Why Is The Tiktok Art Community Suddenly TOXIC?

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mohammed agbadi talking about how the tiktok art community is getting alot of side eyes since it started becoming a little too toxic for beginner artists, and how art thieves, tracers and plagiarists are ruining the platform for other artists.

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[MohammedAgbadi]

*_what country are you from? leave a flag_*

[InsomniacFlaaffy]

Some people also need to know that some adults can be beginner artists

[Crsscrssaplesawc]

It’s crazy how people (who are usually not even artists themselves) freak out over beginners doing beginner things or just having a certain style… they’re acting like a pipe bomb the size of the megalodon shark has been discovered underneath the ground… 💀

[PocketKanin]

people are judging and not critiquing, critiquing would be consensual and actually informative while what’s happening is people making fun of others and not actually helping someone who is passionate about drawing.

[chaltrs]

It’s getting even worse bc they make the beginner artist the villain, accusing them of “homophobia, transphobia and racism” and they are always saying “we’re just calling out a racist” and they never have evidence. These people are pure evil!

[NoneOfYourBuisness]

I hate those comments of “oh…” or “WHAT 🔥🔥🔥”. Like… that is just bullying. Why is it socially acceptable for people to bully and harass artists of every medium. From commission artists, jewelers, sculptors, fashion designers, to even just people casually posting to doodles they made in class. It’s considered okay to insult people’s entire being for “DARING” to make something. It’s like art is the target that replaced the STEM “nerd”. And when people call it out it’s always “well that’s my opinion” or “it’s not that big of a deal”. Guess what’s not an opinion? The fact that they are still harassing artists because they are pathetic hollow people.

[CrazyGreenFluff]

that video of the person "fixing" the artists oc's cus ""pro shipper art style"" never fails to piss me off. nobody can even decide on what a """pro shipper art style""" actually is!! i hate art fixers man...

[LikaLaruku]

If you're getting harassed for your art online, just remember that they do it to absolutely everyone & are not soloing you out.
& it's never limited to art. & they are not afraid to criticize other within earshot or to their faces.
These same people will criticize how people dress, how they wear their hair, what they watch on TV, music taste, what they eat for dinner, the car they drive, weight.
Bullying is a natural high. The reaction they get from others releases dopamine in the brain, so they become addicted to being arseholes to get high on hormones.
The comradery from like-minded hormone addicts encourages them to continue this negative behavior.
These people tend to have parents who basically ignore them & usually had few if any friends growing up, so they feel justified at lashing out at others.

[theartsyduck]

12:30 I actually experience this on TikTok, I made some cute duck drawings, and it blew up. Everyone was wanting me to sell prints so I did. I made the announcement that they were gonna be $30. Because the cost of shipping and prints. I was flooded with hate comments. “ it’s not worth $30.” “ I can do it myself.” The most common one. “ I can just screenshot it.”

[CozyCabbit]

People got way too comfortable with leaving unnecessary, belittling comments without getting enough backlash for it. I will never understand the point of living out a bully fantasy, it's ridiculous. There's a huge difference between constructive criticism and blatant harassment, especially in the modern art "community".

[SUTAZZZ]

And when you call them out for being rude they pull out a one liner like "it's not that deep bro" 💀💀💀

[Grace-rvko]

One thing I never understand is why people assume everyone wants to hear their opinions without being asked. I have a style that I like and I draw for myself and don't currently plan to use my art for anything besides expressing myself and when I've shared my art with other people (because they usually ask to see) they give their opinion and advice that is something I didn't ask for. If I wanted any advice I would ask for it (And I do sometimes because I do enjoy improving.)

[faerie-starvartvlog]

I remembered when I was on Deviantart years ago, I had one troll that tried to 'critique' one of my pics. Luckily, I knew what this troll was doing as he was doing the same thing in order to hurt other artists so instead of expecting me to get upset, I just agreed that my art skills 'suck' and how do I 'improve'. He didn't expect that so he just doubles down and says to me 'figure it out' but I kept pressing on such as; is it the arms? The body? etc.? He just gets even more annoyed and tells me I should quit but I would tell him that if I quit, my art would remain 'shit'. He never answered back and just blocked me. XD The other deviants were impressed of how I handle it as they were harassed by him earlier as most of them were planning to quit drawing.


But now thinking back, after watching your videos about those so called critiquers on TikTok, it reminded me of those types on Deviantart and I have no doubt that they carried on to other platforms to do the same. :/ I believed the real reason why they 'critique' on others artwork is that they don't want artists to get 'better', they want to make them feel bad to the point where they can quit so the jerks have no competition. If they really want to help others to improve, they would but they are not. They want them to stop drawing and not allow them to get better.

[ji_ji_]

what I've noticed and why I left Twitter is:
There are big artists who take from less followed artists without retweeting or even following the original accounts.

In order for an artist to grow, all they need to do is get their work in front of people.
So this group of big artist who use the argument " I dont retweet other peoples work" are actively damaging and disrupting the natural process in which artists grow for selfish reasons and in some cases malicious reasons-- so their followers dont come to the conclusion that those bigger artists are taking from the smaller ones.
Twitter is not a portfolio website ( It's not Artstation) the whole point of social media is to share, and as an artist its not ur "duty" to share others works but it shouldn't ever be off the table.

It seems like social media has made art into a bad faith numbers game where artists are incentivized to take but not give notoriety .

[monochroma]

just because they aren't painting the mona lisa or some cookiecutter anime artstyle doesn't mean their art is bad smh. ART IS ART.

[MrFortune]

This is why I always try to encourage New artists. As a older artist I know the struggle of getting bullied for having fun

[Antoraz]

The people who’re bullying new artists seem to be insecure of them improving and then when the newbies improve, the bullies get scared that they become better

[starry-p]

I hate when people go “ Credit to the artist” and nothing else.

[ashdawg]

I don't know if it's just me, or if I have been getting more followers, but as of late, I keep getting negative comments more when I post my art on TikTok. Granted, it's not a lot, but it's more than what I am used to. I feel like the art community has been more negative lately for me, and it's made me not want to post anymore. from comments telling me I drew a character weirdly, (despite it being in my 'art style') or that I should practice anatomy when it's something I've finally been doing better at in the last few years.
random people gave me 'helpful' advice when I never asked for it, and every time it's not even helpful advice!!!
heck, 99% of the time is from people who have a private account or are beginner artists who feel the need to 'help' for some odd reason.
Now I feel a lot more self-conscience, feeling like I need to 'fix' how I draw.
I have been struggling to even find an art style and I am slowly figuring it out, but now I keep thinking it's dumb or needs to change.
And whenever I post something I am proud of, that rare small, negative comment really hits me, and sometimes I start shaking out of anger and frustration.

I am aware it's the internet, and posting my art will get those types of comments, and it can't be helped, but I just feel that the art community has been way more toxic, not just to me, but tons of others as well.

[ismaxeroart]

can we all just be nice to young artist who just started to learn and eventually get better in time 🙄