If I like someone's style, but their subject matter is boring to me, I'll probably still look at their work, just not with the same level of interest. But if I find out someone has a really unpleasant personality, it's harder for me to enjoy their stuff, because every time I see it I think "yes but you're a jerk". I guess it's worse on the internet because you can't really avoid the personality, with the comments and journal entries and everything. I mean, I think Salvador Dali was a jerk, but it doesn't bother me so much because he doesn't have a little note under each of his paintings say "TODAY I TRIED TO BLOW UP A DUCK LOLOLOLOLOL COMMENT DON'T FAV OR I'LL CUT YOU". The one thing that turns me off an artist completely is finding that they have a sexual kink that weirds me out/upsets me and what I saw as a cute picture of a little rabbit girl is getting them off :< It upsets me much more than blatently sexual images of the same sort of subject. I have no idea why I feel that way, really.
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Date: 2008-12-19 01:14 am (UTC)MINI ESSAY FOR YOU