How Not To Handle Criticism: Blocking The Meanies Out
Controversial opinion time:
If you have a deviantart, furaffinity, or any other art site account and you block comments on your submissions, you are a coward.
If you intentionally build or allow an environment on your webcomic’s forum that is openly hostile to criticism and dismisses it as trolling, you are a coward.
If you send your fans out to attack someone for criticising you, you are a coward.
This is as plain a truth as you can get. Criticism is just a statement, it cannot possibly do any real harm to you as a person and it has the chance of helping you grow and develop not as an artist, but as a person in general.
And if you are so scared of this that you try to shield yourself from it through either blocking people or sending your ass-grabbing yes-men after the heretic who offended you, you are a coward. There is no exception.
This is how the world works: You make something and you put it on the internet. This also means that you are making your work open to discussion and commentary on it. This means that you will eventually be criticized on your shortcomings. If you shut out the criticism, then you can kiss any chance of getting better or getting good at all goodbye because you have made open, honest dialogue between artist and viewer impossible.
Jay Naylor: you are a coward and a manchild because every time anything about you is criticized, you throw a tantrum, block the person, and then crawl back into your little hugbox. If it weren’t for the fact that furries will literally masturbate to anything, you’d be on the street selling blowjobs for gas money.
Soulkat, IDFox, Chalo: You are cowards for cultivating a toxic, enabling atmosphere on your forums where any statement even remotely negative about your precious furry webcomic is shouted down as trolling. You never defend your work yourself, you let your little social lampreys do it for you. You are not even successful by regular standards, you have to beg your fanboys for money to keep your site up, You are artistic parasites.
AkuOreo: You are a coward because you’re not even big enough to respond to any criticism the first time. You block every statement that isn’t asskissing and then you go back to charging 80$ for elementary school level artwork.
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