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Bruh you are just like, a getting whooshed machine?
Yes, that is what I told you, because you needed it explained. I made a comic mocking you for doing the thing. Then I had to make an entire comment explaining it to you. Thank you for FINALLY catching up. It took you several hours to finally get that you were being whooshed, but at least you've finally landed.
And the point of making the remix is to highlight the point that the comic, and yourself are being reductionist in the same way: The edit is making fun of the fact that you are doing the exact thing I'm being critical of.. But instead of pushing back on the critique of the comic (which I maintain as reductionist), you actually engaged in the act of being reductionist, which again, thanks, because this has been hilarious.
Finally something substantive.
No. The artist (or creator of any kind really) has no say in how someone else wants to interpret their work. They can ask you to interpret it this way, or that way, but its truly not up to them. How people choose to consume something is up to them. The act of artistic expression is always a joint exercise between both the creator and the interpreter of that creation. You, as an artist, don't get to choose how your work is interpreted or received. You can advocate or hope its received and taken to mean something, but that does mean it actually does.
I think a better way to criticize media is instead of thinking characters as good or evil, ask, "are they effective?", and in this sense, I consider Rorschach to be an effective character. They aren't there to be good or evil, they're there to be a reflective surface for the world they find themselves in, and in this way they are an effective character.
And if an artist misses what they are doing with their own work, and they do ALL the time, I don't need to agree with them.