Something I’ve realized recently is it doesn’t matter if you’re as brilliant as Stanley Kubrick or as hack as Ray William Johnson, as an artist, the reaction you get from your public is always the same. People will either love you, hate you, or not care about you. Want more people to love you? That means more people are going to be hating you too.
I guess you can say you can measure your success by the ratio of lovers to haters, but you can’t really ever know what that is, and nothing is ever universally 100% loved.
So whenever someone hates something I made, I try not to let it make me self conscious about whether my product is good or bad. I tell myself that what I made simply isn’t for them. Probably because they have bad taste amarite?????????
Furthermore, the anonymity of the internet turns 95% of people into insufferably condescending, contrarian asshats who love to hate things anyway so to assume I would be immune to that would be nuts.