A little more than three weeks ago, Rita Carvalho went on Reddit and posted her initial tribute to Jimmy Garoppolo, the presumed-to-be-traded (unless you're ESPN analyst Adam Schefter) quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers.
It was the first time Carvalho, 24, says she shared her art online. She was nervous. Reddit, like all forums, can be a cruel and unforgiving place, especially for a newcomer like Carvalho, who joined in January of this year. But her first digital drawing of Jimmy G was "upvoted" 1,300 times in the 49ers subreddit. "New lock screen to last through the off-season, thank you!