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...See more I'm an artist who works with commissions, barely makes $15 a month and things around are getting even more expensive. Last night I posted an art of mine, nothing serious, just practice routine, then, this morning I received a message from a guy offering a project. I thought "oh, nice! Sounds like a good month for me!" until he said that it would be for free since it's a collab. (He just wants his stories illustrated, doesn't sound like a collab, just someone hiding his intentions with the word "collab", as an artist, that's pretty common among "clients") I politely declined and explained my financial situation, I can't work for free and since he is asking for a free job, I believe he couldn't get mad for being declined. Well, he did. This guy started to say that i shouldn't post my art if I'm not willing to help who needs it, he said things like "are you being forced to post? Because I don't see a reason to post your art if you're not helping me!". "You are choosing not to help me! You don't know what a collab means? I'm very annoyed that I'm being denied ALL the time!" I offered a single illustration of his character for free, at least to help him to advertise his project and calm him down but he still mad. I understand his frustration, I have been rejected many times when I tried to make friends and what I learned from it is that we need to move on and put effort into things and people who are interested back, not beg for it from who's not able to help us. Now I feel anxious being attacked by this person for no reason, those things probably will stay for a long time in my head and ruin my day thinking I'm a bad person for not helping others and make someone mad... Random anxiety moments in life...

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