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On Furaffinity (Please lemme know your experiences) by Kexx
So when the latest FA debacle went down I was pretty excited cause it seemed like a bunch of people were moving to Weasyl. I've never really liked Furaffinity. The staff has always seemed sketchy as hell to me and just a bunch of things about the website made me feel uncomfortable. I like the design of Weasyl so much better and love how transparent the staff is about everything. But I know a lot of artists have gone back because too much of their audience is on FA. I never wanted to go back, but my audience is so small as it is I don't feel like I can afford not to use it..? This has been something that's been bothering me for quite some time. I mean I've always been kinda small, but I wonder if I used my FA again that I'd have more peeps into my stuff? Uploading my stuff there doesn't necessarily mean I support the website and it's policies, but I can't help but feel grossed out about it..? Especially as a sexual assault survivor..It's not like being on there is triggering in anyway, just feels unsafe..
How have you dealt with these feelings if you have them..? Have you tried to use FA to show previews only or promote your Weasyl? Or put only commissions or certain updates up?
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Yeah I can see how FA's favor of the illustration medium wouldn't help a musician. I've def gained some followers and feel a bit more open on here to comment and talk to people a bit. If you're willing to send me a PM about the first question, feel free.
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the last time FA reached a new moral and ethical nadir (calling it a "drama" or "dilemma" makes it seem like there is some sort of grey area, or that you can dismiss what happened- when there fucking isn't, and you cannot dismiss what happened) it got me extremely angry and extremely frustrated with the staff and the site.
All it took was one argument with someone screaming about how "BUT THERE'S NO EVIDENCE!!11" even though the dude (YOU KNOW FULL WELL WHO I'M TALKING ABOUT HERE) more or less confessed to it and several victims came out with their experiences and witnessing a handful of rape apologists (AKA pure fucking demon spawn) that I just pretty much abandoned FA as far as art posting went.
I haven't really looked back on that decision. Mostly because I have a much bigger audience on dA and tumblr, and both of those sites and weasyl are better programmed, and because FA is a fucking trainwreck and it's probably going to collapse in on itself after a drunk zoophile mistakes the server for an elephant or something and electrocutes their entire ass off.
maybe it's easier for me to abandon FA because I don't rely on any of the disgusting shitheads dwelling in that 90s Web 1.0 cavern for money i dunno, but I certainly don't regret it and I'm never going back on it
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Ugh yeah. The whole thing is a disgusting mess. Before I moved I didn't really have a lot of close followers anyway so the move was easy for me. But I still find tons of people asking if I had a FA at cons and stuff and I wonder if I would have more business if I kept it up in some form. While Weasyl and Tumblr are more my thing, I still feel like I don't have an audience really. So this is something I've been thinking about for months, even if it was mostly to advertise Weasyl as my main account. Maybe have a thing on my FA promoing my raffle, but in order to enter you have to be following me on Weasyl or something...I'm just trying to think of ways of broadening my audience, while still not feeling gross.
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you should totally do that raffle thing. FA is pretty gross as it is so you can't really feel gross about being gross to a gross nasty pile of gross
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I won't comment on FA's business as I've kept my nose out of it, but I do still somewhat maintain mine although I tell people there is a large lag time after I post something here on Weasyl. Nobody seems to have cared, so. Minus a handful of friends, I've built up an entirely new circle of fellow artists, musicians, writers, creators, and even just watchers here. That being said, I don't get paid for anything I do, so I can understand why someone would choose to maintain an FA due to the volume of users there for income. I think you can have the best of both worlds, at least. FA always sucked for me as a musician, but that's more a problem with my medium/FA's target userbase than anything.
I might be able to answer that first question privately, but definitely not publicly.