Sorry for the clickbait title. Have a blurry picture of a cat as an apology.

But as someone who does NSFW art for a living, talking to a client who reads and writes at the level of a 12 year old (and shows the same level of ignorance about the world outside their country) makes me really uncomfortable. Technically they’re a legal adult, but I feel like I’m talking to a child.

I like to be friendly and pleasant with clients, but when the conversation feels like I’m explaining very basic concepts like how weather or seasons work in other countries, or how an 8 hour drive isn’t shorter because we use kilometers instead of miles, it just feels wrong when paired with the adult artwork I’m also drawing for them.

Like, legally it’s fine, but it does make me wonder if it is ok to draw NSFW artwork for someone who doesn’t really feel like an adult intellectually.

Also #notallamericans, but I’m sure Americans on here know full well what I’m talking about, and have to deal with it a lot more frequently than I do.

EDIT: This is less supposed to be “Americans dumb” and more like “Some Americans seem to have the knowledge base of a child and that makes it hard to work with them in an adult context.” I’m not just trying to start an America bashing thread here, I’m more venting about a very specific problem where I have to create adult art for adults who have the writing style and comprehension levels of children.

  • Renin [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    25 days ago

    I do think it’s a shining embodiment of capitalism, a lot of Americans I’ve met are exceptionally gregarious and at the same time being extremely resistant to budging their mind. I don’t see much of a creative drive usually, it’s mostly about consuming stuff and discussing how you feel about things. There isn’t much of a material incentive to learn, so people don’t…

    Conversation also serves as a form of commodity, networking, you speak because you want something not because of the speech itself. You don’t want to offend people, because it ruins your potential business opportunities - so it’s best to keep the conversation shallow and simplistic. Over time this has become a subconscious feature of the culture itself where being anti-intellectual is the norm.

    It conveniently also makes it much easier to control people, because the assumption is that if you’re an important looking person with a big crowd, in front of a podium, well you must know what you’re talking about.