Woman Storms Out of Wedding After Her Sister Belittles Her, Calling Her Successful Art Career a 'Hobby'

Ely Bulnes • Writer and Editor

Aug 27, 2024 5:00 PM EDT

Welcome back, goddesses of gossip. It is no secret that artists are often put down, belittled, and under-valued in society despite their influence and contribution to society. There is this idea that if you're not a household name like Picasso, Yves Saint Laurent, Gordon Ramsay, or Meryl Streep, then you cannot follow your artistic passion because you will be poor and begging on the streets. You must either achieve worldwide fame and glory or your artistic pursuits must be sidelined for a 'real' career. The truth is, there are innumerable ways for creatives to make a living. Of course, most of our artistic pursuits did start off as hobbies when we were young. It can be really hard for some naive family members to shake the memory their first impression of your art - an Instagram page, filled with heavily filtered images of your 14 year-old best friends posing on train tracks - and instead grasp the fact that you've improved so much that you're actually now capable of paying your bills through your photography business.

In our story today, it was our protagonist's sister - not some peripheral relative with no grasp of reality - who belittled her successful artistic career. Read the fully story below, and scroll to the end for sassy comebacks from internet commenters.

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