https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=488&p=4171#p4171
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Deviant_Viking
Wednesday, 19 November 2003, 12:59 AM

My beef with poser
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As some of you may or may not have noticed, I've started to give up on poser.
It doesn't just look like a lack of inspiration or such. I've had those.

I'm constantly growing more and more tired of the general poser community. Things I either were unaware of or simply didn't care about, have started making a clearer appearance as of late.
Take all the ViaTwaS (Vicki in a Temple with a word) and 'beauty pics'.
I'm tired of people who make a booty pic or a portrait pic simply to get attention. I know I've made some of them myself, but at least the booty:thought-provoking ratio is hopefully in the favour of thoughts, unlike too many others.
I'm tired of all the pics who have no real meaning behind them, all the 'stock' pics that consists of one-click lights, poses and textures.
I'm tired of the pics that has nudity simply to gain hits.

For a good while, of my pics on r'osity the one with most hits were 'You Smile'. It currently has 616 hits.
It's now been overtaken by my 'Only want me for my body' that has 683 hits. It has blatant nudity, as a protest against just that.
But I doubt anybody actually care about that, and that pisses me off along with the fact they clicked it only for the nudity.

Not to mention the growing greed and increasingly lower product standards. As VirtualSite mentioned somewhere, anybody who figures out how to change the hue of something in photoshop is releasing a texture pack.
Even V3 was pretty buggy, as Daz evidently couldn't wait to get her out and churn in money.
Not to mention R'osity seems to try and screw over everybody as long as they can make some money from it. (and man, so much else wrong with that place I've just recently become aware of).


There's also things I've found out about myself and poser that I just don't like, and questions that have been raised about myself.
I feel recently I've started to get really disapointed when nobody, or very few people notices my pics, especially when the dozen-a-dime beauty pics gets alot of attention.

Sure you can paint beautiful hair and clothes.
Sure you can enhance the colors to look so much more beautiful.
Sure you can make the pose and light excellent.
But it's still another god damn pic I've seen thousands of times before.
Still a busty, half-naked (wo)man showing off, with no meaning or story.

Where's the originality? Where are the thought-out ideas behind it?
Too few people bother trying to be different these days! If you think you have a talent, why not try and use it!?

The three main reasons I'm at this forum;
Tormentor. He has interesting character(s) and often has a story in his pics.
Den. You basically say 'fuck you, majority' and dare to differ with your insane and funny stories, but also remember to be serious at times.
GP. You try to be original and different, and usualy succeed too, and can often come up with pics that makes people think.
I respect you as artists because of this, and it's sometimes helped my spirit.
(Other people here, like Ozy, TdaC and others, hope you don't feel left out. Not mentioned for whatever reasons, but not forgotten)

But now, I'm getting real sick and tired. I'd quit poser in protest if I thought it'd help.
But truth is, the only people that'd care about it, are the people who are different from the norm. The people who don't solely do pin-ups and shit simply to get attention.
Sadly though, they seem to be the only ones that actually care about originality and such in pics.
And it makes me realise how small I really am, how little my opinion really matters.
Because the people who listen, are the ones that already know what I'm saying.
And because the people I'd like to get the message across to, are the ones who don't listen.


So what can I do? Nothing really.
Quit? In the end, noone would remember. Nothing would have changed.
Continue? Still noone would really notice, nor care, and still nothing would change.


I'm not giving up poser. But I'm not embracing it as much as earlier either.


