Yo, I hate to step in, but it's like this: pretend we have an owner of a growing cafe, selling--I don't know--tapioca drinks, coffee, shakes, tea, you name it. It's all on their own money and it's not a part of a chain of cafes like Starbucks, so they're doing their best to keep it afloat, though it's alright because it pays all of the bills/rent and they get profits. Any sort of method of raking in extra money doesn't matter in this scenario anyway.

A single person (no one in particular ofc) walks into the cafe and let's pretend this person isn't buying a drink for anyone but themselves. There's a problem with this: they're already holding a cup of coffee from another independently run cafe. Rival or not, it doesn't matter. They ask for a cup of Turkish tea (Idk, anything to keep my silly American bubble from assuming things) and they'll be staying in the cafe to drink it. Let's also assume that the owner needs to make a fresh batch and it doesn't usually get ordered.

The nosy cafe owner asks politely, "which are you going to drink first, the tea or the coffee?"

The customer says, "Nah, I'm just drinking the coffee, I have money anyways."

The owner takes this as kind of rude. Yeah they're getting money from it, but again money doesn't really matter in this scenario. They're more insulted by the fact that they're going to waste their time boiling water and prepping the tea for absolutely nothing.

Now let's break this down into a couple thing and translate it over to GFX: owner is still owner, customer is still customer, a cafe is obviously a GFX shop, and precious time and resources (tea leaves, water) are still precious time and resources, only in the form avatars, sigs, and banners. Let's apply all those translations to the scenario, now.

The whole point of this banter is that there isn't any competition involved (well thread exposure, but idk how much that matters to other people), but it's being courteous to other people in this subforum. Sure for a customer all it takes is filling in a form, but all of us GFX artists willingly take time out of our day to make something nice and multirequesting is like saying an artist's time and effort is worthless and/or everything in Photoshop can be done with a touch of a button.