Be honest, /ic/
Have you ever purposefully crabbed someone?

every day

>>7600525 (OP)
I genuinely love bringing others down to my level
It's how I manage to cope with my own failure as an artist
I wanted to be an animator all my life, I didn't have the proper connections and never made it
Now I devote my time to blackpilling others, it's cathartic

>>7600540
You must be a sea crab. Do you take the bait too? You're probably stuck in a cage right now. Can you cry underwater?

>>7600525 (OP)
Purposefully? No.

there is no greater joy in life than helping others up, and goth tomboys in fishnets.

>>7600525 (OP)
Crabbing is a hobby of mine.
I post in /beg/ on occasion and pretend I just started a couple of months ago when I’ve been doing it for 8 years, just to keep them in their containment thread longer.
Also, when someone makes a thread asking how to do something retarded, I duplicate their pic, do it properly, then use an eraser on the top duplicate with some retarded strokes to make it look like I’m doing it in some nonsense manner to confuse them.
And obviously the low effort shit like recommending drawabox, riven phoenix or fwap, telling them to work in lab and paint in channels etc

>>7600525 (OP)
>Have you ever purposefully crabbed someone?
Imo, good advice that worked for me almost 100% will not work for others. I still share them though. Is it crabbing? Yes. Is there malice? Yes. Do I hate you? Yes.
Crabbing or not, most people won't make it. In drawing or any other field.

>>7600751
I feel like to a certain point, if you ask for advice you just deserve to be crabbed. If you can't just experiment to fix basic problems please just fuck off and stop wasting space.

>>7600643
Keep being awesome anon.

>>7600768
Shit, meant to reply to >>7600540

When begs ask me for help on discord I always give them my best study advice first, but if they reject it or complain about it (which they almost always do) I give them 2nd tier advice, 3rd tier advice, and if it keeps going, I just crab them. If you can't accept good advice but still want to bother me about it, this is just what I'm gonna do

>>7600525 (OP)
I call their art ugly ( if it is) and tell them they have an ugly soul, double whammy.

>>7600525 (OP)
What kind of pathetic, weak, piece of shit would crab someone? It's literally a failure of character and masculinity.

>>7600850
>noooooooo don't keep me in the bucket I want out I want ouuuuuutttttt you're not being masculine keeping me here nooooooooo

>>7600525 (OP)
i'm a newfag, what is crabbing?

There was this supposed woman on here years ago that got attention for her drawings (better than mine then and now) and was babbling about her irl issues so the next time I saw her post, I responded saying "haha your dad died"

>>7600858
Crab in the bucket, does the new gen after zoomers not use it anymore? Crabbing is being one of those crabs.

>>7600864
half the board uses it wrong anyway, like saying you're "crabbing" an established artist who's not even there to read your posts if you call out something in his work

>>7600850
It's a doggy dog world
Gotta snuff out the competition if you wanna make it to the top

>>7600525 (OP)
Never, and never will, because it doesn't feel good to crab on someone, you only make your own art shit when you do. Because you spent time crabbing instead of improving.

lol

>>7600883
>doggy dog world
never seen ic so perfectly encapsulated in a comment

>>7600525 (OP)
Yes I do it all the time
I'll admit right now that it's jealousy and a sense of entitlement
But I simply don't care
I love being a petty, envious, vindictive piece of shit
I hope every popular artist goes homeless and is forced into sex slavery
I hope everyone better than me loses everything
I'm fucking angry all the goddamn time. I have dart boards with the pfps of popular social media artists taped to them and just throw darts in my spare time.
I practice drawing by making art of the artists I envy and admire getting brutally mutilated. Sometimes I will masturbate to the art.
I hate myself and need everyone and everything else to become just as miserable as me
>Bbbut, that's wrong. You're just a whining pussy faggot
Yes

>>7600920
I don't know why but seeing people admit outright that they are awful is really neat to see

>>7600525 (OP)
No, it makes no sense. Why would I stifle someone's development? How is that fun?

>>7600923
you realize he was being ironic, right?

>>7600540
Do you think those 17 year old Chinese kids on Twitter that get scouted out of the blue (through DMS) have the "proper connections?
Get good and you'll have a chance at using your skills to put money on the table.

>>7600920
My fucking hero.
May you succeed in your efforts to burn everything to the ground.

Fuck all of you.

>>7600525 (OP)
Yes, I was jealous someone of much less skill then me was getting way more attention

>>7600525 (OP)
no, i don't find myself comfortable in lying to others and God would not like it either

I dont want to be a popular artist
Ive seen what it does to people and how they get trapped by their audience
They get a reputation as "the porn guy" and it sticks
You can't even talk honestly with other big names because it'll end up as gossip
Its miserable

>>7600525 (OP)
ask stupid questions get stupid answers is my motto

>>7601099
>i don't want my porn to be popular because i'll become the porn guy then!!!!!!
retard

>>7601115
its not worth it

>>7600525 (OP)
You're just wasting your own time giving insincere advice so I always mean it when I give it. But if ignoring someone struggling because I don't like them counts, then yes I've crabbed people.

>>7601130
i'm arguing that you are a retard because you already draw porn, so you ARE the porn guy, if you don't want that then draw something else

>>7600525 (OP)
Nope. Not once. I'm a good boy.
My shitty advice is all genuine and comes from the heart.

>>7600955
No, I'm completely serious

>>7601020
>Using Asians as an example
They were blessed through genetics

>>7600855
She really did say that THO

>>7601224
Based

>>7600883
>doggy dog world
What fun and unexpected spin on a common phrase, almost funny.

>>7600525 (OP)
I made someone quit drawing from crabbing them too much. I'm still a crab btw

>>7600525 (OP)
no, this board is called Artwork/Critique, not Artwork/Crab.

>>7600525 (OP)
Itt:
Everyone pretends to be a crab out of spite of people who improve fast or for beong critiqued

>>7600525 (OP)
Yeah, myself