Consider this a follow-up to my previous rant, as this quote alone or anything else along those lines pretty much proves the point I was trying to make back then, and knowing that frustrates me in ways that provokes me to repeatedly ask "why? For what purpose?"

This is my perspective of why some artists have the will power to deny any art request they're not comfortable doing. If the artwork gets publishes, it becomes a "red herring" which will lead to people expecting to see more of it or anything under it's category from the artist. So what if one person out of 7.2 billion on this planet we call Earth refuse to draw--for a prime example--someone's obligatory [INSERT GEN 6-8 POKEMON] OC? Why is it such a huge deal if none of them is included in the artist's headcanon, with the addition of them refusing to make their own? What makes them "more special" than anything else? All of these are questions that are expected to not received a valid answer to, as no one thinks about the story we as content creators are trying to tell with our work. I'm not trying to say that I don't want my work to receive attention at all. While it is good that it is in general from time to time, it all comes back to me saying I prefer not to rely on MacGuffins to make my art popular. This also applies to making mods, films... you name it. I don't think I need to explain even further.