I'm Sorry (Ignore if it doesn't interest you at all...)
4 months ago
Dear everyone that I'm blocked from,
I'm deeply sorry for overstepping my boundaries and overwhelmed you all with my overly positive and over-barring comments. At first I tried to be as positively expressive and even present myself as a more welcoming figure to your comment section and uploaded content. This site had helped me be who I could be, a good person that can help and invoke so much positivity to those that may need it, as well as a place that can let me escape and relax from the normal world. But as time goes on and on, I've been realizing that I may have been doing more harm than good in annoying alot of you all with such positively enforced comments, including some that I've genuinely expressed my love towards your techniques and dynamic use of angles and colors and everything else. Thus, if I am to be blocked by you in an instant, than I am the one to be at fault for any negative behavior and being a continuous annoyance towards my favorite artists on this site.
I won't stop being Gho, and I wouldn't give it up for alot of things in the world, but I want to be responsible for what I've done to make you all uncomfortable with my comments. So yeah...
I'm sorry... and That's all I can say...
EDIT: Thank you all who are supporting me through your comments through this post, I won't give up on being me! And, well, I'm still holding on to that hope that my message spreads... And hopefully brings a better tomorrow for me! Plus, I'm glad none of you think I'm just a "bot" whenever you get my comments in the past! Keep doing great!
I'm deeply sorry for overstepping my boundaries and overwhelmed you all with my overly positive and over-barring comments. At first I tried to be as positively expressive and even present myself as a more welcoming figure to your comment section and uploaded content. This site had helped me be who I could be, a good person that can help and invoke so much positivity to those that may need it, as well as a place that can let me escape and relax from the normal world. But as time goes on and on, I've been realizing that I may have been doing more harm than good in annoying alot of you all with such positively enforced comments, including some that I've genuinely expressed my love towards your techniques and dynamic use of angles and colors and everything else. Thus, if I am to be blocked by you in an instant, than I am the one to be at fault for any negative behavior and being a continuous annoyance towards my favorite artists on this site.
I won't stop being Gho, and I wouldn't give it up for alot of things in the world, but I want to be responsible for what I've done to make you all uncomfortable with my comments. So yeah...
I'm sorry... and That's all I can say...
EDIT: Thank you all who are supporting me through your comments through this post, I won't give up on being me! And, well, I'm still holding on to that hope that my message spreads... And hopefully brings a better tomorrow for me! Plus, I'm glad none of you think I'm just a "bot" whenever you get my comments in the past! Keep doing great!
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As a wise lion once said, "Remember who you are".
Be safe, take care, and stay your awesome self. Sincerely wishing you all the best.
*sending you a hug*
But you know what isn't out of my hands?
You! *Gives you another tight hug!*
But don't let people stop you from being nice to others
I'm just hoping they understand my side of the story... And stop some from thinking that I'm a bot...
jokes aside, always happy to see your comments
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...That must mean my Stando-Power, 「SHOUT!」is motivating you by the day!
Jokes aside, truly thank you!
Keep being you and try not to let it get to you when some people are not able to recieve what you are willing to give!
For starters, this is a non-apology. You'd make a great youtuber apology video, though, with how much you're patting yourself on the back rather than reflecting even slightly. Saying "woe is me, I'm sorry for being so nice and good" is, surprisingly, not actually a very good look. You don't at all mention what 'harm' you've even done, let alone properly apologize for it, so I can't imagine there's any reflection there. And I can't imagine a more fitting way to end it then with "Also I'm not gonna stop lol". If you genuinely thought you were doing more harm than good, wouldn't you say how you'd change things to, I don't know, stop doing that harm?
Secondly, let me try and help you write better comments that won't get you blocked. The primary reason that all of your comments look like they're artificial and made by a bot is that they're incredibly generic. All of your compliments almost never refer to anything IN the picture, nor mention the things you like about it. You can say that you find a piece 'flipping adorable', but WHAT is adorable about it? What part of the art seems adorable, the fur, the facial expressions, name some details! When you say that someone 'has a way with literative language', mention what part of the story gave you that impression, say that you loved when a certain event occurred. Without specifics, your comments feel like they may as well be copy pasted - or worse, lack a human hand in their creation entirely.
If you repeat the exact same type of compliment over and over and over and over and over and over and over, regardless of the context of what's being commented on, regardless of whether a piece is a quick sketch or the artist's magnum opus, regardless of how many times you've said the exact same thing to literally everyone, it feels cheap. Nobody likes the drunk at the bar that flirts with everyone in the building and tells his targets that they're all somehow special to him. Nobody genuinely feels appreciated when the self-checkout machine says 'Thank you for your patronage'. Or, maybe you do, and think that you're being so very helpful and are loved by Walmart? Who knows.
