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Nobody is offended. It is 100% not about being offended. But think about it like this: There are multiple places where people can post their art. You're doing it for fun, not to make money but because you want to share stuff with the community. Where are you going to post? The place where you're mostly ignored or people dismiss your art or complain about what you or your friend's like to make? Or the one where people respond with encouragement? What is your incentive to spend the time and log in and post on the first board?

The other place I'm talking about is a fairly large discord where all the artist now post. Pixiv is good for just generally posting/archiving your gallery. But when you want to share with the community/chat about your art, you post on the discord.

You have the complete right to post responses to my stuff saying you don't like someone's art. Nobody should censor that. But just don't expect artists to come and post/interact with the community if the attitude is: "Don't get offended, people are way meaner on R34". If your argument is the criticism is designed to help the artist improve. First, most of us aren't looking to improve. We're not professionals. We're not asking for money. We're just posting stuff for fun. And second, "it's boring" isn't all that useful.

It's not "artists should be able to take my criticism". It's "here's why artists generally don't post here". Responded to this since I was specifically asked a question, but I think we should all just move on. Not sure I have to prove my point since I'm just telling you what artists have told me and my experience. There's no real "resolution" to this.