I'm in my mid-30s and still have cool rocks. I just keep them to myself.
(To be fair, my grandmother also collected cool rocks, mostly big ones for a rock garden, so the habit was probably reinforced in me more than other guys.) Pixy did not find a cool rock. She found an un-cool piece of a sidewalk, driveway, or curb.
It really does make you wonder what's wrong with them. They do still low key worship her which is wild, she's always been awful. She could actually strangle the cat and there would still be women on that site saying "She needs help u guise" whereas if a man does even 10% of the shit pixy does they'd be calling for his immediate hanging.
All of her art is an eye sore. Even if she wasn't tracing, it's still really bad. The colours are jarring, there's 0 skill in form or lighting, the concepts arent concepts and she isn't really improving despite absolutely churning them out. Don't get me wrong it's positive that she has a hobby that isn't showing her fat arse to her tripod in school play grounds but she's not a skilled or interesting artist. It's interesting in that it gives somewhat of a window into her fried brain but its cryptic and not much concrete information can be gained.
It would be fair enough if she really was just painting for herself and making stuff to hang in her nasty bedroom but she insists on trying to sell it and wants to be a famous artist, so it's fair game to assess it in that context. It's art therapy stuff. It's her brain having a shit on a canvas.
On top of what you said in the first paragraph, I think it's in part because what she paints and draws is a lot better than what the average person can do. Some of her stuff is ok, although a lot of the better-looking stuff is traced or copied from someone else's work. Like, if she would take the time to actually learn and hone her skills, she could be ok, but she won't do that - not with art, not with cosplay, not with her "career," nothing. She thinks she's already perfect, which is part of what makes her Pixyteri.
I'll admit to having a soft spot for some cows who I think were just dealt a really shit hand in life and are obviously mentally ill. It's hard to watch someone destroy their own life when it doesn't seem like they really had a chance.
But Pixy is not one of those people. Yes, her mom is a whack job and her behavior was encouraged/escalated by online trolls and sociopaths. But just like OPL, she would never have grown up to be a nice person or positive part of her community/social groups/whatever. Pixy and OPL would both have always been shitty people who made life unpleasant for others - just maybe not to the same degree that they ended up doing.
Pretty much this. She was dealt a shit hand genetically and mentally, was stuck with a shrieking bipolar harpy of a mother, was coddled by her boomer parents who were and are entirely unequipped to deal with her issues, was (voluntarily) used by gross guys, and probably has a touch of the 'tism, but she has a terrible personality on top of all of that. At best, she could have ended up as some obese, mildly-neglectful, twice-divorced single mom working some low-level secretarial/clerical job whose 2 or 3 kids somewhat resent her.
She could
improve - it's way too late for her to
fix her life - but she would have to want to do so. With her issues, she will
never want to do so.
