There's a really irritating trend on art sites, when people don't like the content in a particular submission, of hating all over the artist about a COMMISSIONED piece of artwork.

Calling the artist "sick" and pointedly telling them you are unwatching them and screaming "ugh what the fuck" at them in comments is stupid. First of all, people who do art for a living are making a living. To an extent, they are slaves to what their commissioners want. Yes, they could choose to reject certain types of content, and many of them do, but every time you do that, your pool of potential commissioners gets smaller, and it's just not an option for some people who have rent/a mortgage to pay.

Secondly, you are free to unwatch people. If you're a mature adult, you do so quietly. If you make a POINT about publicly telling the artist you're unwatching them because something they drew offended you, or worse, complain to the management because you don't like the exact way the artist handled their commissions (they don't answer you immediately after you note them with a complaint, they don't put a vague enough thumbnail or a scary enough warning on hard vore, they draw too many pictures of pooping elephants and that's all you see when you search for "elephant" on the front page), you're no longer acting like an adult. You're just whining in public. You're That Guy who starts yelling at the cashier in a grocery store checkout line because Oh My God, they're out of quarters and are trying to give change in dimes, and you aren't budging until someone gets you change in quarters. No one cares about your petty sensibilities and more importantly, you're holding things up making everyone else wait for you to be dealt with. Stop being a little brat and move on.

Finally, once again remember that the COMMISSIONER is responsible for the content of the art you don't like. And if more people wanted PLEASANT art with butterflies and songbirds, most artists, even porn artists, would go for that and make money off of that. Unfortunately, the fact is that people with strange fetishes tend to commission more and are willing to pay more for their commissions than people who want frou-frou, largely because they know what they want is unpopular and many artists won't do it. That leaves artists who need commissions to pay the bills with little choice but to take the really awful stuff or risk going without health care, or phone service, or good food, or electricity, or worse.

So the next time you see an artist take a commission you think is utterly repulsive, instead of yelling at the artist for drawing it, think about maybe encouraging people who DO want happy colorful not at all objectionable art to consider paying more for it than they already do, and maybe up the frequency of their commission requests to people who draw a lot of weird stuff. Or here's an idea: contribute! Why don't YOU commission the artist to draw something NICE? You'll take up a slot that would likely have been filled by a weirdo.

When the "vanilla" commissions start to outweigh the OMGWTFBBQ commissions, chances are that artist who drew that thing you hate will stop drawing it so much.