Not only the ads but ALSO the ai images... I only want to use references that are made by real people and all I get are ai landscapes, ai drawings, etc 😅
What I’m tired of is my pins getting “violations” for things they clearly aren’t. Like SH and adult content. Bestie, that’s someone’s hand in different poses 😭
And then what’s so crazy is I have seen like visual violations, like 🍒 and not in an artistic, anatomical, or informational way. And I’m a black women, and there’s times where I’ve seen a violation for a black woman doing something way less provocative than a white woman, yet the pin with a black women will be violated. Just an observation.
The feed will send me things that it later flags as Grown Up. And it will send me a *warning* for re-pinning content that was already on the network. A year after that, I saw that some panes had a screen across them. And so you click to see the content. I had decided that they have figured out how to include Grown Up, and filter for it. But no. They sent me a warning about re-pinning that content.
I got in trouble for pinning an artistic, not at all sexual picture of someone in a bath, where the water was completely opaque, only the person's head was out of the water 😐
I use pinterest and I see things like "I want gojo to spank me" and "I want light yagami to write my name down" and "life is short, make it shorter” and the comments are even more freaky and it never gets banned 💀 that’s what I love about the app, because that’s my humor
@floopieee Exactly, if I wanted tiktok, I would have installed tiktok; no, and apart from that there are videos that I do like but, then it won't let me download them 🙄.
the rage i feel clicking on a picture of a jacket for a character im drawing only for it to open to an amazon page is unmatched. THANK YOU!!! i can’t wait to try these 😭🥺💝
When Pintrest forced me to give them information on myself I told them I was an incredibly old fart then pinned a lot of KPop images. Then I consistently hide all ads except food related ones but don't look up any images relating to food at all. I don't get many ads because their algorithm is so incredibly confused by me. 👻
Well deserved, these b holes play out a ton of baby related ads on my business account - a tattoo studio. Maybe i should throw in an "i hate babies" and "childfree" search ever, other day 🤔
@@izzybobizzyy OHHHH i just realized why I don't get ads y'all are talking about - it's because I'm Russian and brands don't expect me to buy their stuff
The problem with all the alternatives is that once any one of them reaches a critical mass of users they'll start pumping it with more advertisements. Such is the way of the world where the only thing that matters is extracting time, wealth, and energy from the working class and funneling it upward. Thank you for this video though, I too have become sick of how bad the ads have gotten on Pinterest and the alternatives are great, while they last.
I agree, that why instead of supporting companies, we learn to rely and trust our own ideas. And if anything we can ask other people in person for their opinions.
@@ruthizred9090 i would never ask someone in my life for opinions on my art 😭😭 there is nothing wrong with preferring social media for stuff like this. im never gonna grow if i just “trust my own ideas” or ask the people around me who know nothing about it.
When I started using Pinterest on my browser with my Adblock on I was so shocked to see literally half the page was blank… half of the things I was seeing were ads. Thanks so much for these recs! A lot of these seem a bit less led by trends which I really like as well!
I've been downloading and saving all my boards and images from Pinterest (for personal reference only) because they have gone fully crazy deleting images and flagging accounts for literally nothing. Hate the ads, hate the AI, hate the constant repetition. They've ruined the website trying to make it "friendly to advertisers." I'm nearly done and then I hope to never bother with that website again. Thanks for these other options!!!
How do you download boards? I did it a few years ago but now the download option seems to have gone. I have so many k's of images there is no way to just save it all.
Omg. Finally someone's addressing this issue. The destruction of Pinterest by greed and unending ads actually saddens because not only I see this happening everywhere but Pinterest used to be such a happy place on the internet.
It really adds insult to injury that these companies are all collecting my data and tracking my activity in order to advertise to me, and yet still almost exclusively show me ads that would never be relevant to me. A huge percentage of my ads on Pinterest are for foods I literally can’t eat due to health restrictions and it genuinely just feels cruel. At this point I would happily pay a subscription for websites/apps if it meant I could have a decent and ad-free experience, but unfortunately they can make way more money off of ads and so most would never even offer that alternative.
same! i get alcohol ads even though i don't drink. i get meat ads even though i'm vegetarian. i get diaper ads even though i'm gay and don't want kids. i don't want to be advertised to at all, but geez....
happily paying for subscriptions shouldn’t be the alternative to being bombarded to death with ads, subscriptions are getting out of hand and the constant increase of their price. Paying for something that you don’t own. I think ads are fine as long as it’s a reasonable amount. Making the website/app unusable unless the subscription is paid is scammy.
RUclips should know me better than anyone, but some of the ads I get are insane. There is one particular company I want to block outright, but they don't let you, and they have over 300 ads! When I try, it asks if I want to see less of a category which usually has nothing to do with the company. I THINK some advertisers just pretend to be all these things to reach as many people as possible. It's so frustrating.
If you click on the 3 dots and choose to hide it it will teach the algorithm not show it. You will do it a few times, but take action don't let the ad pass or will teach the algorithm you are the ad's audience
not to mention theres also ways to access them for free too - my public libraries at my city have a “culture pass” that you can check out that lets you go to local museums and other places for free 😊
I think it's important to collect your own thoughts, in addition to collecting ideas. Card files are great for this. When you find something inspiring, get in the habit of jotting down a few ideas for using it in your own work. "Embroider flowers like this on hem of linen dress?"... "Maybe use this color scheme to posterize that photo of dog on boat"... "this pattern would add depth to encaustic mountain background". Otherwise your inspirations just go into a black hole and often you can't even remember why you liked something
absolutely! i casually draw fashion designs in my free time, i have a pocket-sized sketchbook and i will often sketch or take a little note of elements i see in real life that i like and want to include/expand upon in my designs :)
In the Old Days😮, when magazines were delivered to your house, I would note something on a page, rip out the page and put into a file folder and add to it. This was called " a morgue". I still have mine. It's full of craft ideas, home decor folder, fonts, gardens... The "morgue" is tangible, something I can hold and study, put the idea on a focus board. I am very please that you've researched more places for me to get ideas. I hate that pintrest makes me sign in to instagram or Facebook or whatever because I don't have an account there. Nevermind the waste of time signing in every time. Thank you, thank you, thank you. 😊
@@WishyWashyMaybe You can set up your Pinterest to sign in automatically when you open it. Not that I go on Pinterest very often these days but, at least, I don't have to worry about signing in.
