A slap in the face to creatives.
"I bought this on a birthday shopping trip having only flipped through it quickly. As someone who enjoys stationery, cardmaking and general papercraft I was taken in by the exciting patterns, textures and colors. Really looking through it though, I was extremely disappointed, noticing evidence on multiple images of generative """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""tools"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" used to create them. The most obvious sign of this at this point is incomprehensible letters and numbers. I'm so tired of this garbage being everywhere now, and it's beyond insulting to sell a shoddy facsimile of stolen creative work back to us just so they can avoid having to acknowledge (Or compensate for) the time and effort put into making real art and photos. As another reviewer mentioned, there are oil spots left from the glue; to me that's an annoyance, but a minor one in comparison. I won't be buying this publication again unless their stance on image generation changes."