Even when it is appreciated XD
I feel like one always has to venture into things with a somewhat selfish outlook of well I need it done anyway or if doing it purely for someone else, then with absolutely no expectation of gratitude or return and with firm boundaries of how much is to be done as anything else is falling off the sudden and sometimes unexpected cliff into burnout
Some of them probably are taking their popularity for granted, you probably wrote something at some point about quickly getting used to increasingly favourable conditions (I remember reading something along those lines once and it seems like something you would write about XD). I think a lot of them/us (speaking from my own experience) are really struggling to balance several things that are incredibly time consuming (art eats an obscene amount of time, and so does family stuff, pets if you have any, and then you also have to "waste" time working (generally only considered a waste if you don't enjoy your job and can't/won't find one less hateful) and maintaining your environment.
Yeh people that popular would need social media teams answering their commennts for them and while thoughtful I guess just isn't the same XD
I have occasionally wondered how I would cope with that volume of comments and have basically decided that I wouldn't be able to.
ps - how would you cope if you got to that level of popularity and got thousands of comments per post? :D