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i mean, it sucks. i don't really know how i can help. when i was new to making captions (i mean, i'm still new, but i've made 33 captions by now over the course of just over a month), i literally required validation, or else i wouldn't continue. i mentioned how i felt when i posted my first caption to a server earlier, after seeing them softly make fun of me >>11343758
>thank you, anon!!!! you actually inspired me to make my second (and maybe last ever) caption, haha. i shared that caption in three places and only got one (1) positive (You). i shared it in a slop discord and four different people just kind of hivemind reacted that the caption was pure yapping. i know irony and dogpiling is just standard discord behavior, but it still bummed me out.
i was just disproportionately making myself vulnerable by sharing my creativity for basically the first time ever, so even though it could've been far worse, it basically broke my heart. but i've come a long way, and after gaining momentum, i became unstoppable. i rarely get acknowledgement at all, let alone positive feedback, but at this point i do it for legacy, and for myself, so i think it's okay. i think you can do it too if you, since for me it was just getting over the initial expectant and fearful vulnerability of trying something new. but maybe your baggage is more complicated than that, so i don't mean to be reductive