I know some of you may have known me from F-List. I was a pretty active person on there for the longest time, with Aya having existed there for 3 years. But I have since deleted all of my characters. The entirety of the website is based on a 'this art is better than your art' hierarchy. I don't necessarily think that having some standards is bad, but whenever you repeatedly get told 'I'm going to go talk to X because X did their art' you can tell that the community is going downhill. This has happened to more times than I care to count, and with constant rejection on almost a daily basis paired with my chronic depression and my lack of income due to the USA's ass-backwards disability regulations (I haven't worked long enough to qualify for disability, even though my doctor and surgeon both state that I am at the minimum of 40% disabled due to my spinal injury) and inability to work thanks to said injury I'm unable to get art done.

And this is a plague that extends to more than just f-list as well. I've seen it in countless furry groups, it's a very widespread problem. You are judged almost exclusively based on the artist who did your art, and not you, as a person or character. I'm not entirely sure if this will be the end of me as a member of the community. I've managed to get to know many people who were genuinely nice people, but for every 1 person who was nice, there was at least 10 who were toxic. This mentality needs to stop if people wish to see the community not be an underground, downtrodden community. If the assholes outnumber the nice guys 10-1 then the community will be known as one of assholes. People don't remember the good deeds of a group, but the bad deeds.