i've been on the site for...definitely more than 5 years i think but i still don't really know what i'm doing. when i started it was like mostly me posting my own art stuff outside of comics, fanart and the occassional meme and those did okay tho the most traction only ever came from artshares or monthly prompts or challenges
then once the burnout started to hit which was also around the time i started following more folks there was more stuff being retweeted than original posts and it's been like that for a while tho again the only times my stuffs picked up has been fanart for currently popular media/franchises (i've been doing ok-ish in the sonic and ena fandoms with the rare hit in vocaloid spaces)
overall tho between algorithm changes, constantly shifting trends and then the fact that there's almost always a lot happening at once and the tl just moves really fast i just kinda toss up whatever and hope for the best. there also the ghost ban thing so it's always tough knowing if you've been cast into the shadow realm or if it's just a bad day for posting //shrug