It pisses me off to. Well, who wouldn't get pissed off by that?

yeah, I might be a little too sensitive about the whole thing, but I at least can say that if I was to ever get to such a low point, I'd absolutely refuse to clean out my gallery. Even if I'm not nearly as good, for the very slight chance that I might be excluding fans from seeing my work, I wont ever do anything like that, and if I was to leave, I'd at least explain myself.

From my experience, people who compulsively "leave" websites without giving further information or wipe out, refill and rewipe their galleries tend to have deeper issues that aren't worth trying to understand unless you want to devote hours and hours to it. In any event, it is highly unlikely it had anything to do with you. If it did, it probably had more to do with them.

yeah, I just hate to end up feeling apart of it in any way. Ive stumbled upon artists I like who make new accounts, and change their alias, but once I spot them and try to talk, they leave. My favorite artist has me assuming that from me posting and recommending his work on a friends forum, I caused him to leave FA. Especially since he later changed his name and removed me from steam. Years later I find a message on his dead fa telling him to "Find some place with an invisible picture shield". If it was someone else stealing his work somewhere, I don't see why he wouldn't have told me after I asked him about it. If I don't have anything to do with it, I wish they would at least clarify so I can stop worrying about it.

I knew, fairly well, two people who moved from here to deviantart, seemingly exclusively, (for a while, anyhow). One promptly shunned and blocked my comments. Another privately requested that I not inform anybody on this site of the new alias, and publicly raged about furries while exclusively drawing animal people and trying to market "adoptables." A third person never acknowledged having a page here, but criticized me for posting a picture of its dragon character here and leading evil furries to its deviantart page. Regardless of how my status was assessed, the other party came across as a psychopath that I was probably better off without.
It seems to not be hard to get away with this so long as you draw kind of nice (or possess trace amounts of a comparable skill in other social networks) and maintain a quantity of followers who you make a specific point of not alienating. Being an unapproachable misanthrope can even get you more followers than you deliberately hurt, in fact.

Regarding your own situation, with what little I know, it comes across as preposterous that one person positively promoting this artist's work in one place was the sole factor in the environment becoming unbearable. It likewise is irrational to absolutely despise somebody for being merely curious as to why the despiser did an abrupt, extreme thing.

This must be a more common trend than I originally assumed with art communities. I have a feeling I know one of the people you are talking about, someone else I was referring to in this journal, it's one of the artists I've greeted once seeing him on another site, but now kind of regret.

I know it's a little silly for me to assume I have some part in my old favorite artist leaving. I did leave a whole lot out but even then it's a little silly, I just have this personal fear of being way too intrusive and probably becoming a nuisance. A little later after he left I tried to stay in contact with him which was probably a bad idea, even worse idea was posting most of what I had left of his gallery to that forum upon request, I didn't really feel like it would hurt since only 5 people were even aware of the forums existence.

Hate to ask for advice about things like this but, do you think I should try contacting that other artist from years back? I stumbled upon his new DA, he makes it clear what his old account name was, though after 2 or 3 years, it might come off as stalkerish, which probably already does being that I still really give a damn, though to be honest I wouldn't have if I didn't stumble upon his work again (one of those easy to spot art styles). I make a big deal out of a lot of stupid things sorry haha.

According to your watching list, you were aware of at least one of them at one point in time. He tried to act like the nicest person on the planet, but he also mentioned that he blocked lots and lots of people, and the justification was not always sound, when there was any. It was, thus, perhaps inevitable that I would one day be among them, though I may have been a special case, so you could well be thinking of yet another unnamed maniac! I'm not sure why I bother keeping him unnamed since I am yet bitter and enjoy complaining about him.

There seem to be plenty more that I wasn't invested enough in to make a judgment on the sanity of. There are valid reasons for leaving this website, naturally, even for cleaning out a gallery, I reckon. My grievance is with people who do it repeatedly, and out of pettiness, self-pity or unjustified paranoia. It seems like a bit of work, too, since there is no automated system for removing everything and everybody.

I imagine there is no risk in making yourself known to the years back person, unless you occasionally re-enjoy his old work, and think that having a bad experience with the person would interfere with it. I had a problem with an internet-based composer that I had liked, and afterward was disgusted at the thought of, and have not listened to a thing by since then. As it happens, this person had also cleared out an archive and changed names more than once. I think most reasonable people don't assume they are being "stalked" except in very extreme circumstances, however. If the person acknowledges having old accounts, that is likely to assist folk such as you in locating the new one.

If it's the one I'm sure it is. I've been a total sucker for his art style, really cute stuff. I've always wanted to get a request/art trade from him, though I was way too shy, it was his rabbits I think.

But yeah, the people that go through all that trouble to completely wipe their whole gallery really have to go out of their way to do so. The one that I've recently found again on DA had told me that he wiped it out because he didn't want any "drama", dunno how that is supposed to work, I also knew he had a history of leaving FA for long periods of time and wiping his gallery but never as extreme.

I guess I'll say hi or something, I want to get back in contact since he's actually a pretty nice person to talk with, though I just don't want to deal with that mess again. I still don't know how someone can just stop talking to bunch of their friends out of nowhere with not a single explanation. Online/Offline, I couldn't even make myself do that.

Yes, rabbits seems about right. That fellow is a piece of work. He actually thinks he has "enemies," as if he's Batman, except instead of fighting he drives out of town and reconstructs the Batcave somewhere else. He is a sucker for gift art, though, or was. If you draw something for him first, and it needn't be at all elaborate (assuming he maintains any "regular" looking characters; I recall it being difficult to tell which ones were not themselves being shunned) he will probably want to reciprocate, so long as you don't let on that you want something. Just don't let him see that "420furs" icon on your page. I would put in a good word for you were I permitted the right to put in words and I currently trusted the might of my endorsement in that context.

There is certainly nothing immoral about saying hello (whether you're talking about more than one person or aren't). If you need to plot out your conversation in advance for fear of making some nigh unguessable gaffe, then it's probably not worth the trouble.

At this point I'm not really bothering too much with that fellow. I think I'll just hang out in the back, watching for submissions in my little corner. I want to do trades with a lot of my favorite artists, or even gift them, but I'd be too much of a perfectionist and never get it done. Also what does he have against the 420furs? haha, I don't actually smoke as much as a lot of people might assume. I kind of joined it jokingly to begin with since my persona tends to fit the common "stoner" look, or at least that's what people first assume.

About the other guy, I'd like to say a little more than hi is the thing, I kind of want to be friends again, well, as much as we were before. I don't think I have to plot a conversation out in advance, but I would hate to be the cause of him going back into his shell and hiding from everyone again. I'll just go ahead with it eventually.

wow that really surprises me, to be honest you are probably the least annoying person i've ever talked to online. you're very chill and laid back and really don't strike me as the type who could give anybody the creeps. it's got to be a really shitty coincidence....

i think i know at least one artist your referring to, he must really not like being found since he left the whole furry thing behind.....

Maybe it's just the internet, but it's hard to read people for the most part. and due to that, I'm very reluctant to speak with a lot of people I like too often. It's not so much that I think I'm an annoying person. I can get a bit nosy sometimes and ask a lot of questions to some of my friends, though it's just me wanting to know how things are going etc. As illogical as it may be that he could have left and removed me due to that forum, there's always that little possibility that I could have had at least something to do with it later on.

I'm wondering at this point if he really has left the whole furry thing though. I mean, he has a new character, it's anthro, and he still draws plenty of it. I don't even know why he left anymore, but I guess it would be too much of a hassle to try to figure it all out, hardly worth it at this point.