@leegle replied to your post “I miss actually being allowed to be problematic in fandom. We knew...”
I've noticed that the grand majority of antis don't make any art at all. I'd wager that part of their rage comes from the fact that someone else dares not only to make something they disagree with, but to also get positive attention and gain fans for what they create. A kind of jealous rage.
They do not. Like from first hand experience and from observation that’s absolutely correct it’s literally “this person is talented and/or popular and I am not because I spend all my time hating things rather than making things and being likeable therefore rather than improve myself I will tear down others” like that’s 100% it. I saw it happen to roachpatrol who is both talented and popular. I had it happen to me who while not popular am, to a degree, talented (I can draw and I know I can draw both well and fast though I do not claim to be the best) and at the very least can draw and create content.
Like I recall two antis (or people who ascribe to the mentality 100% tho may not call themsleves such) who are about mid-twenties (yeah, kinda creepy when you consider the whole making minors fight your battles and expose themselves to allegedly triggering content) one of whom creates literally nothing, contributes nothing of value to fandom(s), just bitches and the other who, funny enough was a former fan, and who, unless things have changed in like two years, has art that is reminiscent of that of a twelve year old (I’m not even saying that to be mean I mean I remember drawing like that when I was like 7 or 8 and actually it might’ve been Dakota who said “looking at their art I think they’re 12″ when at the time they were 23, like...multiple people guessed a much more immature age based on the ability shown. And also personality. Her personality was childish as fuck.)
And this is not to be like HAW HAW U CANT DRAW U SUXX0RZ but just...when you spend all your time and energy being a fucking cunt and policing what people draw and being butthurt over what content people create, like, how can you expect to GIT GUD at art or writing or anything? You can’t. You cannot. Because the time some antishipping dingbat or purity policeman handwringing over art spends screeching and getting their panties in a twist over drawings or writing or fandumb or whatever non-issue du jour is time that the rest of us artists and writers and creators spent getting better at our craft and enjoying ourselves.
But rather than stop being hateful self-absorbed little fucktrucks and improving themselves and their art and working hard to get a following, these antis would rather tear down artists like myself or roachpatrol or Mr. Cat or whoever’s next on the chopping block because they think they can get either a fast track to popularity or, like a fucking Disney villain, decide “well if I can’t have popularity then NO ONE can” and try to destroy people’s reputations and lives. And that’s frankly disgusting abusive behavior and I hope their souls start changing but damn they’ve got a long damn list of sins they gotta atone for considering the way they’ve treated me and other innocent people.
(That uh got a bit religious toned, haha, I got Johnny Cash playing and man, I may be nominally Catholic but I was never good at turning the other cheek.)
