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[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

[SpavVy]

Other than the monochrome complaints I used to get and the "too-short" comments I'd say the worst one I got was from this individual who subbed my comic and just kept comparing it to Devil May Cry and other franchises like Black Butler and Bleach in every freaking episode. I asked them to stop but they kept going so I ended up blocking him so he couldn't read the series on that account anymore.

Thing that really irks me is I dislike both Black Butler and Bleach.

[TedGravesArt]

I think every artist has to read through years and years of negative junk about their art. One comment I remember well is "She looks like a man." Not the cruelest comment I've ever gotten, but it stung a lot.
Most commenters have been kind to my comic. I had one commenter who implied that because my characters have horns, they all screw animals. I think it was intended to be a joke, but it really didn't land.

[peach]

@carloswebcomic That made me so sad

[peach]

I had some commenter who would post homophobic and anti-Semitic comments on literally everything I posted once. What a charming guy that was

[jimena]

I just blocked an user D:.... maybe I'm too sensitive or something but I don't want that kind of comments in my story, comments like: "that hoe needs to calm down someone bring her a bong" or "did he grab Mark's pussy?"(Mark is a cat haha yeah real funny ) or "yeah hoe they be fuckin" And he was commenting in every episode from the beggining I got scared he would fill my series with comments of that type haha .-.
also his avatar icon is a man having sex with an anthro horse

[jamontoast98]

I have quite a unique one, you see a while back Nintendo started shutting down Smash Bros. tournaments, and then the Smash community started fighting back. The hashtag #FreeMelee started trending on Twitter and I made a comic in support of the movement.

For fun I also decided to post to r/nintendo, I can imagine most of the hate came from there but I don't know.
Here was one of the comments:

"Lmaooooooo the fucking audacity!

Melee players have historically been elitist who treated anyone who dared to play any other smash game like shit.
Us Brawl veterans haven't forgotten.

Now that your game is being punched out you want to spew this "were all a community Pleading face" shit"
(https://twitter.com/Fujin_II/status/1331848767436247040)

so yeah

[jamontoast98]

oh also I made a Daigo comic once (prominent figure in the Fighting Game Community) and some redditor commented "Reading this comic made me gay"
I made another comic and posted it, and he said
"this is so gay wtf"
I wish I'd realised before it was too late then I could have said "Well judging from your comment on my earlier post, you should be fine with this then!"