I've been job hunting since January because freelance art is not sustainable and nobody wants to hire disabled folks. I can't sell commissions anymore. I have to keep uprooting myself because of AI scrapers and no NSFW on websites. Patrons are dropping like flies cuz people don't/can't support me anymore. I'm just beyond exhausted and fed up sometimes.
All the people shaming artists for deleting their works and moving are usually people with thousands and thousands of followers who aren't bothered by this, they always make enough to survive. It took me almost fifteen YEARS to make 1,000 followers on twitter when it was THE best place to promote yourself.
I can't wait another fifteen years to build back up an audience. I can't wait fifteen years to try and get people to find me and share my stuff around. I'm tired over crying over fucking /drawings/ that people didn't give a shit about. What would you do if you woke up and Tumblr nuked your blog? Years of posts gone simply because they wanted your writing or art or photos for money?
My art was all I had. Yeah, I can upload it elsewhere, but it'll never be the same. The few, lovely nice comments I got are all gone. I'm just tired of crying over this shit. Every time I go 'well, hey, things are looking up a little!' it gets taken away.
Yeah, my art's kinda ugly, and yeah, people don't share or reblog or whatever the hell anymore so it's harder to get found but god damn I'm at my limit.