The Art Lore Crisis Destroying The Tiktok Art Community

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TikTok trends are doing more damage to artists than AI art ever could, not even joking.

At this point it feels like people just can't draw, show their art, or be artists on TikTok anymore without being shit on and bullied, holy shit 💀

I took an art class last semester, and a lot of people in the class were clearly beginners. Watching their growth was amazing. I don't understand how people can look at someone's attempt at creating and feel anything but excited to see them grow and improve.

The art community never fails to disappoint me

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It's crazy how these art lore people make fun of other artists as if they were never beginner artists 💀💀 The ego and audacity of these people is wild

I never thought it'd be possible, but it feels like TikTok has even more busybodies and bullies than twitter

Funnily enough, the kids that make "art lore" videos have a long way to become highly skilled artists themselves.. All artists continue to learn and become better over time, there's no 'limit' to how good your art can improve

Something I always hated since I'm in the art community in 2006, is unsolicited "criticism". It did more harm to my process than helped me and held me back for YEARS because the bullying sucked out my confidence in drawing and learning. I quit the art community for the past 4-5 years to concentrate on myself and started from scratch with my art. I'm 35 now and since I'm posting very rarely my art, but still draw a lot (just stoped posting it), I had a HUUUUGE upgrade in. my art, which gave me enough confidence to not give a fuck anymore. It was the best decision, if I hadn't quit, I would have quit art for good.

U'd think the art community would have stopped bullying children after the "rating/reviewing" OCs/Fanfiction/Fanart/Etc tumblr blogs stopped being popular Ten Years Ago bc everyone realised bullying children is cringe

This is why I stick to the YouTube Art Community. Especially on shorts, I very rarely see people crapping on or roasting beginner artists. Of course there’s outliers, but most of the time it’s just so dang supportive. It always makes me feel good when I come across a short by a beginner artist with maybe 15 likes and 5 comments, all those comments being so positive

The solution to this Tiktok issue is to just delete the app and forget about it lol

13:50 Aside from people forgetting that they can just scroll I don't think we talk enough about curating your own experience on social media by just... Blocking people you find annoying and moving on instead of making entire videos just to punch others down. It's just so baffling to me as a tumblr user lol

I think another reason why people bully other artists is because they're jealous of the attention. I remember when i used to use DeviantArt i saw art that i saw as less good get wayy more views and used to be super jealous, but now looking back i realize we were at the exact same skill level, i just wasnt on the platform as long. Luckily i never resorted to bullying.

people when ai "art" started: nooo its gonna destroy our jobs and artists, and demotivate people the art community on tiktok: AI? pffff- , who needs that? we're gonna drive away new artists and people that are not as good, ourselves. How dare they even post art? pffff-

I feel like it's also a case of people thinking that they can't dislike something without a "correct" reason. You can dislike a style and you can complain about seeing it to your friends. You don't need to proclaim how morally reprehensible the style or artist is if they're really not. Art is subjective and your reason to not like something can be "I just don't like how it looks". This may tie into the fact that publically complaining , whether intended to become public or not, instantly gets backlash as well if there's "no reason" to dislike something. Thus, it feels like a requirement to prepare some hard justification to earn the right to complain, which is then interpreted as a call to arms. In short, people need to accept others can enjoy or not enjoy harmless things for harmless reasons without dragging a hundred strangers into it.

I THOUGHT ARTLORE WAS THE BACKSTORY BEHIND PEOPLES ART/CHARACTERS HELP???

Why does this even need to be addressed.... Like... I thought it was common sense that people might not see art the same way like others why do they take it so seriously, just scroll and move on like come on that's not cool at all 😭

I don't even care whether posting art stuff on TikTok will helped get me noticed by employers or whatever, I am never joining that septic tank of an app if this is what happens to artists on there.