<center> _Title: 20 minutes_</center> # People on STEEMIT don't appreciate ART As I sift through the endless shitposts on #trending, it becomes clear that the community dislikes the visual arts. I do not understand why, because most of them plagiarize images on the interweb on a daily basis. Their shitty posts would never get upvoted if it were not for hard working artists who share their images online. As such, I am once again taking it upon myself to educate the uneducated masses that flock to steemit to make their undeserved profits from below-average research articles. Articles that would only be considered informative if the reader is trying to learn how to be bad at words. # The Content Mobs I was informed that there are mobs out there, policing the payouts that artists receive from bidbots. One such an artist goes by the name @kettle. He uses the platform to showcase his art. He is mostly focused on traditional art. (For the artistically illiterate majority of you fuckwits, traditional art refers to art that is made with mediums such as pencils, paint, and paint brushes.) He does not rationalise his art in most cases, because he is not an illustrator or graphic designer. He creates emotions. Art that is meant to be interpreted by the viewer, not the artist. It is called FINE ART. And it's the reason why the age of enlightenment happened, and why you are now able to earn money on this thing called the INTERNET. Anyway, these mobs have been raising flags regarding his 50c payouts, that he himself buys from various bidbots. He is relatively unknown, and because of his ignorance, he believes the scammers when they say vote buying is a form of promotion. The mobs believe that he is getting too much for a painting that takes him between 12 - 1200 hours to complete. While they get payouts of $10 for articles they write in an hour. Articles that would get laughed at were they to be published on any reputable platform. @kettle is but one of these artists being disadvantaged by the illiterate masses on this platform. I, myself, have also noticed this trend. I am able to make a hefty profit from puking out words that have no value or meaning, while my art gets almost no respect. Art that actually has value. That brings my fanbase to this platform. And that actually generates meaning in the real world. <center>[](https://steemit.com/creative/@kettle/zebra-landscape-6db7e3bf7a966) _Zebra Landscape - @kettle_</center> # Conclusion The majority of users on this platform are parasites. Only here to get rewarded for bullshit posts. They have no creative drive. They don't have a need to create. They could care less if this platform has valuable content. STOP UPVOTING THEM. _This entire article took 20 minutes to write_ <center> _Charlie: 3 hours_</center> --- So I have created a store on SOCIETY6 where you can support me by buying my art prints. I will also have T-Shirts, phone covers, stickers, and many more. Check it out! [](https://society6.com/steph5nus)
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I myself have not seen this type of action against traditional art Artist, I have however witnessed it with Authors and poetry, it seems that every 6 months or so they, (and I really have no clue who they are), pick a different thing to pick on. I am beginning to think it is someone that loves the facebook kind of troll trolling drama it creates. At the beginning of the year it was all against the community that was trying to protect people and families from CPA Child Protective Agencies, so they will grow board of the drama they create here for the Traditional Artist, and move on to the next group soon. Maybe it will be gamers, or campers or car buffs or motorcycle fiends, or anime art, all i know is it will blow over, they get bored pretty quick.
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it's not just 1 person. it's an entire community.
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I understand it is not about one person but about a whole group of people of a community of people, I have seen it happen, they harass a group for a while then move on. They did it with fiction writers, then poetry writers, then photography buffs, then Family Protective service type post. The only group these people have not gone after that I have seen while on steemit is the crypto community. It will keep happening. Because the only time anyone tries to do anything about it is when it hits their community, because they do not care about the "Truther",about the "Alt Media", about the "conspiracy" about the "storyteller", it will keep happening because people do not give a shit about the other community because it does not affect them. It is why I replied, I do understand it it not about 1 person, it is about a community. It happens to a lot of communities.
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Upvoted!
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Really? There're people stopping artists to get more payout? This is the 1st time I hear about it.
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Yeah. It gets brought up quite a bit in the minnowbooster support server.
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i dont agree with you on this point: > People on STEEMIT don't appreciate ART because i have seen how artist friend are getting for posting their art here!! and one they one time got 8$ for his post and one payed orden for a paint! Maybe they dont get 50$ or 100$ per posts, but even when they only get 1$ is OK! you know why? because we do art for the **love of doing it** and before steemit, these 1$ didnt ever exist! so getting pay at least 1$ is something no? but for another point, people flaggin art is heartless
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yeah. i didnt mean people should stop posting art. there are MANY artists on steemit and we look at art. i personally upvote a lot of art too. i meant there are people actively trying to get bidbots to stop voting on art posts. i am specifically talking about minnowbooster in fact. but if people are arguing against art there, then im sure they are doing it for other bots too. before steemit you also didnt get paid $100 for a status update. so i dont understand your point. surely artwork that took 10 hours to complete is regarded as better content than a 2 minute status update?
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Good post and a worthy cause to highlight. Just I feel too often the masses get blamed for the actions of a tiny elite without any brains and an insatiable penchant for censoring the work of anyone releasing anything that makes a bit of sense, too much sense or no sense at all.. basically, anyone that isn't them.
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I recently wrote something similar about photography but yours is better worded. I've seen people say "don't just post a photo there should be some text" but good photos and certainly good paintings take as much if not more effort than many posts I see. And they do add value to the block chain.
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