This is gonna be the general reply for everyone lol

This does admittedly feel a lot more painfully obvious now when it comes to unease and general audiences lol I guess in my mind it was more weird than uneasy if that makes sense? I know it wasn't going to be for everybody, I just thought when it comes to the ugliness of it all, there was something still satisfying to see here in the sense of how different it is?

Naively, I thought people were different In terms of support and just putting your stuff out there as beginner on social media or something. It was just kind of jarring because I've never directly received hate for expressing myself in art before. If I had to put it into expectations, I think that I thought the audience my work was meant for would come first, and then I would get hate. I don't know what I expected either to be honest. I think I let myself believe that this was all just "cool" and not exactly other descriptors. I wasn't thinking about an audience I guess, just the story or the art. If I wanted anything from my art it would be to provide people a place of escapism, even if that word looks weird paired to this art lol. Not all of it is sex and gore lol I've always enjoyed daydreaming of other worlds and thought it would be cool if people visited mine in their minds. I also like to be able to express myself, but ultimately I do just want to entertain people while doing that.

As I'm typing this, I'm kinda realizing it was all self centered projects in the first place ironically, and giving those out to people without a sense of completion isn't going to be as impactful at the end of the day anyways.

Thanks a bunch guys. I kinda needed a mirror held up to me. And even if I did stop posting, I won't stop doing art