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Really Tired of it All
8 months ago
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I don't know if people just straight up don't care, or if I'm just becoming a big enough artist that it's happening to me now, but this year has frankly been exhausting after dealing with so many entitled users on here who have no respect for boundaries regarding me or my characters. One thing out of the blue at some point is to be expected but this shit has been relentless.
--Multiple people submitting my fursonas to AI Chatbots without my permission, not to mention getting their details wrong in the process. (Really you should be fucking embarrassed to use anything AI in the first place but whatever.)
--Multiple cases of people USING MY FURSONA IN FANFICS WHERE SHE IS TO BE KILLED OFF??? Why the fuck would you think that's okay??
--Getting asked to be someone's romantic partner, continuously sending me pushy messages in DMs and Shouts, only to complain on their page when I blocked them while admitting they are still in love with me??? And then stalking me and then my friend and then using our characters without our permission in their own art. And now just straight up plagiarizing my work but with their characters inserted in.
--Multiple DMs from users I have never interacted with asking for personal information.
--Constant misgendering, I am A GIRL. My pronouns are clearly in my profile and I consistently draw Cerulean as a feminine fox.
There's a few people whose interactions and comments I deeply appreciate, and for their sake I really don't want a few creeps to deter me from sharing my work. But I am so so worn out by how many instances I've had this year that showed people who've even followed me for years have just not taken away anything meaningful from what I make and instead see my very personal work as superficial and nothing more than material for whatever fantasies they want to project onto regardless of anyone's feelings. And I know I'm not a unique case, I see it all over other artists' submissions in the comments. The userbase of FA is just that entitled. No second thoughts to how inappropriate they're being, they have to make sure you know exactly what they will do to your characters, while at the same time knowing absolutely nothing about them. Yes mm hmm the character that has always been depicted as a lesbian in a closed relationship will absolutely make an exception for your straight ass. Come on now, it's astonishing.
Also going forwards I'm going to ignore/delete any comments from blank accounts. If you really can't even be bothered to give yourself a profile pic than I'm not wasting my time interacting.
--Multiple people submitting my fursonas to AI Chatbots without my permission, not to mention getting their details wrong in the process. (Really you should be fucking embarrassed to use anything AI in the first place but whatever.)
--Multiple cases of people USING MY FURSONA IN FANFICS WHERE SHE IS TO BE KILLED OFF??? Why the fuck would you think that's okay??
--Getting asked to be someone's romantic partner, continuously sending me pushy messages in DMs and Shouts, only to complain on their page when I blocked them while admitting they are still in love with me??? And then stalking me and then my friend and then using our characters without our permission in their own art. And now just straight up plagiarizing my work but with their characters inserted in.
--Multiple DMs from users I have never interacted with asking for personal information.
--Constant misgendering, I am A GIRL. My pronouns are clearly in my profile and I consistently draw Cerulean as a feminine fox.
There's a few people whose interactions and comments I deeply appreciate, and for their sake I really don't want a few creeps to deter me from sharing my work. But I am so so worn out by how many instances I've had this year that showed people who've even followed me for years have just not taken away anything meaningful from what I make and instead see my very personal work as superficial and nothing more than material for whatever fantasies they want to project onto regardless of anyone's feelings. And I know I'm not a unique case, I see it all over other artists' submissions in the comments. The userbase of FA is just that entitled. No second thoughts to how inappropriate they're being, they have to make sure you know exactly what they will do to your characters, while at the same time knowing absolutely nothing about them. Yes mm hmm the character that has always been depicted as a lesbian in a closed relationship will absolutely make an exception for your straight ass. Come on now, it's astonishing.
Also going forwards I'm going to ignore/delete any comments from blank accounts. If you really can't even be bothered to give yourself a profile pic than I'm not wasting my time interacting.
Like, I get crushing on characters. I feel that way on Cali’s design! But… there is a person behind the character. Dropping them in AI, or in stories where they write them off? That’s gross.
It’s kinda in the same vein as to why I’ve never been big on “popufur” stuff. I make a point to pay attention to the person behind the character. A really good example is Ino/Telephone. Telephone hasn’t really ever interested me. But I had the opportunity to sit down and have a genuine conversation with Ino and TFS last weekend, and that makes ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD.
It's a real shame, but it's the world we live in now. I'm sorry you have to deal with this shit, it's totally unacceptable. Best thing you can do is block, report, and ignore.