Unless people are in or know about screen/theatre I don't think they realise just how much you have to exaggerate anything for it to look good for a camera/audience.
Getting defensive and aggressive towards others when isolated seems like a terrible survival instinct. Interesting idea though, I always thought it was more of an extremely overactive fragile little ego defence.
That's a good point. Do many people even watch theatre these days? You don't often see wordless sketches any more either, I suppose.
It could be that too, especially if you're not very good at interacting, so you're assuming everyone's viewing you negatively.
Wordless sketches as in drawings or as in pantomime type performances?
In the former case I like reading whatever additional information the artist wants to provide in the textbox (like their thought processes behind it or what was going on in their life when they were working on it/posted/etc) but prefer nothing at all to people blathering about how they're "going to let the image speak for itself" (like just do it don't bother explaining it).
and I don't do a lot of wordless stuff because I talk too much x_x
Maybe a self esteem thing? As I have noted that some of the people I know who are very good at interacting will sometimes assume the worst of something that was said or done in ways that I don't even notice (not that that's saying much).
I was thinking more pantomime type performance. Actually, early soundless movies came to mind as I was writing. 😆 But I'm the same with regards drawings, now you mention that.
We probably all over think at times, don't we? It's easy to assume people who are chatty, outgoing and well liked are confident and wouldn't assume the worst, but then one day they surprise you by admitting that they aren't that confident and worry that people dislike them.