Tag: creative communities
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How Artists Are Coping with the 2025 Video Game Layoffs
Overview: The 2025 Wave of Layoffs As the video game industry consolidates and tightens budgets, artists—illustrators, modelers, texture painters, animators, and concept designers—have faced a harsh new reality. The layoffs of 2025 come after several years of shifting business models, outsourcing, and delayed project pipelines. Many creatives describe a sense of fatigue after repeated rounds…
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Life after Chatbots: Inside the AI Vegans Who Refuse a Virtual Reality World
Introduction: From digital overlays to human-centered lives The future teased by sci-fi is here in small, stubborn ways. In online gaming communities and creative hubs, a growing segment of players is choosing a different path: they refuse to surrender to automated, AI-dominated environments. They call themselves AI vegans—artists, gamers, and thinkers who opt for genuine…