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Censored art triggers me xD
5 years ago
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It makes me literally angry, I've unwatched a few artists because of it.
To me it's like if back then you were given Doom to try out, but all the demons are a purple and black box of error texture instead of having you play the first chapter as it is.
When an artist puts the whole picture but censors the juicy bits and asks me to pay to see the thing, feels wrong. Feels like I'm subcribed to an account that is only showing me ads, or playing a game that is pay to win and stuffed to the brim with microtransactions. I can tolerate it if that artist upload uncensored stuff consistently too. My problem is when it's all censored, all ads.
Of course we artists are trying to make a living out of this, some have higher cost of life than others, but that's the same argument abusive game developers make for defending predatory microtransactions... in the end they are chosing to monetize their stuff so aggressively regardless of the circumstances.
It's not a big deal when it's for promoting a whole comic cuz reposting the cover over and over it's spammy, so it's better if they show some censored interesting bits of the pages once in a while to draw more people in, but when it's for individual images it just triggers me hard.
Maybe I'm just being unreasonable, but that's how I feel x_x Censored art annoys me.
To me it's like if back then you were given Doom to try out, but all the demons are a purple and black box of error texture instead of having you play the first chapter as it is.
When an artist puts the whole picture but censors the juicy bits and asks me to pay to see the thing, feels wrong. Feels like I'm subcribed to an account that is only showing me ads, or playing a game that is pay to win and stuffed to the brim with microtransactions. I can tolerate it if that artist upload uncensored stuff consistently too. My problem is when it's all censored, all ads.
Of course we artists are trying to make a living out of this, some have higher cost of life than others, but that's the same argument abusive game developers make for defending predatory microtransactions... in the end they are chosing to monetize their stuff so aggressively regardless of the circumstances.
It's not a big deal when it's for promoting a whole comic cuz reposting the cover over and over it's spammy, so it's better if they show some censored interesting bits of the pages once in a while to draw more people in, but when it's for individual images it just triggers me hard.
Maybe I'm just being unreasonable, but that's how I feel x_x Censored art annoys me.
I still have that 3D you I made so many years ago, but out of respect I haven't used him in anything nsfw.
(And of course, like it or not if people like the art the uncensored versions are going to get shared elsewhere sooner or later.)
Certainly not against an artist trying to make a buck off their work, but there are more tactful ways of doing it, in my opinion, other than constantly dangling the carrot in my face.
Like you said, at some point it stops feeling like you're actually watching their art page and more like you just getting ads shoved in your face.