Artists,OCs, and social media

July 28, 2024

Everyday I'm very thankful I can happily survive off of OCs (as I have been doing since highschool).

I struggle to latch onto shows or participate in fandoms a lot, whenever I do watch a show I usually just enjoy it on its own, I never actively seek out other people, discords or the like. I'd draw fanart and whatnot, but I won't interact with the other audience. More often however, I just find it hard in general to actually dedicate myself to a piece of media -- whether it be because of lack of accessibility to said media, or just straight up not having the time or energy. I've been like this since I was a teenager, and I don't know if I'll change that any time soon lol.

Also, I love not having to deal with shipping discourse lawl. I'm not strong enough for that, it turns me off VERYYY easily from any fandom or media whenever the mainstream audience is little kids just picking fights over the most unimportant things (like seriously, WHO CARES that this artist drew Pav as a femboy? Get over yourself, tard).

It's a lonely road, but the ability to mash my little dolls together exactly how I want it is pure bliss, even better that no one else really cares enough about them to interfere.

Tangentially related, I hate the incredibly common entitlement people have nowadays, especially with big artists that have popular OCs. I see a lot of what I'd technically call self-shipping, where people would ship their OCs with another (usually popular) artist, and get pissy when the artist doesn't like it. I'm sorry, but that's not some cartoon network character, that's someone's own, they never really asked to get popular. I guess I hate the fandomization of a lot of things nowadays.