/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6678349
>be me elementary school kid in 1999ish
>be at nice Christian private school before going to class
>copying Pokemon on computer paper out of game strategy guide without tracing
>accomplish garyados, most complicated yet and perfectly accurate
>fellow school kid wants it
>I try to give for free
>he insists on paying
>I tell him a quarter is fine
>first commission feels good man
>doesn't last long
>kids angry mom marches up to me with teacher grabbing me up by shirt
>demands the return of the quarter
>berate and shame me for taking quarter from rich kid who has 2x more than enough money for lunch that day
>berate and shame me for tracing

That was the beginning of a big realization that adults were retards and total fucking trash.