I've kept it bottled up for a bit, but now it's time for me to fess up about the importance of constructive criticism.

I've been seeing a trend of artists and video game developers getting really salty at someone for providing any form of criticism, whether it's constructive or not. Like, hello? These people helping you by telling you about the flaws of your art/game you made, not insulting you in any way! I've been in a similar position as these artists and devs by rejecting critique, but I eventually started accepting them (and I'm still open for critiques, even if I didn't ask).

So my helpful advice is this: when someone provides critique, don't lash out at or curse out these people (or anything like that). Just politely accept them in a very mature manner and you'll surely improve on your work in a long run. Rejecting criticism by putting up an angry-toned "critique discouraged because this is MY art! >:U" disclaimer in your art descriptions or something would only make things worse for you as an artist or developer.

In conclusion: critiques always help if they're constructive, not destructive. Accept, and I'm sure you'll do better when you're practicing your artistic and video game development skills.

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Hello anyone, me again making a post I'm sure nobody will ever look at. We look at our sites and we see the problems, and when we do we accept the problems it seems. We look around, we think "Man, wouldn't it be better if another site like this one popped up, but better?" and then we do nothing to actually create or find such a site. And why? A weird catch 22 that everyone is guilty of. "This is where everyone is".

See, that right there is the problem, there are children growing up right now that will use twitter or Facebook while never once knowing what MySpace or Friendster once were. There will be Discord users who have long since forgotten the age of Skype, Teamspeak, and Yahoo Messenger. Why is that you may ask? Is it because they're simply too lazy to look? No, it's because nothing else is "Popping off" yet, and that's the problem.

People have forgotten that Twitter was once just 2 Libertarians trying to make their dumb thing look good. They forgot that Facebook was once "Sexual Harassment, the website", and the only evidence left of that one is an old episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Hell, Youtube started as a dating site. I bet they don't even remember Angelfire or Geocities. What do we use in place of those? I dunno.

So yeah, moral of the story, don't wait for the next big thing to pop off, look around for the most arbitrary of places, shill said places, and make the big thing happen. It's the only way to be sure.