I know we're moving away from Pinterest in this video, but there is a useful feature on Pinterest for this. They call it note to self. You'll have to view the pin after saving it to add your note, but I use note to self to solve this problem pretty regularly. 100% agree on the value of analog note-taking, though.
I don’t like Pinterest anymore because it’s absolutely littered with ADS and AI images. I’m an artist and I need real life anatomy references or other REAL HUMAN-MADE artworks for references. Ai is always wrong in terms of anatomy, lighting and physics which seems like it could severely impact my growth as an artist.
Yes, even if you don’t copy from it! Seeing it all the time probably influences people’s intuitive sense of what things should look like for the worse 😞
Also, lots of museums have digitized collections! And a lot of it can be public domain too. A pain to navigate, but very cool stuff you can see without having to travel + pay admission
Pinterest is just not as fun as it used to be, there are way too many ads and mostly obnoxious or vulgar. I really appreciate you sharing this information. I can't wait to check out these sites. I am kind of a Pinterest addict for anything arts or crafts. Earlier this year, they took my board away from me for too many violations of pins that are not allowed. They wouldnt even tell me what the pins were to give me a clue. How am I supposed to know what is and isn't allowed when the site is flooded with things that you would think are copyright infringement. I lost tens of thousands of pins that I had been saving for years and had to start all over again, and it still ticks me off. I had so many pins, that I had over 5,000 followers, now I have none. I don't even get the the recommendations for other pins like I used to. Makes me sad, all the time put into saving them. Anywho, I'm glad to find alternatives, so thank you. ❤
@@thylascene my emails about violations don't have images attached though?? they've even stopped giving me that one-time link that's supposed to show you the pin but always just took me to the home page.
@@kimberlyechols7280 That's very sad, I think I've been on Pinterest for almost 10 years now and I think I'd be heartbroken if they deleted my boards that I've been curating for so long 😣.
I was literally just reporting tons of pins on pinterest the other day because of how insane the ads got recently, thank you so much for speaking about this!
The amount of NSFW ads I keep getting on Pinterest is ridiculous. Most of them are very suggestive, cringey webtoon ads that make me want to gag, and then there's just provocative ads in general that continuously pop up. And then Pinterest has the gall to call my pins violations when they're tame?? Like the only "risqué" things I save are people doing figure drawing poses, but they're not in suggestive positions at all! And then of course there's the damn AI 💀 I was looking for some crochet patterns, but I have to wade through the sludge of fake images. It's gotten to the point where I can't even save animal references without finding some fake AI bats!
the surge of AI slop on Pinterest has me wanting to leave nearly as much as the ads. it’s so bad. The fact they don’t require anyone to tag it as generative AI content and so I consequently cannot filter it out of my search results or recommended feed makes it even worse.
My biggest Pinterest gripe is their search function. There’s no way to specify “this” NOT “that” like with Boolean, or ways to filter. Particularly for AI generated content, now that it’s becoming more common. Plenty of places have implemented a filter for AI content, and at least have the option to specify that something was made partially/fully with generative AI. Pinterest’s UI/UX overall has just fallen so far behind
Also by year. Like Before(year) or After(Year) or During(Year) I wanna see actual outfits from the actual year, not from a watered down version of what minimalist influencers think people wore that time.
Amazing! The amount of "violations" from some of my saved pins that literally aren't even bad sends me. Like Pinterest, one its not even mine and two its not even bad
when pinterest sends you a violation notice for a pin it put on your home feed 🙃 I didn’t go looking for this one, pinterest, you showed it to me of your own accord, report yourself, don’t punish me for your mistakes…. and they really are usually not even bad, yeah, especially compared to some of the ads
Yes! All of the time this happens to me. I don't understand. I don't even post anything myself so how am I getting a violation for something Pinterest showed to me on purpose and that I did not post 😭
This is so real, i get a so many violations for like non-offensive memes, old art and, my favourite, i got a graphic violence warning of a picture of a partially peeled orange (it was an art refrence)
@everydayangel A PARTIALLY PEELED ORANGE? Their AI has to be some of the worst on any website I've ever used. And appealing doesn't do anything either. That's so awful oh my God.
I also hate that a lot of the ads on Pinterest are videos, like even if I do see something I like, I can‘t really focus on it because there‘s three different videos playing on my screen
Also, other people. Talk to your grandma. Visit your local old folks home and chat with them and ask to see pics. Strike up a friendship with the person in your neighborhood whose culture is v different from yours. Babysit some toddlers, see how they play and what stories they make up. Take an art class at your local community center. Take a book rec from a stranger.
This video was so direct and straight to the point, which is pretty refreshing considering how many things on the internet (including Pinterest. especially pinterest.) are dedicated to wasting your time, genuninely thank you !!!
This!!! I’ve been neglecting my boards because I’m over all the ads and constant “pin violations”! The last few violations have been baking pins!! Like what?’
I stopped using Pinterest a while ago after it got infested with AI, ads and AI-generated ads, but haven't found any good alternatives. Thanks for this video, it's so helpful!
Holy crap yes I hate using pinterest on my phone. On my PC I have an ad blocker and the amount of blank spaces that are there now instead of where the ad would be is insane.
I visited the pinterest office for an event a while ago and I love that you made this video. It's very clear that they care more about profit than actual content
my main problem with the many ads in pinterest is that they are scammer websites mostly when you check the credibility and also their ad photo almost always is fake, like that garment it does not exist it is a photoshop photo.
THIS IS SO TRUE. It makes the experience MISERABLE. I used to be a Pinterest addict, and I got so sick and tired around 1-2 years ago. Literally you can’t scroll on Pinterest, bc you’ll have to scroll through FIVE ADS IN A ROW. The only way to use the app is scrolling through the home page. It sucks
Thank you for this. I have been on Pinterest since 2011 and have like 25,000 pins. It's a site that's really important to me. I'd love to have alternative places to post and collect things because the site/app is showing its age and is being overrun with ads.
My biggest tip for Pinterest is to search for boards. Pinterest doesn’t put any ads in people’s boards and older boards won’t have tons of ai images either.
It's intresting how online platforms that were once used as a repository for indoration and inspo has essentially become one sneaky ad board. Thank you for sharing these because it really is nice to use the interest without having ward off ads and algllritms like pesky flies.
