Deviantart: Acting like a greedy AAA publisher like EA. Making changes NOBODY asked for.
Twitter: Supposedly "dying"?
Tumblr: So is the ban still active, is it maybe reviving?
It really is hard to ask for a proper gallery based site, isn't it? The future looks ugly, like with my other favorite parallel hobby: video games.
I know there are some attempts like with InkBlot and such.
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Dec '22
Honestly i feel it may be best for artists to start making our own personal websites to host our main body of work. Social media is a fickle thing that can change on a dime. And it would be best for us to simple start to avoid relying on it solely for hosting
Neocites looking pretty lit
No, we actually do have a proper gallery based art platform, it's Artstation. The problem is it's not a social media platform 
and Twitter is not really an "art platform" anyways.
Honestly, to me Instagram always felt like a genuinely good platform for posting art (even with all its limitations) and interacting, so I really wish they will stop being crazy about reels.
I didn't got any success on Tumblr, because I started drawing and posting there around the time it was dying out, but I loved it as a casual blogger, reading long posts and reblogging pictures, so I still kinda hope they will lift the ban for nswf stuff and turn it all around.
This was what the internet used to be. A lot of people used to make their own personal websites before the social media. Plus, you don't have to worry so much of censoring ( as long it not illegal obviously) on promoting your work.
The days of DA and other art sites is an era that seems to come a close. I do have faith that it's not the complete end for art platforms.
For posting webcomics and meet awesome creatots, I think Tapastic is allright, but if you want to post random art or things similar, in my personal opinion, Instagram ia very usefull even if its merged with TikTok trend... but the set of the accounts and style of publication is very confortable and friemdly for me, so this is my opinion, hope this can help you!
My webcomic if you want to check out:
I have my own website, but it's largely there for professional clients and a sense of legitimacy. A website isn't really a substitute for social media because people don't usually stumble on a website, they need to either be given a link or seek you out. The problem I have with Inkblot is that a good social media platform for artists to hang out with other artists is nice, but not useful for career stuff, because a good social media app or site for that needs to have people who aren't artists on there.
Artists do commission other artists sometimes and follow each others comics, but you can't make a career out of just commissions from other artists or other comickers following your comic; you need clients and readers who aren't artists themselves too.
I don’t know why more artists don’t use Instagram as their platform. It’s photo gallery-based and have multiple ways to engage. The UI is really easy as well. Tumblr is a good second, but it can get really niche and the UI and social media aspect is really messy to me… could just be my early boomer brain tho
I think we should make an affiliate/link exchange thread for doing link exchanges/affiliates for our websites. That's how we networked on the internet before social media!
So if you have a nice website, contact me 
Maybe we can exchange links
As some one who uses instagram for art and gets alot more interactions and friends on there. I wonde that myself. Nsfw artists i understand but people who do mostly sw art i dont get. Since its very good for arranging your artwork.
I think it maybe due to how erratic the algorithm changes. At one point tags wouldnt work (the very thing that gets your stuff seen by other people) and the reel switch for relevance was the straw that broke the camels back for alot.
Will love to do that once i get off my butt to program one.
Tapas peeks to check out list 
An art network would be fun and all homely you know
Artstation has brilliant artwork and I love it! Unfortunately yes it is not a social media platform, so only for a niche audience and not everyone. Social media is a dumpster fire in my experience. I have Instagram but I don’t use it that much only to talk to other artists and post artwork.
Well, that's what it is for. Posting pictures. It's not a blog, you can write nothing at all and still become a popular creator 
So kinda ideal unless you're into writing a lot of text.
afaik Tumblr does seems to be lessening the strictness of the ban by putting nsfw content behind certain filters which may not be perfect in the eyes of such artists but honestly better than nothing
in terms of other art centric sites Inkblot and Artfol are where I'm keeping my eyes on and in terms of general social media I'm just looking at TikTok and maybe neocities
it's a mess for sure looking at the state of the internet but i can't see bothering with places like artstation because i cant shake the feeling of like idk..."pros only"? like there's styles you expect to see and others that might not fit alongside and i don't need that pressure
I never understood the appeal of TikTok and I never will. 
well I get it it’s got funny videos on there but that was never my cup of tea. (Unless if it’s asdf movie or something viral and good memes and stuff. I feel not up to date and feel not on the trends but I was never on the trends so I don’t care lol)
The ONLY thing that annoys me about Instagram right now is the aspect ratio. It's not fun having panels be butchered imo. I do think people will just make a new site tho. Like there's probably artists who're programmers or somethin'... before Amazon or Google buys it out.
I do recommend YouTube Shorts tho since that's been getting me more attention than usual.
thats the thing tho it's its way more than just that but it gets boiled down to that. if anything especially with longer format videos its like a short form youtube with tutorials informational videos, education and like any and everything in between
plus you dont have to do too much labor to get traction on a post its just using proper hashtags or just sticking it on something trending (brands do gimmick stuff a lot so you can just pick one of those)
I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way. I feel like I probably 'should' start an Artstation account, but... I'm so intimidated by everyone on there. Like, yikes. I am not that caliber.
I'm on Instagram and Tumblr, and tbh Instagram is kinda awful. I don't like their algorithm, I can't stand reels, and it's easy for even people who are following you to never see one of your posts. At least Tumblr keeps my dashboard chronological, so I can always tell which posts are the new ones. Speaking of Tumblr, the NSFW ban didn't really affect me because I do very little NSFW work and don't tend to post it anyway, so I actually never left. I don't have a HUGE following, but I also tend to do very niche stuff, so I was probably never GOING to have a huge following.
