I've had a thought pondering the last couple days. These last 4 years have really torn our country apart between Covid & politics. People haveforgotten how to be good humans with one another. Certain public figureshave certainly not helped with that either. Our world has gotten crueler in manyways we can't deny this. In a way, its like after 9/11 and how many turned against people of Arabic ethnicity/faith & blamed them for the actions of other people. Now, its become a world where if people are not like you, then they are evil & horrible or wrong.
I say all of this because I see it to a degree in the PSP community.Drama has always been part of the community in one way or another. Yet,the drama that occurs now (esp with AI) seems to be so much worse. Our community is enduring bullying over weather we accept or totally deny AI. Yes our community is in midst of change with AI & the rules are still to come. This is nothing new as the same thing happened when the Copyright movement started. I was around to see the birth & growth of that. Yet even then, the meanness that we see now was not around. PSP is suppose to be an escape from reality. A community to share our creativities among friends worldwide. Yet the bullying that is happening in the real world has become a part of PSP.
We can't let this destroy our community. As a tagger myself, I already feel the joy slip away a bit. Yes absolutely we should support the artists because without them, we don't have this world. But judging and turning on friends, designers & taggers, does not need to happen. Why must we convince someone to think like us so much? Just like life, its our differences (Provided they are not harmful) and uniqueness that makes us well us. But just like certain aspects of the real world, if we dare think differently than some, then we are torched and put on blast. We are made to be wrong for thinking with our own mind. I've never seen the community so split apart in my many, many years of being a part of it. This needs to change. Period. 
Very well said Sarah.
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