Pinterest was amazing circa 2013. Seriously fantastic. Just blog moms sharing their favorite links, abs emo teens resharing tumblr text posts and Percy Jackson headcannons. It was a beautiful corner of the internet. Then, everything changed when the TikTok girlies attacked. Capitalism took over. It has turned into a shopping/social media app rather than a cool inspiration finder and idea sharer.
The only place where middle aged ladies and weird teenagers got along in peace. I wouldn't even blame TikTok girls, I blame the ads and large companies. Now it's basically just social media. Ads, drama, call out posts, ranting, venting, oh my God. Just because it has an account and we can interact with people does not mean that it's social media and we can bring social media behavior into it. We're there to save images and organize them into piles, not to get likes and followers through shady and toxic ways.
thank you, i needed this. i feel like im going insane with the amount of ads that look like regular posts on pinterest. like why is this amazon ad just an instagram story screenshot of a bone broth recipe😵💫😵💫
It's more ads and AI than actual content... and most of the content is stolen and never properly credited, people will go out of their way to crop out creator's usernames, its gross. I feel myself losing brain cells and my heart strings breaking every time I scroll. Thank you so so so very much for this. You rock, and I hope every artist sees this!!
@yoshisarethebomb That just makes my blood boil. It's so easy to not be a gross person and respect someone's wishes. To quote the one fish from SpongeBob, "oh brother, this guy stinks"‼
This is really helpful! Just want to add that public domain is both content created before copyright laws as you mentioned, and also includes content that the copyrights have expired for. So over time more and more will content will become a part of the public domain.
One of my faves is old TV and movies. Especially for era-specific things like clothing/hair/general color palletes. Fully googling "60s tv shows" and watching a few eps of whatever comes up
HOLY CRAP YES!!! I put an ad blocker on my browser and deleted the app just to get away from the unbelievable amount of ads. Also as a side note, major respect for immediately getting to the point with your video. I subscribed as soon as you did that thats awesome.
About the ad thing, I always thought people were exaggerating since I’d get very few ads. But whenever I’d connect to the UK wifi that my foreign university uses, the amount of ads I see is insane. It’s like half of all the content is ads.
It’s also flooded by AI images and many ads are scams. They are doing nothing to keep people safe. I hate AI images that are not tagged as such. People need to know if the image is real or contrived.
The first 24 hours after I downloaded the app on my phone it was entirely wonderful suggestions exactly to my design taste. 24 hours later it was all ads. I went on Reddit and found a suggestion to click “hide” and select “this is irrelevant to me” on every ad you see. Then shut the app and re-open. Now that I’m in the habit and the algorithm is learning that I hate these and will never click, I have to go on an ad hiding spree about once a week to keep my feed nearly ad free. I treat it like weeding a garden.
This video is really cool. I just realised how much inspiration is out there and how many tools are available and I really appreciate you for adding the internet archive and libraries at the end. The way that you just got straight into sharing the resources without any fuss was also great, such a well presented and helpful video.
Wow I was just recommended this video, these sites are incredible. I struggle to find decent images all the time and can't stand pinterest, but have been at a loss for other resources. Thank you!
i only find pinterest usable atp bc ive had the same account since middle school and ive managed to beat my algo into submission, but i am really starting to get sick of hitting not interested on every second pin bc its an ad. thanks for the alternative resources
I looked up “character design” on Pinterest yesterday and it just brought up photos of Kurtis Conner because I’m hyperfixated on his videos and saved too many pins of him 😭
That moment when you're trying to search something up and 0% of the results are related in any way, shape or form to what you just searched. ;_____; Even Google is better at giving you related images. Even Bing. Even literal YANDEX!!!!
This multidirectional scroll is a cool idea. With the right search engine you could make scroll direction contextual like more of the same kind of image group using k-means or other clustering algorithms to show more of a certain type of image/feel
I didn't even know I needed this video but now my mind is blown! Especially with AI slop taking over so many image based platforms. Thank you so so much 💛💛💛
I went to Barnes and Nobles and browsed their crafting/food magazines like you mention going to the library for. I got a cool idea I want to try for a Christmas gift this year. Can't wait to try it. Thanks for the great wealth of resources to try to job my creativity now that interest is too overwhelming to visit.
Thanks for this, I was recently visiting one of my friends grandparents. She has a printing studio in her garage where there's an entire wall lined with books she's collected over the years for people to use as inspiration and it is literally like a mini library with so many different things
Wow.. I don’t frequently visit Pinterest and didn’t realize how bad it’s become. I just counted my “recommended” section and 13/17 were ads 🤦🏻♂️ Appreciate you putting this list together!
Cosmos is like so good the format feels more minimal so it doesn’t make my brain go crazy, the pictures are so good and the quality?? I’m going to curate it to the point that it is on par with my Pinterest because i just need cosmos to be able to provide me photos and inspo for stuff without making me dig and search for it. Thanks for the recs ❤
When I have my ad blcoker on pinterest, its wild how many blank spaces there are with only like two or three images. Even with the blocker, I still get fashion items with a link to etsy. So frustrating, thanks for these alternatives!
Oh, I thought Pinterest just stopped loading properly, I didn't realize all the blank spaces I've been getting were because I got an ad blocker on my browser.
This is the most valuable video I have seen in a while and I applaud you for diving straight to the point. I instantly subscribed, thank you so so much!!!!
As much as it drives me crazy it helps me to not scroll for very long because I get fed up lol. If I’m serious about a deep dive into brainstorming for an art project or something, I’ll go on my laptop because it has an ad blocker. On my phone I will often have more ads on my screen than actual pins 🤦♀️
Omg this is literally so true! They are making the app so unappealing, i used to scroll for like 2 hours on pinterest (it's the only app i ever scroll on for longer than 10 mins), but now just being on it for 5 minutes gives me such rage that it isn't even hard to close it.
Wonderful video, I've been looking to ditch Pinterest anyway since every other pin is an ad... Also a bit random, but I really appreciate that you didn't overlay your video with any obnoxious music. It makes videos almost overstimulating when it is added, so I appreciate that you created something much more calming :)
Thanks a bunch for turning me on to cosmos! Not only do i kinda love the name, but there is SO MUCH LESS AI and on top of that they allow nsfw images, so ref for that sorta thing can finally be like collected instead of having to go trudging through the trenches to possibly find something. plus, that lil tidbit is probably keeping the teenagers off the site which is great bc there's less pointless crap like fandom stuff to distract me. This is a gem I've been waiting for.
