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I have to second @storytimebiondi you were way ahead of your time. Tap-cat would be a hit nowadays.

must..... resist.... the urge to draw fanart of her! :laughing:

Darker stories/art are not everyone`s cup of tea, you were just aiming at the wrong audience.

Is frustrating when people close to you dont get your work.

Some people try to read TOO MUCH between lines. Nobody likes people randomly analizing them.

Clearly this isn't hate nor mean but sure is confusing for me haha. Someone told me to watch more drawing tutorials. The person further added that it's not because my art is bad, just unique. I totally accepted the first statement because definitely, I am still trying to learn. But the next sentence just left me so confused hahaha.

Would someone recommend me some great drawing vids please? :joy: :joy: That would be Awesome Possum!

Someone called me a brat once for not doing a real face reveal(I posted a real life picture of a testtube since that's how I represent myself), I think it was in jest so I just went with it

"Sometimes people are so disrespectfull to inanimate objects........"

"They may not have eyes, but they still cry on the inside......."

The comment was in my native language, so it translates roughly to:

"My hatred for this comic grows with each page, I get sick in my stomach when I see an update in my notifications"

...but nobody is forcing you to read it???

Well, now I get sick in my stomach from laughing, because I imagine how that dude is making an angry face every time when receiving notification, and then suffering, reading the comics through pain and ire :laughing:

Now that I think of it, this should be my torturing technique for my enemies, hahaha :joy:

As for the meanest comment I've received online... I can't think of any that were hateful, but I have had one person give me a critique that had little to do with the story. It was in response to a thread on the WT forums. Looking at their feed, I realized this person was copying and pasting the same feedback randomly on peoples' stories just to get the "payment" (they were asking for people to check out their story in return).

It was a LOT of comments on two separate occasions by two different people, one of them was on dA, another was on a site my comic was uploaded to without my permission (A reader informed me that they had first encountered/read my comic on a porn site)

Raven Wolf was the comic that was re-upload, and there was a reader that would basically leave horrible insulting comments about both me and the comic while constantly starting fights with people that liked the comic. At one point someone asked them why they are reading the comic when they clearly hate it so much, and to go do something else that they might enjoy more, and their response was "I want to watch the artist inevitably crash and burn."

The comic that I got harassed for on dA was No Future and this dude would leave... really really really long paragraph filled hate messages on random pages that I posted, he would also fight other people leaving comments. He was basically pissed I was updating this comic more often than I was updating Raven Wolf. Additionally, every time someone gave him a bad review on one of his dA uploads he blamed it on me for 'sending the trolls after him' he also started demanding that I write a public apology to him for 'convincing my readers to attack him' which I never did. (even when I looked at the comments in question they were all left by people that I had never heard of that do not follow me)

Anyway, the comment that bugged me the most out of the many many many many hate filled rants this guy left on my pages was basically the comment he left when he found out I was sick and thus, why I was working on a comic about a character facing his death. This dude got livid, and basically left a long ass hate filled message directed at me that contained the comment "So you're basically going to die, wow, thanks for wasting my time. How dare you get me invested in a comic that might never be finished because you might die." Which of course was followed up by a long argument on how I should have never started a comic if I knew I was sick because doing so means I don't care about my readers.

@Kura Wow. Just wow. People are so brazen when they know they won't suffer any real consequences from being a horrible person on the internet.

@Kura Hm... To hate you so passionately, people should feel some sort of... attachment to you.
I remembered, how long time ago, one of my ex was so much pissed out that I had left him, that he was leaving random hateful comments about me in every discussion which I had in the social network during several days. People wondered what does it mean, and who is this strange dude. I either deleted those comments (when I could), or ignored them (when I couldn't delete them), so eventually he tired to do it and stopped. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe that hater is some dude who knows you personally and is offended by you, too?

@DiegoPalacios :smile_cat::thumbsup:

Just 2 on webtoons, and I quote:

She's just skinny because she hasn't had some good dick

(not really mean but did kinda offend me not gonna lie

and

hey this art sucks please quit

As someone dealing with a potentially eventually fatal chronic illness, I have to say screw this guy and anyone else with such a raging, ableist ego and false sense of entitlement.

Also, it's not as if it's impossible for other people to continue our work. But by his logic, nobody with an illness or disability should attempt to do anything worthwhile on the chance that we might turn out like literally every other writer ever and leave behind a body of unfinished work.

A supposed friend of Tiger on the Storm illustrator Richard O'Hara tried very hard to get him kicked off the project, and Facebook messaged me a whole bunch of disparaging comments about Richard's artistic abilities. He even threatened to organize a boycott because he said the art was that weak. I asked if he, being an alleged friend and neighbor, had discussed his complaints about Richard's art with him directly, and if he have any constructive advice or critique other than, "He draws like a high school student."

Of course he didn't.

I told Richard about this person. He said, "Oh, yes, he's a big blowhard. Don't take him seriously."

But the guy kept up this barrage, sending me messages he didn't have the nerve to deliver to Richard personally. So I blocked him.

I also had my work called "war porn" by people who'd never read any of it any of it. One guy, shortly after the print release of Untold Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan, targeted me for harassment, telling me all veterans are war criminals, that I was glorifying war crimes, and that I should disavow my work and instead write anti-military propaganda. Never mind that writing about war doesn't make anybody pro-war, but that guy couldn't be bothered with facts. What was particularly telling was that this guy didn't go after any of the men who worked on the project, but the only woman working on it. I guess he assumed I was some weak link due to my gender.

Anyway, I warned my worthy collaborators about this guy, then blocked any and all social media access he had to me and reported him.

Probably the best course of action. What else can you even do in that sort of situation?