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WHO ELSE MAKES UP IMAGINARY SCENARIOS WITH THEIR OCS WHEN LISTENING TO MUSIC???!! ✨✨✨✨✨

When I join any fandom I have to make a self insert/oc

FOR REAL. I genuinely don’t get why people always get so mad about self insert ocs. At the end of the day, it’s just some silly drawings and it’s not hurting anyone. Also, ZOOBLE!! They’re so underrated

If it’s fun and not hurting anyone, draw what you want! Have fun 💚

I wish people didn't attack people for just having fun.. Creating oc's and self-inserts does no harm, and the fact people have the mind to do something harmful rather than keeping something to themselves is awful. I love the art you've made!

The pastel spider thing was so sad :(

sometime i think to myself "maybe i should get tiktok so i can get my art more out there and get more recongition!" and then i see videos like this, and i am reminded why i dont have these platforms 😭 ALSO ZOOBLE!!!!! AH!!!!!!!!! Zooble is my fav character so i am currently screaming internally

I tried making a total drama oc once, but at that point the oc side of the fandom was being overflooded by ppl who made their own “baddie” self inserts (who probably didn’t even watch the show anyway, because some of the weird character redesigns they were making completely went against the tone of the show and characters). I think once that happened, the fandom became weirdly gatekeep-y about ocs, which made it so that even when people who actually WERE fans of the show tried to make characters.. they just got bullied for it.

I don’t get it So when kids make self inserts or ocs for their favorite shows it’s wrong,but when a 30 year old ships themselves with a 5 year old people would say “it’s fiction”. Why do people get so upset about pixels 😭

ITS SO FUN TO MAKE NEW OC'S FOR FANDOM'S! I don't get what is going on Tiktok's mind bc what they are doing is stupid. I always make a new oc for fandoms that i really enjoy its just so fun .

Tiktok is really is filled with people with little to no empathy. I saw a video where someone made a slideshow about someone passing away i think and placed a kid spiderman suit on what was left from a crushed building, the pictures said "anyone can wear the suit" and the only thing in the comments was about pastel spider and how we are ""glorifying obesity"" by not shaming the creator and the oc in every spider man releated video. i really dont get it. How doess that even make sense and how can anyone says such things in the first place? let alone under a video about someones death.

Tiktok just hates fun tbh

Self-insert ocs are a great way to get into writing. You already have a world with lore to play with and all you gotta do is squeeze your character in there with everyone else and play by the world's rules. Then later on you can graduate to making your own lore, maybe even your own world.

I don't get hate sharing my art and oc's on my TikTok. But I feel bad for the people who do get hate. Why can't we just be nice to each other? It's not that hard.💔

Making ocs for fandoms are fun idc people are missing out

Good vs bad age changing: Good: Everyones age changes. Takes place in the future or past. Good: Making a fun au where some characters are kids and some are caretakers. Bad: Changing an adults age in order to ship them with someone younger or vice versa. Bad: Making someone in a relationship much younger/older, and still making them do relationship things with their partner.

There’s this girl on tiktok who used to do self inserts and I honestly loved them, I never personally saw any hate comments or anything though so I’m relieved, because she is an amazing, kind artist (depending on how you are towards them), and it would be a shame to be her chased off the platform like pastel spider. It’s honestly sad how people can’t keep their opinions about something to theirselves and always want to rant about what people like and how it’s wrong or cringe, self inserts aren’t a crime, it’s just some fun stuff to do to entertain yourself and add on excitement to a break from a busy or stressful schedule.

To everyone in the comment section with self inserts/dr-selves KEEP DOING WHAT UR DOING!! Make them as powerful as YOU want make them as rude as YOU want make them date whoever YOU want (as long as its legal). It's for fun and if you enjoy doing this dont stop :3

Plus sized characters are literally AMAZING I LOVE THEM! like why did they do that to her? Her oc is so beautiful!!!❤❤❤

"You can dislike something without being a jerk about it" I LOVE YOU FOR SAYING THIS

another problem with the tik tok art community is when fully grown adults make fun of LITERAL CHILDREN for drawing "bad" , you arent gonna be born a perfect artist, EVERY SINGLE ARTIST began somewhere and these kids just wanna share their art journey and thats fine yall need to chill

As plus size person I loved her OC it’s sad to see what happened 😢

Everytime I'm in a fandom my first instinct is to make a self insert OC even if I cant even draw any of them Edit: OMG YES LEGO MONKIE KID

i think why oc's are getting hated so much, its probably because when people make oc's out of cartoons/anime they trace characters from the show as their oc's and don't give credit claiming it their artwork. but having an oc is not bad even i have one.