Thank you for saving me a lot of time and frustration. I've used Pinterest a littl we in the past, but not in at least a year. I've been thinkkng about learning how to use it. Knowing it is full of commercials I won't waste my time. Thanks for the other suggestions.
I emailed them saying "hey I like Pinterest but there are too many ads and no way to report AI" and included screenshots showing my screen more than 25% ad (up to 40% in a few instances) on desktop and over 50% on mobile, and included screenshots circling OBVIOUS AI and that being the majority of content from certain searches (e.g. garden). the first response I got was an automated "here's how to say you don't like advertisers because you don't understand how to right-click or click the 3 buttons" response. I responded to THAT (foolishly, I might add) that they clearly didn't read the first email, and not to bother responding without a real person. So they did. And THEY didn't read the email fully. They said the team was working on a way to report AI but he explained that Ads are from businesses paying them for the space and if I don't like an ad I can click the buttons and say I don't like them. Except that's not what I was complaining about!! it's the NUMBER of ads, not the types. I've never really cared what kind of ad I get, I care that my screen is pushing crap I don't need.
For anyone curious, I noticed a while ago that the ads seemed blatantly and unapologetically overwhelming in quantity, so I scrolled for a while and added up everything I saw to get some actual numbers. Guys... roughly 40% of the pins I scrolled past were advertisements, and HALF of the remaining 60% of "real" pins were from partnered users or linked directly to some product being sold. You're not crazy for feeling like it's majority advertising, it genuinely IS. And you are right to be upset about it.
I love some these really elegant solutions to things like public domain, I love digging through it but it can get tedious. I can tell I'm really gonna enjoy my research and design time more, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for this video. I've been locked out of Pinterest today. I have no idea why. I agree with many of the other comments...adverts, AI picture clickbait, violations -so why are they still saveable, .
amaaazing collection of great ressources, thank you so much for your sharing! and for all the time and effort you invested in producing such a comprehensive collection and illustrative presentation of these sources 🎉
OMG. Public dot work is perfect, I cannot thank you enough for sharing this one. I love vintage images and it's hard to find them. This is literally perfect! Pinterest has gone down the garbage chute lately with all the AI slop 😭
Ok a tip for ads, go to privacy and data in your settings and switch EVERYTHING off. Except maybe the video download thing at the bottom. Idk if I’m just weirdly lucky or smth but I get maybe one or two ads here and there so I think this helps
thank you sooo much. i try to use pinterest on desktop only with an adblock but mobile is just so convenient although all the ads make it not so. i never even thought there could be something better (though I definitely should have known) i have so much stuff on my pinterest its gonna be hard to leave behind and i doubt i ever will completely (i also use it for outfit inspo and other miscellaneous stuff) but im so glad to have alternatives.
Not only the ads but ALSO the ai images... I only want to use references that are made by real people and all I get are ai landscapes, ai drawings, etc 😅
Fr. The site I used primarily for art is now littered with AI :(
It is insanely infuriating.
not a perfect solution , but ; when using google (and some other search engines ) you can put " Before:2020 " and it filters out SOME of the AI
YES, there is a LOT of A.I. generated images on there....
SO TRUE!!!
What I’m tired of is my pins getting “violations” for things they clearly aren’t. Like SH and adult content. Bestie, that’s someone’s hand in different poses 😭
And then what’s so crazy is I have seen like visual violations, like 🍒 and not in an artistic, anatomical, or informational way. And I’m a black women, and there’s times where I’ve seen a violation for a black woman doing something way less provocative than a white woman, yet the pin with a black women will be violated. Just an observation.
A friend of mine got a violation for an image that was legit just a shoe reference, this thing is wild smh
The feed will send me things that it later flags as Grown Up. And it will send me a *warning* for re-pinning content that was already on the network. A year after that, I saw that some panes had a screen across them. And so you click to see the content. I had decided that they have figured out how to include Grown Up, and filter for it.
But no. They sent me a warning about re-pinning that content.
I got in trouble for pinning an artistic, not at all sexual picture of someone in a bath, where the water was completely opaque, only the person's head was out of the water 😐
I use pinterest and I see things like "I want gojo to spank me" and "I want light yagami to write my name down" and "life is short, make it shorter” and the comments are even more freaky and it never gets banned 💀 that’s what I love about the app, because that’s my humor
I keep clicking on the ads thinking they're regular content.
that's exactly their goal and it's the WORST
get an AdBlock Extension... like uBlock Origin for Chrome.
I hate looking up an accessory and it’s just all the same ads over and over again and sometimes they don’t even fit the search 🤦♀️
@@djmensil7303 Yes!! Whenever I look up a specific clothing item its nothing BUT ads and shopping pins. Its so frustrating
i do this everyday and my gf always makes fun of me lol
Honestly, even RUclips's phone app--if you search something it's: video, ad, video, ad, none of the videos you were looking for, ad, video, ad...
God, yes, what its going on with so many videos?? give me my images 😐😐😐
and shorts which i find soooo annoying because i came to youtube for long form content!!!!!! stop trying to be tik tok!!!
@floopieee Exactly, if I wanted tiktok, I would have installed tiktok; no, and apart from that there are videos that I do like but, then it won't let me download them 🙄.
@@floopieee this. i pray for alternatives 😭
One of the things I am grateful for is that there are no ads on apps here in Ethiopia, yet. Not on RUclips, not on Pinterest, and others.
the rage i feel clicking on a picture of a jacket for a character im drawing only for it to open to an amazon page is unmatched. THANK YOU!!! i can’t wait to try these 😭🥺💝
same. I just screenshot and create a pin
This!!
right???
i just click to the pin next to it and scroll
Ok do you realize this will eventually happen on every platform? You live in a capitalist society fyi
When Pintrest forced me to give them information on myself I told them I was an incredibly old fart then pinned a lot of KPop images. Then I consistently hide all ads except food related ones but don't look up any images relating to food at all. I don't get many ads because their algorithm is so incredibly confused by me. 👻
You're playing chess
Well deserved, these b holes play out a ton of baby related ads on my business account - a tattoo studio.
