Reflecting on an era
I've been thinking about my cringe era recently. The time when I started on Toonator, my first involvement with an online community. Honestly, I feel like I somehow avoided witnessing a lot of the toxic stuff, not all of it, but a lot. That era bleeds into when I stared out here on Drawn. For all I know it's still going on, but I would argue if I am cringe, this is a completely different cringe era for me.
I'm still learning not to hate myself from my cringe era or even now. Sorry for venting like that all of a sudden. I originally intended for this to be more lighthearted and joke-y. Anyway, I don't think I regret my cringe era as much as I hated it. I hate things about it, but not *it* itself. I feel like a developed a lot as an artist over those years and I met some wonderful people. I'd never trade their friendship for anything unless it was to guarantee they live a heckin' good life.
But I will still argue I at least was cringe. I still even think my username is kinda cringe. It's not that bad, but I've always sucked at coming up with good names, and once I established an online "alias", I couldn't think of anything else and it wasn't that big of a deal and yeah. Feel free to agree or disagree with my username being cringe. I can't stop you :)
Anyway, I feel like I had more to say. I was thinking about this while brushing my teeth and tried to jot down my thoughts as soon as possible, but my memory is like a wet sponge under a dumbbell.
So uh, have a nice day.
