This isn’t the case. Midjourney doesn’t receive any VC money since it has no investors and this ignores genned imagery made locally off your own rig.

12k ain’t that much. I run a sub of 75k and they only amass two or three posts a day max unless something happens. Just post your OC if it bothers you.

I know my comic praising lemmy for no karma added to the confusion on this but I do appreciate that lemmy.world does not feature the server karma on profiles for reasons already said in the comments. Thanks for clarifying.

Thanks for letting me know

Ew just noticed the reddit tag on the bottom of this pic. Sorry y’all.

You get rewards for posts. I’m sure the majority isn’t paying anything + it’s quite likely the admins can easily manipulate those rewards.