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Where is everyone now?
2 years ago
I’ve been wanting to grow as an artist for awhile now. Challenging myself, creating new works, exploring my characters and their interests, sharing with everyone, that’s been unbelievably fun for me and all I wanna do is keep growing. And after my breakup and going to cons, I’ve discovered I want to make it a career. I know the money’re not the best. But I am motivated and fulfilled by drawing and writing and the prospect of making merch and nothing puts a bigger smile on my face than knowing other people find value in my characters and my art. And if I push buttons with my fetish content that’s a huge extra plus. If I can someday make a living by doing that, I will be the happiest bat ever.
Unfortunately for me, by the time I started to get serious about starting to pursue art, I noticed people started to scatter, and my art, which I assumed (I could be wrong here) being niche as it was would garner a cult following, instead has been barely a crawl. First it was leaving FA for Twitter. Then, when I got a Twitter, Elon bought it, and we all know how that’s looking now.
I have heard of a LOT of alternate websites artists are fleeing to. I think the list so far looks about like this:
Weasyl
SoFurry
Cohost
Itaku
Pillowfort
Mastodon/Baraag
Pixiv
BlueSky
Telegram channels
And for subscription sites:
Patreon
SubscribeStar
Fansly
OnlyFans
JustForFans
Ko-Fi
Does anyone have any experience with these? Are any of them good? And of those which would likely be best for diaper and fetish content, if you have tried them out yourself?
Personally FA and IB are still my favorites and I think will continue to be, with IB being my home. They are actual gallery sites (I HATE the social media scrolling myself), they have tags, the traffic is organic, and frankly, they’re built by/for furries; I don’t feel like an accessory invading normie space. And for IB, the UI including rhe blacklist and advanced search functions are a godsend that even FA lacks. Many of the above sites are scroll-style which I personally dislike because it is difficult to find artists and see their works/portfolios, but if that is the new market I’ll adapt.
Unfortunately for me, by the time I started to get serious about starting to pursue art, I noticed people started to scatter, and my art, which I assumed (I could be wrong here) being niche as it was would garner a cult following, instead has been barely a crawl. First it was leaving FA for Twitter. Then, when I got a Twitter, Elon bought it, and we all know how that’s looking now.
I have heard of a LOT of alternate websites artists are fleeing to. I think the list so far looks about like this:
Weasyl
SoFurry
Cohost
Itaku
Pillowfort
Mastodon/Baraag
Pixiv
BlueSky
Telegram channels
And for subscription sites:
Patreon
SubscribeStar
Fansly
OnlyFans
JustForFans
Ko-Fi
Does anyone have any experience with these? Are any of them good? And of those which would likely be best for diaper and fetish content, if you have tried them out yourself?
Personally FA and IB are still my favorites and I think will continue to be, with IB being my home. They are actual gallery sites (I HATE the social media scrolling myself), they have tags, the traffic is organic, and frankly, they’re built by/for furries; I don’t feel like an accessory invading normie space. And for IB, the UI including rhe blacklist and advanced search functions are a godsend that even FA lacks. Many of the above sites are scroll-style which I personally dislike because it is difficult to find artists and see their works/portfolios, but if that is the new market I’ll adapt.
I've never had a twitter account and what's happened since the buyout has made it even more restrictive.
People are less and less present on this site, especially when it comes to diaper art and babyfur.
As far as subscriptions go - I use Patreon, but I had to make a discord server to actually share the exclusive content since Patreon is restrictive when it comes to sexual content. They also take a good chunk of your profits. Ko-Fi, however, is great - I love it. They take no cut from what I can tell, and every donation you get just goes straight to your Paypal. It's really good. Only issue is that people don't tend to use it for subscriptions, rather just sending one-time donations or payments. It's still great for that, though, especially if you do commissions and you don't want to request payment directly through Paypal.