Bro imagine hating on somebody because they put a self insert oc💀

the adult liking a fictional child thing is relatable. I found a post saying they like a fictional guy thats older and next it said “but he’s __” and they justified it by saying that he was fictional.

People when other people are slightly different (by ‘different’ I mean being transgender, LQBTQ+, being plus sized, etc.): 😨

I have a story with this. I made a bugbo oc and I made little animations where I put him in the show I worked hard on the animations just to get a bunch of comments saying “and bumblebee” It got to the point where I had a breakdown and deleted my animation that I worked so hard on and blocked so many people. I posted a bunch of stuff basically saying that I “may never come back” I did eventually but it took me a while to come back.

ngl cringe culture on yt made it worse for ppl to share oc x canon/oc content

I can understand looking at someone sideways for liking a fictional kid, but allot of shows and franchises don’t age them up. Besides, personally, someone can draw all the C.N self-shipping they want or *more* as long as they: 1- don’t go full shad-art. You *never* go full shad-art 2- you’re not into IRL minors. Only in those two examples will I start to squint my eyes in suspicion. Side-note, self-inserts and sonas are fun for me to make, as my brain often (out of my control) just… inserts me into whatever fiction I’m hyperfixating on. Sometimes my self-inserts become their own characters, often their just “me, but different-ish”

Almost every show/movie/game I play I have a character that is a self insert (in my head of course, it helps me understand the plot of what was going on)

Thank you for saying that about adults shipping themselves with children. I knew a grown-ass Harry Potter adult who self-shipped with Draco Malfoy and was a reality shifter. A lot of times my brain comes up with excuses for weird behavior like this just because I don’t want to feel uncomfortable around people who are supposed to be my friends… Probably need to ghost that person, we don’t talk much these days anyway.

For me, my definition of self insert is drawing myself in the particular style/ how I would look if I was in that universe. Idk if people insert themselves into the storyline but that’s reserved for my OCs. OCs to me are characters I have created and will insert into the plot line and give a character arc or trauma( I tend to go very heavy on the trauma). I might also pair them with a canon character with no love interest because THAT CHARACTER NEEDS SOME LOVE DAMNIT. Sometimes it’ll get so intricate that I’ll design specific weapons, abilities, and attacks. In a reply I’ll list one of my favorite weapons I’ve created.

I been thinking about making self-inserts for a while now but it gets so much hate so I'm afraid of making them thank you for informing people on this topic!

I’m fine with OC x canon ships until they start shipping their OC with everybody in the entire universe.

I don’t have issues with it unless they are shipping them with a already existing character It feels creepy and really wrong especially if it’s a teenager like bakugo, that also goes with making nsfw of them in general

These days people hate every little thing that exists

I’m a longtime oc x canon/selfshipper, like since I was 10 (now 18 turning 19) and for me it’s been a coping mechanism so seeing people bullying others for something like this which is mostly harmless is super disheartening. :/

Aren’t video games, shows, movies and more just a bunch of OCs but with a story and well thought out

Self-inserts are only bad if they’re something like Velma in the Velma reboot. Honestly, I have loads of self-inserts! The majority of my OCs are all self inserts in some way! In fact, every character has an element of the creator.

I have been making self inserts in a lot of fandoms I enjoy, the most recent one being tadc of course. I love doing self inserts and shipping said self insert with characters I love/simp for, and as much as I want to I always avoid posting about the shipping part since it was a mistake I made years ago back when I was 9 (2019). I got d³@th threats over the self insert and the self shipping so it makes me scared to post or share anything related to it- but I genuinely don't see the issue with self inserts and self shipping (unless it's prø/cøm shipping, that's when I have an issue with it)

Im gonna make the most god awful mary sue cringy over powered oc just to make the haters cry

Its fun and doesnt harms anyone.

Ocs self inserts or not are an amazing way to grow, be creative and get to know yourself

I enjoy making self inserts/ocs as a whole, it can be a fun way to connect to what you make, and if you dont wanna read someones fanfiction or look at their fanart thats their business, personally, i like making ocs and rping with them but reading someones fanfiction about their character isn't for me Also, on the whole aging down thing, i agree it can be creepy or weird to age yourself down to be their age, but what if its a character u grew up with who you still like?

