In general, I don't like them. When an artist's work is all about creating a very simple personality for an already existing model and using that indefinitely on their posters and videos, there's a problem. When they make the same stuff with even more characters, we have the problem that is infesting a lot of communities. More and more artists copy this model, slowly turning all the art of that fandom into repetition with absolutely no originality and actual artistic input.
To put it simply, I think this is just about immature people imagining themselves and their friends as something they are not.
That is something everyone does when they are roughly ten years old. And in the case of TF2, that means using the models of
professional killers for this silly play. I really want people to stop thinking this is what SFM art is all about.
Gut Shot Männ is
18:33 - Gut Shot Männ: Maybe the OCs should be the common villains of my series
18:34 - vcr: or should the OCs have a contest about which of them is the edgiest and most emo?
18:34 - vcr: "I'm more black and green than you"
18:34 - vcr: "I'm even more insane on the inside than you"
18:34 - vcr: "I don't have any real friends, they don't understand me"
18:35 - vcr: "my creator has already made 20 OCs, he's very, very experienced"
18:35 - vcr: "I love to have all my sisters with just different coloured skins"
18:36 - vcr: "guys, people liked my own adventures as an OC for two days!
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18:37 - vcr: "I'm doing great today! not gonna develop my character at all for another full month"
18:37 - Gut Shot Männ: I save this right now
18:37 - Gut Shot Männ: perfect plot
18:38 - vcr: "it's a good thing my creator doesn't want to learn modeling so everyone will just see the cool already existing cosmetics on me"
18:38 - vcr: "the people on the internet are just scared of actually new and interesting things... so let's do them a service!"
18:40 - vcr: "I don't think anyone really wants to truly learn to know the artists behind all the things on dA"
18:40 - vcr: "ohyeah, that's why flat as hell characters exist, and they are ready to answer all your questions"
18:41 - vcr: I think I'll make my dA journal with this