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TLDR: Bad English ahead. Rant. Dramas. I need help with shadowban. I think about quitting, and not just in art.

As you know, I've been feeling down for a long time now, and it all started mostly because of my highly disastrous past, but also because of the drama surrounding my drawings. I've had 2 main ones - the December NeuviClorinde drama and the February SilverWolf drama. The first one didn't seem to affect me as much, but I'm afraid the second one ruined everything for me, even after my apology.

I've got hateful videos made about me, every day for 2 months I've been receiving death threats, posts on pixiv encouraging others to hate me and someone even made an AI model out of my style to spite me... My haters managed to suspend my pixiv account, which got me feeling like I was losing everything. Even now, when I sometimes see my drawings being reposted on bilibili or anywhere, I can still see hateful messages about me. I got through all of it, but I will be lying if I'd say that it doesn't affect me still.

Since February, I've been getting more and more anxious and depressed, not only because I still feel guilty and as if I failed so hard I will never be respected as an artist, but also because of the issue I wanted help with - the shadowbans.

In the past 4+ months, I've been getting banned from both of my Twitter accounts. As much as I want to say I don't care about it, I do, because it affects everything I have - engagement, people seeing my art, and more recently it affected my monetary gain as well. If the shadowbans continue, realistically, I will have to quit art and find a job following my recent graduation.

I really need help with this, because I can't figure out why am I getting banned. The shadowban usually lasts 18+ days and in the past 4 months I've got banned 8 times, which is not realistic for me to continue. At first, I thought it was because of NSFW, so I decided to post SFW art on my sub, and today I got banned regardless of that.

I'm afraid that if I'm getting banned from constant reports from people, who are still hating me after the SW drama, I won't be able to do anything about it and will have to leave art behind.

I know that it might be a temporary issue, but for the past months I've been dealing with it every day, which lowers my motivations, makes me depressed and even more guilty about what happened in February and I can barely concentrate on drawing, since I know I will fail and get banned again and again. I'm very tired of battling with constant banning and even though I enjoy making art, I don't think I'll be able to enjoy it by myself. I always wanted to be a famous artist since I was a kid, but if my dream is getting ruined by reports from my haters, I'll have to find a different one. I'm soul crushed and tired, and it doesn't help my depressive state, since it's more about just engagement, because I was planning my future around my works being appreciated and me being a full-time artist.

So, I wanted to ask you for help. Simply anything at this point - should I delete all my works? should I quit being Qiandai, change my style and become someone else? what should I draw to not get banned again? should I change media and be somewhere else?

I want nothing more but to post my works and not get punished for it. I don't care about money as much as I care about people seeing my art, since I don't need a lot to live and my supporters already help me. It's draining to sit down at the canvas and think how should I draw something to not be banned, to make it be liked and not fail like always. It's restricting, and I hate the process so much. I always fight against the bad luck, but at this point I wonder if it'll be better to disappear. I will really appreciate ANY help. I don't think I can do this any more... I'm completely alone in this mess, and I've been quiet about all the things that affected me in hopes of it getting better, but it just got worse. I'm depressed and suicidal, I had 2 attempts in the past year and I don't see a future for myself. I know that I'm pathetic by making my well-being relying on my art and other people, but nothing else makes me happy. I was planning on getting therapy and meds, but I have to move to a different home in autumn... I just don't know if I'll want to live until then.

I know not many people will see this, considering the shadowban, which makes it even funnier. But I do hope that you can give me advice. Please...

Comments

polymerase

The most important thing is you and your health. Please seek professional health as soon as you can! As for your art career don't delete your work, don't quit being Qiandai, don't have to change your style. Your dream is to be a famous artist so keep drawing no matter what! Draw whatever makes you happy and proud. Don't be restricted or allow others dictate what you draw. I believe any artist that draws what they like puts in more passion into their work, and it shows to the audience, as well. Perhaps you can collab with other artists to spread and grow your art and audience. I know you mentioned that there are a lot of haters and it's difficult to ignore all the hate, but please know that you have a LOT MORE love for you and your art!! You're an inspiration to others. Just to reiterate - Please seek professional help, please take care of yourself, draw what you want to draw, and continue to focus on your post graduation goals! We'll support you!

MMikeyy

You're an amazing artist, just like any other artist out there. Your style is unique, fresh, and something you can't find any where else. Don't delete your work and don't quit being Qiandai. Drawing is what makes you happy, continue and focus on that. Don't let the words of the few get you down. Live the happy life that they can't. As for what to do for your future. You have many options, take a break off social media, specifically Twitter, move away from the Hoyo community for a while, or take an extended leave to help recover your mental state. I would really love for you to continue Hoyo related art but when it comes to art the artist comes first for me. I'd rather have it to where the artist is in a stable mindset to make art for their community than someone who is unstable and could make even worse decisions. So if you take time away and seek professional help I am in full support of that decision. As for the social media stuff, I agree with the post above saying to reach out to other fellow artists/content creators to help on the Twitter side of things. More on a note from me, you're a fantastic artist and love all your work. It's such a unique style from every other artists. I always see people reposting your art on other social medias that it makes me happy to see your amazing art be spread around and seem by millions. I feel like there would be a gap in art community if you would suddenly delete all your work and moved on from Qiandai. Don't ever try and change who you are, this is supposed to be you, what makes you, not what others should make you be. There are more people who love you and your art compared to haters, who are wasting away going after other people and making them feel miserable. Don't let them win, you're strong. With a lot of drama, it's apologize and move on. If people can't move on after that they can just stay mad. The best way to deal with this is just keep doing what you're doing and posting your amazing art. Thank you making amazing art and I hope things get better for you Qiandai! Please know that you are loved and that your art is amazing! Always stay you Qiandai!

Bright

I love your art style, It's extremely unique and pretty not only that but each work of yours has it's own unique idea and very different from the others which shows how much thought you put into it we don't see same clothes same poses no everytime it's something new so anyone can easily tell how much you love drawing. I'm no professional or anything but what I want to say don't give up on something you love don't give up, it's not simple I know but I wish that everytime you think of any form of negativity (haters or anything) think of the people that LOVE you we all do, don't focus on the negative side look at the bright one where the people love are don't beat yourself up because somebody feelings got hurt by a drawing haters and those braindeads feed on seeing you down don't let them win just ignore them completely and they'll get bored and go the f away. I found your art like 3 months ago and you instantly became one of my top 3 if not top 1 like I said your art themes are always different and they always hit the right spot so never change it please ♥️.