Here's something i feel pretty strongly about (speaking as an online creator). You foster the community you want. You have control over what kind of fans of your work you accumulate. You do this by not letting bad actors get comfortable in your space, and by not being afraid to stand up for what you believe in.

If you have a bunch of TERF followers for example, you have not done enough to make them uncomfortable following you. If you're afraid of writing or drawing something that will upset your followers, you're pandering to the exact people you don't want. You're keeping them around.

That's why when creators try really hard to push the image that their work is "wholesome" or inoffensive, they attract an audience that will turn on them the second that creator does something that challenges those pure, clean morals, even something that to anybody else is totally benign. It's an impossible standard. You have to shoot some shots into the sky every once in a while.

It's the reason you always see good people run off the internet by angry mobs for stupid reasons, because they were unwittingly fostering a community with unrealistic expectations.

It's why you see creators who draw or write complicated or divisive work are comparatively left alone, because fans of their work are mature enough to understand that, and therefore unlikely to witch hunt.

It's why when Alice Oseman of Heartstopper had all their fans unfairly turn on them because one of the characters casually mentioned they had committed the unforgivable act of having sex.

Write/draw the shit you want. The right people will stick around and the wrong ones will disintegrate into sea foam.

This story about a bar owner kicking out nazis "even if they're polite" explains it in a broader context, and I think it's worth checking out if you haven't already seen it.