Posting your views on your own Instagram story or post is totally fine. However, there’s no reason to go onto someone else’s post or artwork and project your anger or hatred onto them and their work.

Someone responded to her hateful comment with:
“Politics being their personality,”
and that truly spoke volumes. This was simply a figure created to celebrate a holiday — it didn’t warrant those kinds of comments.

Ironically, it seems the commenter couldn’t even follow her own advice from her story:
“Please keep it to yourself!”

I hope the commenter — whether her comment was removed or she removed it herself — reached out to the account owner and apologized. One can hope that people take accountability for their actions, but most instead use the excuse of being the victim to justify saying or doing terrible things.

Please don’t harass or engage with this individual.
You never know what someone is going through — but this kind of behavior has no place in our community.

If this post gets removed, then so be it — it doesn’t hurt my feelings. I’m not trying to add fuel to the flames. I know this is the internet, but this hobby should not have politics brought into it.

This comment has been discussed by quite a few people in the community, and this kind of behavior needs to be addressed.

I hope everyone had a happy and safe 4th of July.

There's NO place for this in this hobby.