The Last Poster Wins! [v21]

[Neo Emolga]

You gotta remember though, I live off positive reinforcement. So if my stuff is going unnoticed, I tend to think it's not liked and finding out someone doesn't like my content, or even the genre my content is in, is even worse. It's why I stopped my comic the first time. I received too many hateful comments and not enough positive ones to balance it out. And there's not much I can do about it since it stems from my childhood being drenched in bullying and gas lighting. That's why it's so easy to ruin my day completely when your intention may not have been so.

You can't live off of positive reinforcement, though. If you do, then you'll quit something that could be good just because of a couple of naysayers (or in this case, people that just haven't commented). And on the other hand, if people just shower you with mindless praise that doesn't have any substance, that's never going to help you either. You have to ask yourself, are you making and posting art to express, create, and pursue a passion in art, or are you just throwing it out there just to fish for compliments?

Don't do a comic or anything if it's only to get appraise. It will never be truly yours and will instead just be fodder to feed to the masses. Instead, create something because it's your personal passion to pursue it and that you're willing to work on it to the end because you want to see it completed, to hell what anyone else says. Use constructive criticism to help build toward making your passion better. Forget the insults. But if you let insults and negative criticism be the reason you end your projects, that's bad and if you're giving those critics so much power to just end every last one of your creations. If you can honestly take a step back and say "you know, I'm happy with this and I personally think it's good. Screw those guys," then you're good and you have a solid reason to keep going. You have to understand that not everyone is going to love your work. And there are plenty of times where it takes multiple failures to make a success.

"Create to express, not to impress. Work for a cause, not for applause."