Narse? =D

Thats one I had on my list, I'm just looking to see who folks know that I might not know of XD

Haha ! Ok =3
I don't think I can help you then =D

Character-wise, Drayk would be one.

I'm thinkin Narse, Morca or Tojo

Bowser!

I would also consider Drakkor

Well, there's well known for different reasons. There's Duke from bad-dragon but he's a mascot, kinda.

I always kinda thought max-dragon was, for me, pretty popular.

YOU are, too y'know.

That's tough, I guess it depends on who you watch. I'd say Ssvanti is widely known because he has a bajillion commissions!

You of course!

Kaa.

Tombfyre. He's so outgoing and prolific with arts and stories, I'd think he's well known and liked on FA. Not so much with porn arts, which of course would go to Narse, Morca and Razr. But of these porn artists, are any of them that highly social outside a clique of friends? Or who even can really say they're friends with any of them? Tombfyre at least acts friendly with me - and since I'm nobody special, I can assume he acts friendly with a great lot of people (as I can tell by the gift art and appearances by a great many guest appearances in his images, as well as him appearing in others). So, I'm using criteria of friend circle size, not who wants to +watch them… But who has a reciprocal 2-lane highway of friendly attention back and forth with the dragon in question.

If I were to say "Orichalcum" and "Inspect his teeth," would you know who I mean? How about "Has been known to eat a galaxy?" There's a dragon whose reputation precedes him like his belly precedes him almost more than Tombfyre's… but has sort of withdrawn a lot, so now I'm sort of trying to use these bits and pieces of memory to remember his name… Oriental… Boojum, I think he's also referred to himself sometimes as well… from the Carroll poem. Since I never "mix" in the fandom, I can only guess he's well known. And I believe this person does have a lot of friendly, no-yiff relationships with a great number of furs/scalies and who have you.

Popularity is a form of success, and that means it sucks. In difficult ways - privacy, manageability, marketability, profitability, power, fragility, protection… just a few stresses that those of us with no popularity to speak of haven't any worries or needs to address. Depending on how rapidly the popularity comes on, and how rapidly it grows, it can actually bend or break a person along a vector, where their humanity is lost to the growing pain of an ego overfed, suddenly become a monstrous version of its former self. And it is this change that creates something self-destructive, for the ego was never meant to exist alone, self-sufficient. It needs others… and eventually it steps on the wrong people, the wrong things, in its blind narcissism, and in doing so, breaks the very fragile support system keeping it from falling from its great height… and the fall often cannot be survived except by the strongest core personalities. The burnout is great.

It's an age-old story, in adages from "The bigger they are, the harder they fall" to verses from the Bible about pride before a fall. Some of us fear success because of stories like this. Have it programmed in us never to succeed because we fear these very things. Some of us lack adequate tools, education, direction, purpose, dedication, or talent to find success. Believe me, as one successful and then fallen, success is in all of us, and that is basically all one needs discover: your aptitude, then become adequately educated, acquire the appropriate tools to pursue your goal, discover your purpose by applying your tools and education, then dedicate yourself to your purpose. This leads to success. Tenacity, once you have these things - leads there. Takes months, decades for some - but it is digging a tunnel through to where your spotlight shines, the one you will stand in and the world will see you.

Popularity is not really a good goal in itself - you have to ask yourself "so what?" "Then what does that let you do from there?" And be intelligent about the answer. Usually no, it doesn't mean that much more or easier relationships, casual trysts or that sort of thing. You bring stress on that really is best capitalized on. So to what end…? Be intelligent about what to do with it.

Interesting thank you for your comment though I wasn't really looking for a philosophical life lesson.

i dont know, maybe you are