Pettiest reason? Probably the art I make hardly getting any recognition. I have dozens of reasons for wanting to CTB, most of them are serious reasons, but hardly anyone caring about my art would be the "least" reason for me wanting to CTB. It sucks when I put a lot of effort into my work only to get like two comments and then everyone forgets about it. Makes me feel defeated and worthless and I ask myself "what's the point?"
Edit: Also being ignored almost all the time in the two Discord servers with 100-ish users in them that I'm in. Just yesterday I teased a screenshot of some artwork I had made. Nobody reacted to it, nobody commented on it. Nothing. Nobody gives a shit.
i get what you mean, it wouldn't be my primary reason to CTB but god is it annoying
i always wanted to be an artist growing up but quickly discarded that as a pipe dream, like many do with the first few jobs they think about as a kid
but for a short while, especially in my tweens, it turned out to be a very powerful hobby, a way i could connect to others despite poor social skills
it kind of became the only type of person i knew how to be, because people wouldn't acknowledge me for much anything else, and a primary part of my identity, sometimes i'd even write stories to go along with my art or with art in-mind & i was told i'm an even better writer than i am a visual artist
now my art just seems to rot (not even birthday art for others seems worth-it due to how little people are impressed nowadays) or make me vulnerable to mockery, & machines can produce art better than i ever could. what's the point? & if i create art for myself, a phrase i've never understood, than why even bother doing it? the ideas & concepts are already there in my head where they're doing all the impressing they apparently possibly ever could. literally what is the point? i just wanted friends & to connect with others & it can't even do that for me anymore. it just takes up a lot of pointless space.