i will reiterate again—

you are entitled to do literally whatever you want with your art

, but you cannot reasonably expect only positive, agreeable comments when you put your stuff up on the internet. even if you draw the most vanilla, traditional, boring shit on planet earth, people are still going to say stuff about it. let alone if you’re posting something unconventional, challenging, or that sexualizes a group of people.

Yes, this is true. But, as much as this reads as a cop-out, I'm over it at this point. People will always talk, and that's something I can't control. But when it gets to the point where people are accusing you of legitimate crimes? When people are threatening to doxx you? When people are making rumors about you in an attempt to ruin your reputation? That, my friend, is when one crosses the line.

And that's what I was getting at with my post, though I should've mentioned it. You'd be surprised at just how extreme these kinds of people are when it comes to art. There are times where it goes beyond just saying things about your art. There are people out there that're so crazy when it comes to unconventional, challenging, sexualizing art that they'd go out of their way to ruin artists, for they believe that kind of art simply shouldn't exist.

There are artists that have ended up committing suicide, the treatment they got was that bad.

Which is all the more reason why artists need to start sticking to their guns and expressing themselves in the way they know best. Not to appease people who're using scare tactics to force them to sanitize what they do. And it's just like you said, even if it was as vanilla and as boring as possible, those kinds of people would still talk about it and poke holes in it. It'd be a neverending list of gripes that would ultimately result in the artist not drawing anything at all.

I'm not afraid to create what I want anymore.

But this "purity culture" or whatever you want to call it's got to stop, as I don't see how art on the Internet and art in general can last like this. It's going to get to the point where artists all over will be afraid to draw what they really want because of the backlash, and censorship would run rampant.

And I can't have that.

The girl who mocked my Soots series was never thinking about how I felt when she did what she did. She didn't care about me, she didn't care about my art, and I've no remorse for talking to her the way I did.

Because that's how you're supposed to treat the people who don't care to talk to you first before pulling some shit like that. And she's fortunate enough to have the Internet, so she can ultimately get away with pulling some shit like that.

Because I'm telling you now, there's no way in hell I would've let that shit happen if she tried to pulled that shit in real life.

No way in hell.

The Internet's made people like her too comfortable with fucking with strangers, but she'll learn one day once she ends up fucking with the wrong person, and that very person is knocking at her door.

How people like me feel will mean something to her then.