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Hello.
Man, i don't know what it is... after my spurt of insane productivity in June, i've really.... fallen off in July.
I don't know, i feel sluggish and uninspired. I'm STILL looking for a job, since i turned down the gig at Hollywood Video. You see, i found out that they only pay $5.50 an hour... are you kidding me? $5.50? I could make more as a damned BEGGAR.
Fuck!
Once again, i'm back at square one.
Anyway...
...i feel like ranting a bit about DeviantArt.
Now, let me preface this by saying that DeviantArt is one of my most-loved websites of all time. Along with OpenDiary, this is the crux of my online universe. DeviantArt ROCKS. It's great. I love DeviantArt!
But.... some of these people here, man.
Okay.
Whenever someone faves a drawing of mine or leaves a comment, i'll go check their DA page out... pretty much 99% of the time.
Back in the day, i seemed to receive attention from other artists. I'd go visit their page, and see that the person who faved or commented me was also an artist. Cool. Sometimes i liked their work, sometimes i didn't. But i was clearly having some sort of dialogue with a fellow artist, which i like...
But now.... have things changed?
Or is it just me?
Nowadays, when i check out the person who liked my work enough to comment, nine times out of ten i'll find that this person is a Lurker. They have nothing in their gallery, just a bunch of faves.
Okay, not as interesting. They don't draw, but they like to look at drawings online. That's fine, right?
But then, i'll check out their Faves List, and see my drawing next to a huge assortment of crudely-drawn, clownishly offensive anime porn.
Like this.
Or this.
Or even, God help us, THIS.
What the fuck?
Those are terrible. They're so bad, they SUCK. They SUCK so bad, they FUCK.
Someone actually made that, and other people LIKE it? Are you shitting me?
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I mean, DAMN.
I know that my drawings can be a little pervy and weird at times. But i like to think that my stuff qualifies as genuine character art. Not.... this.... wretched.... PORN....
It's nauseating to think that the people who like that sick shit also like my stuff. It's an insult.
I've already enacted a new policy whereby i now refuse to do requests or commissions for people if i go to their page and see nothing but jack-off material. Seriously, don't ask.
If you're clicked on those above links and LIKED what you saw, please... i beg you... don't fave me, don't comment, don't do anything, just pass through quietly and don't let me know you're there.
Please.
Of course, i can't stop you.
Do what you will.
And if you think i'm being hypocritical, i'd like to point out that i do not watch normal pornography.
I've never bought a single magazine, video, or any sort of smut-like object in my entire life. I've never intentionally viewed a single pornographic video online. Ever.
I dunno, i have kind of a prudish side to me. God knows i love nudity, but the second it becomes "dirty" i get instantly turned off.
I'm a weirdo, i know. I'm not even Christian, for fuck's sake.
Anyway, that's my rant.
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Uh...maybe it's a sign that the fave-frenzy people are stepping up in their tastes when they fave you? maybe...when they fave your art, they're DONE with the freaky clown porn!(did NOT click any of those links btw)
i dunno, is there an upside to this? >.>
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Two of the same mind dude.
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I have no scanner, and MS Paint is hardly quality. Hench, why I do fanfics instead.
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"Signatures are so lame; everybody always chooses some babble from a video game or an anime that makes no sense in any context whatsoever to represent themselves. Only an idiot would make post with a signature. ....Oh wait a second..."
The thing is, though, that I do think everyone's entitled to their fetish, as long as they're not causing other people harm (and those people aren't, since people have the right not to look at their work). I may not get it, I may downright hate it, but it's their life . . . and I don't have to look at it.
My fandom account frequently got (and still gets) favorites from "jack-off material" collectors of the sort you mention, and yeah, it makes me feel severely skeeved out: more because I don't want my work viewed in that context, my work wasn't drawn with the same sort of intent. But I do post it publicly, and those people have as much right as anyone to look at it, favorite it, etc. I just try to ignore them. I don't think there's much to be gained by going off at them.
It's perfectly reasonable to have a rant in your journal, of course. I can particularly see how you might want to distance yourself from those people--that you might want to make sure everyone understands that you don't consider yourself part of that "world." Goodness knows I thought about doing that a time or two on my other account. But so far, I'm much more likely to rant and gag to my friends in private, because hey, one of the great things about dA is that it's very open--unlike, say, Elfwood, I can post almost any of my work here. I LOVE that. The other side of that, however, is that other people can post just about anything they want, too . . . and I might as well live and let live as best I can.
My two cents, as someone with similar experiences. And also, a whole boatload of sympathy, mister.
About the job search, too. Gaaaah.
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I totally get what you mean, luckily for me, I've never posted anything (so far) to attract those kinds. Although, y'know, a fave's a fave. (And, if the people who drew those pics applied themselves they could do some really good /normal/ art)
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Nah, that's not likely.
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