♦ Unpopular Opinion Thread ♦

+1 on what Trosper said bc I feel like people also seem to forget that kids/teens these days (at least in the US) are growing up with weakening resources (loss of the '3rd place'/places to hang out, parent neglect, schools getting stricter/more hostile, the pandemic happening during years kids typically develop a lot of skills) so ofc kids these days are going to act out more when they don't have the same outlets & support, and are treated as sub-human by the education system. I get annoyed by kids sometimes too, but I wish people would look at the full picture more & have some level of emphathy

OT: on a lighter note, laughing at smear frames & understanding why they exist aren't mutually exclusive & I hate that when you find them funny people assume that you're calling it 'bad animation'. It's not, it's a well established teqniue used to imply fast & dynamic motion without having an excessive amount of frames & risking causing it to be clunky. But also wide spongebob with 3+ eyes is funny

v major plus one. I'm so annoyed that reactionaries clogged diversity discussion with "forced diversity" because it's really hard to talk about actual issues like avoiding boxing everyone into one experience or letting marginalized groups exist in media outside of the lens of trauma or a life lesson. But then I see clickbait youtubers cry over a 14 year-old's headcanon or complain that a woman isn't sexy in an apocalyptic piece of media & yeah we're not getting anywhere

^ no because i totally forgot about the comic book reactionaries and this reminded me of it.. like sure there is discussion to be had on why there aren't more characters who were made with the intentions of being a certain race (ie. when people are like "why dont they just make an asian hero instead?") but jeeez it literally does not matter if they genderbend a comic book guy from 60 years ago that no one GAF about. it doesnt matter if superman's best friend jimmy olson is played by a black guy. IT DOESNT MATTER IT LITERALLY DOESNT MATTER STOPPPPP 

I hate the term "forced diversity" I dont know if anyone else has seen this mlp humanization & rapunzel discourse happening recently but its making me realize how batshit some people are. there is quite literally nothing wrong with headcanoning pinkie pie as black & fat. there is nothing wrong with seeing rarity as a person with dwarfism. i dont think "forced diversity" even exists ESPECIALLY when its ONE ARTIST'S personal interpretations of a pony show for kids.. and even if we're talking about large corporations like disney casting a black woman to play ariel or a rumor about a brown woman playing rapunzel I think it doesnt matter . the source material still exists and everyone knows the live action remakes suck anyways so why do you care?? why are you crying and posting it on tiktok because theres a rumor rapunzel won't be white? why does this "ruin your chilhood" why does making pinkie pie black = "making her ugly" and "forcing it" ? 

and dont even get me started on comments like "rarity would never let herself get fat" what the fuck are you talking about? like what are you saying. liek what. WHAT

you would think this is the normal rational opinion but tiktok & twitter never fail to shock me. you guys are corny. 

^ no fr. Honestly it seems like so many people use the term 'forced diversity' as an excuse to harass others online (Like I'm fairly certain the person who made the dwarfism Rairty hc got bullied off of tiktok/is part of 'art lore' + Avantika Vandanapu has been harassed). People are over dramatic and for what

Anyway. Another opinion:

doing things alone isn't sad or lonely. Like me eating out, watching a movie in a movie theater, going to a social event, etc alone isn't as bad as some people try to make it out to be

Related to the art style thing on the page before this one, I agree also. Btw "Inconsistent style" doesn't mean high difference, quality difference. I see a lot of artists I adore who have inconsistent art styles depending on what they draw, but the art is still *them*. It's clearly recognizable. 

I actually dislike consistency, if the consistency is very very strong. As in everything and everyone looks exactly the same. To be honest, I find art galleries like this very boring to look at. And I personally also find it rather limiting and depressing to stick on one way for everything. There's no creativity. Nothing to look at. It's nice the first 3 times, but it gets too same-y after a short while. Though it might be the style and how "wide" the style is if that makes sense. If someone draws an elderly woman, a little boy, and a furry and all 3 seem the same with no variation, that's where it starts to bother me, and why I love inconsistency, or experimental work. Thinking outside the box. Something I wish I could do better too.

