/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4891852
I feel pretty similar. Death threats and weirdos.

I've used the internet for social interaction since I was old enough to go to school and aside from my wagecuck job I'm basically a shut in. It feels like every time someone wants to say things have gotten worse, someone else says they were always bad. It's true, it was never really "good" so to speak, but it's not true in the slightest that things haven't changed for the worse. Everything is USA-centric even if you're not. I find myself loathing the welcoming communities of super lefties who never shut the fuck up about inclusiveness and politics and brown and white and how much they hate JP culture despite consuming and idolizing the content. You can't make jokes, even about yourself, without someone trying to control you, and if you think wrong or draw wrong they'll swarm you and chase you out. But righties aren't great either, and they spew religious and politic shit that I can't stand and some of them go crazy if you think wrong or draw wrong just the same. There is no middle ground, there is no having fun on the internet anymore.

I just want to go back where I could draw whatever and at worst people would call me a dyke or a dumb fujo or tell me to get back in the kitchen instead of attacking my entire character as a person, trying to analyze my psyche through my drawings and internet posts to determine how I am either a No Good racist or a godless heathen, and trying to run me off forever so that I have no one to show my work to. I just want to be acknowledged, I want to make something someone else likes, I just want to enjoy the things I like and be around other people who do the same. I feel so much despair and hopelessness. The internet and art have always been a huge part of me.