Its rather sad its come to this. Artists just want to show their love for the series they enjoy, the characters they love. But if they get one detail wrong, show their preferred shipping or make it lewd, they get harassed and called names.
Its rather sad its come to this. Artists just want to show their love for the series they enjoy, the characters they love. But if they get one detail wrong, show their preferred shipping or make it lewd, they get harassed and called names.
Because too many artists give the impression they only like the characters but not the games they're in. I'm personally dead sure that more than half the people who draw 2B never played Automata. Same for Touhou. So when an artist get a character wrong, it's all too easy to conclude he/she doesn't really care about the characters and only want to get popular. I vaguely remember a Japanese artist talking about that about Touhou, and lamenting that many artists only drew Touhou because it was popular.
Also representing your critics as some wojack is not a good way to garner sympathy, quite honestly, I really don't feel like defending the artist here if they go that way.
Because too many artists give the impression they only like the characters but not the games they're in. I'm personally dead sure that more than half the people who draw 2B never played Automata. Same for Touhou. So when an artist get a character wrong, it's all too easy to conclude he/she doesn't really care about the characters and only want to get popular. I vaguely remember a Japanese artist talking about that about Touhou, and lamenting that many artists only drew Touhou because it was popular.
Also representing your critics as some wojack is not a good way to garner sympathy, quite honestly, I really don't feel like defending the artist here if they go that way.
Yeah, you should probably actually look around the RWBY side of twitter. The RWBY fandom is a special kind of horrible, and I say that as someone who used to be part of it. No artist deserves the shit RWBY fans start throwing if you so much as breathe wrong.
Like, I remember an artist drew Ruby once, in a perfectly SFW outfit, but it had cleavage, or her boobs "weren't the right size" or some stupid nonsense, and the rabid portion of the RWBY fandom just went absolutely ballistic.
Yeah, you should probably actually look around the RWBY side of twitter. The RWBY fandom is a special kind of horrible, and I say that as someone who used to be part of it. No artist deserves the shit RWBY fans start throwing if you so much as breathe wrong.
Like, I remember an artist drew Ruby once, in a perfectly SFW outfit, but it had cleavage, or her boobs "weren't the right size" or some stupid nonsense, and the rabid portion of the RWBY fandom just went absolutely ballistic.
I have no idea how the RWBY fandom is, I'm just judging that picture alone. And what I see is an artist opening a debate in a clever by depicting the fandom as a whole as a very shaking glass on the verge of falling off. And then the artist fucks it up by taking a shot at said fandom by depicting them as wojacks, which is counterproductive and even downright childish. As an outsider, my impression is now that the artist is the one looking for trouble by throwing the first barb, and is thus not really interested in addressing the situation but rather cares more about throwing cheap shots at people he doesn't like.
I dunno if I'm really clear, sorry, but I concur with what you say, to a degree. I still remember the Pokemon fandom having a meltdown because one artist drew a chocolate-skinned girl as "not black enough", so I'm not surprised that RWBY's fandom is equally bad. But I'm still seeing things from an outsider perspective, and that picture does a really poor job at portraying both parties as reasonable.
But I'm still seeing things from an outsider perspective, and that picture does a really poor job at portraying both parties as reasonable.
One side is objectively unreasonable, so in that respect this piece is perfectly accurate and precisely what it aims to say. It's not even the whole point of the image. The broader context is that RWBY is a dying copyright, and most people are only still interested in it for the porn (because the show hasn't been good for several seasons and RT is barely keeping it, and itself, afloat), and yet the people making that porn, or even sfw stuff, are under constant attack from a not insignificant portion of the fandom for the most trivial of reasons.
It's not as if "reasonable discourse" would even amount to anything, if it were even possible to have in the first place. The only worthwhile reaction is to laugh at the ones being mocked, as it's what they deserve. The artist isn't "opening a debate" because there is no debate to have. They're pointing and laughing at clowns, and nothing more.
One side is objectively unreasonable, so in that respect this piece is perfectly accurate and precisely what it aims to say. It's not even the whole point of the image. The broader context is that RWBY is a dying copyright, and most people are only still interested in it for the porn (because the show hasn't been good for several seasons and RT is barely keeping it, and itself, afloat), and yet the people making that porn, or even sfw stuff, are under constant attack from a not insignificant portion of the fandom for the most trivial of reasons.
Hence why I don't like that picture. It's not a report of the situation in the RWBY fandom, it's just one loser taking a shot at losers that he perceives to be worse than him. It's just people dragging each others down in the mud while pretending it's still about RWBY and not about their egos.
Hence why I don't like that picture. It's not a report of the situation in the RWBY fandom, it's just one loser taking a shot at losers that he perceives to be worse than him. It's just people dragging each others down in the mud while pretending it's still about RWBY and not about their egos.
Yes yes, just keep judging people for black and white reasons on a topic you've already admitted to being entirely clueless on. You literally claimed in a comment posted at the same time as this one that most twitter users are, "retarded American mouth-breathing assholes." and then explained how it's a complete waste of time to even speak to them. Yet when someone, recognizing how much of a waste of time it is to engage with those people, chooses to poke fun at how unreasonable they are, you put that person down for not being reasonable and respectful towards unreasonable and disrespectful people.
Are we sure you're not the contrarian? Because this is becoming a pretty consistent pattern with you.
Ha, there we go with the name-calling, as usual. I'll just leave you to talk to yourself, then, since you can't have a proper civil discussion.
That's the best way to go, IMHO. It takes two to fight and a lot of wasted time for anything so ephemeral as defending a point of view. Stalking unknown people on Internet and keeping track about what they said included. The downvotes/upvotes ratios are not coincidental also.
Because too many artists give the impression they only like the characters but not the games they're in. I'm personally dead sure that more than half the people who draw 2B never played Automata. Same for Touhou. So when an artist get a character wrong, it's all too easy to conclude he/she doesn't really care about the characters and only want to get popular. I vaguely remember a Japanese artist talking about that about Touhou, and lamenting that many artists only drew Touhou because it was popular.
Also representing your critics as some wojack is not a good way to garner sympathy, quite honestly, I really don't feel like defending the artist here if they go that way.
This artist has stolen from clients so just ignore her.
Long story short three years ago she had a problem and did not complete some commissions one of those clients posted receipts that she ignored them and had to chargeback to get their money back.
Long story short three years ago she had a problem and did not complete some commissions one of those clients posted recipes that she ignored them and had to chargeback to get their money back.
Assuming it's true, I now have doubts about whether or not that picture is really about the RWBY fandom and not a hidden swing at these. Artists who scam their customers like that cannot be trusted at all, I have heard of one who pretended to be her boyfriend and claimed she became suicidal after "harassment" from angry commissioners. But it's all "I heard this", so don't take my word for it.