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When was the last time you left a meaningful comment? by heyitsmyles
As an artist, I feel like my art is only being appreciated in the laziest of fashions. I am dumbed down to a “thumbs up” mentality to the public. Imagine in real life, a person walked up to you as you worked and they poked you and give you a thumbs up. How does that make you feel? I’d be like, what the fuck?
If I made a website for artists, I would make it mandatory that comments must be made in order to favourite/like a drawing. Not those lazy, one-worded comments, you’d have to write at least, one full sentence.
Places like deviantART, furaffinity, weasyl, tumblr, facebook are prime examples of how the social portion of art is dead. I can’t tell you how many times I have been faved and runned. I am guilty of doing the same thing and it makes me feel bad. That’s why I hardly visit other art sites, it’s FAR too easy to be lazy about showing your appreciation to your art friends and inspirations.
Please, reblog that picture you like with comments in the tags. Please leave a comment on that picture you saw on dA. Retweet that drawing with a cute comment! Make time to leave your thoughts, make time to show that you did look at something longer than 30 seconds. I don’t want to be THAT person any more and neither should you.
Are we that lazy, are we that busy to not take time to leave a basic, simple comment?
When was the last time you left a meaningful comment?
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Even though there's several things that grab people's attention these days, the case is usually that the admirers either don't know what to say, or feel that what they have to say would either sound awkward, or just wouldn't do proper justice.
I experience a similar stigma with my posts where there will be an upwards of 300+ viewers but only 0 to about 3 favorites. It seems that people enjoy reading what I post whenever a new submission pops up, but don't much feel like faving it. It's okay to me though, because there's been many people who have told me that they really like my writing before.
Another probability is something not very positive - favortism. I've seen that people these days have a tendacy to vehemently defend whatever or whomever first came into their notice that they liked, and they'll swear up and down that no one else is better, or simply pardon all the mishaps of that person no matter the implications.
To my first point, it's very true that a great deal of attention grabbing goes on these days. The "apps" of an electronic device, adds over a website on a computer, TV shows, and on top of all that, the schooling and errands people must attend to, or the family and/or friend trouble they endure. There's a lot that goes on. And coming from someone in their early 30s, the internet isn't exactly the small and new thing it used to be so long ago.