Cat/Owofication TF (Com)

If you focus on appeasing to personal desires of any kind, of course you'd get a large amount of followers. But, is that the real point to creating an image?

The likes of Sun Tzu said, "To see victory only when it is within the keen of the common herd is not acme of excellence. Neither is it the acme of excellence if you fight and conquer and the empire says, 'Well done!'"

This means Sun Tzu agrees that the opinions of others means very little in regards to actual success in anything.

Indeed, people are willing to accept anything they'd personally like, to the point of fooling even themselves. Some people, relying on others' tendencies for doing that, intentionally entice others in an attempt to fool their perceptions. Indeed, an entire practice exist that surrounds this very fact, the practice being called "social engineering". It's what many ad makers to in an attempt to sell, for instance, and it's what many con artists do to trick and fool others, even with things otherwise incredibly blatant.

None of this means a thing to the picture, other than a means of explaining why you should never rely on the subjective, the personal, in order to sell your work.

If you focus more on appeasing others, rather than actually treating whatever it is within your image as itself, the picture would suffer as the result. If you're drawing a character being "OwO-fied", you're supposed to actually treat it as a character being "OwO-fied".

After all, as far as your image is concerned, everything within is supposed to be as real as your own skin; this mere concept is what philosophers tend to call "verisimilitude", or the believability of your work. It's not just things I've made up; the aim of aesthetics, within philosophy, is to explore the very things that make art, well, art. My philosophy is a hybrid between aesthetics and philosophy of mind.