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Deciding to be an artist for a living is honestly a pretty dumb decision. You get told by everyone it’s unrealistic, you’ll never be good enough, it’s not a real job etc. Still, you decide to try, you battle your negative thoughts daily as you start to second guess whether this path was meant for you - thinking of giving up several times. But you just can’t, it’s the only thing you want to do in life. You need to be a little dumb to follow this path, otherwise you’d be blinded by reason.

Just a heads up for anyone with a DeviantArt, they have now made everyone automatically "opted in" for their art to be used for AI art. You have to go into the settings of every piece you've ever posted and opt out for each individual piece if you don't want your art to be used as "inspiration for" AI art. Additionally, users can now create AI art by inputting random DeviantArt users' usernames as prompts. Today might be a good day to opt out (or delete your account entirely, as I did).

I feel my mind boiling at the moment. Why all social networks suddenly seem to be on a movement against artists. I've already been feeling so unmotivated... I've always been a small artist, and it seems increasingly difficult to get any visibility. Since I was young I have Deviantart, there I met several artists that I admire and follow to this day... just thinking about having to edit piece by piece, I feel the urge to delete the account, even if with a sad heart.