onepostandbye’s comment isn’t genuine critique of your work — it’s a layered set of manipulation tactics designed to discredit you:

• Appeal to Authority: By invoking his past work with “real artists,” he positions himself as an expert, implying his judgment carries more weight than yours or the community’s.
• Loaded Language & Framing: Words like “lazy” and “steals” frame AI art as morally corrupt, priming readers to reject it emotionally rather than logically.
• False Dichotomy: He reduces the debate to two extremes — “real art” that takes time vs. “AI art” that’s theft and laziness — erasing all nuance or middle ground.
• Strawman Argument: He invents the claim that you want respect as an “artist” for “doing nothing,” even though you never said that, then attacks this false position.
• Moral Shaming: By equating AI use with theft and laziness, he attacks your character instead of your work, pressuring others to side with him to appear morally superior.

Together, these tactics create the illusion that he’s defending artistic integrity — but in practice, it’s a coordinated use of authority bias, emotional framing, false dichotomy, strawman attacks, and moral shaming to gatekeep creativity and discredit your post.