You see, earlier some Twitter artists started to use the
#NobodyArtistClub hashtag.
The purpose was to call attention to the underrated artists (<1K followers) of the site, some of them had been doing art for over a decade with no good way to make connections, clients for commissions and get professional jobs.
For whatever reasons well established, some industry, artists (+10K followers) literally went "just git gud lol" which created a whole shitfest that only got worse when not so established artist (2 - 10K followers) but with professional gigs started to use the hashtag because they felt underrated, whether that's true or not many of these "hijackers" were employed as designers, art teachers or didn't depend on commissions in general. Turning a "Hey, take a look at my art and maybe you might want to pay if you like my style" movement into an elitist one
Anyone who uses social media as much as Bob knows that "git gud" thing is hardly true because the way the algorithm works is to feed the search towards the big accounts, and
any account breaking from Twitter obscurity without contacts is extremely hard. Which is obviously apparent when you look at the hashtag in the Top tab you get 5K+ artists while if you look at Latest tab you get sometimes <100 artists
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Especially Bob should know this considering he has too many followers despite his total lack of talent and at the same time not enough for the amount of time he's been engaging and producing content.
For me the whole "git gud" argument is just established pros being pissy about newcomers finding an alternative to make contacts between themselves and the public without doing the whole "make connections in the industry" circus, so it came no wonder to me Bob supported the established artists' argument against what started as an innocuous "Look at my art" hashtag.
