As primarily a digital artist myself, I feel this. In the backlash to genAI a lot of other artists are turning back to traditional mediums, which is great if you enjoy that, but please don’t leave us digital artists to the wolves.
there's such a depressive weight to being a digital artist because everything you make, upload, or share is just punished immediately by creative violation of thieves and machine scrapers. I do have an apprehension to upload and post stuff lately because there's really no joy in being disrespected