Maybe i should throw in an "i hate babies" and "childfree" search ever, other day 🤔
oh my god i just changed my info to being a really old russian guy and you’re right they don’t give ads anymore 😭
@@izzybobizzyy OHHHH i just realized why I don't get ads y'all are talking about - it's because I'm Russian and brands don't expect me to buy their stuff
hackers fear YOU
The problem with all the alternatives is that once any one of them reaches a critical mass of users they'll start pumping it with more advertisements. Such is the way of the world where the only thing that matters is extracting time, wealth, and energy from the working class and funneling it upward. Thank you for this video though, I too have become sick of how bad the ads have gotten on Pinterest and the alternatives are great, while they last.
These pages wont ever be as popular. Pinterest is the unmovable king
I agree, that why instead of supporting companies, we learn to rely and trust our own ideas. And if anything we can ask other people in person for their opinions.
@@ruthizred9090 opinions? You mean references??
@@ruthizred9090 i would never ask someone in my life for opinions on my art 😭😭 there is nothing wrong with preferring social media for stuff like this. im never gonna grow if i just “trust my own ideas” or ask the people around me who know nothing about it.
This is the life under Capitalism
When I started using Pinterest on my browser with my Adblock on I was so shocked to see literally half the page was blank… half of the things I was seeing were ads.
Thanks so much for these recs! A lot of these seem a bit less led by trends which I really like as well!
This! Its like half the page has huge gaps in from the ads. Its pretty much the only way i tolerate pinterest anymore though
how does anyone use the internet without adblock
Exactly. Desktop is the only way I can use the site.
Same! The huge blocks of white background really show just how many ads they’re pushing
Do you know of any ad blockers I can use?
not just the ads but all the ai content is making me go crazy
Pinterest is the WORST place to propagate Ai content since it is an app for photographs. It should be banned on there
I've been downloading and saving all my boards and images from Pinterest (for personal reference only) because they have gone fully crazy deleting images and flagging accounts for literally nothing. Hate the ads, hate the AI, hate the constant repetition. They've ruined the website trying to make it "friendly to advertisers." I'm nearly done and then I hope to never bother with that website again. Thanks for these other options!!!
How do you download boards? I did it a few years ago but now the download option seems to have gone. I have so many k's of images there is no way to just save it all.
I have the same question just as the person above! I personally have about 11k+ pins, I don't think there is any way for me to save them all...
sameee samee, im so sick of getting emails about one of my pins deleted i just liked an image thats not mine omg
@@antimonyv me too!
@@vickydelfosseI have iOS and there is a 3 dot icon that you click and it’s gives the option to download the image you selected
Omg. Finally someone's addressing this issue. The destruction of Pinterest by greed and unending ads actually saddens because not only I see this happening everywhere but Pinterest used to be such a happy place on the internet.
It really adds insult to injury that these companies are all collecting my data and tracking my activity in order to advertise to me, and yet still almost exclusively show me ads that would never be relevant to me. A huge percentage of my ads on Pinterest are for foods I literally can’t eat due to health restrictions and it genuinely just feels cruel. At this point I would happily pay a subscription for websites/apps if it meant I could have a decent and ad-free experience, but unfortunately they can make way more money off of ads and so most would never even offer that alternative.
same! i get alcohol ads even though i don't drink. i get meat ads even though i'm vegetarian. i get diaper ads even though i'm gay and don't want kids. i don't want to be advertised to at all, but geez....
happily paying for subscriptions shouldn’t be the alternative to being bombarded to death with ads, subscriptions are getting out of hand and the constant increase of their price. Paying for something that you don’t own. I think ads are fine as long as it’s a reasonable amount. Making the website/app unusable unless the subscription is paid is scammy.
Yes, the ads they show me on Pinterest are so off my taste, specially the videos ones, that I just close the app😢
RUclips should know me better than anyone, but some of the ads I get are insane. There is one particular company I want to block outright, but they don't let you, and they have over 300 ads! When I try, it asks if I want to see less of a category which usually has nothing to do with the company. I THINK some advertisers just pretend to be all these things to reach as many people as possible. It's so frustrating.
If you click on the 3 dots and choose to hide it it will teach the algorithm not show it. You will do it a few times, but take action don't let the ad pass or will teach the algorithm you are the ad's audience
heck ya! another underhyped irl resource is museums. i went to a textile museum for $4 and it was crazy!
not to mention theres also ways to access them for free too - my public libraries at my city have a “culture pass” that you can check out that lets you go to local museums and other places for free 😊
I use Google Arts & Culture to find the original websites of museums. It's so beautiful and cool and (mostly) totally adfree.
Thanks girl, I’ve counted and it’s an ad every second pin I’m not joking 💀
if you use vpn, you can set it to Ireland and there will be no ads in Pinterest :)
The ads are not as densely packed when I use Pinterest on my laptop. The mobile app really is an ad every other pin though, you're right.
I’ve had 3 ads in a row before 😅
You're lucky that the ads aren't soo on your face.
Get an adblock
I think it's important to collect your own thoughts, in addition to collecting ideas. Card files are great for this. When you find something inspiring, get in the habit of jotting down a few ideas for using it in your own work. "Embroider flowers like this on hem of linen dress?"... "Maybe use this color scheme to posterize that photo of dog on boat"... "this pattern would add depth to encaustic mountain background". Otherwise your inspirations just go into a black hole and often you can't even remember why you liked something
absolutely! i casually draw fashion designs in my free time, i have a pocket-sized sketchbook and i will often sketch or take a little note of elements i see in real life that i like and want to include/expand upon in my designs :)
I love that, it's like the Zettelkasten method for art instead of writing!
In the Old Days😮, when magazines were delivered to your house, I would note something on a page, rip out the page and put into a file folder and add to it. This was called " a morgue". I still have mine. It's full of craft ideas, home decor folder, fonts, gardens... The "morgue" is tangible, something I can hold and study, put the idea on a focus board.
I am very please that you've researched more places for me to get ideas. I hate that pintrest makes me sign in to instagram or Facebook or whatever because I don't have an account there. Nevermind the waste of time signing in every time. Thank you, thank you, thank you. 😊
@@WishyWashyMaybe You can set up your Pinterest to sign in automatically when you open it. Not that I go on Pinterest very often these days but, at least, I don't have to worry about signing in.
I know we're moving away from Pinterest in this video, but there is a useful feature on Pinterest for this. They call it note to self. You'll have to view the pin after saving it to add your note, but I use note to self to solve this problem pretty regularly. 100% agree on the value of analog note-taking, though.
