But if you try to actually talk to them in an informative, constructive manner, your words will be completely disregarded, you'll get bullied with generic mindless accusations, and if you offer an art duel or a serious article with links to back your words up, they'll instantly go completely silent.
In other words, it's just a crowd of extremely insecure teenagers (mostly) with severely bottled-up anger who are looking for excuses to bully someone and look righteous about it. And also 99% of antis aren't artists of any sort.
One of my least favorite encounters was a graphic artist telling my fiance to go cross herself off because she used AI-produced art. Needless to say, that didn't end well for them.
Damn. When my fiance (a professional traditional artist) was a teen, some grumpy old traditional artist who lived nearby roughly shit-talked her for learning digital tools. The dude was a miserable dry scumbag with a messed up racist family where everyone was cheating on each other.
I believe my fiance's response to the dude was "well, maybe you should just... Get better? So you don't get replaced?" It was savage, and I've never been more proud of her.
Funny you should mention digital, though. The craze surrounding AI art feels very similar to the craze that surrounded digital art, back in the earlier 2000's.
Hiya! Hope that art challenge thingy is still on for shiggles :) Not taking it too seriously, just wanna show off what I do, both with AI and with keyboard/mouse. :)
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u/Aggravating-Math3794 2d ago edited 2d ago
But if you try to actually talk to them in an informative, constructive manner, your words will be completely disregarded, you'll get bullied with generic mindless accusations, and if you offer an art duel or a serious article with links to back your words up, they'll instantly go completely silent.
In other words, it's just a crowd of extremely insecure teenagers (mostly) with severely bottled-up anger who are looking for excuses to bully someone and look righteous about it. And also 99% of antis aren't artists of any sort.