Josh Ling @ Adopt Me!

Pirating Photoshop when I was a teenager has honestly been one of the most useful things I ever did. Chatting with some other artists and they agree. If you're young and you've got no money, hustle all you need until you make your paper

When i was a teenager pirating it was indeed essential but only due to extortionate pricing and no entry point. Theres very little excuse for it now that subscriptions are so cheap and accessible though

Creative Cloud is 45 GBP a month. Maya LT priced similarly. Max has no cheap version. Even though they're cheaper, still impossibly expensive for a high school student with no money

You said Photoshop not creative cloud - £10 a month with lightroom, i’d argue very affordable for a student

Better, sure, but assuming that's all you needed £10 a month or £120 a year is still a lot of money when you are poor and unemployed. It's a few days worth of food, more if you stretch it out. I think people are forgetting what it's like to have literally no money and no help

I very much doubt you had no money and no help sir, especially if you could afford a computer to use it in the first place. And I’m not saying its nothing, but theres a line between cant afford (in which case yes, you could excuse it) and dont want to afford