Stupid Wanky DA (the Sonic portion that is)

[here_inmyhead]

Does anyone have a .GIF sprite of Mike/Tom/Crow in the MST theater so I can make an icon of them being forced to watch DA? 'Cause I swear the place is teaming with wankery and assholes. Well... the Sonic portion of it, that is. Everytime I go on DA, do I have to plug my ears going LALALANOTLISTENING to strangle the artists who hate New!Sonic but proceed to draw and make cynical unfunny comics anyway (seriously, they draw the same comic over and over and over and people think it's still clever/funny)? Or slitting the throats of people who think Shadow's emo and plastering their faces until SA2B is jammed in their cranium (even if it makes them throw temper tantrums of denial, kicking and screaming)? It's... ugh. Getting on DA is getting bad for my health.

Whatever happened to DA when it was fun? Heck, I come back like a sick puppy because it's the only place where I can find rare obscure art and have it not suck. But is it honestly worth it anymore? Especially for a few pieces of art while enduring people who make me upset? I know I've made a lot of friends on DA. But it's sad when I watch some perfectly good artist succumb to the New!Sonic bashing art and Emo!Shadow comics that his/her work becomes dry, repetitive, loses its spirit and optimism, and well... becomes cruel. I shouldn't have to feel uncomfortable looking at someone's art. Which of course, means yet another artist I've taken off my Watch List.

Guess it might be time to go back to the old days, where you browsed Japanese sites for art, eh?

Comments

[insanepurin.livejournal.com]

DA stopped being fun when artists started saying, "ZOMG COMMENT BEF0R3 FAVE OR I SET WOMBATS ON YOU!!1!1" and yell at you simply for liking their work. Not to mention constantly drawing characters they don't even like. It's... distorting. oO;;;

[vontriz.livejournal.com]

I got tired of DA mainly because a lot of the bigger artists became bitchy and fairly full of themselves and were just too annoying. I don't mind people not returning comments, considering the sheer amount they get, but the crap they believed themselves to be... It's hard to enjoy a piece of art when you don't like the person behind it.

[insanepurin.livejournal.com]

I mean, geez. I love getting comments as much as the next person. But I'm not going to act like someone robbed me if they leave a favorite on one of my works but nothing more. The point of posting your work is to share, not express your self-importance.

It's hard to enjoy a piece of art when you don't like the person behind it.

Oh god, I couldn't agree with you more. I'm super lucky to find such neat sweet folks like E09ETM, Umbra_Rockchick, Carrie, NetRaptor and Vaporotem. But on the other hand, there's guys like Orin, ChadTheCartoonNut, Tigerfog, Lizsama and Taeshilh that just... rub me the wrong way. Which is sad, because I used to like watching the first three, but once I got to know them better? Just puts a sour taste on all their work and it makes me feel uncomfortable knowing behind the lush paintbrush is a sludge of poison.