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Why I hate the art sites I post to and the secret to popufur
15 years ago
General
In no particular order:
Inkbunny helps those that are popular by putting them at the very top of the front page, allowing them to become more popular. Everybody else who might be decent but is otherwise not known, or is new to the art scene and could really use some attention gets a poke in the eye. The only way you're going to be popular posting on IB is if you're already well known enough that everybody will look at your stuff anyway. Or you can be achild cub porn artist, because if you make it small, covered in fur, and being fucked in the ass, everybody will love you.
DeviantArt helps those that are rich, or popular enough to charge insane rates for commissions, to become popular. If you have the cash, then they'll advertise you on peoples' pages who don't have the cash. If you don't hand over a part of your pay-check on a regular basis, they'll just shove your art off the front page where it'll get pushed off by pictures of somebody's dick or stick figure (or animu) comics making a joke about somebody's dick.
Furaffinity helps those who antagonize the site. If you thought I was going to say it helps fetish porn artists, it does that too, but it does a better job at making trolls the most famous around. If the staff don't do anything about them, they wave their smelly dick around for all to see, spamming hate messages on the front page. When the staff get around to doing something, they grab the troll and wave its smelly dick all over the site saying "DUN DO THIS! IT MAEKS DRAMA AND WE DON'T NEED THAT!". And then every furry on the site will have realized this makes drama, so everybody has to make a journal or post a submission with no pic, but instead a text wall of shit. Because if there's a bandwagon, FA will jump on it like a fat kid on ice-cream cake.
Artspots is nice. There's just nobody there. If you want to become popular there, you have to have a college level degree in art, and then run over to the forum and show some of your arts showing that you understand all the theories in art and have the technical skill to prove it. They will then mark you as a 'champion' and you'll have your own section in the 'browse' tab with the other champions. I don't really have an opinion on this site though, been on it for a week and only have two submissions on it.
Facebook, isn't really an artsite, but I dump there too. Facebook sucks because it makes everything a .jpeg and shrinks to smaller than 720x720. And dear lord does it show. Facebook is nice in that you can share your art with all your 'friends'. All 600 people you 'friended', you can now force your art upon until somebody likes it.
Comicfury has the same problem as Artspots AND deviant art. You have to befriend the community to become popular on the site, but there's like 40 people that post to the forum, and only 20 of them are regulars. They all like to huddle together and circle jerk eachother with bad jokes, puns, and bandwagons. So if you want to get a good following, it usually involves having money and hosting advertisements off site. Don't get me wrong, the community is really great, and everybody is nice, but you have to break into their clique and they do their best to scare you off with inside jokes if you post an introduction thread.
Photobucket. Fuck Photobucket.
/b/ is also not an artsite, but I drawfag there on occasion. "But Kyte, they don't like furries on /b/, why would you draw there?" Because deep down in their asses, they actually love furries, but it's more fun for them to hate them. Also, they're all so desperate for OC, that if you make a thread announcing you're a drawfag there to draw for them, they'll love you no matter what you draw. However, it is /b/, and /b/ was never good.
So to be popular, you have to be a popular, rich, good-at-art, cub porn /b/tard with lots of friends and is good at getting into cliques. Well fuck.
Inkbunny helps those that are popular by putting them at the very top of the front page, allowing them to become more popular. Everybody else who might be decent but is otherwise not known, or is new to the art scene and could really use some attention gets a poke in the eye. The only way you're going to be popular posting on IB is if you're already well known enough that everybody will look at your stuff anyway. Or you can be a
DeviantArt helps those that are rich, or popular enough to charge insane rates for commissions, to become popular. If you have the cash, then they'll advertise you on peoples' pages who don't have the cash. If you don't hand over a part of your pay-check on a regular basis, they'll just shove your art off the front page where it'll get pushed off by pictures of somebody's dick or stick figure (or animu) comics making a joke about somebody's dick.
Furaffinity helps those who antagonize the site. If you thought I was going to say it helps fetish porn artists, it does that too, but it does a better job at making trolls the most famous around. If the staff don't do anything about them, they wave their smelly dick around for all to see, spamming hate messages on the front page. When the staff get around to doing something, they grab the troll and wave its smelly dick all over the site saying "DUN DO THIS! IT MAEKS DRAMA AND WE DON'T NEED THAT!". And then every furry on the site will have realized this makes drama, so everybody has to make a journal or post a submission with no pic, but instead a text wall of shit. Because if there's a bandwagon, FA will jump on it like a fat kid on ice-cream cake.
Artspots is nice. There's just nobody there. If you want to become popular there, you have to have a college level degree in art, and then run over to the forum and show some of your arts showing that you understand all the theories in art and have the technical skill to prove it. They will then mark you as a 'champion' and you'll have your own section in the 'browse' tab with the other champions. I don't really have an opinion on this site though, been on it for a week and only have two submissions on it.
Facebook, isn't really an artsite, but I dump there too. Facebook sucks because it makes everything a .jpeg and shrinks to smaller than 720x720. And dear lord does it show. Facebook is nice in that you can share your art with all your 'friends'. All 600 people you 'friended', you can now force your art upon until somebody likes it.
Comicfury has the same problem as Artspots AND deviant art. You have to befriend the community to become popular on the site, but there's like 40 people that post to the forum, and only 20 of them are regulars. They all like to huddle together and circle jerk eachother with bad jokes, puns, and bandwagons. So if you want to get a good following, it usually involves having money and hosting advertisements off site. Don't get me wrong, the community is really great, and everybody is nice, but you have to break into their clique and they do their best to scare you off with inside jokes if you post an introduction thread.
Photobucket. Fuck Photobucket.
/b/ is also not an artsite, but I drawfag there on occasion. "But Kyte, they don't like furries on /b/, why would you draw there?" Because deep down in their asses, they actually love furries, but it's more fun for them to hate them. Also, they're all so desperate for OC, that if you make a thread announcing you're a drawfag there to draw for them, they'll love you no matter what you draw. However, it is /b/, and /b/ was never good.
So to be popular, you have to be a popular, rich, good-at-art, cub porn /b/tard with lots of friends and is good at getting into cliques. Well fuck.
Or at least be popular enough that people would commission me. >_>