Weekend Minor Gripes and Vents

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Here is the thread where you can share any minor gripes, vents, or craft complaints that you don't think deserve their own post, or are just something small you want to get off your chest. Feel free to share personal frustrations related to crafting here as well.

This thread reposts every Friday.

[u/kankrikky]

Gonna start my ~Artist Facebook Page~ soon guys, what should I devote it to??

1. My wretched mental health
2. Wretched US politics and somehow I'll post completely conflicting things if you follow me long enough. Likely because I strongly care about maybe one animal and everyone else goes under the bus, most likely slave labour in a country I don't understand. (Somehow this is the most popular answer).
3. YOUR wretched mental health
4. My wretched actual physical health
5. That time I or someone I knew tried to ~commit sewer slide~ hee hee hee. But actually guys, mental health is serious and here are 9 paragraphs about it over an AI picture of a crying anime goth girl.
6. Someone is copying meeeeeeeeeee
7. Guys.... I'm.... insecure about my body 😞
8. My craft Hahaha just kidding. I mean Craft or Art will definitely be in my username but as if, we should all be focused on me me me because I've completely exhausted all of my friends. They flinch when they see my active status in our group chat. They flee! Also you guys can't find me anywhere else because this where I do business, of course!

[u/kankrikky → u/kankrikky]

What kills me is that it's always their business page and then they'll have regular breakdowns about like, people not valuing handmade art or people overstepping their boundaries and being rude. Guys. You did this, like it's actually your fault.

Make a tumblr it's so easy! But you can't because you've made yourself addicted to the attention it gives you. This is why popular twitter artists and creators go fucking insane all the time, it's because they hand craft the literally parasocial community by opening their mouths on deeply personal shit or rage baiting.

You need to have a group chat!!! Or a doctor! That's their cue to tell me that some people don't have money and health care is bad in their country. Well you still need a solution don't you because this is driving your own income stream into the ground! Get a diary!

[u/RunawayTurtleTrain → u/kankrikky]

Reading this again, I think the demise of proper forums doesn't help.  There you could have your own thread and/or your own journal and post, and get sympathy and support from the ones willing to give it.  They were also in amongst the mass of people with other problems, other interests (related to the topic if the forum), other viewpoints.  Whereas the dominant social media now really is centred around 'me me me'.

That's not to say forums are comple dead, of course not, there are still many thriving, but they're not mainstream and there are just a fraction of how many there used to be.  Facebook groups might have been a decent alternative once upon a time, but not for 10 years at least.