement with SESAC. This is affecting many different sectors of music on YouTube outside our own.
As always **alternative avenues such as Bandcamp releases of these projects are still available.**
There is no estimate on how long the SESAC debacle will last, or when these projects will be back up.
Remember to support independent music, as for several projects avenues like this are the only way these projects will be viewable for the forseeable future.
vcjd.bandcamp.com/
symphonyofdreamsfp.bandcamp.com/
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OCTOBER 31ST
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Edits, experiments, and ambient music inspired by Leyland Kirby’s work under the Caretaker moniker.
Made vCJD, Milwaukee Protocol, Images of Beauty Never Seen.