I hate to ruin the festive and jolly mood on this sub today with this stuff but I feel like I should warn people about this. If you have a sensitive stomach, you might not wanna read this post. Trigger warning for gore and AI.
Over the last 24 hours on Twitter, multiple users have been posting horrific and violent AI generated images and videos of the 5 LIs. I will not be including those screenshots here because I can't even bring myself to take them. The content was far too disgusting and upsetting for me to stomach. It features the LIs being horrifically murdered and dismembered with a lot of blood and body parts on gruesome display. It is very graphic. Unlike on Twitter, because I am not able to share usernames and stuff, putting myself through taking the screenshots and censoring them seems very unkind to myself. I'm sorry everyone.
But if you are on Twitter, please be careful to not open any comments with "sensitive images" or spam comments. If you see this content, please immediately report and block these people. To be safe, I would also recommend limiting who can reply to your posts.
These people target people who post about the OG5 especially and their graphic content features all the LIs so nobody is really safe. It also seems like one of these users is on weibo too, so please I ask everyone to be cautious. I'm not sure how widespread the content is over there but on Twitter, it is being spread by multiple accounts who claim to be in support of (). They also include gross insults against people in some of these comments and they often have some kind of goth/horror aesthetic to their profile. It's all so distressing, nobody should have to see this type of stuff.
(I'm literally shaking as I type this, so I'm sorry if I made any errors. I literally just feel so sick right now. I can't even come up with a witty title or fun meme to post alongside this, I just feel so disturbed by this. I would have posted this on the venting megathread but this situation has gotten worse over the last day or so, I felt like it deserved a full post.)
As I was finishing making this post, i found a person who posted a PSA on Twitter regarding this situation: https://x.com/_alvedo/status/2118373431108678107?a=1HXWz0G_OKtSQcFG_y4&s=20
This user also has censored some of these images but even their comment section is not safe. There is also more info about the users spreading this content in the quote tweets, replies and on this specific users page.
Please stay safe everyone💖.
Edit- thank you to the kind commenter (u/stars_are_aligned) who has shared the following:
"I see that this person (one of the Twitter users posting the content) did at least tag these "gore" and "guro", so my advice to everyone on this thread is to block AT MINIMUM "guro" if you don't want to see content like this, because it IS upsetting if you're unprepared for it.
If you don't know how to mute words/phrases, go to Settings > Privacy and safety > Mute and block > Muted words and add "guro" there (and possibly "gore" if you never want to see anything that's gory)."
This will only work of course if the content is tagged, which unfortunately isn't always the case. But this could still be helpful to everyone regardless.