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My ArtFight 2024 Experience
11 months ago
NOTE: This was Deleted & Rewritten due to not liking how I laid everything out. I am aware I could've just edited the post originally- BUT I decided to take this route instead for whatever reason I guess? Please also take into consideration this is my personal experience- & potentially my decision regarding participating next year.How ArtFight 2024 Started (For Me)
ArtFight 2024 overall was exciting to think about & prepare for, I was going through a hard time mental health wise & needed a good art distraction. I managed to do all the prep prompts & stuff before ArtFight began, I even stayed up to make sure I could watch the Live Stream where the theme was revealed. Stardust & Seafoam was such a cool concept to me since I love marine biology, however I also am obsessed with astrology.. specifically colors of the planets, how & why they may change, & STARS... I LOVE STARS. Eventually I decided to go Seafoam, the characters I was uploading for my "Team" had pallets that aligned nicely with the team cards & it felt good! My girlfriend
girfan3198 decided she wanted to join me this year (with a lot of convincing lol), she ended up choosing team Stardust. The beginning of the week of ArtFight I added my hitlist sign up form to see who I was going to attack, & it filled up pretty fast. I was ready to get into the groove of things & attack with all I had. But one night during the first week of ArtFight I was scrolling through TikTok & started seeing a lot of videos talking about how Seafoam was going to lose, and that there wasn't a point in going on and participating due to people swapping to Stardust, and above all a user posting about how they were going to destroy all seafoam users & make sure they don't join next year. Needless to say my motivation kinda... went out the window. I managed to get five pieces out before calling it quits, my girlfriend decided not to post at all or attack anyone... saying she "felt guilty being on a winning team with such toxicity." So the rest of ArtFight we sat and watched, turns out a lot of Users had issues with newer members rule breaking & not following character perms, not labeling their art pieces right rating wise, & more. After everything.. I was advised to make a report about the overly competitive behavior, I made the report in August(08/12/24). It is only now being addressed November (11/25/24). I had to talk to THREE different Moderators just to finally get one to pass the report forward. (If he's reading this by any chance, Thank you for being a great moderator ;-;) I will update this when a decision is made regarding the report.ArtFight 2025
With the end of ArtFight 2024 comes the question of will I participate in ArtFight 2025, & to answer that truthfully.. I really don't know right now. No it's not riding on the Mods & Admins of ArtFight not doing anything, No it's not me being a sore loser because I can't have all winning team badges on my profile, it's a matter of if these issues with new users, if the admins will listen to the older participants about things that need to change, so on so forth. ArtFight is literally a whole month event, it runs through July - August & you need to be creative, inspired, & ready to throw art out like no tomorrow. On top of that, with newer users comes new rules & new interactions. Some older participants might decide to stop participating each year due to these new demands & rules. There are a lot of things that factor into this decision. So where do I stand? I don't know yet. I'd rather wait till next year to see the theme & if I even want to participate again or if I just want to skip that year & focus on my own art work.
