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I think the main reason she started to make all her characters look ugly as sin is to stick it to all those nazi incel weebs SJWs never shut up about that would rather look at attractive or well drawn and designed characters. Her echo chamber of fans applauded her for how brave she was, and she continued drawing the way she did with zero regard for any meaningful criticism.
I've been thinking about this, and I 100% agree. I'm someone who honestly doesn't care that much about pride fanart or headcanoning characters as LGBT or whatever, and I honestly think this older art had charm to it. The characters are interacting in somewhat meaningful ways, the posing isn't as stiff, it genuinely feels like more love and care went into making the piece than how her work ended up now.
I feel she stumbled onto the knowledge that simply plastering a character with pride pins or a hastily drawn flag over their head was the quick recipe to get people to reblog/retweet her art without needing more thought into telling a story with a piece, whether it be "all these trans characters excitedly meeting for the first time" or just "friends taking a selfie". Two girls with lesbian/trans pins standing next to each other, maybe even holding hands, gets just as much attention and takes half the thinking that would go into making it interesting.
And I definitely agree with the point that her art most likely intentionally devolved in order to stick it to her detractors, and I think that's also where her passion left. It's kind of obvious that her intentions behind her work went from "I'm drawing these characters as LGBT because I want to make something nice for the community" to "I'm drawing these characters as LGBT to make the homophobes/transphobes/etc angry", and that's a huge trap that a lot of these types fall into. I'm not really sure why LGBT artists and art consumers enjoy this kind of thing so much -- this "reblog this to piss off [insert type of bigot here]" mindset. If the whole point of pride/representation is to feel good about yourself, then why do you make art as a constant reminder of the people who hate you and hate LGBT identities? It seems counterproductive, because now your pride art is made out of spite and you're just pissing people off and pushing them further away from ever being supportive. It's like you hate bigots more than you care about being/supporting LGBT.
As a side note, it's very obvious that Destiny is either actively looking at this thread or one of her friends is relaying updates to her, and if it's the first, Destiny, it's probably not good for you to continually obsess over people that shittalk you online since that's what led to your artistic downfall in the first place. But if it's the latter, then you need to get new friends if they're constantly telling you about people saying shit about you.
