Personally I always get upset no matter how the critique is delivered. You could be as nice and sugarcoating as possible and my feelings would still get hurt.
I suppose itâs because Iâm already painfully aware of my own shortcomings and when people point out those things I just think âwhatâs the point in improvingâ because I already work to improve the thing and itâs still not any good.
Or you know, like the other person doesnât know how hard Iâve already worked to improve but like all I see is a negative comment rather than praise for how far Iâve come from where I started.
Does that make sense? Then of course you just have your personal peeves from people like âboobs too bigâ and I just wanna say âtell that to my 34G tiddies, bitchâ. I mostly get that indirectly tho, like people crapping on the concept of women having tig ol bitties in comics or whatever - suggesting only pervy men make those characters and then these people reduce the character to just fanservice, which says a lot more about them than it does the creator of the characters.
Hm, anyway I actually respond better to harsher criticism because I dig in and wonât relent to it. Nice critique always makes me feel bad for disagreeing with the person giving the critique, because theyâre coming from a well meaning place and are trying to be helpful.
I think my main issue is tho - I didnât ask for critique or criticism, so donât give it to me.
THAT SAID, Iâm actually more open to critique when it comes to my writing because I have no idea what Iâm doing and all I can tell is that itâs not good.
Insulting my work, however, I enjoy - it lights a fire under my ass and makes me want to work even harder just to piss off that person.