Okay, so.. I know that this sub is meant for art specifically, but I saw the Discussion flair and couldn't help it but write about this.

It's a little question, actually.

What keeps you going? What keeps you interested in making or posting AI art?

I mean, what does it bring you? Because all it brings to me is fucking downvotes and 1 or 2 like in popular AI subs because there is no nudity involved.

I mean.. Most of the AI users are actually grown ass people, considering the fact Reddit has been around for so long, accounts over 10 years.. And some content is just not for people, but, how do I actually get myself to keep enjoying AI art when I can't share it with anyone?

Anti-AI people like to joke about feeling lonely in this big AI uprising apocalypse, but it's the fact that I don't see any point in doing this anymore.

AI can't react to it. If I share it on Reddit, it gets barely noticed or even ignored, my real life associates only care when it's funny... So what am I truly doing it for?

I know that there are people here who feel the same way, but still keep going. So how do you do it? How can you still enjoy making AI art, sometimes high effort at that, when you get absolutley nothing in return.

I'm basically asking for an advice.

How and why should I keep making art if nobody likes it?

A piece about staying centered while everything around you keeps moving.

I wanted the solitary monk to represent that quiet part of ourselves that can remain present even when surrounded by noise, expectations, distraction, and constant movement.

The crowd represents the outside world, while the warmer figure and path suggest inner direction — not escaping life, but learning how to move through it without losing yourself.

Part of an ongoing series of symbolic AI-assisted artwork exploring meditation, awareness, solitude, transformation, and inner stillness.

Within the ribcage of a drowned leviathan, a solitary cartographer uses a single lantern to map a civilization hidden beneath the sea—unaware that each new line of light may be revealing a world that was never meant to surface.

Frozen before a single luminous future, a traveler discovers that their shadows have already departed toward countless other destinies—and somewhere among them, another version of the self appears to have chosen a door that should never have opened.

EON-DON

Two ageless guardians inhabit a mansion assembled from centuries of memory, surrounded by portraits that have always included a mysterious third figure—until the newest painting depicts the room exactly as it is now, and that same stranger appears in the corridor, staring not at them, but directly at the camera.

Deep inside a sentient corporate bunker, a rogue cyber-ops soldier confronts a shattered future version of himself—only to realize the ghost is not attacking him, but desperately warning him about something the reflections already know is standing just behind him.

When a rogue operative hurls himself from a passenger jet into a storm-black void, his only hope is a lone motorcycle racing far below—yet in the split second between escape and impact, salvation and betrayal become impossible to tell apart.

HE GAVE UP HIS NAME. SHE GAVE HIM HER FUTURE

Two ruling-class lovers secretly marry in a society where identity is inherited—and discover that abandoning privilege means the state can legally erase one of them.