I personally don’t like self insert oc’s but I don’t go out of my way to attack people who like/draw them, it doesn’t harm me in any way and no one should send hate to someone if that person isn’t harming anyone by drawing a silly little oc💀

I JUST WANT TO SAY AGAIN TYSM FOR PUTTING MY ART IN YOUR VIDEO! I FREAKED OUT WHEN I SAW MY ART IN THIS!! Also,, ZOOBLE LOOKS SO GOOD SHES MY FAVORITE CHARACTER!! You draw so well I cantttt 😭😭💖💖

No one can be happy with toxic fictosexuals, toxic selfshippers and toxic people who ship other characters with other characters in a fandom. I have seen this multiple times, toxic a selfshipper or fictosexual will harass someone if they got the same f/o as them or if they see someone shipping their oc with their character crush or they'll filp out if their crush is shipped with another character in the show. Now toxic people who ship canon characters together have done the same damn thing, if they see their precious "ship" being destroyed by someone shipping themselves/oc with a character they'll be pissed and even get mad at other people who ship another canon character with that character. No one can win with this shit

Because some self inserts and ocs have this EGO where they have their favorite characters to themselves and not canon characters. I think that's why. Some are not that bad. But the more they are, the more annoying they became to some people Edit: Or when they show off about shipping themselves with the character and even making weird head canons of of them making the character loving them and have dirty things about them (which is kind of what the character WOULDN’T do)

I’ve actually been bullied for it before and had to delete the video I created. (The character was just friends with one of the characters, nothing creepy or anything really) and there was a time when I was younger when I would make oc to be shipped with the characters which I don’t do as much but still do. After seeing it happen so much I’ve chopped it all down to jealousy or uncomfort because either they want to have a fan base around their own characters and have their self-inserts be loved and can’t, or they hate seeing the ‘canon’ of a charge ‘broken’ by a non-canon character.

wait til they find out that most characters are technically self inserts of the author's thoughts and opinions istg this doesn't only happen on tiktok i see the same complaint from media reviewers ALL THE TIME especially the animation reviewers it's so aggravating!! characterization is my favorite part of writing and clearly none of them know how it works but act like they know all 😭 not saying all self inserts are portrayed well, but they ignore the fact that the characters are very much flawed in a way that it damages the other characters in the story but only bring up that they're a self insert. you can say they're a self insert, but PLEASE don't gloss over the very obvious destructiveness of a character and boil their entire personality down to just a "self insert"

The hate towards it is why I support both OCs/self-inserts in fanart and OC x Canon ships since people seem to think it's fine to shame them as if it's somehow harmful. It may be cringe to some, but it's fun and harmless. If I had the motivation to draw more than 3 times max per year, I would be pestering people to give me their ref sheets and a show to draw them in. I wanted to do a project where I make one big drawing with a bunch of people's OCs in a One Piece setting, but then I remembered that _the art block would destroy me_ 😅 It's fine to dislike it or not even be able to stand it personally, but there's a difference between silently disliking something and constantly announcing it *_loudly._*

If i wanna draw AND write myself smooching my favourite character, I CAN AND WILL. I have been doing it for nine years, idgaf what tiktok says.

I was scrolling on Pinterest and someones Oc/self insert 'paige' for TD was getting so much hate in the comments 😭 like damn can girly not have a crush on duncan and get along with people expect heather (who would?). Honestly my own self inserts and oc's make me wanna cringe sometimes but its fun cringe y'know?

TikTok try not to be the worst platform ever and ruin everything (IMPOSSIBLE!!)

Yeah I got hate because I self ship myself with a character name Rayman and I do get hate because the “height difference” that’s a stupid excuse, and no surprise that they called me quote unquote “problematic” because of the height difference

I want to say something about age changing: the amphibia one was still really gross and weird, but I do think there’s some shows that have been out so long that the people who have grew up with them out grew the character they had a crush on. I don’t think it’s weird and bad if the show has been out long enough where you can imagine the character being older. (Aging up not down) If you and the character were the same age at the time it’s safe to say they grew up too.

I haven’t watched this video yet but I think people don’t hate them that much just bad toxic ones. But it’s gotten out of hand to to point that every self insert/oc

i also dont like how tiktok hates on people who ship their self inserts with characters in canon (when it isnt illegal or something), it gets worse when people will brag about how much better their self insert is because they dont ship them with any characters in canon, we get it youre so special and quirky and different. (speaking as someone who has made 2 self inserts literally just to ship with canon characters because why not)

Thank you so much for this video! I actually didn't know about any of this and I was glad to be informed about it!! The art you drew in the video was amazing as well!! Personally, I don't usually like self inserts for a few reasons but I never really went on and hated on the creators. But other than that I'm not really against self inserts Overall, this video was very informative and really well made! I love how you cover just about everything professionally! I hope you will keep making content like this in the future! ALSO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PUTTING THE BRUSH CODE IN THE END NOT MANY PEOPLE DO THIS ❤❤❤

