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Message: [QUOTE="Sonic Boomer, post: 128489, member: 320928"] This is a very interesting thing to observe, talking about hurt feelings. There is no one more angry in my experience than people offering supposed honest criticism, angry/manipulative critics as I call them and getting absolutely infuriated when said criticism is rejected or simply isn't something the criticized person can apply for different reasons. It's so strange yet so common to see this behavior in some people offering criticism, they're angry before they even get rejected, it's as if they can't wait for the rejection of their criticism to do what you are doing now. We see this throughout history with creative people and those who fall for the likes of you end up miserable and unhappy because people like you tend to absolutely toy with the willingness and lack of self esteem on the creators' end where IF the creator accepts one aspect of your criticism you immediately assume the role of, for a lack of a better term, control freak and demand you have a say in every aspect of their creative work from there on out. All while, of course, getting mad and manipulating the creative person in the process as soon as they disagree with something or can't implement something. Manipulation usually comes in the form of telling them how it is immature to reject criticism, gaslighting them into believing that if they reject criticism they will never grow as an artist/musician/creator, then there's the whole jig about how the person offering criticism took their time to help yet the artist/creator refuses to respect their time and many many other forms of manipulation all so that somebody can have full control over a creative person's work and artistic expression in order to live through them or to feel pride that they have had some kind of involvement in a creative process. There's also the fact that some people who offer criticism the way you do simply do to see artistes/creators struggle to implement things that don't work for them and get nowhere fast all while being depressed in the process thinking they're bad artists. This is where another form of manipulation comes from the critic and that is keeping the artist stuck on the basics at all time, "keep practicing", "you just need to work harder, you got this, you'll get there", this is the first step, encouragement but it soon turns into berating the artist/creator and the initial encouragement soon turns into vicious remarks such as "you're purposely rejecting what I'm saying, you won't get anywhere" or like what you are doing, threads "either do <insert thing here> or you will never grow as an artist" all while insisting that the artist keeps practicing the basics because they are still not good enough. While all this takes place, the artist/creator loses confidence in their own work and skills which have long gone past the point where they'd be rejected by many clients, companies and so on. But this is where the final and most devastating blow comes by manipulative critics. IF the artist/creator dares to dethatch themselves from the critic, seeks out work and gets a gig the manipulative critic delivers a very powerful final blow and that is...that the artist has been accepted by said client/employer or what have you out of pity all while presenting seemingly intelligent arguments as to why this is the case, mind you. This is a very interesting to me thing that is happening in this topic now and I'm glad you went all out and posted your tantrum, man, because it gave me an excuse to bring this topic up since it's a topic I rather enjoy talking about. I've seen this behavior from manipulative/angry critics in all creative fields and I pride myself on not falling for their manipulation and having built myself a beautiful career in illustration in spite of their aggressive approach. Also as an artist/creator I can assure you there is nothing wrong in seeking like minded individuals who love your work and wanting to hear support from said people than trying to appeal to people who don't like what you are doing. That is how you find your audience. [/QUOTE]

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