Greetings, my fellow ICSEians!

One fault about our server, has been the ⁠#welcome channel message, the image in there has been generated by AI, and we want to establish that we do not support generative AI.
The image below is the image in question and unfortunately, due to the server being pretty niche when it was created, the MOD team at the time used AI.
We have made the decision to change it and we want YOUR help to do it!

The welcome image in question.

# To combat this, we have decided to hold a competition!

The community can either make a GIF or an image to welcome our members! We will use the embed for future messages in ⁠⁠#welcome and yours can be chosen! Along with this, we will also make a separate embed message for goodbye messages sent in ⁠*#capitol*
So, you (should) can include one for welcome and one for goodbye!

Submissions must be sent to our discord server!
The event ends on the 17th of August.
(If it is a GIF, make sure to upload it to tenor.)
Cheers!

Hello, I've given icse 2026 and currently I'm in 11th humanities. I've always wanted to participate in school events and fests but we never really got the chance to in 9th and 10th so I thought I'll give it my all in 11th. But lo and behold, every event that comes, either we're not informed about it and some "nepo babies" (kinda apt) are selected to go, mind you they don't know what they're doing or shit but yeah and auditions are also rigged if they're ever held (rarely). I have a good list of skills. I can bake, cook, crochet and design but the school never gives me a chance to show them through auditions, they always go for the safest options...

And also my bully is the headgirl, I'm scared that all of this is happening because of her. I've tried talking to the teachers regarding her but no one seems to care, just "I'll look into it", and nothing else. I've tried sharing this with two of my closest friends, but they're also saying that I'm overreacting with this. Both of them have participated in such events so I've given up on explaining this to them. I've decided to keep any thoughts regarding this to myself. I just want to be appreciated for once and showcase my talent, I know it's not something big but Im also aware that I'm good at the things I've mentioned above. I just want to go to one event and represent my school, I won't even try to go after that. And the bully and her group add on to this anxiety. I want to change schools but all the schools are done with registration, so I wanted to know if I could change in class 12th.

Anyways thank you for reading till the end, I know it's a silly rant but I needed to get this out. Sorry for the english, I'm not in the best mental state these days.