I know this will fall on deaf ears, so I don't expect much out of it. But at the same time, I really feel like it needs to be said.
Let me start off, first, by inquiring what event triggered this journal.
Next, let me get this out into the open. I enjoy your art. Outside of proportion issues, I think you have talent. But I'm not here to kiss your boots. I also remember our last exchange, so I'm well aware that you're narcissistic and you strive to be unique and so on and so forth. But that's neither here nor there.
Now that that's out of the way, there's a line in your little tangent that says something along the line of "stop bitching".
Please, follow your own advice, sarcasm aside.
Yes, some people are not "original" as others, and some people are not as "creative" as others. But you stomping around, claiming that everyone is copying you is really just unnecessary. I still stand by what I said before: people are influenced. They see something they like, and use it. Frankly, I don't know HOW you can NOT think that people are being influenced by your characters; you cram so much shit onto them, that you can easily say people copy you. That's like making every kind of candy, and then claiming copyright infringement when another company starts making just gumdrops. The mass majority of characteristics of your characters, if not ALL of them, are you not your original creations. The character as a whole? Yes. But not the ear corsets, not the checkerboard markings, not the cross-pupils. I've seen it done years before you started posting art, and years before when you say you started using them.
In the end, just get over it. There are going to be people posting stuff with characters similar to yours, but unless they BLATANTLY rip off your characters, then . This is just you begging for attention, acting like you're hot shit when you're not. Take all this energy and put it into something productive, like improving your art.
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