I have a lot of ocs that I make for fandoms and most if not all become their own characters. Making an oc for a fandom is my way of expressing my love for a fandom. Even my persona in a way in a fandom oc (it’s more of I slapped them into the fandom since their lore can easily be put into anything really)

FINALLY someone that points that out. like since I was a kid I ALWAYS self inserted into pretty much every show or movie I liked. nowadays, I just see people getting hate for self inserts for them being cringe or too op or something???? like, we're not making new high-quality characters, we're just self inserting for our own fun, like- why is that such a problem? and I see this happening even with ocs and self inserts that dont even change much the story like???? wtf do you want me to do? am I just not allowed to take part on my favourite series/movie??? I do agree with your point on the weird proshipping tho

if im being honest, i hate self inserts but i leave the people do their own thing if its fun for them.. like dude keep ur opinions to urself and let people have fun.. 😭

the moment i hear self inserts i only think of darrel. that man haunts my nightmares.

This is why I don't wanna post my art in tiktok that much😭 I love ur videos sm they teach me about so many things I missed out on ahah

I hope people are aware that oc and self insert hate happened WAY before tiktok.

FINALLY! Someone who talks about it! I did self insert on a movie called Tom and Jerry: Back To Oz (A sequel to the Tom and Jerry and The Wizard Of Oz Crossover, even though both gets hate, I love them.) and even though I didn't get hate about it, I did get harmless joke comments on them. But back to the topic, thank you for talking about this.

I have a kny OC and I like to roleplay! What adults do with self insert OC’s is just plain out toxic. I can’t believe people actually do that (the shipping thing)

I think for the crushes on fictional kids part people that like… JUST turned 18 in the past month or so should be given a little bit of leeway. It took me a little bit when I freshly turned 18 to let go of my crush on Tanjiro Kamado from Demon Slayer. Obviously, I’m over it now, that was two years ago. But I can say from experience it takes a little bit of time to let go of that kind of attachment

you're an actual godsend for putting the brushcode

YAYAYAYAY ,I AGREE!!!!!!! I make a lot of self inserts for things I enjoy as a way to cope , and ship them with characters sometimes because I’m unreasonably attached to them😭😭..ALSO IM SO GLAD YOU GOT SOME FANART SJSBJSBXBW

To be honest who wouldn’t want to make themselves in a story they enjoy. I did the same thing with various stuff probably before a fandom was a thing. But later I mostly see OC/self insert being a “problem.” Heck, I even made myself a weird chimera villain for a dc scenario/story. Basically Joker from 2004, scarecrow from Arkham Knight, Jigsaw and I even made him hateful of heroes because of a corrupted one destroying his life. Sounds stupid, but hey, I made it.

Honestly I don't think that there will ever be one true reason why people do this shit because there's always multiple angles and reasoning and they are not going to stop anytime soon but the Hope out there for my Creator peeps is that there is a community out there for you that will support you as well. I'm in the mha community which admittedly doesn't have the best reputation but I found a place where I feel supported and I'm growing my following and I hope nothing more but for people who want that. It's hard not to worry about these type of people but sometimes you just have to forget they're there and do you it's so much easier to say I know but just remember that you are not here to impress them nothing you do has to fit in their eyes.

I have dozens of fan characters that I’m too shy to put on public display. But, now I feel like that’s for the best, lol.

Bullying people for their interests is the true cringe whenever it comes to people just enjoying what they like. I have a lot of insecurities when it comes to enjoying my interests/hyperfixations (e.g feeling nervous about drawing fanart in public/school). Heck, it's so bad that I even get nervous about PURCHASING stuff related to it in a store. TikTok (and ESPECIALLY Twitter/X) really is just a trash heap when it comes to bullying/harassment in the art community. OC's/self inserts are just a fun way to enjoy an interest even more! Do what you want! Cringe culture is dead >:3

Congrats on 10k

As an old person who’s teenage internet years were spent lurking 2010s DA and KZfaq comments sections and refuses to touch tiktok (not just cause of the toxicity, that kinda short form content also just isn’t for my nerodivergent ass), hearing this from the outside it really seems like the current state of tiktok is just kinda repeating a lotta the problems I remember also seeing during the 2010 net All I need to say is As a fossil who is old enough to remember what “Mary-Sue points” are and also witness a whole lotta drama surrounding what was deemed as “cringey” at the time, I’ll say this to any of the youngins that it’s probably best to just not pay attention or give any of this your energy. Unless the person is actually willing to give you constructive critique and ya know…treat you like a human being, I can safely say a lotta this is just textbook bullying that hopefully these kids will mature from (at least I hope to god most the people partaking in this are kids, I mean doesn’t make it okay of course but again, I’m old and so I tend to be a lot more forgiving to the youngins) That being said that doesn’t mean I’m not disappointed to see this and a lotta other forms a “art bullying” come back on the rise with tiktok (especially with the fatphobia stuff like cmon), I do hope that this doesn’t turn out to be as bad as it was when I was on my early teens on the net since there is A LOT more awareness on how this kinda behavior just isn’t healthy. But maybe I’m just being naive who knows the net kinda tends to prefer extremes from my experience Anyways sorry for the poor grammar, I’m dyslexic so despite being in my 20s I tend to write like a 10 year old lmao, anyways kiddos take care, drink water, stay safe and remember to take time to practice your coping mechanisms cause believe me when I say that’ll help you a lot in the long run especially when you’re in your teens.

