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![🇬🇧Do you follow artists online? First of all: good job.
You may have already left comments like:
“Your drawing reminds me [insert random popular stuff].”
For you, it’s a compliment.
But for the artist, it can be experienced as something quite harsh.
And YET, those comments usually come from a good place.
According to psychologist Leon Festinger, humans understand the world through comparison (yes, I actually did some research to better understand this).
When someone looks at an artwork, their brain looks for a familiar reference. Not to diminish the artist, but to make sense of what they’re feeling.
On the viewer’s side, it’s an attempt to explain an emotion.
On the artist’s side, that comparison can feel like a threat to their own creativity. It’s not experienced as a neutral comparison, but more like: “People don’t see what I created, they see what it reminds them of.”
And that directly affects identity, ego, and creative legitimacy.
In the end, there’s no villain in this story.
The audience is trying to understand.
The artist is trying to be recognized for who they are.
It’s just two different cognitive logics crossing paths.
So next time you want to hype up an artist, maybe instead of comparing, we could just say:
“I like what YOU do.”
And that changes everything. ❤️](http://www.paka-blog.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
