Yeah I can already hear them jeering in the comments. Children who've never seen an ounce of sincerity in their life. I didn't sleep for days with that first ban, much like how it's difficult to sleep now as I write this at 4 in the morning. I have poured a tremendous amount of work into building an X presence, scrapping with users, following campaigns, games, so I could prove I was worth other people's time. It takes real effort to grow when you don't have the talent. There's a reason so many stall out. I sat for a year and a half at 1450 followers without a loss or a gain and nothing seemed to change it. Then I had two breakthroughs. I had just published my second music video to middling fanfare. Then I posted a chibi form of truckerchan and one user said that picture was the best thing I had to date. At first I was livid. That music video took me 40 hours to complete just to piece all the crap together and time it to the music and my little truckerchan post was "Make me a chibi version of this shooting her gun" @WagieWeeb was right, but of course that only made me angrier. But good things come to those who humble themselves. The second breakthrough was the Skyebrows community. I was introduced largely through @EvaGlitchAI's prompt of the day. Here I was given the chance to show my wit in a way that was second nature to me. Interactive roleplay. When skill and opportunity meet success is forged with effort, and effort I already had in spades. My stall of 1450 grew to 3200 in a half a year. With that first ban I retreated to my 0 follower account. Mutuals from tech, writing, and art all found me again. I have never been more grateful, even with the stress of all my work taken away in an instant. There are real people, real intent, real stories trying to form that would have no chance otherwise. Walk into a thread, and someone might just start a comic about a cheese godzilla and roboteradactyls. The AI art community, for all its faults is about having fun and loving what we do every day. We entertain and support each other. And again as cliche as it is thank you from the bottom of my heart. I probably would have given up.