This is true, but someone who has found their popularity through being a critic should probably make more of an effort to actually handle criticism himself. I'm more sympathetic to a creative who doesn't shit on someone else's work getting a bit defensive or dismissive than I am somebody like Raymond, who would have virtually no audience or success in his endeavors without the hard work and dedication of somebody else to piggyback off of.
There's a difference between going "y'know, I'm not going to ding you there, becauses that's fair", and "I like you a little more."
Sympathetic is not the word I'd choose. Aggravated sounds much better. I am aggravated by Raymond, and his narrative essay makes me MATI because he made a 'novel' format that fails as both prose and script, and he has the gall to proclaim himself a master because of it.
There are legitimate masters of the art in the RWBY fandom. Someone mentioned Coeur, and I wholeheartedly agree.
And then theres this hack who somehow managed to create his own little ego farm.
I'm just not as pissed I was because after a little bit of research, I realized that there isn't anyone in this whole mess that I would describe as competent. No one impressed me with their art, regardless of the medium.
The modeler can't make decent clothes that make sense. The lead writer is an incredibly pretentious hack. None of the concept artists know how to draw people, as opposed to bug-men. There are no VA's, which honestly I was expecting for a RWBY rewrite that has modelers and animators.
I went into this expecting a hack to have somehow managed to bully or gaslight some actual talent into his own little circlejerk, and instead, I got an entire server of little Raymonds all running around, from the weaboos, to the lolicons, to the soon-to-be-42-percenters, and all of them have massive egos and think that everyone involved is great.
The RWBY community isn't sending their best. Their sending their hacks. Their coomer fangirls. Their narcissists'. And some of them I assume are good people.
Edit: deleting leftover words