Ayuuria

Wrote this in response to seeing a lot of artists hopping around to different sites for various reasons recently and wanted to share my thoughts on it. I think we've all seen this song and dance before. Artists think the current site they're using is "dying" or losing their way, sees all their friends move over to this new up-and-coming site that they're hoping will become the "next big thing". They usually advertise it as a community "for artists, by artists" or "like this social media site, but BETTER!". You think, "Oh man, its gonna be like Deviantart in the 2000s again! I can make friends with artists so much easier and we can do fun artistic activities together like the good ol' days when we didnt have to deal with algorithms, AI crap and that bs!" And then... people slowly stop using the site. Why? So why don't these sites ever pop off? Its pretty easy to figure out why if you can understand why people are signing up there in the first place, and you're probably not gonna like