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[cherrystark]

I also had a beta reader comment repeatedly "what's that supposed to mean?" Or "Did you mean it like that?" The worst part was that they refused to clarify what they meant by that. My lines weren't complicated and all the dialogue was written to sound as natural as possible. Nothing too complex!

[CosmicLeon]

tapas hasn't given me poor/mean comments, but I did get a few here and there on youtube. The comment was some middle school kid (yes they said their age in the comment) and it was something like, I can do better than this, blah blah blah, this thing sucks, blah blah. I basically responded with, Look at the video date. Its a few years old, and yes I can do better than this now to, so have a nice life somewhere else if you don't like it. I think I handled it pretty well, because I know that my fanbase at the time would have called them out on it (as it happened before) and I didn't want that to happen again. Another poor comment I got, although not insulting to me or my work, was a link to a porn site. Bots be putting these links in the wrong places. I was actually sad, as it was my first comment on DA and I was hoping for it be be another artist. NOPE.

[Freemints30]

I'm too small for bad comments but replying to bot comments if I did and they could feel, would be "Please for the love that is holy leave me alone. I don't want your virus filled garbage on my page. Leave me alone. Try a site full of neckbeards if you want success in that scam"

[Phantomlight]

I haven't gotten mean comments on my works yet. I am very grateful for that, but I did have someone randomly target me and call me the N word on one person's comic and told me something to effect of that they wish they could flag my comment and called me the three letter F word on another comic. I wasn't talking about anything except how cute the comic was on both occasions so I boiled it down to someone just wanted to be a troll. I ignored them and the comments were deleted by the creators.

[DiegoPalacios]

You really must hate trans people. The way you make bowser a depressed, self-hating loner who [spoilers] goes to show how little respect you actually have for the character. Its actually rather disgusting to see you repeatedly trash the character for seemingly no other reason than you feel like it.
What a bigot...

(Context: the reader didn't like what I did with the romance subplot)

hold up a minute.....did that reader randomly assumed Bowser was trans????????

[thedude3445]

Oh, for some maybe-necessary context, this is from a story about that popular Bowsette character from a few years ago. Bowser ends up coming out of the closet as transgender partway through the story (this sounds really stupid out of context) and then that becomes a very important part about the rest of the story. Based on the chapter they commented on, the reviewer didn't like something I did involving shipping and wrote this obviously because they thought it would cut me deep to call me a "bigot" but I found it funny more than anything else.

[amortelito]

The worst comment was from someone who wanted to promote his shi** in my comment section, writing to MY readers.

"YOU MIGHT ENJOY MY COMIC BETTER!! (LINK)"

This probably doesn't count as comment by a "reader", but it's pretty insulting to dismiss my content.

[MeltingCORE]

Noooo! That's so rude! I'm sorry that happened to you. (I've also had this happen on other socials where people pop onto my art and ramble about their stuff... On my art. About my novel. Trying to promo themselves and push me out of the way. On my own posts. No one is there for someone else on my posts! They'll be there for the person on their own dang posts. It's so rude and tone-deaf.)

[Caro]

omg these comments make me so angry! Why are people so unnecessarily mean?! wtf!!

[thedude3445]

I kinda blame that on the whole system when people do that (and I'm sure I've inadvertently done it myself at some point). You have to constantly self-promote to get eyeballs on your work and so people are so invested in the "hustle" that they forget to use common decency and let people enjoy their own stuff. It's not a valid excuse but I do understand it.

[MeltingCORE]

Oh, absolutely! I understand the struggle of self-promo but I would be lying if I said it it didn't irritate me. Luckily, I've been able to take care of the issue by only allowing followers to comment on my insta. Haven't had an issue with self-promo comments since then. (I believe they would find me through the recent tags? It would always be rap accounts or photography accounts when I'm a manga artist lol!) The only time I ever felt someone was being truly malicious with me was a long,long time ago. I had a person going on and on about how powerful their character was over mine which was uh... I just quit replying because I was beginning to feel embarrassed for the person. It was really weird and I was getting the off feeling that they were upset by the attention I was getting on the post. (They may have been a kid, I really don't know. I just let it go for their sake.)

[rajillustration]

So mine is a little weird but I drew this art on tumblr once and it got reblogged into an RP group that was like using my image as an avatar for their...uh...very sexual RP stuff. And like...when you do that, I get notified every single time the art is RT'd with all this uhhh sexual stuff??? It was very awkward for me??? So anyways, I didn't tell them not to use my art or anything, I just blocked their accounts and then had to delete the original post and re-upload it so it was no longer used for some...online hookup thing.

Hopefully they rediscovered eachother on missed connections or something because uh I deleted their steamy date. Also please don't do this if you're on tumblr. Please don't do sexy RP with people's art right in front of their faces when they uh...are just trying to live their life.

[Inspector_Spinda]

It is true they did. Police didn’t have female officers until the early 20th century though and even then they did very different types of jobs. Mostly desk work or answering the phone or as plain clothes officers. Definitely not on the rank or type of work as the dudes.

[therosesword]

Definitely. The "divisions" that the detective agencies had were. of course, women who could go were men couldn't. One agency employed an actress (big surprise there lol) and I believe a Russian princess.
There was a fascinating article I found once written in Australia about the British female private detectives. And there was on in the US who used to advertise in the papers. It's been ages since I did any of that research. And then, on the other side of the coin, you had the 40 Elephants Crime syndicate that was all female and active up until the 1960's or longer and way before the 1890's.

People are just too mired in that old Victorian stereotype.

[DarkChibiShadow]

Been making comics for so long it's hard to remember all of the worse ones I've gotten (I've gotten quite the handful, my memory is just bad, which I'm kinda grateful for in this context) and am honestly just relieved to see this thread and remember that other comic artists go through similar stuff to me! Hang in there everyone!

[Inspector_Spinda]

Now that I’m talking with you about it I remember a novel written in 1915 I think called Piccadilly jim and it actually did feature a female detective! And she was kind of amazing and insane like the one from Madagascar 3

[jimena]

That's sooo mean. I've had this kind of comments in real life and it hurts

[Carossmo]

Lol my comic was reposted here: https://imgur.com/gallery/xOs7f5e

And there had been some interesting comments on there...

^lol I wish I had one honestly... I'm working on this comic solo

^maybe not too bad tbh what do you guys think?

[CytricAcid]

Not on tapas yet-- thankfully! But someone on reddit got VERY upset at my drawings in which i put cat ears on a musician i really liked. Like, this was the stuff they were mad at:

They really didn't like it, especially because I'm probably a furry, and for some reason they hates furries. Anyway, the acted as if it was the most disrespectful thing you could EVER draw, and then said they'd rather have someone draw them realistically in bed with said musician. And I'M the disrespectful one???
I ended up painting this picture as a "fuck you" to them. Why they hate catboy memes so much, I'll never know

[Puck]

You have to find a way to ignore comments, it only does you harm.
I can only give one advice from making the mistake for a long time,
don´t read reviews, comments and only focus on your art.
You can get advice elsewhere and don´t depend on praise in comments,
it means nothing and just distracts you from what you should do, then
you read a bad comment or a hate comment and spend time on it
which you should spend into something positive like practice & creation