>>7630670
nah, he's my friend, been there for me through thick and thin, really helped me grow as a person

they just have a bit of an ego issue and they need some gentle coaxing to dislodge their head from their ass
they did the same thing for me once, i wanna pay it forward

and like, i get it, with the personality and struggles he has and where he comes from as a person, i totally empathize with that impulse to self-alienate and tie your identity to being an eccentric outsider with mad skillz vs the world, but i feel like thats a dead end for his growth, in his career and as a person, i want him to stop being so cynical about what the "normalfag social media artist" metagame has to offer him, instead of being so picky about on what terms he succeeds creatively when he really has no idea how good it could be if he just went with the flow and took what he could get from it