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A Simple Headline Designed To Get Your Attention

NoNamesLeftToUse@nonameslefttouse (77)2371d

_{My typical approach to starting a blog post. In reality, it's only a sentence.}

^{Aside from a few different words, this line, is much like the one above.}

Now I proofread and fix the mistakes I've made.

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Today's thumbnail.

^{It can be seen above.}

I decided to go with something random today. It's an old image I produced roughly one month shy of two years ago. I called it The Silent Treatment.

I doubt I explained the true meaning back then. I think it had something to do with someone struggling with addiction, in silence.

Anyway. Most people don't write blog posts about their thumbnail selection, so it's probably time to move on to something else.

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Sitting on a Cloud of Steps

^{I think a lot of people liked that one.}

Another one I produced and released years ago.

Produced. I never say, "painted." Painting is something people do with paint. Everything I've released here has been digital. Digital productions. That wording is important to me and there's nothing wrong with being honest, unless you're one of those art fraudsters we all see around these parts.

I'm glad there are people here who spend time dealing with the riffraff accordingly.

As an artist here, approaching another "artist" to tell them they're a fraud is probably one of the hardest things I've had to do.

Trolls, plagiarists, art frauds, the rest of this long list of rejects; they all act the same way when approached with a healthy dose of honesty.

If they're not downvoting you as "payback" for months if not years after you busted them, they're busy working on their smear campaign for months if not years. Twenty posts per day telling people how "evil" you are. Or they'll follow you around and harass you in the comment section, making life miserable, for everyone.

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Another recent production of mine.

^{I named it Snebulous.}

Again, when I released that image, I never explained its true meaning.

Today I'll simply say I'm glad those ridiculous paid votes aren't much of an issue anymore.

Thousands of dollars were pulled from the reward pool just so one "artist" could pretend to be popular every day. The "art" to me appeared to be cropped portions of much larger images and the words published were the same copy/paste nonsense, every single fucking time.

See what I did there?

^{That took one minute of my time.}

Don't waste your time upvoting junk. Real artists always find a way to add their personality to each post. I've said for years, "People don't follow art, they follow artists."

I thought about starting up some kind of an outsider artist community here on this platform, for about a minute.

The majority of my adult life was spent managing people. It's such a pain in the ass and makes my head explode.

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Kudos

^{I tip my hat to those willing to take on the challenge.}

You'll be dealing with frauds, constantly. Give them the boot and you might have to deal with months of bullying and harassment.

Good luck!

If you need help with something, you know where to find me.

Have a nice day.

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Credits:

All art and images seen here were produced digitally, by me.

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^{^{All content within this blog is 100% organic ACTUAL CONTENT and contains no paid vote additives!}}

_{"And here's where I usually write a status message. It changes every day."}

Comments · 14

@arcange(79)· 2370d
Congratulations @nonameslefttouse! Your post was mentioned in the Steem Hit Parade in the following category:
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@ryivhnn(73)· 2370d
There's a couple of art communities around the place if you feel that way inclined. I'm in SteemArtists (more casual) and OnChain Art (for the hardcore serious professional artists, has entry requirements in the community description). Former has a tag and a Discord, latter has a community, think there is a tag that gets used but I don't look at it because I lazily just look in the community and a Discord.

Managing people sounds like a nightmare.

Oh vaguely related, oldest came in while I was scrolling through the post, and then I had to scroll up to show him the last pic, and then the rest of it. He was confused but thought it was pretty cool.
@abitcoinskeptic(75)· 2371d
I support the art police even if they seem like dicks...because of they seem like dicks, the people they are dealing with are much worse (I wanted to say bigger, but dicks tend to like that description).

I like art critics, too. We need nore of that here. After coming back are you featuring your lonely art more...did you miss us? It seems you are still loved and appreciated. Don't forget.

My favorite part is

Painting is something people do with paint.

We know you don't think this includes dogital art. So define paint. Some would say drawing with color and brush. I don't know, I've only painted walls mostly.
@nickyhavey(74)· 2371d
Yep, I've had a few people send threats via Discord and some are still trying to go for me on Twitter for over a year but I literally don't have time, care or resources to entertain what I'm sure would be a wholey fulfilling experience engaging with them.

I'm just doing something all the time and can't sit around online with these dweebs. There's a real life out there, would much rather live that than speak to people with their fingers up their arse.

removes finger from arse
@enjoywithtroy(71)· 2371d
You have been busy here! Yes personality and writing is an art too. Relax a moment and have a cold one. Enjoyed.
@stefano.massari(75)· 2371d
I liked these images very much!
@meesterboom(81)· 2371d
Ahem... I have been known to, on occasion where life's is not inspiring me with events to create a cool thumbnail and riff on that :OD
@tarazkp(86)· 2371d
Con-artists are artists too!
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@davedickeyyall(79)· 2371d
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@bidesign(64)· 2371d
I studied art mainly drawing for 4 years in highschool. Studied sculpture in uni and served as sculptor for 7 years. I serve as graphic designer since 2013. Still can't understand WTF is art. It was my profession at first than turned to a hobby and than turned to a therapy now I can't understand what I am doing. Bullshit =) Being poor is bad, being an Artsy poor is worst. IDK WTF people expects me.
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@jaynie(77)· 2371d

As an artist here, approaching another "artist" to tell them they're a fraud is probably one of the hardest things I've had to do.

!giphy awkward

If they're not downvoting you as "payback" for months if not years after you busted them, they're busy working on their smear campaign for months if not years. Twenty posts per day telling people how "evil" you are. Or they'll follow you around and harass you in the comment section, making life miserable, for everyone.

Oh, I can relate to this on so many levels... I get a LOT of hate mail in this place lol... and not only hate mail but "passive aggressive" behaviour... like They save one of their multiple accounts for an unfollow each month... you know, just to make it that much more dramatic and then for extra effect they sometimes add a MUTE! These too, are people I have called out for their... how can I say... @#%^%$#$%^%$@^&^@@#^&^%$#@#$%^&^%#@#$%^%$#@ yeah.... I think that did the trick.

I like snebulous

The "art" to me appeared to be cropped portions of much larger images and the words published were the same copy/paste nonsense, every single fucking time.

Sociopaths are brazen that way. They probably convince themselves that what they have done actually IS theirs because it is 2.57% different and for that reason it should be rounded up!

The majority of my adult life was spent managing people. It's such a pain in the ass and makes my head explode.

I hate the word, but ditto! and I concur! and here I am doing it all over again lol

Great post!

Why doesn't the last one have a name?

!tip
@oldtimer(76)· 2371d
Sometimes there is not enough time to check if the art is original or copied or altered. Or maybe we're just too lazy. I would recognize yours from miles away, tho.