@irukanelope Community is especially important to nourish in times where creatives are being oppressed. The art community was not an echo chamber, it was just a space to be surrounded by people who, at the bare minimum, knew how to pick up a pencil and create. There was plenty of discourse.
Twitter is an actively hostile place to be if you are an artist, it has been for a while. This is not a website for artists, this is barely a website for humans. Seek community, create spaces you can exist, and remember what it means to love and create art.