What's the most toxic place where you've tried posting your art?

[Klaustasya]

Wow Claudia, a very nice and warm topic to come back here with lovely...
But for real, in the past two years i've tried many socials, with poor results on everything and some of these also climbed to my top 3 of the most toxic or wrong places where to post art.
I won't drag this too much because many might not agree with this point of view, so i'l just say what has been (and currently is) the place/platform that mostly upset me everytime i post in there:

F A C E B O O K

And yours?

[Rowein]

Same, facebook is the worst. Mostly some facebook groups, like groups of nationals illustrators (in my case, chileans). They're somewhat angry and bitter and I don't know why

[Klaustasya]

Same, i'm from Italy and some groups there or artists can be so hypersentive and acid sometimes, saying really unnecessary things.

[Roshii]

Facebook as well.. When I post one fan art in a FB group and a few people repost it and put "CTTO" (credits to the owner) which pisses me off that ain't crediting works. Also that repost got more attention to the original post which it pisses me off more.

I asked them to take it down and I get a bunch of people defending the reposter.. It was sooo.. tiring. Like they said, "if you don't want your art get stolen/repost, you shouldn't have post it on the internet "

Oh dear glob, that logic is the same as "if you don't want to get murdered or get your stuffs stolen, you shouldn't have gone outside!"

This what made me to never draw fan art again on that popular series.... I still draw fan art but rarely now since I hate people for using my art.

I know this happens to other sites, but this is where I got it(for now) and it upset me so much.

Sorry for the vent but damn it still get me on my nerves.

[Klaustasya]

We are all here for the vent don't worry XD actually i only make topics to vent and make people vent because outside of here nobody seems to understand soo, let's spread the poison? Lol
At least this confirms that Facebook can be shit sometimes.

[indagold]

Deviantart. The userbase is from a whole other dimension. I had someone sexually rping in my comments and I told them "hey you're making me very uncomfortable, knock it off" and they got angry and upset at me like I did something wrong and I offended them. Yeah I was the one at fault apparently in their weird demented mind ._.

[Carossmo]

Facebook, for us in the Philippines, is filled with political bs and supporting the current president's ridiculous antics (people say our current president is the equivalent of Trump) XD it's annoying, but there has a lot of views and likes for my comic than anywhere else

[Kann]

So far Facebook. It's the only site I've actually ever got hate comments... xD

[charliesackett]

Newgrounds XD
But they're probably long dead now because flash died

[DiegoPalacios]

Never had any experience with the Chilean national illustrator group, so i cant say anything about it. Sorry it turned out like that. Wish we could find a group of chill Chilean comic makers.

I saw a facebook group of Tapas in Spanish, but it was mostly self promotion from Tapas users. Not sure if people in general check it.

Haven`t had any experience with toxic sites. Mostly some youtube comments on a video i made saying me to "get a life" posted twice by the same user. I just ignored it.

[baasinsimple]

-Facebook
-Reddit
Like, holy crap, Everyone is such a terrible person on Reddit.

[aqua03]

Funnily enough, I've actually got a pretty decent response on both sites. But then again, I namely just show my art to my family and friends on Facebook and usually only post to art critique subreddits and either flew under the radar or got genuinely helpful feedback.

[beta1042]

haha so many people suggest posting on reddit to increase views but I'm afraid my emotional self can't handle it XD

I'm fully aware this is my first comic and a big part of it is learning and such, so yeah the art has a lot to grow, the writing, paneling, etc etc I'm afraid they'll eat me alive.

[baasinsimple]

Lol I just ask questions about a certain part of a piece and how to do it better and they do just tear you down. Also everything else on reddit is pretty much just as bad, fandom wise.

[kimketli]

Deviantart! Actually it is not toxic for me, people just don't notice me at all. Same with Tumblr, Twitter. Maybe I need some friends on these places, or idk...
My viewership is mostly from facebook and maybe instagram. Fortunately never really got any toxic comments from anywhere. I was wondering I should post on Reddit but I still don't really understand how should I use it.. O.O
I'm not social enough for social media I think. :DDD

[zuggarts]

Just curious, which subreddits are you posting to specifically? I've actually had the exact opposite experience on Reddit; while there are always some toxic people (as they exist on every platform) all the feedback I've received has been well-meant. I've also found Reddit fandoms (with the exception of the huge ones) to be quite chill in comparison to Tumblr and the like. Depends quite a bit on how shit the mods are lol

The most toxic place I've posted my art is probably Deviantart; never had a terrible experience on any platform but I had a particularly uncomfortable experience there where someone tried to solicit me for webbed fingers/toes art (their fetish, apparently)...

[Eightfish]

What about the most toxic place where someone else posted my art? Pinterest. And they didn't credit me either. In fact, I've pretty much never seen a source on that website. It's is nothing but a no good den of art thieves. Oh, they piss me off so much. I avoid it religiously because even on the off chance I find something amazing, there's pretty much no chance I'll be able to find the creator.

As for the best place, for me, unexpectedly, Reddit. I like their comment system, where anyone who's too toxic usually gets buried under the downvotes. And you don't need an existing following to get noticed, either- I don't have much of a following on any site, but when I just posted a piece randomly on reddit I actually got a good amount of very positive comments : D.
Downside is you're more anonymous than anywhere else so it's hard to build up a following/ redirect people to other sites.

[vfinnigan]

I'd avoid Facebook too if my feed was full of idiots thinking Marcos wasn't so bad.
Not so fun fact: That guy had operatives in the US. They murdered a neighbor of mine.

[chocolatteboss]

It was a meme site and I didn't even know what I was doing.

[Luminosophy]

Definitely tumblr. I tried very hard to keep my feed pruned of politics and fandom but people within those circles follow you anyway. You get ludicrous stuff like people private messaging you to hate other artists based on nothing more than rumours, and if you didn't follow the bandwagon you were heavily ostracized. You're not allowed to make up your mind for yourself. I ultimately left because of the way I saw others being treated who caught the ire of the masses that day.

Other sites aren't without their poison but I'm able to mitigate it by knowing which areas to stick to. To be honest, I wish there was a perfect site for posting art. I'm spread between several sites because they have their own specific bonuses and multi-list of cons.