i have a silly self insert oc for genshin (started as copium for smth, but now i continue bc i have a lot of lore established around her) but stuff like this gets me super paranoid to post it online... also especially bc the one time i showed ship art of my oc x my fav/comfort char to someone it got used against me days later honestly, i wish people would just scroll if they dont like a self insert, its not that hard of a thing to do also, good luck on getting 10k subs! i just subscribed

Bro no lie, this is my first time watching one of ur videos and i already love ur personality and artstyle

Wow , your art is amazing!!

When I have a good thing with a fandom. I literally make a oc or a sona out of the fandom that I am in I don’t really mind about the oc /self inserts but tho form hate.i hope I don’t really be quitting or so but tho.its nice to watch this video while eating something

me and my friend have practically an entire new group of ocs who are literally insert ocs, there are more insert ocd there than there are of the actual show we're inserting them into.

I'm so afraid of sharing my personal oc/self inserts out of friend groups because I have internalized cringephobia and most of them are cringe

People that make or participate on SoundCloud Tourneys (known as "Tourney Kids") *also* hate OCs. I thought they were the only ones who hated OCs as much as they did. But the people over on TikTok just had to throw their hate into the "OC Hatedom" ring. It sucks since the designs of OCs are awesome. And since you're supposed to vote for a character based on Sources in a SoundCloud Tourney, the hate for the OC's *personality* doesn't matter since people would label you as a "character voter" anyway. Does any of what I said sound confusing? Well get used to it. Because that's the internet in a nutshell. A bunch of people hate something even though it wasn't needed. That's the gist of it.

i just wanna say that your content is amazing and i love your commentary

I LOVE ZOOBLE LIKE AUWOWUW SHE IS SO UNDERRATED.?!-?-! (As a jax Fan, jax is overrated 💀😭🙏.) AND TYSM FOR PUTTING MY ART IM SOSOSOS HAPPY ABOUT IT

I LOVE THE DRAWING YOU MADE!! :3

What do i call an oc whos kind of a self insert but not really?? Like its originally based off me, yes, since your own perspective is the easiest to understand in writing, but then i add or remove characteristics and traits and develop the character along the way to the point where its like still almost me but not really?? like you can still tell that i was the basis through their looks and (some) interests but were far from identical

Im not fond of self insert shipping as long as you keep it to yourself, self insert is fine if youre playing a game bc its literally you, or to make a joke, sometimes i kind of think like, if i was there i would have done this or that to stop this major turn of events, but i think shipping yourself with characters not as a joke kind of piss me off.

I usually don’t draw myself or insert OC’s into my favorite medias like games. Even with that, that doesn’t mean I hate others for doing that. What I’m trying thing to say is leave people be and let them have fun if it’s not gross or concerning. Also nice video, just came across your channel :]

ZOOBLE :D (btw I love your videos and I hope you reach your goal your extremely underrated and you deserve more :3)

I love your art style!!!

I love oc's, especially the oc's with cool stories and amazing designs lol xD

I have self inserts for a lot of things I like I even have a self insert for my ocs I’ve made for my universe I find self inserts fine unless they make themselves overpowered like “oh everyone loves my oc because she’s the best and no one can beat her because she has every power in the world”

I make a lot of self inserts and for the most part it’s just so me and my friends can connect with media we enjoy on a deeper level. In my opinion I actually think making self inserts or ocs for fandoms can actually be very beneficial to artists as it can help them explore art styles, character design, and story.

idk why but I have this thing where any fandom or smth I join I make ocs inspired off of them, don’t know why but it’s fun

Thanks for the brush qr code

Making a self insert oc is a way to make me feel connected to the fandom, and also imagine some What Ifs

I like making silly self insert oc quite alot, it is more fun to make a character that act as you and make them have a heart stopping adventure with your favorite cast or protag nor antag it's especially more fun when you learn the show's artstyle too !! >w