dude imagine a fucking modern day child, in the 'stimming by saying the same thing a million times in a row' stage, walking around the grocery store and dangling off the cart repeatedly saying "i wonder whats for Dinner"

i jokingly asked him when hes gonna show her her first ytp and he instantly said "if shes anything like you or i, she'll MAKE the first one she sees" which is actually so goddamn true

yes your mom and i own every movie and we put it in our tv. we also put every funny video ever made on my computer. the computer youre only allowed to play freddie fish on

dudes gonna treat the non-existence of the internet like the existence of santa claus

he even joked that hes going to download any funny video he wants to show her and say he "found it on his computer" lmfao he doesnt even want her to know youtube exists until she finds out on her own inevitably

honestly i kinda like my brothers plan with his kid, where hes going to keep her as offline as humanly possible for as long as necessary, but dripfeed her all the cool shit he picked up over the past 20yrs, navigating around and through internet trauma, and just say he 'saw' it all 'somewhere' lol

they gotta tell u what the green light off daisy's dock signifies without looking it up to even be allowed to look at youtube dot com

the internet is just too evil for kids to be on it. kid spaces never stay contained and im not going to advocate for internet censorship, so rly the best course of action is to just give them an old ass game console and a flip phone until they like know how to parallel park downtown or some shit

theyll just see your full legal attached to a Really Bad Term and skip the callback, even if you were like 12 when it was posted by someone else who was 12.

most of these kids end up getting doxxed by other kids bc they're kids and have kid-level opsec

terrifying and traumatizing in and of itself, but imagine how thatll stick to them into adulthood when potential employers are doing a dig on them. i promise you they wont read a 23-page google doc lol

dude there are 13yo deviantart kids making 2hr long videos about how other 13yos are groomers and pedophiles bc theyre too fucking tapped in with shit made by adults that they shouldnt be watching. like they dont have critical enough thinking skills to not freeblast life-ruining shit into the public

people will both seriously and sarcastically claim its fucking up their mental and making them dumber, which is one argument, but my whole fear is that is that its diminishing their capacity for empathy lmfao

i do feel corny for being so alarmist about this sorta shit but like i think i have a bit of a reason to feel Alarmed lol

the evil on the early 2000s internet was something you typically had to seek out or stumble upon after a long period of inching closer through other shit

now you can just get straight up gore on ig reels, which like half of all 13yos are addicted to scrolling, looking for 'brainrot' lmfao

ive brought this up with a couple people and they cautiously agree with me, which i already find sort of insane enough as is BEFORE you factor in that they usually point out WE were raised on the internet as well

like yeah man thats the point lol TRY and tell me we turned out 'fine', go ahead

i told myself i would never turn into the corny ass old man who attacks what the kids are into bc i dont get it, but i think an exception can be made for all this bombardist braindead internet shit like i legit think anything that encourages kids' internet use at all is sinister by nature, esp now

his model changes pretty often but im going off this old ass study sheet he drew

i sent him a wip of a lil georgie doodle i started drawing a lil while ago which might take him WAY off guard lmfao i dont think many people outside old underground comics peers of his have drawn him

it was actually something i found out pretty soon after i discovered he was still around, and yeah my first thought was just 'yuuuppp' lmfao

he also signed off very suddenly, saying he had to go NOW because the neighbors dogs were hassling his cats which rules

this is so fucking cool man never kill yourself

"Sometimes I feel "Ganarfish" , and at other times it's some other "Critter" ( or alien or whatever ) For example; I find some old busted up thingamajig and make it into an art piece (Ganarf) I help a neighbor in need (Hasin) I am touched by some wonderful works of art (Teijeinese ) and so forth."

i will say, this part is cute. I asked him if he has any characters apart from georgie that he personally identifies with in the same or similar manner

it looks more like he identifies with an entire species he created depending on his mood, which is pretty cool

his WF page is super barebones - like all it says is that hes an artist from georgia that came up with bambioids, started in in the ugc scene, and that hes still kickin pretty much

so like ANYTHING he says is new info

a snippet from an email from Jerry Collins, answering my question about when he started getting out there and active with his work: "Now, as to when I first started getting published by anyone that would be waaaaaaay back in 1977/78 with some kind help from Ned Brooks (Bode fandom publisher) Daniel Watson, David Heath Jr., Ken Fletcher and Clint Hyde; early sci-fi fanzines and A.P.A.s (amateur press association) a few small press works. I never had worked for a mainstream comics company (not for want of trying) I guess my stuff was just too weird for them (too square for the Alt. press types and too freaky for the mainstreamers.) But I keep on plugging away (Like Frank Zappa said; "Keep playing, your audience will find you.")"

this is fucking sick man we're digging up the lore

Also here are the minicomics previously mentioned look at this georgie bro

reminder hes in his late 60s

Speaking of jerry he sent me an email this morning where he called himself "derpy" in the first sentence we're so back

Like wtf how sick is that. Jerry will sometimes post about not knowing what became of bill, and here he is just chilling on ebay selling his own minicomics and shit

I was like half-asleep grabbing the mail after a nap, and when i saw the name i instantly went "BILL FITTS!!!!" And FULLY woke up lmfao