>>5886086Ten years ago, /ic/ was far from perfect, but it had a purpose - to get unfiltered, honest critique on your portfolio and exchange art reference, supplies, experience and ideas. The catalog was full on people posting their work, most often a whole portfolio, where anons would give feedback. Over the years solo threads became more and more rare, people were shunned - how dare you create your own thread? We have generals now.
Generals are far from the only problem with /ic/ these days; I would even argue they might be the only functional part left. The biggest problem is the board mentality and the resulting threads. We rarely have genuine feedback threads. Rather, the catalog is cluttered with vent, hate and drama threads, meme threads, generals for every single subject, disguised drawing requests, threads about social media and commissions. But these threads are only a mirror of the mentality of modern /ic/, a peak into anons' insanity. The main problem seems to be two big mentalities. First, those who seek a reason not to draw by external reasoning (i.e. asian genes, neural plasticity, ligma, etc.), because they only draw for external reasons (praise, fame, social media, commissions). The other group are artists who have a PvP mentality, spreading misinformation, half-truths or simply being dismissive and/or actively disencourage others from drawing (crabbing). These problems are so deeply rooted and the hostility on this board is at such an all-time high, that people rarely even post their work anymore. Most decent artists left this board five years ago, when it was already on the decline and already had a lot of the present problems. These days /ic/ is beyond saving. We went from a rough community of elitists striving to improve to a bunch of letharig losers, spiteful crabs and misinformed dunning-kruegers. /ic/ is beyond saving. So all I can say is, rest in peace, Artwork & Critique. Good night, sweet prince.
