Have you checked their other sites? I can help you look for them if you like.

Thanks bud I'll reach out to ya in Telegram in a bit

That's really scary! I remember my twin brother  memento~mori mentioning this happening on Eka's portal with vore artists too, like sometimes they just...vanish from the internet ._. I hope they're all doing ok out there!

Yeah it's super scary... I don't want anything bad to happen to them, I'm just want to hear from them and know they're alright.
One of them was Lyme and I sent them a message and got a response, so I'm happy to say at the least that they're still around.

The internet is no fun anymore, every platform is stressful, the general audience are now largely entitled "just post porn and don't be human" brats, and several artists have turned the fandom into a capitalist normie nightmare.

I've considered quitting multiple times.

I actually completely agree with you on all those points hon. Especially the "just post porn" thing. There's some artists that I commission and they just give the most bare interaction, they just want I'm the information so they can start on your piece and be done. And I know art is a business for them but it hurts my soul that, for them, art has become so transactional that they just want to get their money and get the piece out, they don't want to connect with their art or even try to connect with the people asking for the art, and that's largely at fault of people poking them and treating them like an art factory and not a person.
I hate that artists are treated like that and have even been broken down to the point where they expect it to be the norm...
Also I hope you never quit art although I could understand if you did. Artists deserve to have conversations that can blossom friendships, and I hope that there are people that have been able to bring that sort of conversation to you and you're not constantly hounded by people that think you should just provide art and nothing else, puppy.

I forgot to mention the purity spiraling, too, and rampant right-wing invasion.

For the record, the whole "Just post porn" phenomena stems from people getting frustrated at artists for using, by all accounts, what should be their official (Insert platform of choice here) account for only posting personal art and commissions, into a hybrid art-posting and personal account, with the frustration mainly coming from having to scroll through hundreds, if not thousands of reposts/shitposts to find what they want, that being the art, you know, the whole entire reason they follow them in the first place?
Like, I get it, artists are human too, we all want to talk/have fun and otherwise socialize, but if your going to spend most of the time commenting/liking others content, consider making separate accounts, if only to make it easier for people to find what they followed you for in the first place, you know, your art?

THAT is not artist's fault, that's social media's fault.

You know what solves that? Using gallery sites. Like Furaffinity. Where there's a gallery. Of art. To look at.

And don't give me any whining about journals - you can both ignore them and they aren't an intrusion on the art gallery.

Cookie said it perfectly, you're injecting social media/Twitter/Bluesky into the conversation but artists in actual sites built for art, like here and IB, where there is no reposting or feed, get treated like this al the time, like they're a machine who is only worth being talked to to make content and art and nothing further. I've seen multiple artists whose pages are filled with just commission work and have few to no personal art, and those artists many times express how burnt out they are because they're just making art for money and nothing else (Gerkk is one of those artists). Artists deserve to be able to share the art they want to make and to find like-minded people who appreciates not just their art, but then too, and may even want to connect through it
But many people do treat artists like machines or businesses, not people, and prefer it that way. Case in point, a friend of mine got art a few days ago and he only wants artists to be business-like. Directly quoting from m him: "I despise talking to artists [in response to me saying sometimes I feel like I bother artists because I poke them too much] because of that. The recent one i commissioned seems to have alot of experience with it and didnt cause any awkwardness though. She talked like a teller at a bank or something and didnt give the illusion that we'll be friends, and i like it that way. she said she liked my fursona and thats all i really want to hear from artists because i get confused if they talk too much or act too friendly"
That shouldn't be the way you want artists to interact with their commissioners. It makes things sterile and turns something that should be fun and exciting for both parties into another soulless business transaction.