Not allowed to be a successful artist here. If you do well, someone will come along to say you're doing too well. And that's ridiculous in this world. Say something, become a villain. That's also ridiculous. Not allowed to be a 'big name' here, but it's fine if a 'big name' shows up to collect, sell, and not even get comments on their posts. It's been like that though, since day one.
Youtube first made stars out of the people who embraced Youtube, then the big names showed up once they saw the money. By the looks of things, that'll never happen here. And to be clear, I don't give a fuck about what happened to me here with all these downvotes. I'm looking at everyone else and a long history. What can people work up to if getting there only means you get pushed back down? Sure, let it happen to me. What about everyone else? How do you start at the bottom and work your way up if there is no up? Where I am now, what if I want to go further? Can't? Not allowed? What's next?
Straight up, man. If I've done everything I can do, what's left for me? And what about everyone else?
The only solution I can see is for there to be such an overwhelming mass of successful artists here that fuckheads like @likwid can't push them all down.
I don't see something like that happening. Here we have famous internal memo writers. Artists are useless in their eyes. If you bring up any problems, you will be punished. This place is doomed...
Likwid's downvotes are artworks too.
What's a successful artist to you?