I've been getting so sick of pinterest! The search tool does not do what I need it to anymore. I'm so excited to try these sites out
I am so happy someone said this thought it was only me
It LITERALLY gives me 5 results. EVERY. TIME. and half the time it gives me nothing!
I don’t like Pinterest anymore because it’s absolutely littered with ADS and AI images. I’m an artist and I need real life anatomy references or other REAL HUMAN-MADE artworks for references. Ai is always wrong in terms of anatomy, lighting and physics which seems like it could severely impact my growth as an artist.
Yes, even if you don’t copy from it! Seeing it all the time probably influences people’s intuitive sense of what things should look like for the worse 😞
I agree and feel the same way. I don't spend any time on the app anymore either.
Also, lots of museums have digitized collections! And a lot of it can be public domain too.
A pain to navigate, but very cool stuff you can see without having to travel + pay admission
Google Arts & Culture app!! At least last time I checked. It's a surprisingly awesome database with lots of fascinating articles
Pinterest is just not as fun as it used to be, there are way too many ads and mostly obnoxious or vulgar.
I really appreciate you sharing this information. I can't wait to check out these sites.
I am kind of a Pinterest addict for anything arts or crafts. Earlier this year, they took my board away from me for too many violations of pins that are not allowed. They wouldnt even tell me what the pins were to give me a clue. How am I supposed to know what is and isn't allowed when the site is flooded with things that you would think are copyright infringement. I lost tens of thousands of pins that I had been saving for years and had to start all over again, and it still ticks me off. I had so many pins, that I had over 5,000 followers, now I have none. I don't even get the the recommendations for other pins like I used to. Makes me sad, all the time put into saving them. Anywho, I'm glad to find alternatives, so thank you. ❤
Yoo, a way to see what violation images were is just dragging the image to another tab (if you're on pc)
@@thylascene my emails about violations don't have images attached though?? they've even stopped giving me that one-time link that's supposed to show you the pin but always just took me to the home page.
@@kimberlyechols7280 That's very sad, I think I've been on Pinterest for almost 10 years now and I think I'd be heartbroken if they deleted my boards that I've been curating for so long 😣.
I was literally just reporting tons of pins on pinterest the other day because of how insane the ads got recently, thank you so much for speaking about this!
The ads will never go away. They make too much money from them.
The amount of NSFW ads I keep getting on Pinterest is ridiculous. Most of them are very suggestive, cringey webtoon ads that make me want to gag, and then there's just provocative ads in general that continuously pop up. And then Pinterest has the gall to call my pins violations when they're tame?? Like the only "risqué" things I save are people doing figure drawing poses, but they're not in suggestive positions at all!
And then of course there's the damn AI 💀 I was looking for some crochet patterns, but I have to wade through the sludge of fake images. It's gotten to the point where I can't even save animal references without finding some fake AI bats!
the surge of AI slop on Pinterest has me wanting to leave nearly as much as the ads. it’s so bad. The fact they don’t require anyone to tag it as generative AI content and so I consequently cannot filter it out of my search results or recommended feed makes it even worse.
My biggest Pinterest gripe is their search function. There’s no way to specify “this” NOT “that” like with Boolean, or ways to filter. Particularly for AI generated content, now that it’s becoming more common. Plenty of places have implemented a filter for AI content, and at least have the option to specify that something was made partially/fully with generative AI. Pinterest’s UI/UX overall has just fallen so far behind
Also by year. Like Before(year) or After(Year) or During(Year) I wanna see actual outfits from the actual year, not from a watered down version of what minimalist influencers think people wore that time.
Amazing! The amount of "violations" from some of my saved pins that literally aren't even bad sends me. Like Pinterest, one its not even mine and two its not even bad
when pinterest sends you a violation notice for a pin it put on your home feed 🙃 I didn’t go looking for this one, pinterest, you showed it to me of your own accord, report yourself, don’t punish me for your mistakes…. and they really are usually not even bad, yeah, especially compared to some of the ads
Yes! All of the time this happens to me. I don't understand. I don't even post anything myself so how am I getting a violation for something Pinterest showed to me on purpose and that I did not post 😭
This is so real, i get a so many violations for like non-offensive memes, old art and, my favourite, i got a graphic violence warning of a picture of a partially peeled orange (it was an art refrence)
@ Pinterest is insane sometimes
@everydayangel A PARTIALLY PEELED ORANGE? Their AI has to be some of the worst on any website I've ever used. And appealing doesn't do anything either. That's so awful oh my God.
I also hate that a lot of the ads on Pinterest are videos, like even if I do see something I like, I can‘t really focus on it because there‘s three different videos playing on my screen
You can turn off the autoplay in the home page if you go to the config on your account. It works for the app and the website.
Also, other people. Talk to your grandma. Visit your local old folks home and chat with them and ask to see pics. Strike up a friendship with the person in your neighborhood whose culture is v different from yours. Babysit some toddlers, see how they play and what stories they make up. Take an art class at your local community center. Take a book rec from a stranger.
This video was so direct and straight to the point, which is pretty refreshing considering how many things on the internet (including Pinterest. especially pinterest.) are dedicated to wasting your time, genuninely thank you !!!
This!!! I’ve been neglecting my boards because I’m over all the ads and constant “pin violations”! The last few violations have been baking pins!! Like what?’
I've been so tired of pinterest! It's all just ads and ai now
I stopped using Pinterest a while ago after it got infested with AI, ads and AI-generated ads, but haven't found any good alternatives. Thanks for this video, it's so helpful!
Holy crap yes I hate using pinterest on my phone. On my PC I have an ad blocker and the amount of blank spaces that are there now instead of where the ad would be is insane.
same!
I visited the pinterest office for an event a while ago and I love that you made this video. It's very clear that they care more about profit than actual content
my main problem with the many ads in pinterest is that they are scammer websites mostly when you check the credibility and also their ad photo almost always is fake, like that garment it does not exist it is a photoshop photo.
THIS IS SO TRUE. It makes the experience MISERABLE. I used to be a Pinterest addict, and I got so sick and tired around 1-2 years ago. Literally you can’t scroll on Pinterest, bc you’ll have to scroll through FIVE ADS IN A ROW. The only way to use the app is scrolling through the home page. It sucks
Thank you for this. I have been on Pinterest since 2011 and have like 25,000 pins. It's a site that's really important to me. I'd love to have alternative places to post and collect things because the site/app is showing its age and is being overrun with ads.
