Recently, Scott Snyder made a comment about potentially holding poll to kill every Absolute Robin off BUT Jason… if it came down to it, what would you vote?
I’ve seen this more and more in this fandom lately, when someone puts time and effort in creating amazing fanart of a few Batfamily members, just for half the comments to be like “You forgot Carrie!” when it’s 5 of the Robins, or “Where are Cass and Duke?” when it’s just 4 of the Batboys with Bruce— I literally saw people asking where Helena Wayne and Bruce Jr were in a mainstream Robin line up the other day like ???
I love to see underrated fanart of characters I adore as much as the next person, but PLEASEEEE stop hating on the artists who are DOING THIS FOR FREEEE!!
These people are putting time and effort into making something for you to enjoy!! Just appreciate the fact that it was made in the first place :’)
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EDIT: There seems to be a war in the comments—
My point wasn’t to start wars or character disputes, it’s that people are being disrespectful to artists and that is not okay.
I understand that some arguments made are surrounding people titling art, for example “The Robins” and not including Stephanie, which can make people upset. However, rather than ignoring the whole piece of work that’s been made, or insulting the fact that she isn’t drawn, and you’re really, really desperate to tell this artist about how epic she is, maybe instead politely say something along the lines of:
“This is a great piece of art, I love it!! Your depiction of ‘x’ character is great! Just to let you know, there’s actually another mainstream Robin who’s often overlooked! She’s called Steph, and she’s also been Batgirl and Spoiler and is totally awesome!! :D”
That way, instead of being upset and insulted by a fandom that they could possibly be new too, or being slagged off for overlooking a character they perhaps knew less about ((for many get into comics and fandom these days through unconventional ways or starter reading places)), the artist may become interested, learn more about Stephanie, or Duke, Cass, or any other character you mention— and who knows, maybe they’ll even draw art for them in the future! :D
Being kind doesn’t cost anything, and positive fandom interactions only lead to life long fans :)
Stay safe guys <33
Finally published the first chapter of my long fic that I’ve been planning for over a year, was really excited to get a comment, only to see an AI BOT trying to scam me for “art”, but they had the most AI generated summary of MY WRITTEN FIC (not even the DESCRIPTION, the actual STORY) so the user must have copy and pasted the whole fic JUST to try and make their little pitch more convincing. My creation has been fed to a machine. I am ENRAGEDDDD AHHHHH!!
And before anyone asks, yePpp, it was definitely a bot, the account was new and they had a fake tumblr with an AI freakin logo’d background and everything 😭🙏
Thanks for listening to my TED Talk, ima go seethe in silent rage now, PEACEEEE ✌️✌️