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weirderscience · 7 months ago

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been thinking about deviantart lately and i cant help but remember during the later years of the site's popularity where people would go out of their way to find what was (in retrospect, very clearly) art made by literal children and shit on it and cyberbully the kid about it. what the fuck was that. even shit that was like, well made was subject to overly critical bullshit about being unrealistic or a mary sue or whatever. its frankly bizarre to me as an adult that anyone ever tolerated this culture or even like, participated in it and -wasn't- a child themselves. or even saw it and didnt feel the need to say "hey what youre doing is really fucking stupid and pathetic"

#labz.txt #though if you ever said that shit youd be accused of whiteknighting #whenever i feel bad about tangentially participating in that shit i have to tell myself i was like 11 and super insecure and mentally unwel #also has to be said even if they were adults that were amateur artists it was still kind of dumb and pathetic #its like picking on the guy who just started learning how to play the piano of course he doesn't even know how to compose symphonies #you should be more supportive and kind...#You should be like a speedrunner. get excited and start showing them the ropes #you never know... this person might be the next guy to invent some really cool tech for improving!!!

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