My biggest tip for Pinterest is to search for boards. Pinterest doesn’t put any ads in people’s boards and older boards won’t have tons of ai images either.
It's intresting how online platforms that were once used as a repository for indoration and inspo has essentially become one sneaky ad board. Thank you for sharing these because it really is nice to use the interest without having ward off ads and algllritms like pesky flies.
Pinterest was amazing circa 2013. Seriously fantastic. Just blog moms sharing their favorite links, abs emo teens resharing tumblr text posts and Percy Jackson headcannons. It was a beautiful corner of the internet. Then, everything changed when the TikTok girlies attacked. Capitalism took over. It has turned into a shopping/social media app rather than a cool inspiration finder and idea sharer.
The only place where middle aged ladies and weird teenagers got along in peace.
I wouldn't even blame TikTok girls, I blame the ads and large companies.
Now it's basically just social media. Ads, drama, call out posts, ranting, venting, oh my God. Just because it has an account and we can interact with people does not mean that it's social media and we can bring social media behavior into it. We're there to save images and organize them into piles, not to get likes and followers through shady and toxic ways.
yes i miss my pjo pinterest
Cosmos in 10 seconds just blew my mind!
thank you, i needed this. i feel like im going insane with the amount of ads that look like regular posts on pinterest. like why is this amazon ad just an instagram story screenshot of a bone broth recipe😵💫😵💫
It's more ads and AI than actual content... and most of the content is stolen and never properly credited, people will go out of their way to crop out creator's usernames, its gross. I feel myself losing brain cells and my heart strings breaking every time I scroll. Thank you so so so very much for this. You rock, and I hope every artist sees this!!
I saw a Pokemon fan art that explicitly, in the middle of the artwork, very visibly said "DO NOT REPOST TO PINTEREST"
Guess what they did?
@yoshisarethebomb That just makes my blood boil. It's so easy to not be a gross person and respect someone's wishes. To quote the one fish from SpongeBob, "oh brother, this guy stinks"‼
This is really helpful!
Just want to add that public domain is both content created before copyright laws as you mentioned, and also includes content that the copyrights have expired for. So over time more and more will content will become a part of the public domain.
One of my faves is old TV and movies. Especially for era-specific things like clothing/hair/general color palletes. Fully googling "60s tv shows" and watching a few eps of whatever comes up
HOLY CRAP YES!!! I put an ad blocker on my browser and deleted the app just to get away from the unbelievable amount of ads.
Also as a side note, major respect for immediately getting to the point with your video. I subscribed as soon as you did that thats awesome.
About the ad thing, I always thought people were exaggerating since I’d get very few ads. But whenever I’d connect to the UK wifi that my foreign university uses, the amount of ads I see is insane. It’s like half of all the content is ads.
It’s also flooded by AI images and many ads are scams. They are doing nothing to keep people safe. I hate AI images that are not tagged as such. People need to know if the image is real or contrived.
Bless you, this is what the internet should be!
You’re so right. I’m sick of all those adds every where! Sometimes feels like we can’t scape them. Thanks for the tips.
The first 24 hours after I downloaded the app on my phone it was entirely wonderful suggestions exactly to my design taste. 24 hours later it was all ads. I went on Reddit and found a suggestion to click “hide” and select “this is irrelevant to me” on every ad you see. Then shut the app and re-open. Now that I’m in the habit and the algorithm is learning that I hate these and will never click, I have to go on an ad hiding spree about once a week to keep my feed nearly ad free. I treat it like weeding a garden.
Use an adblocker, don't waste your precious time on earth on this
The internet Archive for books and magazines is such a good idea! Thank you
This video is really cool. I just realised how much inspiration is out there and how many tools are available and I really appreciate you for adding the internet archive and libraries at the end. The way that you just got straight into sharing the resources without any fuss was also great, such a well presented and helpful video.
Wow I was just recommended this video, these sites are incredible. I struggle to find decent images all the time and can't stand pinterest, but have been at a loss for other resources. Thank you!
i only find pinterest usable atp bc ive had the same account since middle school and ive managed to beat my algo into submission, but i am really starting to get sick of hitting not interested on every second pin bc its an ad. thanks for the alternative resources
I looked up “character design” on Pinterest yesterday and it just brought up photos of Kurtis Conner because I’m hyperfixated on his videos and saved too many pins of him 😭
That moment when you're trying to search something up and 0% of the results are related in any way, shape or form to what you just searched. ;_____;
Even Google is better at giving you related images. Even Bing. Even literal YANDEX!!!!
This multidirectional scroll is a cool idea. With the right search engine you could make scroll direction contextual like more of the same kind of image group using k-means or other clustering algorithms to show more of a certain type of image/feel
Time-Life books were amazing. Pre-internet instructions for everything.
I didn't even know I needed this video but now my mind is blown! Especially with AI slop taking over so many image based platforms. Thank you so so much 💛💛💛
I got a reaction pic removed for self harm. It was a drawn reaction pic. Of a stick figure holding its hair and crying. LMAO
Omg finally someone says something. Like the amount of time I scroll on Pinterest and all I see is ads. So many damn ads!! Is so annoying!
I went to Barnes and Nobles and browsed their crafting/food magazines like you mention going to the library for. I got a cool idea I want to try for a Christmas gift this year. Can't wait to try it.
Thanks for the great wealth of resources to try to job my creativity now that interest is too overwhelming to visit.
Thanks for this, I was recently visiting one of my friends grandparents. She has a printing studio in her garage where there's an entire wall lined with books she's collected over the years for people to use as inspiration and it is literally like a mini library with so many different things
Wow.. I don’t frequently visit Pinterest and didn’t realize how bad it’s become. I just counted my “recommended” section and 13/17 were ads 🤦🏻♂️
Appreciate you putting this list together!
OMG ILY THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!! the ads on pinterest where driving me insane
Cosmos is like so good the format feels more minimal so it doesn’t make my brain go crazy, the pictures are so good and the quality?? I’m going to curate it to the point that it is on par with my Pinterest because i just need cosmos to be able to provide me photos and inspo for stuff without making me dig and search for it. Thanks for the recs ❤
When I have my ad blcoker on pinterest, its wild how many blank spaces there are with only like two or three images. Even with the blocker, I still get fashion items with a link to etsy. So frustrating, thanks for these alternatives!
