I've turned every DM about "look at my art" as an immediate shut down because I'm cynical from every DM in the past 7 years starting this way turning into "please commission me" and sometimes I wonder if one of them was actually a real person
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Honestly even if they were a real person, that seems like at best someone not being mindful of boundaries and at worst someone being wildly unprofessional, so either way I'd say you're still just protecting yourself.
I've tried several different ways of "hey yeah tell me something else cause I don't want to commission you" without them prompting it and the conversation dies so I feel like I'm batting 100/100
Normally I just get people DMing me saying "hi," and nothing else, and I don't even respond. Either they're a bot/ scammer, or they're someone who can't even bother to lead with actually telling me why they're reaching out to me with an unsolicited DM.
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