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I am on DA, becuase I wanna stalk my favorite artists and get a following like the narcissist I am. It’s alright, and it’s pretty easy to stay away from the super cringey stuff if you just stay away from the front page and the more iffy fandoms.

(Unfortunately those ‘iffy’ fandoms include stuff I like: such as video game franchises and anime. So I usually get a few nasty surprises when I am looking up cool pictures of My Hero Academia Characters or the Mario Princesses…etc :P)

Though I have interacted with people who are more into the iffy stuff, and usually as long as you don’t go poking them with a stick they leave you be and don’t force their unusual interests down your throat.

However it is waaaay harder to get a following on DA than I thought. I only have a few regular comentors, and they are usually more interested in my occasional fan art than mostly original stuff save for one or two. I think DA is much more fandom centric at the moment than originality centric. Even really big artists that do orginal things usually got their start in fanart or fanfics. Since I like to occasionally sketch a fan doodle, but prefer to leave finished pieces for my orginal things…It’s kinda hard for me to get noticed on there. It’s nobody’s fault tho, so I am not bitter about it. It’s just one of those things, DA has a large fan art community and that’s probably how it will always be.

Plus I am part of the problem since 90% of my favorites are fan art soo…yeah…My friend suggested I give Tumblr a go and I might have an easier time finding my kind of audience there. Though Tumblr has its own fair share of stereotypes…so I will see how that goes! *Nervous eye twitch.* Even if DA was not the key to overnight success like I had hoped, I am still going to continue with it and have fun talking to some of my favorite artists. 🙂 Best of luck to any fellow artists who wanna try getting noticed! ^_^