Mithmeoi

Now I don’t know if I’ve said anything about this topic yet, I mighta touched on it briefly, but this is something that happens to me A LOT. Someone comes out of the woodwork, someone that usually NEVER comments on my work, they approach me with a simple “This reminds me what ‘so and so’ did.”
In and of itself it’s a harmless little comment but it’s what it’s implying that pisses me off. Translated out of bullsh*t-ese it means “OMG You stole ‘so and so’ person’s idea!!!!”

Yeah, not appreciated. I’ve had it happen more than once in the last six months and it really irks me. People don’t think for a moment that maybe THEY aren’t being as original as they think. That sometimes coincidences just happen.
For example, I drew of bunch of people I know as furbys. It’s not THAT original of an idea, but I did it as a joke. I posted it just to show it and lol at it. I then had someone come by and say that VERY comment up there. The best thing of all is I had never seen the person they were referring to in my life. They acted like I was going to steal money or something from that person too, I wasn’t even taking commissions for them. 8D

Then I had it happen again just recently with some icons I’m working on because they have soda cans in them, I’m so obviously copying someone else. That same stupid comment was used by another person. I found out the artist who started doing icons with soda cans in them over a month ago is now pissed at me for something I couldn’t have known. I obviously stole her idea since I only started mine two weeks ago. It was again someone I’d never heard of before. REALLY AWESOME! Even though the icons look nothing alike and mine was just random arse inspiration at the time.

So there’s something I find really obnoxious. It kind of goes along with my post on art vigilantes but in this case it’s usually someone who chats with the artist rather than just watches. If the artist has an issue they should man up and actually talk to me rather than saying how pissed they are at me to everyone they know.

That’s another thing I don’t understand SO many people can’t just tell someone else what they REALLY think. It’s like oh I’m going to upset them better not say anything, and then miscommunication ensues! Or that’s when they say “Cue the white lies!” People have been sissified over the years. Most kids these days can’t handle any sort of critique or they scream at you saying you’re being rude and mean. I really hate how things are so politically correct now. >:(

So that’s my rant for the day. So now my question to the reader! What’s something you find this new generation lacks compared to the “old days”?