...But, really, though, the jig is up. Your comments feel artificial and insincere because there's not a real person writing (most of) them. You've made comments seconds apart from eachother, made comments on accidental duplicate uploads as if they were both different pieces of art, mentioned things in a comment that weren't in the piece being commented on, and plenty more.
If you didn't understand why artificial and empty platitudes get you blocked, you wouldn't be hiding the fact that you're generating them.
It really is the cherry on top that you explicitly just go ahead and admit that you're just hoping that this 'brings a better tomorrow for you', that people spread this message for you and get you unblocked - you're not genuinely sorry about anything, but hate being inconvenienced by the block system. Sucks to suck.
Maybe you wanted to give everyone the feeling of having their work loved? But, mass-produced slop and empty compliments have the opposite effect. Getting your hopes up at seeing someone comment on your work, only to see that it's almost the exact same compliment about it being 'flipping adorable' that you already got last week and you saw on 100 other pieces of art actually feels really, really bad. Back in the day, having Tom as your only friend on Myspace was actually pretty depressing, and people removed him ASAP so there was less clutter and more room for genuine friends - and I don't blame people wanting to block you to leave room for comments that feel sincere, either. One genuine, well thought out, comment feels a lot better than a hundred generic ones that could've been commented on any piece of art.
Plus, I've seen so many people become trolls and harmful to artists and that I've genuinely enjoyed because of WHAT they WANT to draw, or mix, or even render, and I wanted to BE there for them, even if it might feel cheap to them to read these comments and onto other artists, I wanted them to know that they can do great as an artist, that they can continue to improve, evolve, and grow! I've seen so many artists before I've made an account here, and watched as they made themselves standout amongst the others that I've fallen in love with even earlier! I've said these phrases like a model maker and kit-basher: They may just be tiny and similar things at first, but when you get to read them as a collection of ever-loving support, then you can be better, too.
I've always repeated "Keep Doing Great" as a simple mission, the same as "Fighting an Never-ending Battle", to continue to advance what you and so many can do as writers and illustrator or anyother artist. Or, it can be just a phrase that can be there to forever inspire like "I don't want to survive, I want to live", something to stuck with them as creative and talented people and make it as their own and push them to continue who they are with their talent.
But overall, thank you. for telling me what I could and should do to improve myself with my comments, I've said that I've been trying to resist falling back into that hole, but I will, and I'll climb back up from it. I may be "inconvenienced" by the block button and I'm sad that I may not interact with those artists anymore, but that's what they want, and I have to accept it.
Finally, I'll just leave you with this: If the internet can lead to negative trolling and spam, why can't there be positive spam? Spam than make us feel better in ourselves and who or what we are?
Thank you again for your comment.
I get why you stick to artificial comments now, though - you just can't help yourself when you're actually typing. Kit-bashing together comments from generic pieces isn't meaningfully different from generating them with AI, they're both equally soulless. I have no idea why you'd just outright admit that you do that, lmao - Did you think that typing it by hand meant something? Because it doesn't, if the content of a comment isn't actually engaging with the piece being commented on, and the words could have just as been easily said to anyone else.
Not to mention being transparent about your motivations. To be frank, it's a little maladjusted to feel that making comments is your 'mission'. I'm not a therapist, and I don't know you beyond these couple of paragraphs, but thinking that leaving a bunch of comments saying the same thing is going to somehow make you the super special person that "forever inspires" artists and makes it so your comments "stuck with them" forever reads like narcissism - as does your initial self-aggrandizing journal post. Not saying that you are actually a narcissist, but it is not healthy to have that as a goal. A regular commenter is commenting because they like the work, not because they have some grand aim of having the artist think about them, believing that their comments will be life-changing.
I will, in turn, leave you with this: Why do you expect spam to have any positive effect at all? If I made ten accounts and made every one of them leave the comment "This is the best piece of art ever!" on all of the million pieces of art on this site, do you think that even a single person would read that and feel good about it? Or would they think that those ten accounts are lying, because they see the same comment everywhere?
Like, what you're suggesting is literally a gag in the movie Idiocracy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIFCWpn4qQ4 Go watch this clip and tell me: do you feel loved? Do you feel that this Costco employee truly loves you? Or does the low-effort delivery, repeated message, and the fact that he says it to literally everyone happen to make it feel less sincere? Like he, just maybe, doesn't actually love everyone that walks into the store? That, perchance, that the people that are getting your generic comments might feel like you don't actually find their work 'flipping adorable', either?
Good luck. I really do hope that you manage to be special to some people - but you'd be much more likely to do that with quality interactions rather than spam.
Just stop.
There’s already a lack of comments on most submissions, people are just getting frustrated by the only positivity in front of them sometimes.
So yeah, keep being positive :)