Darlingface Designs

*IMPORTANT POST*

I DID NOT GENERATE THIS IMAGE - F**K GENERATIVE AI!
Angry emojis only please: 😠 😡 👿
(don't you dare 'like' this image, I will put wasps in your sock drawers, you have been warned! Love you byeeee)

Please read 💙

This image is doing the rounds it seems!

Someone has fed a photograph of my work (bottom right of the image is my actual work, everything else is trained from that image) into AI and asked it to show their own w.i.p images to prove they make them.

This is where we're at.

(By 'someone' I mean a HUGE page with a half a million following, likely entirely run by AI bots so the best you can do is argue with a computer programme about ethics, a fools errand)

I've found it on three sites so far.

I've woken up to a slew of messages;

Jen, heads up, this is based on your work right?

(To the folks who did this, Thank You, I'm so grateful, I can't fight it if I don't see it, you are stars)

But then...

Jen, I'm so dissappointed.
I didn't know you used AI to design your work?

Jenna, why are you using AI?
I won't be buying from you again.

Last time my work was stolen I had people who'd been ripped off by a computer, angrily come to me to demand refunds & Facebook took action by blocking me from my own page and leaving all the scam pages up.

This image takes it a step further and for me, ultimately a step too far.
It directly effects my reputation as an artist and at some point I have to draw a line.

To be frank, I've reached a point where I don't know if I can continue to use this platform.
I'm going to be exploring using my Ko-fi or Substack more going forward.

I know this will inevitably dissappoint some people but I'll try to do it in such a way that no-one who wants to come along is left behind and I'll still have a small presence here for a while yet.
It's no easy move.

Bottom line - Facebook and Meta could care less.
Artists are being demonetized, deplatformed and their entire careers being bought into disrepute at the 'harmless' push of a button on the daily now with no safety net or support framework.
Just an AI system that always sides with, surprisingly, defending the use of AI images and bot run pages.

This image is the exact reason why you'll see people like myself calling out anyone for using Generative AI for posters, ideas, advertising etc.

AI image generators are literally stealing our work and reputations, I urge anyone to please stop defending it, stop using it, stop viewing it as 'just a bit of harmless fun' and for the love of all that is holy, stop using it to make generic posters for your events and loosing any ounce of what makes your event unique or worth going to.
Instead consider joining us in calling it out when you see it.

All that will be left on Meta is AI slop and propoganda whilst all the real humans go elsewhere in search of something real...when I get there I'll pop the kettle on and invite you all round for tea 🙏✨️

Jen x

Find me at for a few more hours! Making buttons behind the table!

Autumn Mushroom Witch 🫶🙌🍄

This Sunday! At in Malvern! Entry price is a can of food to donate to the local food pantry! Bring the friends, find some lost memories and make some new ones. I’ll be there with pins, art cards, buttons and more! Maybe we can do some live customs?? Tell me what VHS movies to make into art before Sunday so I have it ready for ya

It’s June 1st. I’d like to wish everyone a very happy Pride Month! As most of you know, 50% from all LGBTQIA+ related sales goes to the community. So in the comments or my DM’s, if you’d like to be a person I randomly send a couple bucks to when something sells, let me know! I don’t make many sales to donate from, but I enjoy giving back when I can. Tag or share with a friend you think deserves a random@five dollars six months from now when you’ve forgotten all about this!

Happy Pride Month Eve, everyone 💜
The last of the backerkit orders is being shipped off tomorrow. These guys are flying all the way to Australia! Thank you everyone who supported our cryptid campaigns. It’s been so much fun getting new pin designs made! Can’t wait for at the end of July!

Sewing scrunchies with a migraine! I’m so tired. But content must be posted, right? So please enjoy this photo of scrunchie tubes braided together using the amaro filter. Very much something I would have posted in 2015 when my new years resolution was to become internet famous (it did not happen) Also if you are a fabric hoarder and want to trade a spooky jelly roll set or other fabric for some pins, lemme know 👀👀 cuz this sets almost out