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I blame Monty Oum, funny enough, as he was ALL those things you mentioned, and the whole rwby series originally got popular BECAUSE it bent over backwards to fan requests. (esp shipping)
And the dozens of DA artists that followed his lead and were gluttons for similar punishment.
Basically, the kids are spoiled rotten by the initial crop of 3D/PC/MMD anime artists.
They all worked hella cheap too, undercutting everyone else. $15-$25 for full body full colour n shit, at professional manga artist tier quality, or $40 for fully rigged 3D figures. SPOILED, I SAY.
Some areas/fandoms are still flooded with eternally 'depressed' pricing.
There's such a massive amount of blech fan comics for instance because a couple south Americans like nanys charge as low as $150 for a full comic, not to mention also put out original works for free at the same pace.
How can anyone else compete with that? If Marvel could get away with paying artists that low they'd still be selling for 50 cents a pop.
These kids all followed a handful of guys like Monty who thought you should be completely obsequious to your audience, always humble, treat every tardo request/critique as deadly srs.
And now they're screwed up in the head about it and don't know how to tell people "no"
Also very susceptible to "we're only allowed a pittance as allowance but would like to commission you" sob stories from pre-teens, driving their average price even lower.

That's insightful as I really never got into Ruby myself,Opus. I'm so old school I remember the funny Red & Blue Halo skits that proceeded more loftier ambitions and once Rooster-Teeth got "really big". By that I had simply moved on to other things. I don't think artists should be complete assholes but there has been more of this push to make us "public personalities". Even in comics gate you have people like Ethan Van Schiver streaming everyday on youtube. Granted, I love Ethan's work and it more than speaks for itself but sure enough it got to the point many followers probably like the guy more for his online presence than the quality of art he can produce. My only point is some artists simply do art. Not all of us are super charismatic socialites.

I also remember the negative buzz around Hazbin Hotel in which people were trying to find negative things about Vivziepop's past just to "make her confess" before the kangaroo inquisition and all they could find was a few old drawings that didn't even prove what they accused her of. We're all just "people",man! I've done cringe things and I've said cringe things and though I'm wiser than myself from my mid 20's years that doesn't mean I'll never make mistakes again! The problem is with kissing the ass of the establishment is "eventually" they'll come up with a reason to hang you anyway so in the meantime you might as well at least get enjoyment outta what you create!

At one point artists went from a bit Anti-authoritarian to being shills for the masses. I realize a wide audience brings in money but the problem is when visionaries/illustrators/writers try to cater to everyone whatever they are creating becomes bland and uninteresting in its' inoffensiveness.