Oh, I thought Pinterest just stopped loading properly, I didn't realize all the blank spaces I've been getting were because I got an ad blocker on my browser.
The adblocker I use (I don't know if it's the same one) added an option to remove shopping pins.
This is the most valuable video I have seen in a while and I applaud you for diving straight to the point. I instantly subscribed, thank you so so much!!!!
As much as it drives me crazy it helps me to not scroll for very long because I get fed up lol. If I’m serious about a deep dive into brainstorming for an art project or something, I’ll go on my laptop because it has an ad blocker. On my phone I will often have more ads on my screen than actual pins 🤦♀️
Omg this is literally so true! They are making the app so unappealing, i used to scroll for like 2 hours on pinterest (it's the only app i ever scroll on for longer than 10 mins), but now just being on it for 5 minutes gives me such rage that it isn't even hard to close it.
Wonderful video, I've been looking to ditch Pinterest anyway since every other pin is an ad... Also a bit random, but I really appreciate that you didn't overlay your video with any obnoxious music. It makes videos almost overstimulating when it is added, so I appreciate that you created something much more calming :)
thanks i hadn't heard of any of these :) i use unsplash usually when sick of pinterest ads so having more options to look at is really helpful 👍
Thanks a bunch for turning me on to cosmos! Not only do i kinda love the name, but there is SO MUCH LESS AI and on top of that they allow nsfw images, so ref for that sorta thing can finally be like collected instead of having to go trudging through the trenches to possibly find something. plus, that lil tidbit is probably keeping the teenagers off the site which is great bc there's less pointless crap like fandom stuff to distract me. This is a gem I've been waiting for.
Thank you for saving me a lot of time and frustration. I've used Pinterest a littl we in the past, but not in at least a year. I've been thinkkng about learning how to use it. Knowing it is full of commercials I won't waste my time. Thanks for the other suggestions.
I emailed them saying "hey I like Pinterest but there are too many ads and no way to report AI" and included screenshots showing my screen more than 25% ad (up to 40% in a few instances) on desktop and over 50% on mobile, and included screenshots circling OBVIOUS AI and that being the majority of content from certain searches (e.g. garden). the first response I got was an automated "here's how to say you don't like advertisers because you don't understand how to right-click or click the 3 buttons" response. I responded to THAT (foolishly, I might add) that they clearly didn't read the first email, and not to bother responding without a real person. So they did. And THEY didn't read the email fully. They said the team was working on a way to report AI but he explained that Ads are from businesses paying them for the space and if I don't like an ad I can click the buttons and say I don't like them. Except that's not what I was complaining about!! it's the NUMBER of ads, not the types. I've never really cared what kind of ad I get, I care that my screen is pushing crap I don't need.
For anyone curious, I noticed a while ago that the ads seemed blatantly and unapologetically overwhelming in quantity, so I scrolled for a while and added up everything I saw to get some actual numbers. Guys... roughly 40% of the pins I scrolled past were advertisements, and HALF of the remaining 60% of "real" pins were from partnered users or linked directly to some product being sold. You're not crazy for feeling like it's majority advertising, it genuinely IS. And you are right to be upset about it.
Girl! I need to say THANK YOU SO MUCH! I really needed this!
Thank you sooo much for this video! I've pressed the like button after literally 3 seconds but loved it till the end
I love some these really elegant solutions to things like public domain, I love digging through it but it can get tedious. I can tell I'm really gonna enjoy my research and design time more, thanks for sharing!
YESS i agree that the public domain sites aren’t user friendly whatsoever, so these are some great finds!! thank you so much!!
This video is absolutely fantastic. I got obsessed with Pinterest recently but the amount of ads have pissed me off already. Thank you!!
thank you!!!I’ve gotten sick of clicking on a pin and getting sent to an influencers amazon listing or whatever tf 😭 will be trying these
I thought I was losing it or being too critical with the ads situation on Pinterest
Rawpixel is amazing! The Vintage art that is in public domain is astounding! Thanks for sharing this!
those are all really cool, thank you!
i also love that you went straight into it without talking around it much!
The ai images, the constant emails and nagging that "you violated our whatever policy" even tho i posted my painting of a marble sculpture face...
The amount of ai on pinterest is INSANE!! I hate it sm. Thank you so much for this video!! Eager for better sites
Very excited about Cosmos, Thank you! It's like I get to meet a different version of myself while "Clustering".
Thanks for this video. I've been locked out of Pinterest today. I have no idea why. I agree with many of the other comments...adverts, AI picture clickbait, violations -so why are they still saveable, .
Ohh, I’m so excited and I’m barely halfway through the video. I could kiss you 💘💕💞💞💗 I can’t wait to try these out, tysm 😭✨
amaaazing collection of great ressources, thank you so much for your sharing! and for all the time and effort you invested in producing such a comprehensive collection and illustrative presentation of these sources 🎉
OMG. Public dot work is perfect, I cannot thank you enough for sharing this one. I love vintage images and it's hard to find them. This is literally perfect! Pinterest has gone down the garbage chute lately with all the AI slop 😭
actually so glad for this video, i was worried there were no alternatives for it, but i'm glad i was wrong
Ok a tip for ads, go to privacy and data in your settings and switch EVERYTHING off. Except maybe the video download thing at the bottom. Idk if I’m just weirdly lucky or smth but I get maybe one or two ads here and there so I think this helps
thanks for the recs! haven't used Pinterest in a year or so and have been itching for something similar
this is super useful thanks for sharing!! i haven't heard of most of these resources before, excited to check them out
thank you sooo much. i try to use pinterest on desktop only with an adblock but mobile is just so convenient although all the ads make it not so. i never even thought there could be something better (though I definitely should have known) i have so much stuff on my pinterest its gonna be hard to leave behind and i doubt i ever will completely (i also use it for outfit inspo and other miscellaneous stuff) but im so glad to have alternatives.
this needs more views!!! Thank you for all the research you did and showing us how to use these platforms!!!
that first website looks so good omg thanks!!!
started using cosmos today because of this video and I really enjoy it so far!
I didnt expect coming here to get mindblown. Thanks gal
Public work is so useful! I'm a historical reenactor and have trouble finding pictures sometimes. Thank you for making this video!!
Thank you so much for sharing! I hate the ads, algorithms and AI