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Gittonsxv
#540484
9 months ago
that is true TBH
AffenProfessor
#540490
9 months ago
Absolutely true!
Calpain
#540496
9 months ago
Got to agree with that. It's hard to make a normal or cute image that can elicit a response or emotion from people.
Scootsmod
#540539
9 months ago
Tumblr ponies are teh butthurtz. Imma get lynched!
SilkGarrote
#540551
9 months ago
Amen. Tired of derivative "oooh I'm so crazy look pony blood" clutter.
Anonymous
#540593
9 months ago
I've been wondering about this myself. Why does stuff involving gore/rape/pedofillya seem so popular in the fandom!? And yeah, I've seen the personal tumblrs of the people who do that kind of thing. Often it's NOT just a weird joke. A lot of those artists are disturbed individuals, from what I gather.
Scootsmod
#540621
9 months ago
@#540593:
The artists in question enjoy dark stuff. They like ponies. They go ahead and add ponies to dark stuff.

People find appeal in it and imitate, it keeps propagating.
fonypag
#541262
9 months ago
You think so?

It's not often that grimdark really genuinely disturbs me (the fanart anyway, don't read grimdark fics). Plastering gore is easy enough, but really good grimdark can use subtle details to really sell the image.
Scootsmod
#541416
9 months ago
"It's not often that grimdark really genuinely disturbs me"
Which is why people need to stop it. They are not even good at it and all it does is give us bad PR with people outside the fandom.
zralf
#541452
9 months ago
i fully agree.
your_waifu
#541987
9 months ago
Shut up.

Wait, I mean.

It's easy to do grimdark if you - like 95% of the people who do it - jump straight to "revulsion"

Actually scaring people takes practice and skill.

You can but some blood in a picture and people will go "oh man blood ew!" or you can imply things far, far worse and instigate a primal, gut reaction. That bleak, dead sick feeling you get when you experience something truly horrifying? That should be the goal. Not shock horror and jump scares and "ew, gore!"

I care about my genre.

Also, just to insult you back (because I feel like it) lame cute stuff is just as easy as lame dark stuff. JSYK.
Scootsmod
#542517
9 months ago
"lame cute stuff is just as easy as lame dark stuff."
And yet, 65% plus of MLP fanworks are grimdark as opposed to cutesy stuff.
RealityCheck
#542765
9 months ago
Even if you can do it "well," it's not worth doing.
Oh yays, you made something ever so bleak and tragic and depressing and horrible <I>just like 99% of everything else out there.</I> Aren't you SPECIAL.

Making people depressed or horrified or weepy is below juvenile. Anyone can do it, and the perpetually dim will hail it as "artistic." That's why they used to joke that all you had to do to get an Emmy was die on camera. Tragedy is easy. Making people smile is HARD.
potatotomato
#1040523
4 months ago
This artist must be the best artist ever.