>>714900897To draw as a genuine hobby and not as a job makes you vulnerable. You bear your soul to ungrateful, diseased mongrel masses who cannot create themselves at absolutely no benefit to yourself, only accumulating risks. You will see it everywhere, this "I loved this artist UNTIL-" but the form of their love was nothing, less than nothing, and the form of their spite is sickening.
Your art was a plea to be acknowledged for the effort you put in. It never arrives in the way you wanted it. Instead, it's repost bots, AI training, schizophrenics harassing you for a thousand potential reasons, plagiarism, ERP accounts, ceaseless requests for FOTM garbage, "wow I like your art but can you draw a picture of a boy being forced to marry his sister's feet?", the digital equivalent of hanging an oil painting in a bathroom stall without a display case.
The vandalism that follows should be expected, but it never is. You really cannot know how bad it is without experiencing it yourself. Madness? Yes, you have to be mad to subject yourself to this.
You were not meant to share what you are with so many. The mind recoils from it. What builds inexorably is a slow, escalating unreasonable wordless dread that cannot be placated. It was always like this, too. Social media simply amplified pre-existing demons.
Deletion of social media is the final exorcism. It's freedom. A return to drawing for yourself, not for clout.
