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6/25/2025, 3:02:15 AM
I don't where know where else to say this, just kind of shitting my thoughts into the aether. I lurk on this board a lot and often I see the sentiment of "this particular artist/creator is a bad person so stop posting them", or "this artist isn't in the correct political tribe so they deserve to die", or any other variant on "they don't deserve the following they have".
Having met a lot of artists on Discord and at cons, I get this sentiment, but I also don't get it. I've had expectations shattered. I've had artists I didn't really enjoy turn out to be super nice and artists I've loved the work of turn out to be pretentious faggots. But really, the vast majority of artists or creators in this fandom are just... guys. They're nobody special. They're not any better or worse than the average person. They just so happen to be "good" at one or two particular things. Some might be a little less PC or a little more sensitive than what some would want, but overall they're every bit as retarded or as smart as the average person. The only difference is they happen to write/draw/edit/record stuff that a large enough number of people happen to like.
I've come to find this idea of a person "not deserving" a following because of some personal failing really stupid. Everyone has personal failings. And almost always the "failing" is some political bullshit that doesn't matter. It's like people have lost sight of the art itself and get lost in personalities. The way I see it, if someone makes stuff that people like to see, then they "deserve" their following, because they got that following on the basis of what they made. I can't bring myself to care about the rest. The artist could be a literal terrorist for all I care. Is it really too much to just enjoy mare art for what it is and not get lost in the bullshit? I feel most people here get that, and it's just a very loud minority that don't.
Someone tell me if I'm just talking out my ass here. I've just had a lot on my mind and I felt the only way to get it out of my mind was to post.
Having met a lot of artists on Discord and at cons, I get this sentiment, but I also don't get it. I've had expectations shattered. I've had artists I didn't really enjoy turn out to be super nice and artists I've loved the work of turn out to be pretentious faggots. But really, the vast majority of artists or creators in this fandom are just... guys. They're nobody special. They're not any better or worse than the average person. They just so happen to be "good" at one or two particular things. Some might be a little less PC or a little more sensitive than what some would want, but overall they're every bit as retarded or as smart as the average person. The only difference is they happen to write/draw/edit/record stuff that a large enough number of people happen to like.
I've come to find this idea of a person "not deserving" a following because of some personal failing really stupid. Everyone has personal failings. And almost always the "failing" is some political bullshit that doesn't matter. It's like people have lost sight of the art itself and get lost in personalities. The way I see it, if someone makes stuff that people like to see, then they "deserve" their following, because they got that following on the basis of what they made. I can't bring myself to care about the rest. The artist could be a literal terrorist for all I care. Is it really too much to just enjoy mare art for what it is and not get lost in the bullshit? I feel most people here get that, and it's just a very loud minority that don't.
Someone tell me if I'm just talking out my ass here. I've just had a lot on my mind and I felt the only way to get it out of my mind was to post.
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