Wow, how the mighty have fallen. i can’t believe that TJponies doen’st make real art. What even are these little low-effort squart ponies? This isn’t what i’m looking for, I’m going to follow a better artist like Sundowner or that Jargin Scott fellow
@Background Pony #49EA
TJ is popular because his art is humorous. Apparently, you fail to understand that. I know some of these high-quality artists personally that follow TJ because they like his humor.
Upvotes are generally given based on quality of content, not quality of image. High quality art can take days to draw, sometimes weeks. Simple artists like TJ can put out multiple pieces of content a day, and that gets attention.
@Background Pony #49EA
Art doesn’t need to be “good” to be appealing to someone. “Good” is a strictly subjective state of mind that we all judge for ourselves. TJ draws to relax, he draws to have fun, he draws for the community because he likes being a part of it and we like having him as one of our goofy, slightly twisted artists and meme creators. There’s a level of immediate understanding when you see his stuff, even if it’s “poorly” drawn, that he’s just being humorous. Overanalyzing art is something that is as old as human culture, and I suspect it’ll continue long after we’re gone. But, like with Pencils, let’s just let TJ do what he does and not be poots about it. This isn’t art class and we’re not all trying to live up to some vague standard of what makes art “good” enough to be worthy of upvotes and favorites.
