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How not to act in public
10 years ago
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1. Complaining about other people having more money than you on ych auctions.
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See Jasonafex's latest auction.
Sure, the bid is really high. It's also none of your business if you're not bidding :/
i hate those absurdly high bids... :/
There are people that think that artists should just do art for free and don't understand supply and demand.
And you say that supply and demand isn't a hard concept but I see a lot of people wither not understand it or are so self entitled that they don't think it should apply to them. Not saying you just that I do see a lot of that.
I mean, who needs things like food or shelter. You can live off exposure!!
Maybe ask Monster if you can draw for them for an unlimited ammount of energy drinks.
I dunno. I drink no energy drinks at all. xD
TIME. WELL. SPENT.
Like, if you want to buy something like that sure go nuts, it's your money.... But make sure you honestly are doing it because you want to, not because it's such and such a person doing it and that it will 'immortalize me'.
That's just kinda sad.. lame.
If you have THAT kind of money that you can put hundreds of dollars to things... Why are you putting it to this beyond ego? Cause something I noticed is that it's always the same group of folks.
I mean, you could be putting this money to recognition in much better ways then a fetish community. And if it's just for the art, why be so selective on who gets it, (generally people of high name brand in the fandom, rather then anyone with even a remotely decent amount of skill?)
That's what always made me ponder.
Also, interesting AV.
I guess I just meant different people put their priorities in different places. Mr. White Collar, for example, wants to impress his neighbor in suburbia by parking a new factory-fresh Mercedes in his driveway. It's a ritual of corporate culture, much like how the emphasis placed on an artist's pageviews and followers (and consequently the value placed on their work) is embedded in the online furry community. The people who are so entrenched in this subculture as to adopt its precepts into their own set of values are the ones who will pay big money to hire a popular artist, because they've molded their lives around this circus.
I think "American Psycho" describes this phenomenon well, albeit with some embellishment.
As to why someone would become so absorbed by a drama pit like this, I couldn't begin to guess. It does seem pretty sad to me.
At least, not "popularity"
He doesn't do it to leach popularity from then, hell most of these high bidders aren't interested in that. It's not some ego-driven madness msot of the time. They just want art from someone whose art they take a liking to, and will pay a lot for it.
Source: lost a bid war to dsc, then he asked me to do halfsies for the commission (he wanted to do Zahara lol). He had no ideas for the soot so I ended up making the entire idea and sketching the pose.
(Although I do like to suggest things, or give ideas if I have a few)
^^
If you do this, kindly die.
But I agree with you, the "What I wouldn't do xxx xxx xxx" on uploads is goofy as hell.
You weren't kidding. That auction alone has seen more comments, faster, than one of those that Fender posts about updates or impacts on the website. Already 660+ comments and rising as more and more people file in to bitch at one another lol. What someone does with their money shouldn't be anyone's business but their own. Why people have to make a mockery of the situation astounds me. And "normal" people truly wonder why the "community" of artists / furries is as fucked up as it really is. It's stuff like this...the flame wars, the complaining, the lack of respect.
Granted, we're dealing with the majority of "social rejects" here, and as much as I'll probably get my own fair share of salt and buttered butthurt due to that statement, people just can't accept what another person is at face value. They have to nitpick and complain about every aspect. It's ridiculous! But, here I am, no better than them. We're all subjected to it in one form or another. I spent 1400$ on a commission ONCE in my life and learned my lesson from it.
The anonymity of the interweb is a strange, strange place.
That, or the absurd level of entitlement in the comments.
We live in an age where memes and cat videos run the web like coffee to a businessman/woman.
This is some dark times indeed.
But I agree, firmly, like that of Mjolnir smashing a front giant's groin into atomized dust.
I mean, it's even creeping into major companies. I was poking a Nintendo app.. And they made an "all your base reference"...
But I can kinda see why he gets a really shitty attitude if he gets this much annoying BS on everything. Like omg it's not their fault prices get that high! And I mena, I don't think it's worth that much, nor would I ever pay that much. But art's about supply and demand and if someone's willing to pay that much and have the money to, then they clearly think it's worth it. I mean, look how much extra money people spend on fancy cars or nice dinners - this isn't any different. I still think it's a waste to spend that much on anything extra (maybe I feel this way because college student working two jobs), but to each their own with how they wanna spend their fun monies!
bitch stalk someone else then! there's so many great artists on both sides of that coin, don't bother someone over their sexual preferences!
But that's just what I think, it's not going to change what other people do and there's always other stuff I don't need to spend my money on.
(long ass backstory anyway)