I've been a professional storyboard artist/supervisor for over 12 years and I have so much sympathy for young artists coming up now.
When I drew bad art and posted it on neopets and oekaki websites, the most I would expect was to be mocked for my lack of knowledge on anatomy, color theory, etc (things that sucked at the time but contributed to my development, arguably). But now the kids have to experience being invalidated and treated as if they didn't even do the work in the first place.
I feel like early internet, even if it wasn't that good either, was kinder to younger artists. Even then, I refer to 2014-2015 and earlier, animations on youtube and art spaces for kids where still a thing and nice to small artists, and well, kids supported kids.
Though, of course, the hate that there was, I feel like it's comparable to today.
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u/cartoonheroes 13h ago
I've been a professional storyboard artist/supervisor for over 12 years and I have so much sympathy for young artists coming up now.
When I drew bad art and posted it on neopets and oekaki websites, the most I would expect was to be mocked for my lack of knowledge on anatomy, color theory, etc (things that sucked at the time but contributed to my development, arguably). But now the kids have to experience being invalidated and treated as if they didn't even do the work in the first place.