This was originally written in response to a comment on the profile of the %MLP-VectorClub (https://www.deviantart.com/mlp-vectorclub) MLP-VectorClub (https://www.deviantart.com/mlp-vectorclub). A portion of that comment has been edited for clarity and reproduced here:
I need your guys' opinion about something that has been bothering me recently...
I'm going to try to be as non-partisan as possible; anyway, browsing around dA, I've seen people that say that frame traces in particular are an insult to the art community and, I quote, "not considered art," and people who do frame traces are, I quote, "attention-whores," and they attacked this group in particular. Being a part of the brony fandom and this group, I really