I don't know if "inconsistency" is the correct term for what I mean. I feel like it's more like "1 style with a big range" ? 

It's funny because whenever someone complains about having an inconsistent art style, it doesn't look inconsistent to me at all. It's clearly a specific approach and direction the artist is going for. But I notice it's simply lack of knowledge which is why things vary (e.g. bad shading, bad anatomy, bad composition, strange proportions etc.) which makes the art look all over the place, rather than how same or different the style is in every piece.

at some point making psas on people and monitoring their accounts and activities on multiple platforms  becomes stalking. i get that y’all want to expose people for being dishonest, but if you’re doing it to get the jump on someone you already want to dislike then you’re doing it for the wrong reasons 

Anything with a title with ALLCAPS or have one word being in ALLCAPS to make it feel exaggerated are becoming annoying to me. ‘Nuff said.

i think it's possible to criticise a piece of media for dumbing itself down to appeal to a more mainstream audience without it being gatekeeping. nevermind that the word gatekeeping gets thrown around so much now it has basically lost all meaning anyway. idk man i just think some pieces of media are intentionally weird/obtuse/hard to get into and that's good actually!! not everything is for everyone and that's okay!! some media would lose part of what gives it its identity by becoming more accessible and in those cases i honestly think the creator's vision/intentions are more important than accessibility

* for the record with accessibility i'm talking about how easy it is to enjoy something, not physically getting that media. like if a game is inaccessible bc it was released 20 years ago and hasn't been re-released since and is now €150 on the secondhand market that's just bad lmao

^^ +1 on the all caps thing. I especially don’t care for it when it’s in the title of something, like a song (or alternatively, the song name is all lowercase). I guess it’s supposed to look cool or unique or something? But it just looks kind of awkward and unprofessional to me. 

When it comes to putting it in for emphasis in writing, I think italics tends to work a lot better imo, at least if you’re trying to be sophisticated.

Only accepting commissions and payments via paypal friends and family makes someone seem a lot less trustworthy as an artist and I'll stand by this till the end of time.  If someone's asking me to pay for adopts or commissions but ESPECIALLY commissions up front with the option that doesn't allow me to get a refund aside from directly asking, there's always a chance the person will just run away with the money and then I can't do anything about it.  I don't CARE how bad the paypal tax is asking for friends and family from a random person is sketchy as hell.

Angst is actually terrible and annoying.

I never understood why people got heated about the old not drawing digitally rule stuff over inktober. Granted I dont care if anyone did digital art for inktober but wasn't that the point of the prompt? It's like drawing for huevember and just using grey instead. A lot of people who are able would learn a lot from inking traditionally that could carry over to their digital art if they gave it a shot, thats the point of it being a challenge right?

I have a two

1. Someone stating a preference/opinion doesn't negate people who disagree with it. I swear, every time someone online says they don't like a certain thing, they get hate for "not letting people enjoy things". Unless that person is going out of their way to push that opinion, they're not doing that.

2. I don't like the defeatist attitude some artists have to AI art. Yes, it's inevitable now, but that doesn't mean we can't at least be a thorn in AI bros' side. Poison your art through Nightshade or some other program. Call out users that profit off of AI art. You can still do something. 

I do NOT care about Silksong. Hell, at this point I don’t even bother checking out Hollow Knight either, no matter how great it is. The way that a wide margin of this fans of this game are getting too impatient when waiting for this DLC so much that when I recently checked out Nintendo’s Indie World showcase only for the livechat to spam “WHERE’S SILKSONG????” even though it turns out the presentation doesn’t even include it at ALL is just… man.

There are so many indie games out there - upcoming or otherwise - that needs the same amount of attention that Hollow Knight had deserved. And I wish people were into them and aren’t obsessed into getting their hands on a DLC for a videogame that’s been in development hell for years.