Mikan-box Glasses-kun 🏳️🌈
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Watcher of too much anime, When They Cry nerd, he/him. Currently stuck in a box. Somewhere in my 30s. Banner image is a screenshot from Do It Yourself!! Note: I reskeet a lot of art.
![Social media use explains very little variance in well- and ill-being, compared with other factors. A large study that compared the association between social media use and well-being along with other characteristics of adolescents concluded that “the association of well-being with regularly eating potatoes was nearly as negative as the association with technology use, and wearing glasses was more negatively associated with well-being.” [6]. A large longitudinal study of adolescents concluded that social media are among the least important factors in predicting changes in mental health [50]. A weighted national sample of over 20,000 Americans found that social media use was one of the least valuable predictors of loneliness—and, in this study, more Facebook use was associated with less loneliness [62].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6zg7vm7qaj73zmrowci4exxr/bafkreidsifucizydl4av3a6qhhvzvtnejbjelfnmzjjkoewiob4osg7d7e)
![And now I have to watch the people I love—those who draw—go through the same suffering.
I have to watch them give up drawing and leave the world of comics.
Now, this is happening all over the world.
I have escaped many times before, and I will escape again this time.
But I know this very well: there are many people who cannot escape.
Because the field they have built is precious to them, and because they
know that the moment they leave, everything they have worked for will
fall apart, they are left with no choice but to endure the pain, the humiliation, and the exploitation.
[An] artist cannot endure even a single pen line or a single dot of their drawing being altered by someone else.
Because it is our precious, beloved child.
Throughout my entire life, even when I taught my students, I almost never corrected or altered their drawings carelessly.
Well... there were only a few times, and even then, I did so only with their
consent.
Because I knew those drawings were their precious children.
Even if it was just practice, the drawing was born from our own hands.
To create that drawing—our drawing, a drawing like our own child—we have lived by giving up so many of the joys and happiness that others freely enjoy.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6zg7vm7qaj73zmrowci4exxr/bafkreihlwyn6pplkj5277v45b66l5dbiqjebjeikxl7ye4zueptqcikhc4)
