This is all a little frustrating because I fucking hate twitter/bsky. Telegram is okay but I don't want to deal with 3000 channels clogging up all my other shit. FA was great because I just used it as a personal art repository with the ability to find artists. I don't want to actually interact or get exposed to some stupid ass drama that pops up on other platforms.
I wasn't exactly referring to people just dumping their crap on Telegram or Bluesky/X. The ones who are doing that aren't serious about their art if that's the only place they share it, they're probably some faggot trying to scam for commissions or make art that "goes viral" because it's politically aligned or whatever. Some artists will post their stuff there mostly as a way to notify their followers, the ones who direct you to a portfolio site are the ones to watch. I stay away from people who treat their creations as disposable content that gets posted on social media and nowhere else.
This is something I wasn't aware of being a possibility until recently; had some encounters with artists who still maintain Geo/Neocities sites with their art. I'm a few years too young to know that as the main source of artposting, but I found it extremely quaint and charming to see personal sites like that still in existence! Plus, they didn't seem to politisperg about nonsense verbally or through their displays, which I thought was nice too.
I miss those days, back when the Internet was still fun.
That is a revival. There is a push from Tumblr in getting them to move to learning their own HTML and publish their own websites away from the social media complex.
To be honest, the artists I was speaking with were old-old, like attending Star Trek conventions together in the early 70's. Very good at their craft and conversational to a fun degree, too! Those are the people I would trust to make a documentary on the fandom/convention scene, rather than whoever did that abysmal one for Netflix a few years back.
The guy seems to have a chocolate bunny fixation/melting fetish, he has a couple videos of it with AI genned music:
The guy has a fixation for skunk scent going as far as bugging them to get himself intentionally sprayed, and he dislikes showering.
If those Australians who made Bluey had this projected into their heads when conceiving the show, would they have said "Never mind."?
Remember Furnation and VCL?
Yes, and Yerf, and Furcadia, and so many others.
Individual sites fell out of favor because aggregation is a valuable service. When FA was king, it was just a single page to visit to see the new art from every artist you like. People moved to things like Twitter and Bluesky now to post art, and while they are terrible as galleries to browse after the fact, they still provide the daily aggregation. That's what people value.
