I noticed a similar thing in the furry community. all the art is super cutesy and bubbly, all their characters are smiling and extremely happy, and any worlds that they come up with are very colorful. if you ever meet one in real life, they're usually extremely depressed.
I have to wonder if there is something to that, psychologically speaking. Because I have the opposite, where I am generally into very gritty art like Dieselpunk and Grimdark (40K, etc), but IRL I am generally extremely optimistic and happy.
I think they go into these things thinking it will make them happy. Then become even more depressed and bitter once they realize that even though they're living in a fantasy, it's not filling the void the way they thought it would.
I love how much they force it, yet the rope wins very often.
I noticed a similar thing in the furry community. all the art is super cutesy and bubbly, all their characters are smiling and extremely happy, and any worlds that they come up with are very colorful. if you ever meet one in real life, they're usually extremely depressed.
I have to wonder if there is something to that, psychologically speaking. Because I have the opposite, where I am generally into very gritty art like Dieselpunk and Grimdark (40K, etc), but IRL I am generally extremely optimistic and happy.
I think they go into these things thinking it will make them happy. Then become even more depressed and bitter once they realize that even though they're living in a fantasy, it's not filling the void the way they thought it would.