I appreciate the UI giving us a choice. Like, you can just decide "actually, no, I won't blink" and carry on with your day, lol.

"I'm making a story about pretty privilege and the social stigma around being ugly, but my preferred artstyle is to draw everyone as conventionally attractive/cute cartoon characters". Many such cases.

(Funny; your post says exactly what I thought to myself when I watched this animation, lol)

Good luck!

Take this post with a grain of salt. It is spreading misinformation & first image looks like an AI overview.

Please cite reputable sources, otherwise this is only fearmongering.

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I may be a gooner, but there's a time and a place! Why am I getting jumpscared with softcore p*rn on the bus when trying to watch wacky chess variants? And it's always goddamn AI, too. Genuinely infuriating.

Без обиды (это не всерьез), но они мне кажутся немного cursed з носами. Также как Tristepin из Wakfu: рисовать его с носом чувствуется почти неправильно.

Тем не менее, как всегда, классная работа!

Ooh, it feels so great when you coincidentally find someone like that!

I once commented on a random YouTube video with less than 100 views, the uploader responded, we exchanged contact info, and it turned out they have similar hobbies, interests, struggles in life, etc. Now we chat almost everyday!

Best of luck. Fingers crossed it's nothing serious.

Now imagine everyone around you kept saying lemonade is amazing. You open social media and everyone is talking about lemonade. So, OUT OF CURIOSITY, you try lemonade. And you don't like it. And you say so.

"LET PEOPLE ENJOY THINGS!"
"STOP BEING SO NEGATIVE!"
"YOU JUST WANT TO HATE!"
"ELITIST!"

The absolute irony of the document having "DO NOT USE THIS TO HARASS UNRELATED PEOPLE" printed on the first page in bold, red font. Wow, just wow.

They justified Trayvon Martin's killing, they mocked George Floyd's killing, but now that it's one of their own, they're calling for empathy and asking us to think about his grieving family. Because when it's a racist white dude, suddenly, making light of a killing is "going too far".

Of course the media is sounding the alarms NOW, when a prominent right-winger is killed. Meanwhile, there's been yet another school shooting in Colorado. But apparently, there's nothing "extreme" about Charlie Kirk's opposition to gun control. It's only "extreme" when he reaps what he himself sowed.

No, I'm saying that they're not these cultured, benevolent "gift" givers you're making them out to-

Ah, forget it. Whatever. Yes, I'm evil, I want all artists to starve because I hate them all, cause I'm so jealous and petty. Congratulations, you got me.

I'm sorry, did I sell my IP rights to HBO and iTunes? Or did George R.R. Martin do that? Am I shilling a Patreon where I post my shitty fanart of other people's characters? No, I don't. But plenty of others do.

I don't sell my drawings because they don't make anyone's life better. Most art doesn't.

You're correct, I am jealous.

But I think you're focusing on a few outliers. Most artists are unremarkable, derivative, and far more a product of their culture than its shapers. The free art we're so "privileged" to see? Most of it is slop.

Meanwhile good stuff SELLS. It's not a "gift", it's sold.

I never said "whiny entitlement" was fine or acceptable! I'm saying that we shouldn't put artists up on a pedestal as if they're these great harbingers of culture.

Do you think the work of an artist is superior to that of a bus driver? A cashier? A trash collector? Let's stop worshipping creatives.

Or are you telling me he sold his rights to HBO and iTunes out of pure creative vision and love of the craft? That he doesn't at all enjoy getting residuals from his immensely profitable IP?

Bloody 'ell, wake up. Artists are not "enlightened intellectuals". Like most people, they work for money.

The context of this conversation is about how people are treating George R. R. Martin. Y'know, the author of "A Song of Ice and Fire"? "Game of Thrones", one of the most famous, successful TV shows ever?

I'm sorry, you're telling me I'M the one who's commodifying art and treating it like a product?